Book Reviews: By geographic area: Asia

After the Galleons: Foreign Trade, Economic Change and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines
by Benito J. Legarda
reviewed by Arturo Giraldez on November 2, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
An Agrarian History of South Asia
by David Ludden
reviewed by Marcia J. Frost on June 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan
by Thomas C. Smith
reviewed by Osamu Saito on May 11, 2006
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
Agricultural Development in Jiangnan, 1620-1850
by Li Bozhong
reviewed by Kenneth Pomeranz on July 7, 2003
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
American Treasure and the Price Revolution in Spain, 1501-1650
by Earl J. Hamilton
reviewed by John Munro on January 15, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930-2004
by Tony A. Freyer
reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on October 10, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution on the Road to War
by Jonathan Kirshner
reviewed by Richard C.K. Burdekin on April 27, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O)
The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century
by Rene J. Barendse
reviewed by Alan Heston on February 26, 2003
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Artisans in Eighteenth-Century Eastern India: A History of Survival
by Vipul Singh
reviewed by Ian C. Wendt on April 16, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Asia-Pacific Dynamism, 1550-2000
by A.J.H. Latham and Heita Kawakatsu (editors)
reviewed by Peter Perdue on March 29, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Asian Economies in the Twentieth Century
by Angus Maddison, D.S. Prasada Rao and W.F. Shepherd (editors)
reviewed by Kelly Olds on May 28, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Asian Merchants and Businessmen in the Indian Ocean and the China Sea
by Denys Lombard and Jean Aubin
reviewed by Arturo Giraldez on November 7, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897-1937
by Linsun Cheng
reviewed by Man Bun Kwan on December 16, 2003
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Banking, the State and Industrial Promotion in Developing Japan, 1900-73
by Shinji Ogura
reviewed by James Mak on March 5, 2003
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Between East and West: The Moluccas and the Traffic in Spices up to the Arrival of Europeans
by R. A. Donkin
reviewed by Gerrit Knaap on July 21, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2)
  • Time period: Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korea, 1960-1990
by Eum Mee Kim
reviewed by Tawni Hunt Ferrarini on December 2, 1997
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Bullion for Goods: European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean Trade, 1500-1800
by Om Prakash
reviewed by Lakshmi Subramanian on May 20, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833
by H.V. Bowen
reviewed by Santhi Hejeebu on April 9, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Byzantine Economy
by Angeliki E. Laiou and Cécile Morrisson
reviewed by Timothy E. Gregory on October 31, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780-2005
by Youssef Cassis
reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk on October 22, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937
by Tomoko Shiroyama
reviewed by Niv Horesh on August 22, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
China Maritime Customs and China's Trade Statistics, 1859-1948
by Thomas P. Lyons
reviewed by Tim Wright on July 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Chinese Capitalism, 1522-1840
by Xu Dixin and Wu Chengming
reviewed by Kenneth Pomeranz on August 24, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945
by Parks M. Coble
reviewed by Andrea McElderry on June 6, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
by Timothy Brook
reviewed by Richard Lufrano on August 26, 1998
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Contract and Property in Early Modern China
by Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko and Robert Gardella (editors)
reviewed by Carol H. Shiue on September 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Destruction of the Soviet Economic System: An Insiders' History
by Michael Ellmanand and Vladimir Kontorovich (editors)
reviewed by Perry L. Patterson on July 25, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970
by Erik Gilbert
reviewed by Abdul Sheriff on February 9, 2005
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Dictating Development: How Europe Shaped the Global Periphery
by Jonathan Krieckhaus
reviewed by Sylvain H. Boko on October 4, 2006
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Ecology, Colonialism, and Cattle: Central India in the Nineteenth Century
by Laxman D. Satya
reviewed by David Gilmartin on August 25, 2006
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Economic Change in China, c. 1800-1950
by Philip Richardson
reviewed by Debin Ma on June 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Economic Growth and Development in Singapore: Past and Future
by Gavin Peebles and Peter Wilson
reviewed by Anne Booth on August 13, 2003
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Economic History of India 1857-1947
by Tirthankar Roy
reviewed by Santhi Hejeebu on March 18, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
An Economic History of Malaysia, c.1800-1990: The Transition to Modern Economic Growth
by John H. Drabble
reviewed by Charles Hirschman on July 9, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Economy and Material Culture of Russia, 1600-1725
by Richard Hellie
reviewed by Lindsey Hughes on January 19, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1859
by Akira Hayami, Osamu Saito and Ronald P. Toby (editors)
reviewed by Carl Mosk on October 22, 2004
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W)
European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India
by Om Prakash
reviewed by John Adams on February 15, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture
by Susan B. Hanley
reviewed by Gail Honda on July 16, 1997
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Evolution and Institutions: On Evolutionary Economics and the Evolution of Economics
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson
reviewed by Anne Mayhew on September 26, 2000
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Evolution of the World Economy, Precious Metals and India
by John McGuire, Patrick Bertola and Peter Reeves (editors)
reviewed by Arturo Giraldez on May 4, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Extremes in the Archipelago: Trade and Economic Development in the Outer Islands of Indonesia, 1900-1942
by Jeroen Touwen
reviewed by Anne Booth on May 29, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s
by Lillian M. Li
reviewed by Pierre-Étienne Will on May 7, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes
by Richard J. Smethurst
reviewed by Michael Schiltz on February 7, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)
Governance, Growth and Global Leadership: The Role of the State in Technological Progress, 1750-2000
by Espen Moe
reviewed by Peter T. Leeson on July 25, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy
by Kenneth Pomeranz
reviewed by Deepak Lal on October 2, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937
by Christopher A. Reed
reviewed by Elisabeth Köll on December 7, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
History Matters: Essays on Economic Growth, Technology, and Demographic Change
by Timothy Guinnane, William Sundstrom and Warren Whatley (editors)
reviewed by Lance Davis on April 12, 2004
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000
by Janet E. Hunter and S. Sugiyama (editors)
reviewed by John Wilson on February 7, 2003
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
A History of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China's Finance Capitalism
by Zhaojin Ji
reviewed by Catherine Schenk on October 9, 2003
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Honorable Merchants: Commerce and Self-Cultivation in Late Imperial China
by Richard John Lufrano
reviewed by Kwan Man Bun on October 18, 1997
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan
by Kathleen Thelen
reviewed by Thomas N. Maloney on November 23, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
Imperialism, Nationalism and the Making of the
by Aditya Mukherjee
reviewed by Tirthankar Roy on January 5, 2004
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
India and the World Economy, 1850-1950
by G. Balachandran (editor)
reviewed by David Clingingsmith on February 1, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
India: The Emerging Giant
by Arvind Panagariya
reviewed by Arjun Jayadev on September 29, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities
by Anne Booth
reviewed by Jeroen Touwen on October 7, 1998
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Indonesian Exports, Peasant Agriculture and the World Economy, 1850-2000: Economic Structures in a Southeast Asian State
by Hiroyoshi Kano
reviewed by Pierre van der Eng on November 5, 2009
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Irrigation Development and Agrarian Change: A Study of Sindh, Pakistan
by Jayantha Perera
reviewed by Anwar Naseem on May 26, 2006
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949
by Kaoru Sugihara (editor)
reviewed by Ming-Hsuan Lee on December 17, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920
by Masayo Umezawa Duus
reviewed by Edward D. Beechert on February 21, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Japanese Economic System and Its Historical Origins
by Tetsuji Okazaki and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara (editors)
reviewed by Jennifer Frankl on August 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Japanese Industrial History: Technology, Urbanization, and Economic Growth
by Carl Mosk
reviewed by Mark Metzler on January 22, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Geography (K), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Kimono in the Boardroom: the Invisible Evolution of Japanese Women Managers
by Jean R. Renshaw
reviewed by Christienne L. Hinz on September 19, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Knowledge Works: Managing Intellectual Capital at Toshiba
by W. Mark Fruin
reviewed by Andrew Robertson on July 7, 1999
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Korea Under Siege, 1876-1945: Capital Formation and Economic Transformation
by Young-Iob Chung
reviewed by Myung Soo Cha on October 20, 2006
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Learning on the Shop Floor: Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeship
by Bert De Munck, Steven L. Kaplan and Hugo Soly (editors)
reviewed by Paul Ryan on September 20, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Labor and Employment History (T)
Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan
by Mark Metzler
reviewed by Eugene N. White on January 2, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O)
Making Health Work: Human Growth in Modern Japan
by Carl Mosk
reviewed by Mitsuhiko Kimura on October 31, 1997
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change
by Morris L. Bian
reviewed by Tim Wright on November 12, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Military and War (O), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and His Business Network, 1823-1893
by J. Forbes Munro
reviewed by Nicholas J. White on October 16, 2003
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China
by Madeleine Zelin
reviewed by Carol H. Shiue on September 5, 2006
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire
by Sevket Pamuk
reviewed by John Munro on November 1, 2002
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire
by Sevket Pamuk
reviewed by John Munro on November 21, 2002
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Monsoon Traders: Ships, Skippers and Commodities in Eighteenth-century Makassar
by Gerrit Knaap and Heather Sutherland
reviewed by Om Prakash on October 31, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia
by Peter Boomgaard, David Henley and Manon Osseweijer (editors)
reviewed by S. Nawiyanto on August 18, 2006
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
Muslim Civilization: The Causes of Decline and the Need for Reform
by M. Umer Chapra
reviewed by Jared Rubin on June 16, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (l), Military and War (O), Markets and Institutions (W)
On the Border of Economic Theory and History
by Amit Bhaduri
reviewed by Marcia J. Frost on May 1, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Oxford History of Indian Business
by Dwijendra Tripathi
reviewed by Geoffrey Jones on September 9, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations
by Peter Bernholz and Roland Vaubel (editors)
reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman on April 5, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K)
The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, c. 1350-1650
by Carla M. Sinopoli
reviewed by Prasannan Parthasarathi on October 27, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Power and Plenty: Trade, War and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
by Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O’Rourke
reviewed by Şevket Pamuk on August 19, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China
by Kai-wing Chow
reviewed by Nathan Sivin on October 29, 2004
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Resurgence of East Asia, 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives
by Giovanni Arrighi, Takeshi Hamashita and Mark Selden
reviewed by Debin Ma on February 15, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Shah's Silk for Europe's Silver: The Eurasian Trade of the Julfa Armenians in Safavid Iran and India (1530-1750)
by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe
reviewed by Willem Floor on April 23, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Shanghai's Bund and Beyond: British Banks, Banknote Issuance, and Monetary Policy in China, 1842-1937
by Niv Horesh
reviewed by Richard C. K. Burdekin on October 29, 2009
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia
by Peter H. Lindert
reviewed by D. Gale Johnson on June 1, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Small Firms in the Japanese Economy
by D. H. Whittaker
reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford on July 10, 1997
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia
by Peter Boomgaard and David Henley (editors)
reviewed by Frans D. Huijzendveld on September 14, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
The Social Sources of Financial Power: Domestic Legitimacy and International Financial Orders
by Leonard Seabrooke
reviewed by David M. Andrews on November 1, 2006
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862
by Christopher Mills Isett
reviewed by Peer Vries on August 10, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
Studies in the Economic History of the Pacific Rim
by Sally M. Miller, A. J. H. Latham and Dennis O. Flynn (editors)
reviewed by Sumner La Croix on July 2, 1999
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000
by Howard W. Dick
reviewed by Heather Sutherland on October 21, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Swallows and Settlers: The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria
by Thomas R. Gottschang and Diana Lary
reviewed by Tim Wright on November 30, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Symbols of Trade: Roman and Pseudo-Roman Objects Found in India
by S. Suresh
reviewed by Himanshu Prabha Ray on May 10, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
To Wire the World: Perry M. Collins and the North Pacific Telegraph Expedition
by John B. Dwyer
reviewed by Tomas Nonnenmacher on January 14, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660-1760
by K. N. Chaudhuri
reviewed by Santhi Hejeebu on December 20, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India
by Tirthankar Roy
reviewed by Susan Wolcott on February 20, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks, and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin
by Brett Sheehan
reviewed by Andrea McElderry on December 4, 2003
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W)
The War within World War II: The United States and International Cartels
by Robert Franklin Maddox
reviewed by Daniel Barbezat on May 21, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Weathering the Storm: The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression
by Peter Boomgaard and Ian Brown (editors)
reviewed by John Drabble on July 24, 2003
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Western Capitalism in China: A History of the Shanghai Stock Exchange
by W. A. Thomas
reviewed by Andrea McElderry on December 12, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)