Forthcoming Book Reviews in Economic History

Updated March 31, 2008



Authors: Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson and Thomas E. Flanagan, editors
Title: Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans
Publisher: Stanford University Press

Authors: Lawrin Armstrong, Ivana Elbl and Martin M. Elbl, editors
Title: Money, Markets and Trade in Late Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of John H.A. Munro
Publisher: Brill

Authors: Margaret Atkins and Robin Osborne, editors
Title: Poverty in the Roman World
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Author: Peter E. Austin
Title: Baring Brothers and the Birth of Global Finance
Publisher: Pickering and Chatto

Authors: Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks and Paul R. Dryburgh
Title: The English Wool Market, c. 1230-1327
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Author: Jeremy Black, editor
Title: The Atlantic Slave Trade
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: Sheila Blackburn
Title: A Fair Day’s Wage for a Fair Day’s Work? Sweated Labour and the Origins of Minimum Wage Legislation in Britain
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: John Booker
Title: Maritime Quarantine: The British Experience, c. 1650-1900
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: Bruce M.S. Campbell
Title: The Medieval Antecedents of English Agricultural Progress
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: M. Umer Chapra
Title: Muslim Civilization: The Causes of Decline and the Need for Reform
Publisher: Islamic Foundation (U.K.)

Author: Martin Chick
Title: Electricity and Energy Policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945
Publisher: Edward Elgar

Author: Sally Clarke
Title: Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Authors: Philip Cottrell, Gabriel Tortella and Gerassimos Notaras, editors
Title: From Athenian Tetradrachm to the Euro: Studies in European Monetary Integration
Publisher: Ashgate

Authors: Philip L. Cottrell, Even Lange, and Ulf Olsson, editors
Title: Centres and Peripheries in Banking: The Historical Development of Financial Markets
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: G. Daudin
Title: Commerce et prospérité: la France du XVIIIe siècle
Publisher: Presses de l'Université de Paris Sorbonne

Author: Robert E. Degen
Title: The Triumph of Capitalism
Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Author: Jean-Pierre Devroey
Title: Economie rurale et societe dans l’Europe franque (VI-IX siecles)
Publisher: Belin (Academie Royale de Belgique)

Author: Jean-Pierre Devroey
Title: Puissants et miserables: Systeme social et monde paysan dans l’Europe des Francs (VI-IX siecles)
Publisher: Belin (Academie Royale de Belgique)

Author: John Dinan
Title: The American State Constitutional Tradition
Publisher: University Press of Kansas

Author: Ben Dodds
Title: Peasants and Production in the Medieval North-East: The Evidence from Tithes, 1270-1536
Publisher: Boydell Press

Author: Paul Dutton
Title: Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France
Publisher: Cornell University Press

Author: Sterling Evans
Title: Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Authors: Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O’Rourke
Title: Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Author: Alison Fleig Frank
Title: Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Authors: Patrick Fridenson and Bénédicte Reynaud, editors
Title: La France et le temps de travail, 1814-2004
Publisher: Odile Jacob

Author: Vincent Gaddis
Title: Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere: A Conceptual History, 1919-1933
Publisher: University Press of America

Author: Natasha Glaisyer
Title: The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660-1720
Publisher: Boydell

Author: Erica Gould
Title: Money Talks: The International Monetary Fund, Conditionality, and Supplementary Financiers
Publisher: Stanford University Press

Author: Oliver Grant
Title: Migration and Inequality in Germany, 1870-1913
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author: Janet Greenlees
Title: Female Labour Power: Women Workers’ Influence on Business Practice in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780-1860
Publisher: Ashgate

Authors: Stephen Haber, Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast, editors
Title: Political Institutions and Financial Development
Publisher: Stanford University Press

Authors: Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O’Rourke and Alan M. Taylor, editors
Title: The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson
Publisher: MIT Press

Author: Katrina Honeyman Title: Child Workers in England, 1780-1820: Parish Apprentices and the Making of the Early Industrial Labour Force
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: Istvan Hont
Title: Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Author: Chris Howell
Title: Trade Unions and the State: The Construction of Industrial Relations Institutions in Britain, 1890-2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Author: Harold James
Title: The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Authors: Paul Janssens and Bartolome Yun-Casalilla, editors
Title: European Aristocracies and Colonial Elites: Patrimonial Management Strategies and Economic Development, 15th-18th Centuries
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: Jonathan Kirshner
Title: Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution on the Road to War
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Author: Christopher Kobrak
Title: Banking on Global Markets: Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the Present
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Authors: Naomi Lamoreaux and Kenneth Sokoloff, editors
Title: Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to the Present
Publisher: MIT Press

Author: Lillian M. Li
Title: Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s
Publisher: Stanford University Press

Authors: John S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain and Samuel H. Williamson, editors
Title: Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution: Conversations with Economic Historians
Publisher: Routledge

Author: Anita McConnell
Title: Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800): London’s Leading Scientific Instrument Maker
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: Jan McTavish
Title: Pain and Profits: The History of the Headache and Its Remedies in the United States
Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Author: Randall K. Morck, editor
Title: A History of Corporate Governance around the World: Family Business Groups to Professional Managers
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Authors: Bert De Munck, Steven L. Kaplan and Hugo Soly, editors
Title: Learning on the Shop Floor: Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeships
Publisher: Berghahn

Author: David Oldroyd
Title: Estates, Enterprise and Investment at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution: Estate Management and Accounting in the North-East of England, c. 1700-1780
Publisher: Ashgate

Authors: Michael J. Oliver and Derek H. Aldcroft, editors
Title: Economic Disasters of the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Edward Elgar

Author: Peter Paskoff
Title: Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821-1860
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press

Author: G.C. Peden
Title: Arms, Economics and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Author: Benjamin Powell, editor
Title: Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Economic Development
Publisher: Independent Institute

Author: Roger Ransom
Title: The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been
Publisher: W.W. Norton

Author: Peter Razzell
Title: Population and Disease: Transforming English Society, 1550-1850
Publisher: Caliban

Author: Dani Rodrik
Title: One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Author: Adam Rothman
Title: Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Author: Peter Scott
Title: Triumph of the South: Regional Development in the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Ashgate

Authors: Sterling D. Sessions and Gene A. Sessions
Title: A History of Utah International: From Construction to Mining
Publisher: University of Utah Press

Author: Jay Sexton
Title: Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837-1873
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author: Amity Shlaes
Title: The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
Publisher: AEI Press

Author: Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Title: Land, Politics and Trade in South Asia, 18th to 20th Centuries
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author: Adam Tooze
Title: Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
Publisher: Allen Lane

Author: David Turnock
Title: Aspects of Independent Romania’s Economic History with Particular Reference to Transition for EU Accession
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: Gert Van Goethem
Title: The Amsterdam International: The World of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: James Vernon
Title: Hunger: A Modern History
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Authors: Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey
Title: The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice and Lives

Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Author: Carl Zimring
Title: Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America
Publisher: Rutgers University Press