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Book Reviews: By geographic area: North America

1896: The Presidential Campaign: Cartoons and Commentary
by Rebecca Edwards and Sarah DeFeo
reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on February 13, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime Policy
by Andrew Gibson and Arthur Donovan
reviewed by Gordon Boyce on September 11, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Abolition of Antitrust
by Gary Hull (editor)
reviewed by John Howard Brown on October 17, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law
by John Witt
reviewed by Mark Aldrich on June 11, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation
by Margaret Levenstein
reviewed by Paul Miranti on September 28, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology
by Duncan K. Foley
reviewed by A. M. C. Waterman on November 21, 2007
  • Geographic area: 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: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives
by E. Wayne Carp (editor)
reviewed by John Murray on June 8, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Advertising to the American Woman, 1900-1999
by Daniel Delis Hill
reviewed by Bryan Wuthrich on August 8, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Advocate for American Enterprise: William Buck Dana and the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 1865-1910
by Douglas Steeples
reviewed by Edwin J. Perkins on August 18, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Advocate for American Enterprise: William Buck Dana and the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 1865-1910
by Douglas Steeples
reviewed by John Paul Rossi on September 16, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development
by Joseph E. Inikori
reviewed by Kevin H. O'Rourke on October 7, 2003
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • 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), Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation
by Charles T. Clotfelter
reviewed by Martha J. Bailey on October 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)
After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona: Decline in Western Resource Towns
by Eric L. Clements
reviewed by Brooks A. Kaiser on June 11, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
by Alan Greenspan
reviewed by Alexander J. Field on December 3, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Airline Executives and Federal Regulation: Case Studies in American Enterprise from the Airmail Era to the Dawn of the Jet Age
by David W. Lewis
reviewed by Scott E. Tarry on October 26, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry
by F. Robert van der Linden
reviewed by Karen Dunn-Haley on May 28, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Alanson B. Houghton: Ambassador of the New Era
by Jeffrey J. Matthews
reviewed by Thomas D. Westerman on June 14, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow
reviewed by Robert E. Wright on May 3, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
America's Communal Utopias
by Donald E. Pitzer
reviewed by John E. Murray on February 3, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
America's First Veterans and the Revolutionary War Pensions
by Emily J. Teipe
reviewed by Joanna Short on December 13, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980
by Jon Lauck
reviewed by Saker Woeste on July 5, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980
by Jon Lauck
reviewed by Bruce Gardner on June 12, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost
by Bruce L. Gardner
reviewed by Julian M. Alston on June 27, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
American Business Leaders
by Neil A. Hamilton
reviewed by K. Austin Kerr on July 14, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
American Business, 1920-2000: How It Worked
by Thomas K. McCraw
reviewed by Larry Schweikart on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
American Capitalism, 1945-2000: Continuity and Change from Mass Production to the Information Society
by Wyatt Wells
reviewed by Richard Vedder on December 2, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century
by Nelson Lichtenstein (editor)
reviewed by J. David Hoeveler on August 30, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
American Commercial Banks in Corporate Finance, 1929-1941: A Study in Banking Concentration
by Tian Kang Go
reviewed by Paul B. Trescott on April 25, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
American Economic Development since 1945: Growth, Decline and Rejuvenation
by Samuel Rosenberg
reviewed by Louis P. Cain on April 11, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
American Economic Development Since 1945: Growth, Decline and Rejuvenation
by Samuel Rosenberg
reviewed by Gene Smiley on October 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
The American Economic History Reader: Documents and Readings
by John W. Malsberger and James N. Marshall (editors)
reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on December 31, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
American Economic Policy in the 1990s
by Jeffrey A. Frankel and Peter R. Orszag (editors)
reviewed by William F. Shughart II on August 16, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States
by Jonathan A. Glickstein
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on December 20, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
American Foundations: An Investigative History
by Mark Dowie
reviewed by Donald E. Frey on July 23, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Income and Wealth (Q), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante-bellum Economy
by Albert Fishlow
reviewed by John Majewski on September 25, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The American State Constitutional Tradition
by John J. Dinan
reviewed by John J. Wallis on May 9, 2008
  • Geographic area: 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 Planning and Policy (E), Markets and Institutions (W)
American Taxation, American Slavery
by Robin Einhorn
reviewed by Jenny Wahl on August 9, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Servitude and Slavery (N)
American Trade Policy, 1923-1995
by Edward S. Kaplan
reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on March 20, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
American Vanguard: The United Autoworkers during the Reuther Years, 1935-1970
by John Barnard
reviewed by Daniel Jacoby on August 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The American Way: A Geographical History of Crisis and Recovery
by Carville Earle
reviewed by Sukkoo Kim on September 12, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Geography (K)
American Work Values: Their Origin and Development
by Paul Bernstein
reviewed by Donald Frey on February 10, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Americanization of the European Economy: A Compact Survey of American Economic Influence in Europe since the 1880s
by Harm G. Schröter
reviewed by Graham Brownlow on January 27, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • 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), Markets and Institutions (W)
America’s Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics
by Donald E. Frey
reviewed by Samuel Gregg on September 24, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
And a Time for Hope: Americans in the Great Depression
by James R. McGovern
reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on February 1, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society, 1920 to the 1990s
by Elliott Barkan
reviewed by Masao Suzuki on August 6, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Anglo-American Shipbuilding in World War II: A Geographical Perspective
by Michael Lindberg and Daniel Todd
reviewed by Christopher Tassava on November 7, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Geography (K), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865
by Charles W. McCurdy
reviewed by John Joseph Wallis on September 4, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
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)
The Antitrust Religion
by Edwin S. Rockefeller
reviewed by Claire Hammond on September 21, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940-1945
by Paul A.C. Koistinen
reviewed by Christopher Tassava on January 7, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
by Carol Sheriff
reviewed by Jerome K. Laurent on July 14, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820-1865
by L. Diane Barnes
reviewed by Jennifer R. Green on March 6, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Asbestos and Fire: Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk
by Rachel Maines
reviewed by Mark Aldrich on August 31, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by Niall Ferguson
reviewed by Niv Horesh on July 31, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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 Atlantic Economy: Britain, the US and Ireland
by Denis O'Hearn
reviewed by Jane Gray on February 24, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 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), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Atlantic Slave Trade
by Johannes Postma
reviewed by Rachel Chernos Lin on August 24, 2004
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century
by April Lee Hatfield
reviewed by Lorena S. Walsh on September 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971
by Dimitry Anastakis
reviewed by Thomas W. Zeiler on March 17, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere
by Richard H. Steckel and Jerome C. Rose (editors)
reviewed by William J. Collins on May 13, 2003
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), Prehistoric (1), Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915
by John Brown
reviewed by Albert J. Churella on April 23, 1996
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Bank of the United States and the American Economy
by Edward S. Kaplan
reviewed by Clair E. Morris on September 20, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Banking on Alaska: The Story of the National Bank of Alaska
by Terrence Cole and Elmer E. Rasmuson
reviewed by Richard H. Keehn on July 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: 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)
Banking on Global Markets: Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the Present
by Christopher Kobrak
reviewed by Richard Tilly on April 30, 2008
  • Geographic area: 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)
Banking Panics of the Gilded Age
by Elmus Wicker
reviewed by Frank Steindl on March 8, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Banking Panics of the Great Depression
by Elmus Wicker
reviewed by John H. Wood on May 28, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Banksters, Bosses, and Smart Money: A Social History of the Great Toledo Bank Crash of 1931
by Timothy Messer-Kruse
reviewed by Lynne Pierson Doti on October 28, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Baring Brothers and the Birth of Modern Finance
by Peter E. Austin
reviewed by Peter L. Rousseau on November 10, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Best of Intentions: The Triumph and Failure of the Great Society Under Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon
by Irwin Unger
reviewed by Stephen Ziliak on October 27, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century
by Mark H. Rose, Bruce E. Seely and Paul F. Barrett
reviewed by William R. Childs on May 25, 2007
  • Geographic area: 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), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Bethlehem Steel: Builder and Arsenal of America
by Kenneth Warren
reviewed by Paul Tiffany on April 22, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Beyond Broker State: Federal Policies Toward Small Business, 1936-1961
by Jonathan J. Bean
reviewed by Colin Gordon on January 9, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California
by Steven P. Erie
reviewed by Gary D. Libecap on December 23, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 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)
Beyond Labor's Veil
by Robert E. Weir
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on December 6, 1996
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
BFGoodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870-1995
by K. Austin Kerr and Mansel G. Blackford
reviewed by Kenneth L. Simons on December 16, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration
by Jonathan J. Bean
reviewed by William M. McClenahan on April 16, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001
by Kenneth Warren
reviewed by Malcolm Russell on November 22, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America
by Walter A. Friedman
reviewed by Scott J. Vitell on September 23, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860-1914: Commercial, Extractive and Industrial Enterprise
by David O. Whitten and Bessie E. Whitten
reviewed by David L. Mason on July 3, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Birth Quake: The Baby Boom and Its Aftershocks
by Diane J. Macunovich
reviewed by Randall J. Olsen on May 23, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Labor and Employment History (T)
Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History
by Paul A. Moreno
reviewed by Vernon M. Briggs Jr. on May 14, 2007
  • Geographic area: 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), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary
by Michael E Lomax
reviewed by Michael Haupert on September 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925-1985
by Robert J. Jr. Weems
reviewed by Brian Adkins on December 17, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Black Diamonds! Black Gold!: The Saga of Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company
by Don Woodard
reviewed by Jason Manning on January 5, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
by Judith A. Carney
reviewed by Russell R. Menard on May 14, 2002
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940
by Howell John Harris
reviewed by Daniel Jacoby on October 12, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms: Buying and Selling Securities in Canada 1870-1940
by Christopher Armstrong
reviewed by Ranald C. Michie on March 20, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Blues: A History of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield System
by Robert Cunningham III and Robert M. Jr. Cunningham
reviewed by Colin Gordon on June 22, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)
Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age
by John Lauritz Larson
reviewed by Albert J. Churella on June 14, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
by Scott A. Sandage
reviewed by Susan Nance on October 6, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Boss: Management Tips for Today from a Nineteenth Century Cattle Drive
by Tim Frazier and Dana Frazier
reviewed by Howard R. Stanger on June 1, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
Boys in the Pits: Child Labour in Coal Mines
by Robert McIntosh
reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on December 11, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Brides Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition
by Vicki Howard
reviewed by Janice M. Traflet on February 1, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets: How to Fix America's Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry
by Barry B. LePatner
reviewed by Richard Vedder on September 3, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889-1909
by Jonathan W. Singer
reviewed by Werner Troesken on January 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Bronze Age Economics: The First Political Economies
by Timothy Earle
reviewed by Michael W. Graves on June 5, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), Prehistoric (1), 16th Century (4), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Builders: Herman and George R. Brown
by Joseph A. Pratt and Christopher J. Castaneda
reviewed by Paul Carlson on March 30, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956
by Jason Scott Smith
reviewed by Price V. Fishback on July 16, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison
by Michael P. Gray
reviewed by Pamela Nickless on June 13, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865
by Mark R. Wilson
reviewed by Roger Ransom on October 1, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Military and War (O)
Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War
by James L. Huston
reviewed by Jenny B. Wahl on March 23, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
California Dreaming: Ideology, Society, and Technology in the Citrus Industry of Palestine, 1890-1939
by Nahum Karlinsky
reviewed by Paul Rhode on November 14, 2006
  • Geographic area: Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier
by Anne Kelly Knowles
reviewed by Metin Cosgel on March 27, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume III: The Twentieth Century
by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman (editors)
reviewed by Gary Libecap on March 28, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Capital Intentions: Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850-1920
by Edith Sparks
reviewed by Pamela J. Nickless on March 28, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)
Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal
by David Brian Robertson
reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on January 8, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
Capitalist Development in the Twentieth Century: An Evolutionary-Keynesian Approach
by John Cornwall and Wendy Cornwall
reviewed by Richard K. Vedder on August 5, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
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)
The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America
by Thomas A. Kinney
reviewed by Tom Dicke on August 1, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America
by Carl A. Zimring
reviewed by Scott A. Beaulier on April 29, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Castles, Battles and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History
by Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll
reviewed by Peter Howlett on February 3, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Military and War (O)
Celebrating Irving Fisher: The Legacy of a Great Economist
by Robert W. Dimand and John Geanakoplos (editors)
reviewed by Franck Jovanovic on May 4, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Chairman of the Fed: William McChesney Martin Jr. and the Creation of the American Financial System
by Robert P. Bremner
reviewed by Mark Toma on October 3, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950
by Avner Offer
reviewed by John F. Helliwell on January 18, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
Charting Twentieth-Century Monetary Policy: Herbert Hoover and Benjamin Strong, 1917-1927
by Silvano A. Wueschner
reviewed by Mark Toma on October 25, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars
by Georg Leidenberger
reviewed by David J. St. Clair on October 17, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Child Labor: An American History
by Hugh D. Hindman
reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on July 29, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run
by Angus Maddison
reviewed by Thomas R. Gottschang on July 3, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Chouteaus: First Family of the Fur Trade
by Stan Hoig
reviewed by Ann Harper Fender on August 8, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
Cigarette Wars, The Triumph of the Little White Slaver
by Cassandra Tate
reviewed by Kay Kiefer on October 4, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Cities of Heat and Light: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America
by Mark Rose
reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on August 21, 1995
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919
by Margaret Garb
reviewed by Fred H. Smith on May 1, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Urban and Regional History (Z)
City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870-1920
by Jerome P. Bjelopera
reviewed by Nikki Mandell on December 5, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization
by William H. Roberts
reviewed by David Surdam on September 2, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
by Dylan C. Penningroth
reviewed by James R. Irwin on April 21, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
by Robert J. Steinfeld
reviewed by Gillian Hamilton on March 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
Collective Action under the Articles of Confederation
by Keith L. Dougherty
reviewed by Robert A. McGuire on April 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida
by Jane G. Landers (editor)
reviewed by Russell R. Menard on March 19, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-century France and England
by Mary Sponberg Pedley
reviewed by Susan Danforth on November 16, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest
by Linda Carlson
reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd on September 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Historical Geography (K), Labor and Employment History (T)
The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba and the United States
by Laird W. Bergad
reviewed by David Eltis on May 8, 2009
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
The Competition Solution: The Bipartisan Secret behind American Prosperity
by Paul A. London
reviewed by Richard K. Vedder on September 21, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century
by Daniel Sidorick
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on November 12, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War
by Harold S. Wilson
reviewed by David Surdam on September 20, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Conflict Potentials in Monetary Unions
by Lars Jonung and Jürgen Nautz (editors)
reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on April 30, 2007
  • Geographic area: 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: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll-Call Voting
by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal
reviewed by Jac Heckelman on August 20, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
by Thomas Frank
reviewed by David Cochran on February 11, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years
by Julie Novkov
reviewed by David Bernstein on June 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Consuls, Corsairs and Commerce: The Swedish Consular Service and Long-Distance Shipping, 1720-1815
by Leos Müller
reviewed by Yrjö Kaukiainen on February 25, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies
by David E. Nye
reviewed by Martin V. Melosi on August 5, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883
by Joel Best
reviewed by Robin L. E. Hemenway on July 26, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s
by Charles K. Hyde
reviewed by Roger Burt on August 11, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930
by Nikki Mandell
reviewed by Howard R. Stanger on June 20, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History
by Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin (editors)
reviewed by Louis P. Cain on August 2, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law and the Market Economy in Colonial New York
by Deborah A. Rosen
reviewed by Anne M. Boylan on April 7, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Creating a National Home: Building the Veterans' Welfare State 1860-1900
by Patrick J. Kelly
reviewed by Dora L. Costa on January 21, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development
by Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode
reviewed by Lee A. Craig on May 12, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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)
Creating Better Futures: Scenario Planning as a Tool for a Better Tomorrow
by James A. Ogilvy
reviewed by Allen L. Bures on August 21, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business
by Roland Marchand
reviewed by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf on January 20, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications
by Paul Starr
reviewed by Douglas Galbi on September 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
by Virginia DeJohn Anderson
reviewed by Russell R. Menard on April 12, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Crusading Liberal: Paul H. Douglas of Illinois
by Roger Biles
reviewed by Alice O'Connor on June 16, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920
by David Vaught
reviewed by Kerry Odell on April 20, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business
by Rowena Olegario
reviewed by Brandon Dupont on July 15, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States
by Clete Daniel
reviewed by Lawrence Richards on June 21, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Debating American Immigration, 1882 - Present
by Roger Daniels and Otis L. Graham
reviewed by Barry R. Chiswick on October 31, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South
by Mark M. Smith
reviewed by James R. Irwin on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America
by David A. Skeel
reviewed by Bradley A. Hansen on April 17, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837-1873
by Jay Sexton
reviewed by Marc D. Weidenmier on March 27, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation
by J. William Harris
reviewed by Nancy Virts on April 18, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century
by Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin and Eugene N. White
reviewed by Louis P. Cain on September 23, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West
by Thomas A. Krainz
reviewed by Dawn Saunders on April 12, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893
by Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten
reviewed by Anthony P. O'Brien on June 29, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920
by B. Zorina Khan
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on June 30, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Markets and Institutions (W)
Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy
by Robert Higgs
reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on July 1, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890 - 1943
by Patrick D. Reagan
reviewed by Robert Cuff on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
Designing a New America: the Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890-1943
by Patrick D. Reagan
reviewed by Jim Tomlinson on February 21, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Designing US Economic Policy: An Analytical Biography of Leon H. Keyserling
by W. Robert Brazelton
reviewed by Craufurd Goodwin on November 23, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Designs Within Disorder: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Economists, and the Shaping of American Economic Policy, 1933-1945
by William J. Barber
reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on July 6, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920
by Andrew C. Isenberg
reviewed by Richard DePolt on June 4, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France
by Paul V. Dutton
reviewed by John Murray on July 12, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W)
Disaster in Dearborn: The Story of the Edsel
by Thomas E. Bonsall
reviewed by Thomas R. Winpenny on September 23, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Discriminating Risk: The U.S. Mortgage Lending Industry in the Twentieth Century
by Guy Stuart
reviewed by William J. Collins on June 21, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth
by Marc Egnal
reviewed by Leonard Carlson on August 18, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South
by Jonathan D. Martin
reviewed by Jonathan B. Pritchett on September 6, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Markets and Institutions (W)
Domestic Goods: The Material, the Moral, and the Economic in the Postwar Years
by Joy Parr
reviewed by Pippa Brush on February 11, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Down and Out on the Family Farm: Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929-1945
by Michael Johnson Grant
reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on February 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler and the New Economy
by Richard N. Langlois
reviewed by Arthur M. Diamond Jr. on August 6, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses
by David S. Landes
reviewed by Peter Temin on February 28, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
E.W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers
by Gerald J. Baldasty
reviewed by Barbara Straus Reed on August 25, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
East-West Trade and the Cold War
by Jari Eloranta and Jari Ojala (editors)
reviewed by Martin C. Spechler on November 4, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800-1950
by Mark Tebeau
reviewed by Dalit Baranoff on June 17, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Economic Engagements with Art
by Neil De Marchi and Craufurd D.W. Goodwin (editors)
reviewed by Manuel Santos-Redondo on January 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Economics and Ideology of Free Trade: A Historical Review
by Leonard Gomes
reviewed by Lawrence Officer on August 14, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics
by Kenneth R. Hoover
reviewed by Steven Horwitz on April 12, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Economics in the Long Run: New Deal Theorists and Their Legacies, 1933-1993
by Theodore Rosenof
reviewed by Michael Perelman on February 17, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Economics of the Great Depression: A Twenty-First Century Look Back at the Economics of the Interwar Era
by Randall E. Parker
reviewed by David C. Wheelock on November 3, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Economics of World War I
by Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison (editors)
reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman on January 2, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Economics, Competition and Academia: An Intellectual History of Sophism versus Virtue
by Donald R. Stabile
reviewed by Donald E. Frey on February 15, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives and New Directions
by Cathy Matson (editor)
reviewed by David B. Ryden on January 24, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age
by Gijs Mom
reviewed by Staffan Hultén on March 28, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Electricity and Energy Policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945
by Martin Chick
reviewed by John Neufeld on June 2, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Encyclopedia of Native American Economic History
by Bruce E. Johansen
reviewed by David M. Wishart on July 19, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History
by Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day and Immanuel Ness (editors)
reviewed by Melvyn Dubofsky on October 16, 2009
  • Geographic area: 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), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Encyclopedia of Tariffs and Trade in U.S. History
by Cynthia Clark Northrup and Elaine C. Prange Turney (editors)
reviewed by Stephen Meardon on January 6, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925
by Philip Scranton
reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on June 24, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England
by Peter Temin
reviewed by David R. Meyer on August 9, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood
by Bernard F. Dick
reviewed by Jonathan Snyder on October 19, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina, 1865-1915
by Robert C. Kenzer
reviewed by John Sibley Butler on April 20, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Entertainment Industrialised: The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890-1940
by Gerben Bakker
reviewed by Michael Pokorny on April 28, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Entertainment Industry
by Michael Haupert
reviewed by Gerben Bakker on April 26, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance: Samuel P. Black and the Rise of Erie Insurance, 1923-1961
by Samuel P. Black Jr. and John Paul Rossi
reviewed by Jeffrey J. Matthews on October 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Envy of the World: A History of the U.S. Economy and Big Business
by Timothy J. Botti
reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on February 7, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Essays on the Great Depression
by Ben S. Bernanke
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
European Aristocracies and Colonial Elites: Patrimonial Management Strategies and Economic Development, 15th-18th Centuries
by Paul Janssens and Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla (editors)
reviewed by Carlos Álvarez-Nogal on March 20, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
European Banks and the American Challenge: Competition and Cooperation in International Banking under Bretton Woods
by Stefano Battilossi and Youssef Cassis (editors)
reviewed by Steven Tolliday on October 23, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture
by Deborah Fitzgerald
reviewed by Bruce Gardner on June 20, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
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)
The Evolution of Institutional Economics: Agency, Structure and Darwinism in American Institutionalism
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson
reviewed by Sherry Davis Kasper on January 20, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990
by Dora L. Costa
reviewed by Brian Gratton on December 15, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century
by Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht
reviewed by William Boal on April 20, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
by Daniel K. Richter
reviewed by Peter C. Mancall on October 6, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880-1990
by Daniel Nelson
reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on August 15, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Farm on the North Talbot Road
by Allan G. Bogue
reviewed by Robert Ankli on August 29, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780-1860
by Martin Bruegel
reviewed by Laurence J. Malone on October 17, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945
by Victoria Saker Woeste
reviewed by Paul Rhode on February 15, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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)
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
by Jim Powell
reviewed by Ellis W. Hawley on March 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Federal Landscape: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century West
by Gerald D. Nash
reviewed by Peter J. Hill on January 21, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
The Federal Reserve and the Bull Markets: From Benjamin Strong to Alan Greenspan
by Roger W. Spencer and John H. Huston
reviewed by Gary J. Santoni on July 13, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Federal Reserve System: An Encyclopedia
by R. W. Hafer
reviewed by Daniel Giedeman on June 9, 2006
  • Geographic area: 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)
The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930
by Wendy Gamber
reviewed by Pamela Nickless on July 7, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Female Labour Power: Women Workers' Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780-1860
by Janet Greenlees
reviewed by Pamela J. Nickless on June 28, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants
by Kathleen M. Barry
reviewed by Vicki Howard on June 29, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Fighting against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor since World War II
by Timothy J. Minchin
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on August 10, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
by Peter D. Norton
reviewed by Werner Troesken on August 5, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Final Victims: Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810
by James A. McMillin
reviewed by Philip Misevich on August 23, 2005
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development
by Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (editors)
reviewed by Timothy W. Guinnane on September 8, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 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), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Labor and Employment History (T)
Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich
by Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen
reviewed by Gerald Gunderson on July 28, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
A Financial History of the United States
by Jerry W. Markham
reviewed by Kenneth Weiher on December 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: 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)
A Financial History of the United States
by Jerry W. Markham
reviewed by Robert E. Wright on June 6, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 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)
Financing Innovation in the United States: 1870 to the Present
by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (editors)
reviewed by Charles W. Calomiris on July 17, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Markets and Institutions (W)
Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit
by Lendol Calder
reviewed by Christiane Diehl Taylor on February 3, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City
by Sara E. Wermiel
reviewed by James B. McSwain on November 13, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Firms, Networks and Business Values: The British and American Cotton Industries since 1750
by Mary B. Rose
reviewed by David Higgins on May 11, 2001
  • Geographic area: 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: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
The First Industrial Region: North-West England, c. 1700-60
by Jon Stobart
reviewed by Steve King on October 26, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The First Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the Birth of American Finance
by Robert E. Wright
reviewed by Peter L. Rousseau on September 26, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century
by Peter E. Pope
reviewed by Luca Codignola on March 22, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia
by Douglas C. Harris
reviewed by D. Bruce Johnsen on January 15, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933
by Margaret Beattie Bogue
reviewed by Jerome K. Laurent on July 12, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World
by Nicholas Dawidoff
reviewed by Carl Mosk on September 17, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State
by Jennifer Klein
reviewed by Melissa A. Thomasson on August 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T)
For the Common Good? American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity
by Jason Kaufman
reviewed by David T. Beito on February 18, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
by Woody Holton
reviewed by Robert E. Wright on February 15, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution
by John Bezis-Selfa
reviewed by Michael V. Kennedy on May 25, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
by Amity Shlaes
reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on August 21, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War
by John C. Willis
reviewed by J. William Harris on July 18, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade
by Barton H. Barbour
reviewed by Ann Harper Fender on March 11, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia
by Andrew M. Schocket
reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams on July 19, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Four Books on Philanthropy
by Bruce R. Hopkins, Jody Blazek, D. Benson Tesdahl, Lester M. Salamon and Judith Sealander
reviewed by Milton Goldin on May 5, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism
by Robert William Fogel
reviewed by John Murray on April 9, 2003
  • Geographic area: 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 Planning and Policy (e), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court Packing Crisis of 1937
by Marian C. McKenna
reviewed by Harvey G. Hudspeth on May 16, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer
by Kathleen G. Donohue
reviewed by Larry G. Gerber on June 8, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815-1860
by Stewart Davenport
reviewed by Donald E. Frey on September 24, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
From Boardroom to the War Room: America's Corporate Liberals and FDR's Preparedness Program
by Richard E. Holl
reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on November 7, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)
From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers
by Allan Kulikoff
reviewed by Winifred B. Rothenberg on September 7, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
From Buildings and Loans to Bail-Outs: A History of the American Savings and Loan Industry, 1831-1995
by David L. Mason
reviewed by Richard H. Keehn on January 26, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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)
From Direct Action to Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America, 1933-1972
by Paul D. Moreno
reviewed by Charles A. Shanor on May 27, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
From Edison to Enron: The Business of Power and What It Means for the Future of Electricity
by Richard Munson
reviewed by David B. Sicilia on January 20, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
by Rakesh Khurana
reviewed by Donald R. Stabile on November 12, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Education and Human Resource Development (G)
From Liberty to Democracy: The Transformation of American Government
by Randall G. Holcombe
reviewed by John Dinan on May 21, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967
by David T. Beito
reviewed by J. C. Herbert Emery on August 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture
by Dennis S. Nordin and Roy V. Scott
reviewed by David Danbom on February 15, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
From Redstone to Ludlow: John Cleveland Osgood’s Struggle against the United Mine Workers of America
by F. Darrell Munsell
reviewed by Ethan Doetsch on June 4, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Labor and Employment History (T)
From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry
by Albert J. Churella
reviewed by Philip Scranton on January 7, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry
by Albert J. Churella
reviewed by John K. Brown on January 15, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
From Sugar Triangle to Cotton Triangle: Trade and Shipping between America and Baltic Russia, 1783-1860
by Kalevi Ahonen
reviewed by William K. Hutchinson on January 30, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Funding American State, 1941-1995: The Rise and Fall of the Era of Easy Finance
by W. Elliot Brownlee
reviewed by Richard K. Vedder on December 16, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
A Future of Capitalism: The Economic Vision of Robert Heilbroner
by Michael C. Carroll
reviewed by Ross B. Emmett on January 15, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Future of U.S. Capitalism
by Frederic L. Pryor
reviewed by Robert Higgs on October 24, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The G.I. Bill: A New Deal for Veterans
by Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin
reviewed by Keith W. Olson on October 13, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Military and War (O)
The Gas Station in America
by John A. Jakle and Kieth A. Sculle
reviewed by Tom Dicke on May 16, 1995
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama
by John A. Salmond
reviewed by Clete Daniel on July 25, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870-1920
by Maury Klein
reviewed by Tomas Nonnenmacher on December 12, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's _My Years with General Motors_
by John McDonald
reviewed by David L. Mason on August 9, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s
by Ken Fones-Wolf
reviewed by Janet Irons on October 12, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Global Economy in the 1990s: A Long-Run Perspective
by Paul W. Rhode and Gianni Toniolo (editors)
reviewed by Christopher Hanes on July 13, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • 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), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Income and Wealth (Q)
Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods
by Barry J. Eichengreen
reviewed by Anna J. Schwartz on March 21, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Globalization and the American Century
by Alfred E. Eckes Jr. and Thomas W. Zeiler
reviewed by Wyatt Wells on March 1, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860
by Mark A. Noll (editor)
reviewed by Donald E. Frey on January 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
God's Capitalist: Asa Candler of Coca-Cola
by Kathryn W. Kemp
reviewed by Thomas R. Winpenny on January 29, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Gold Rush Capitalists: Greed and Growth in Sacramento
by Mark A. Eifler
reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on August 30, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)
Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971
by Francis J. Gavin
reviewed by Harold James on January 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America
by Gretchen Ritter
reviewed by Larry Schweikart on October 14, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
A Good Day's Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression
by Dwight W. Hoover
reviewed by Alan G. Bogue on October 24, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
reviewed by Milton Goldin on February 12, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Urban and Regional History (Z)
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)
Government and the American Economy: A New History
by Price Fishback et al (editor)
reviewed by Gavin Wright on October 19, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor
by Craig Phelan
reviewed by Robert E. Weir on June 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Great Debate on Banking Reform: Nelson Aldrich and the Origins of the Fed
by Elmus Wicker
reviewed by Ellis W. Tallman on August 11, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Great Depression: An International Disaster of Perverse Economic Policies
by Thomas E. Hall and David J. Ferguson
reviewed by Elmus Wicker on August 20, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster
by Werner Troesken
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on June 27, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Great Lobster War
by Ron Formisano
reviewed by Debbie Mullin on March 25, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord
by Brian Donahue
reviewed by Winifred Barr Rothenberg on December 23, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K)
The Greatest Nation on Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War
by Heather Cox Richardson
reviewed by Gavin Wright on January 19, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Growth Company: Dow Chemical's First Century
by E. N. Brandt
reviewed by John K. Smith on January 19, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Growth of American Government: Governance from the Cleveland Era to the Present
by Ballard C. Campbell
reviewed by Rebecca Menes on September 2, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Hamilton Unbound: Finance and the Creation of the American Republic
by Robert E. Wright
reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on August 19, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W)
Hard Work: The Making of Labor History
by Melvyn Dubofsky
reviewed by Robert Whaples on June 15, 2001
  • Geographic area: 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)
Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek
by Bruce Caldwell
reviewed by D. E. Moggridge on July 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science
by Christopher Sellers
reviewed by Mark Aldrich on March 12, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past
by Dora L. Costa (editor)
reviewed by John E. Murray on January 5, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere: A Conceptual History, 1919-1933
by Vincent Gaddis
reviewed by Patrick D. Reagan on September 2, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War
by Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn
reviewed by Marianne Wanamaker on September 8, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Military and War (O), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Hidden Cost of Economic Development: The Biological Standard of Living in Antebellum Pennsylvania
by Timothy Cuff
reviewed by Lee A. Craig on November 14, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980
by Timothy Minchin
reviewed by Thomas Lyons on June 18, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
HISCO: Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations
by Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas and Andrew Miles
reviewed by Hamish James on August 30, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Labor and Employment History (T)
The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory
by Ranjit S. Dighe (editor)
reviewed by Timothy E. Sullivan on January 20, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor
by Robert E. Weir and James P. Hanlan (editors)
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on December 2, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume Five: Governance and International Relations
by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
reviewed by Gary D. Libecap on April 19, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume Four: Economic Sectors
by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
reviewed by Lee J. Alston on June 26, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume One: Population
by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
reviewed by Trevon D. Logan on July 17, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume Three: Economic Structure and Performance
by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
reviewed by Joseph H. Davis on July 23, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume Two: Work and Welfare
by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
reviewed by Thomas N. Maloney on August 4, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition
by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
reviewed by Samuel H. Williamson on October 25, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Historical Statistics of U.S.
by 1997 Cambridge University Press
reviewed by William Hutchinson on December 3, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
The Historicity of Economics: Continuities and Discontinuities of Historical Thought in 19th and 20th Century Economics
by Heino H. Nau and Bertram Schefold (editors)
reviewed by Roberto Romani on April 8, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
A History of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building
by Howard Bodenhorn
reviewed by Jon Moen on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship
by Juliet E. K. Walker
reviewed by Maceo Dailey on June 11, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States
by John H. Wood
reviewed by Angela Redish on December 21, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 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)
The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945
by Mira Wilkins
reviewed by Michael Edelstein on January 28, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
A History of Household Government in America
by Carole Shammas
reviewed by Gloria L. Main on March 26, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
A History of Macroeconomic Policy in the United States
by John H. Wood
reviewed by David C. Wheelock on June 29, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States
by Robert L. Clark, Lee A. Craig and Jack W. Wilson
reviewed by Price Fishback on October 10, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
A History of the Federal Reserve, Vol. I: 1913-51
by Allan H. Meltzer
reviewed by John H. Wood on June 25, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s
by Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley
reviewed by D. Jonathan Snyder on February 12, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Horses in Society: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920
by Margaret E. Derry
reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford on September 20, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Military and War (O)
A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia, 1800-1860
by John Majewski
reviewed by Thomas Weiss on December 8, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Household Accounts: Working Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States
by Susan Porter Benson
reviewed by Marianne Ward on February 18, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
How America Got On-Line: Politics, Markets, and the Revolution in Telecommunications
by Alan Stone
reviewed by Aristotle Tympas on September 28, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
How Cartels Endure and How They Fail: Studies of Industrial Collusion
by Peter Z. Grossman (editor)
reviewed by Richard Sicotte on January 25, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
by Carl Abbott
reviewed by Fred H. Smith on May 26, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Urban and Regional History (Z)
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)
How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Commodity Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States
by John J. McCusker
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on February 6, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 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), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
How the Republicans Caused the Stock Market Crash of 1929: GPT's, Failed Transitions, and Commercial Policy
by Bernard C. Beaudreau
reviewed by Carlos D. Ramirez on August 24, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Ideologies and Institutions: American Conservative and Liberal Governance Prescriptions Since 1933
by J. Richard Piper
reviewed by Patrick D. Reagan on March 18, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Ideology and the International Economy: The Decline and Fall of Bretton Woods
by Robert Leeson
reviewed by Peter B. Kenen on August 2, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
If I Were Boss, The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis
by Sinclair Lewis
reviewed by Peter Baida on December 7, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning
by Regina Lee Blaszczyk
reviewed by Lendol G. Calder on August 13, 2001
  • Geographic area: 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: Business History (B), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Immigration and American Unionism
by Vernon M. Briggs Jr.
reviewed by Joseph D. Reid Jr. on December 3, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Labor and Employment History (T)
In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns
by Dario Gaggio
reviewed by Hugo Ceron-Anaya on October 6, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
In Irons: Britain's Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy
by Richard Buel Jr.
reviewed by James F. Shepherd on April 16, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
by Alice Kessler-Harris
reviewed by Joyce P. Jacobsen on June 26, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906
by Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman and Karen Gleiter
reviewed by Donald G. Paterson on August 18, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism
by James Hudnut-Beumler
reviewed by Donald E. Frey on June 22, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919
by Susan Zeiger
reviewed by Pamela Nickless on June 4, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States
by Angel Kwolek-Folland
reviewed by Mary A. Yeager on April 1, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717
by Alan Gallay
reviewed by Peter C. Mancall on April 4, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N)
The Industrial Revolution: Milestones in Business History
by Jeff Horn
reviewed by Joyce Burnette on January 21, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984
by Steven High
reviewed by Robert M. Schwab on September 25, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820-1920
by William H. Thiesen
reviewed by Richard Sicotte on November 3, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Military and War (O), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Industrializing the Rockies: Growth, Competition, and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868-1914
by David A. Wolff
reviewed by Gerald Ronning on August 17, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present
by Jan de Vries
reviewed by Hans-Joachim Voth on May 27, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 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), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
Information Revolutions in the History of the West
by Leonard Dudley
reviewed by Eric Jones on December 16, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 17th Century (5), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Geography (K), Military and War (O), Markets and Institutions (W)
Institutional Change and American Economic Growth
by Lance E. Davis and Douglass C. North
reviewed by Cynthia Taft Morris on November 4, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States
by John Lauritz Larson
reviewed by John Majewski on July 23, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The International Origins of the Federal Reserve System
by J. Lawrence Broz
reviewed by David C. Wheelock on June 3, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
International Trade and Political Institutions: Instituting Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century
by Fiona McGillivray, Iain McLean, Robert Pahre and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
reviewed by John V.C. Nye on July 23, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945 to 2005
by Paul E. Ceruzzi
reviewed by Glenn Bugos on November 3, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Military and War (O), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981
by Amy Sue Bix
reviewed by Robert H. Zieger on September 21, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
by Angela Lakwete
reviewed by William H. Phillips on April 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Investing for Middle America: John Elliot Tappan and the Origins of American Express Financial Advisors
by Kenneth Lipartito and Carol Heher Peters
reviewed by Douglas Steeples on February 19, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Invisible Fuel: Manufactured and Natural Gas in America, 1800-2000
by Christopher J. Castaneda
reviewed by Andrew Jenkins on July 2, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers
by Herbert H. Harwood Jr.
reviewed by Fred H. Smith on August 5, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
by Peter T. Leeson
reviewed by Daniel K. Benjamin on October 3, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Iron Horse and the Windy City: How Railroads Shaped Chicago
by David M. Young
reviewed by Louis P. Cain on September 26, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture and Justice in America
by John David Skretny
reviewed by Paul Moreno on October 29, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Irony of State Intervention: American Industrial Relations Policy in Comparative Perspective, 1914-1939
by Larry G. Gerber
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on February 17, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Is War Necessary for Economic Growth? Military Procurement and Technology Development
by Vernon W. Ruttan
reviewed by Robert Higgs on June 21, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Military and War (O)
It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States
by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks
reviewed by Eric Rauchway on April 13, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer before and after the Bayh-Dole Act
by David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, Bhaven N. Sampat and Arvids A. Ziedonis
reviewed by Roberto Mazzoleni on November 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980
by Christopher Newfield
reviewed by Henry J. Bruton on April 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Jacksonian Economy
by Peter Temin
reviewed by Richard Sylla on August 17, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873
by M. John Lubetkin
reviewed by Ann Harper Fender on July 24, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in New York and London, 1880-1914: Enterprise and Culture
by Andrew Godley
reviewed by Carmel U. Chiswick on June 3, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits
by W. Carl Biven
reviewed by Toby G. Bates on January 23, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
John Hull, the Mint and the Economics of Massachusetts Coinage
by Louis Jordan
reviewed by Ron Michener on February 4, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire
by Axel Madsen
reviewed by Ann Harper Fender on August 10, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics
by Richard Parker
reviewed by Peter J. Boettke on November 6, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier
by Albert L. Hurtado
reviewed by Lynne Pierson Doti on September 13, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
JSTOR: A History
by Roger C. Schonfield
reviewed by Royce Kurtz on October 24, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole and Rehabilitation
by Peter Fearon
reviewed by Todd Sorensen on November 5, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Kellogg's Six-Hour Day
by Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt
reviewed by Robert Whaples on September 11, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Kennedy-Johnson Tax Cut: A Revisionist History
by Martin F. J. Prachowny
reviewed by Richard K. Vedder on October 17, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Keynes, Chicago and Friedman
by Robert Leeson
reviewed by Warren J. Samuels on February 2, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Kill and Chill: Restructuring Canada's Beef Commodity Chain
by Ian MacLachlan
reviewed by Daniel V. Gordon on May 24, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions
by Johann Peter Murmann
reviewed by Brent Goldfarb on September 17, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
L'électricité en réseaux: Networks of Power
by Thomas Hughes
reviewed by John Neufeld on June 22, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
La conexión cubana: Narcotráfico, contrabando y juego en Cuba entre los años 20 y comienzos de la Revolución
by Eduardo Saenz Rovner
reviewed by William McGreevey on August 22, 2005
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715-1919
by Karin L. Zipf
reviewed by T. Stephen Whitman on September 30, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism
by Jonathan Cutler
reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd on April 22, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Laboring for Freedom: A New Look at the History of Labor in America
by Daniel Jacoby
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on November 16, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Labor’s Canvas: American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s
by Laura Hapke
reviewed by Cameron M. Weber on May 13, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Laces of Ipswich: The Art and Economics of an Early American Industry, 1750-1840
by Marta Cotterell Raffel
reviewed by Marla R. Miller on July 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Land, Power, and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada
by John Clarke
reviewed by Douglas McCalla on April 19, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K)
Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925
by Douglas C. Harris
reviewed by D. Bruce Johnsen on July 22, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
Landscape with Figures: A History of Art Dealing in the United States
by Malcolm Goldstein
reviewed by David W. Galenson on February 27, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America
by Steven Stoll
reviewed by Julia A. King on September 24, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the South
by William G. Thomas
reviewed by William R. Childs on May 9, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Legacy of Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose: Economic Liberalism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
by Mark Wynne, Harvey Rosenblum and Robert Formaini (editors)
reviewed by Ranald Taylor and Robert Leeson on November 8, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Liability Century: Insurance and Tort Law from the Progressive Era to 9/11
by Kenneth S. Abraham
reviewed by Sachin S. Pandya on May 5, 2009
  • Geographic area: 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), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman
by Maury Klein
reviewed by Albert J. Churella on August 29, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Lincoln Electric: A History
by Virginia P. Dawson
reviewed by Daniel Nelson on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class and Revolution, 1830-1890
by Andrew Dawson
reviewed by Ken Fones-Wolf on August 24, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
A Living Wage
by Lawrence B. Glickman
reviewed by Richard Schneirov on July 3, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Living Wage: Lessons from the History of Economic Thought
by Donald R. Stabile
reviewed by Art Carden on July 16, 2009
  • Geographic area: 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: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Labor and Employment History (T)
Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier
by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
reviewed by Anthony J. Amato on March 11, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K)
Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets during Industrialization
by Joshua L. Rosenbloom
reviewed by Warren C. Whatley on October 18, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970-2002
by Richard Saunders Jr.
reviewed by William R. Childs on April 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry
by James M. Rubenstein
reviewed by Thomas Winpenny on February 25, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Making Chicago Price Theory: Friedman-Stigler Correspondence, 1945-1957
by J. Daniel Hammond and Claire H. Hammond (editors)
reviewed by Craig Freedman on September 27, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Making Connections: The Long-distance Bus Industry in the USA
by Margaret Walsh
reviewed by John Singleton on February 16, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Making Freedom Pay: North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves, 1864-1900
by Sharon Ann Holt
reviewed by Nancy Virts on May 21, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Master Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850
by Donna J. Rilling
reviewed by James B. McSwain on July 17, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970
by Christophe Lecuyer
reviewed by Glenn Bugos on February 5, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States: A Reader
by David C. Hammack
reviewed by Milton Goldin on April 10, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream
by M. Jeffrey Hardwick
reviewed by Scott J. Vitell on April 2, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Man behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
by Leslie Berlin
reviewed by Rasigan Maharajh on December 6, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance
by Dan Rottenberg
reviewed by Daniel A. Schiffman on January 8, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Managing for the Long Run: Lessons in Competitive Advantage from Great Family Businesses
by Danny Miller and Isabel Le Breton-Miller
reviewed by Jeffrey J. Matthews on August 8, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America
by Robert E. May
reviewed by Ben Wynne on February 25, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Manpower in Economic Growth: The American Record since 1800
by Stanley Lebergott
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on February 27, 2006
  • Geographic area: 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)
Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry
by Lawrence A. Peskin
reviewed by David R. Meyer on July 7, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric
by Stephen B. Adams and Orville R. Butler
reviewed by Eric John Abrahamson on February 4, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold Innis
by Alexander John Watson
reviewed by Robin Neill on March 15, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Market Dominance: How Firms Gain, Hold, or Lose It and the Impact on Economic Performance
by David I. Rosenbaum (editor)
reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on March 2, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850-2000: British Performance in International Perspective
by Stephen Broadberry
reviewed by Alex Field on June 15, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • 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)
The Market, the State, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 1934-2000
by William H. Becker and William M. McClenahan Jr.
reviewed by Jonathan J. Bean on July 1, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Marketplace of Christianity
by Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Robert F. Hébert and Robert D. Tollison
reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond on March 29, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence
by T. H. Breen
reviewed by Farley Grubb on December 7, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream: How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business
by Jane R. Plitt
reviewed by Sheila L. Skemp on August 12, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Mass Migration under Sail: European Immigration to the Antebellum United States
by Scott A. Carson
reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on May 18, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Mass Motorization and Mass Transit: An American History and Policy Analysis
by David W. Jones
reviewed by James A. Dunn Jr. on December 24, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Mass Production, the Stock Market Crash, and the Great Depression: The Macroeconomics of Electrification
by Bernard C. Beaudreau
reviewed by William J. Hausman on February 28, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South
by William Kauffman Scarborough
reviewed by Robert Gudmestad on March 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
The Mechanics of Optimism: Mining Companies, Technology, and the Hot Spring Gold Rush, Montana Territory, 1864-1868
by Jeffery J. Safford
reviewed by Lynne Pierson Doti on November 16, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
Mellon: An American Life
by David Cannadine
reviewed by Robert Whaples on December 29, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Merchants and Migrations: Germans and Americans in Connection, 1776-1835
by Sam A. Mustafa
reviewed by Simone A. Wegge on October 3, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Merging Lines: American Railroads, 1900-1970
by Richard Saunders Jr.
reviewed by William Huneke on February 20, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Migration and Economic Growth: A Study of Great Britain and the Atlantic Economy
by Brinley Thomas
reviewed by James Foreman-Peck on August 14, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • 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), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Mining Law of 1872: Past, Politics, and Prospects
by Gordon Morris Bakken
reviewed by Gary D. Libecap on December 9, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement
by James B. Jacobs
reviewed by Melvyn Dubofsky on October 19, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal
by Sanford M. Jacoby
reviewed by Michael Huberman on March 18, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal
by Sanford M. Jacoby
reviewed by Edward Berkowitz on February 28, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
by Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz
reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on January 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Monetary Policy and the Great Inflation in the United States: The Federal Reserve and the Failure of Macroeconomic Policy, 1965-79
by Thomas Mayer
reviewed by Stephen J. Perez on January 26, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve: A History
by Robert L. Hetzel
reviewed by Gary Richardson on December 3, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Monetary Theory and Bretton Woods: The Construction of an International Monetary Order
by Filippo Cesarano
reviewed by John H. Wood on June 2, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Money and Morals in America: A History
by Patricia O'Toole
reviewed by Donald Frey on January 25, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War over the American Dollar
by H.W. Brands
reviewed by David J. Cowen on October 3, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Money, Trade, and Power: The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society
by Jack P. Greene, Rosemary Brana-Shute and Randy J. Sparks (editors)
reviewed by David Ryden on April 2, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates
by Charles R. Geisst
reviewed by Werner Troesken on August 14, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Moose Pastures and Mergers: The Ontario Securities Commission and the Regulation of Share Markets in Canada, 1940-1980
by Christopher Armstrong
reviewed by Ben Forster on January 31, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America
by Robert M. Collins
reviewed by William Keech on February 13, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Mr. Kaiser Goes to Washington: The Rise of a Government Entrepreneur
by Stephen B. Adams
reviewed by Mark S. Foster on January 14, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Much More than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921
by Robert F. Burk
reviewed by Michael Haupert on January 21, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T)
Mutually Beneficial: The Guardian and Life Insurance in America
by Robert E. Wright and George David Smith
reviewed by Richard H. Keehn on November 30, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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)
NASA and the Space Industry
by Joan Lisa Bromberg
reviewed by Glenn Bugos on April 26, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
NASA and the Space Industry
by Joan Lisa Bromberg
reviewed by Roger Handberg on February 20, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States
by Stephen Mihm
reviewed by Jane Knodell on January 23, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War
by Nicholas Onuf and Peter Onuf
reviewed by Jane Flaherty on October 23, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Natural Gas Market: Sixty Years of Regulation and Deregulation
by Paul W. MacAvoy
reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on July 30, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Natural Instability of Markets: Expectations, Increasing Returns, and the Collapse of Capitalism
by Michael Perelman
reviewed by Thomas E. Hall on May 15, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush
by Kathryn Morse
reviewed by Mark Kanazawa on December 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America
by Edward J. Balleisen
reviewed by Bradley A. Hansen on July 31, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution
by Marla R. Miller
reviewed by Gloria L. Main on May 11, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America
by David R. Meyer
reviewed by Ross Thomson on June 18, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995
by Louis Galambos and Jane E. Sewell
reviewed by Marvin Fischbaum on January 27, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995
by Louis Galambos and Jane E. Sewell
reviewed by James H. Madison on November 18, 1996
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The New Deal and Public Policy
by Byron D. Daynes, William D. Pederson and Michael P. Riccards
reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on April 5, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
New Deal Fat Cats: Business, Labor, and Campaign Finance in the 1936 Presidential Election
by Michael J. Webber
reviewed by Jim F. Couch on July 5, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The New Imperial Economy: The British Army and the New American Frontier, 1764-1768
by Walter S. Dunn Jr.
reviewed by John Shy on June 8, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The New South's New Frontier: A Social History of Economic Development in Southwestern North Carolina
by Stephen Wallace Taylor
reviewed by William H. Phillips on March 13, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Urban and Regional History (Z)
New World Economies: The Growth of the Thirteen Colonies and Early Canada
by Marc Egnal
reviewed by Allan Kulikoff on August 6, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad
by Robert E. Mohowski
reviewed by H. Roger Grant on November 12, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes
by Allen J. Matusow
reviewed by David Stebenne on August 24, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
No Ordinary Academics: Economics and Political Science at the University of Saskatchewan, 1910-1960
by Shirley Spafford
reviewed by Robin F. Neill on September 22, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Nonprofits and Government: Collaboration and Conflict
by Elizabeth T. Boris and C. Eugene Steuerle
reviewed by Milton Goldin on July 16, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War
by David G. Surdam
reviewed by Roger L. Ransom on November 14, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier
by Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill
reviewed by Frank D. Lewis on January 6, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn
by Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias
reviewed by David B. Danbom on August 31, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America
by Sean Patrick Adams
reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on May 6, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
On Hollywood: The Place, the Industry
by Allen J. Scott
reviewed by Mike Haupert on October 18, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Geography (K), Urban and Regional History (Z)
On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment
by Geoff Cunfer
reviewed by Matthew T. Gregg on April 24, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Historical Geography (K)
On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry
by Liesl Miller Orenic
reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd Jr. on August 27, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency
by Robert Kanigel
reviewed by Hindy Lauer Schachter on November 10, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928
by Matthew J. Mancini
reviewed by Garland Brinkley on October 29, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
One Nation under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe
by Robert E. Wright
reviewed by Donald R. Stabile on July 7, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal
by David E. Bernstein
reviewed by Richard K. Vedder on April 11, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776
by Alfred E. Jr. Eckes
reviewed by Bruce A. Khula on November 2, 1995
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Opening the West: Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860
by Laurence J. Malone
reviewed by John Joseph Wallis on October 23, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden
by Douglas Cazaux Sackman
reviewed by Paul Rhode on November 14, 2006
  • Geographic area: Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism
by Charles Perrow
reviewed by Vicki Howard on August 3, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Origins and Economic Impact of the First Bank of the United States, 1791-1797
by David J. Cowen
reviewed by Edwin J. Perkins on May 22, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds
by John E. Murray
reviewed by Melissa A. Thomasson on February 4, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Origins of Commercial Banking in America, 1750-1800
by Robert E. Wright
reviewed by Edwin J. Perkins on November 12, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Origins of the American Income Tax: The Revenue Act of 1894 and Its Aftermath
by Richard J. Joseph
reviewed by W. Elliot Brownlee on September 28, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Other Side of the Frontier: Economic Explorations into Native American History
by Linda Barrington
reviewed by Thomas Weiss on January 19, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Owens Valley Revisited: A Reassessment of the West's First Great Water Transfer
by Gary D. Libecap
reviewed by Mark Kanazawa on March 1, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Income and Wealth (Q), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Pain and Profits: The History of the Headache and Its Remedies in America
by Jan R. McTavish
reviewed by Marc Law on May 12, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm
by Robert F. Bruner and Sean D. Carr
reviewed by Jon R. Moen on October 3, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction
by David Zimmerman
reviewed by Scott Dalrymple on October 26, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Past and Future of America's Economy: Long Waves of Innovation that Power Cycles of Growth
by Robert D. Atkinson
reviewed by Wyatt Wells on May 26, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Paul Samuelson: On Being an Economist
by Michael Szenberg, Aron Gottesman and Lall Ramrattan
reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond on March 5, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control
by Philip J. Cook
reviewed by Mark Thornton on April 2, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Peddling Panaceas: Popular Economists in the New Deal Era
by Gary Dean Best
reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on October 10, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
A Penny for the Governor, A Dollar for Uncle Sam: Income Taxation in Washington
by Phil Roberts
reviewed by Terri A. Sexton on October 15, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Pensions, Politics, and the Elderly: Historic Social Movements and Their Lessons for Our Aging Society
by Daniel J. B. Mitchell
reviewed by Robert Whaples on January 7, 2002
  • Geographic area: 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)
Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England
by Gloria L. Main
reviewed by Daniel Scott Smith on December 10, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America
by Michael A. Bernstein
reviewed by William J. Barber on April 2, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990
by John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David R. Smith and Randy William Widdis
reviewed by Jerome K. Laurent on January 20, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 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), Historical Geography (K), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States since 1945
by William A. Darity Jr. and Samuel L. Myers Jr.
reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on February 15, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Peter Tait: A Remarkable Story
by John E. Waite
reviewed by James Jaffe on December 4, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Military and War (O)
Philanthropic Foundations: New Scholarship, New Possibilities
by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
reviewed by Milton Goldin on August 30, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia
by Chad Morgan
reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams on July 22, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Military and War (O), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860
by Tom Downey
reviewed by Lawrence A. Peskin on January 25, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
by Meg Jacobs
reviewed by Robert Collins on July 13, 2005
  • Geographic area: 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), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W)
Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches
by Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal
reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on August 15, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Income and Wealth (Q)
The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900
by Richard Franklin Bensel
reviewed by David L. Carlton on August 7, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Political Economy of the New Deal
by Jim Couch and William F. Shughart II
reviewed by Price V. Fishback on June 21, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Political Economy of the World Bank: The Early Years
by Michele Alacevich
reviewed by Louis Galambos on October 14, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America: Essays in Policy, History, and Political Economy
by Stephen Haber (editor)
reviewed by Anne Hanley on April 18, 2001
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Political Institutions and Financial Development
by Stephen Haber, Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast (editors)
reviewed by Claudia Rei on July 2, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Politics and Banking: Ideas, Public Policy, and the Creation of Financial Institutions
by Susan Hoffmann
reviewed by Michael R. McAvoy on June 3, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 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)
Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South
by Shawn Everett Kantor
reviewed by Dennis Halcoussis on August 13, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
The Politics of Child Support in America
by Jocelyn Elise Crowley
reviewed by Stephen T. Ziliak on March 24, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: A Choice of Pleasures
by John Sedgwick
reviewed by Michael J. Haupert on July 27, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Populism
by Worth Robert Miller
reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on February 13, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age
by Steven Leiken
reviewed by Ken Fones-Wolf on March 30, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation
by Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor
reviewed by Mark Aldrich on February 6, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
Prelude to Trade Wars: American Tariff Policy, 1890-1922
by Edward S. Kaplan and Thomas W. Ryley
reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on March 20, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Price of Progress: Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 to 1929
by R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson
reviewed by W. Elliot Brownlee on November 20, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782
by Ronald Hoffman
reviewed by Evan Haefeli on January 19, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic
by Rosalind Remer
reviewed by Philip Scranton on December 19, 1996
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic
by Rosalind Remer
reviewed by Richard R. John on October 15, 1996
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Profiting the Crown: Canada's Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990
by Matthew J. Bellamy
reviewed by Heather Nelson on February 19, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Promise of Private Pensions: The First Hundred Years
by Steven A. Sass
reviewed by Samuel H. Williamson on October 12, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
by Thomas K. McCraw
reviewed by Richard N. Langlois on November 14, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937
by Susan M. Sterett
reviewed by Joanna Short on December 9, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin
by Pamela Walker Laird
reviewed by Laura J. Owen on July 18, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T)
Pushing the Envelope: The American Aircraft Industry
by Donald M. Pattillo
reviewed by Virginia P. Dawson on March 19, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Quantitative Economic History: The Good of Counting
by Joshua L. Rosenbloom (editor)
reviewed by Mary Eschelbach Hansen on September 26, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Race between Education and Technology
by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz
reviewed by Peter H. Lindert on November 29, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Labor and Employment History (T)
Race, Jobs, and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941-46
by Andrew Edmund Kersten
reviewed by Thomas N. Maloney on April 19, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Race, Liberalism, and Economics
by David Colander, Robert E. Prasch and Falguni A. Sheth (editors)
reviewed by Stanley Engerman on July 12, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940
by Andrew Wender Cohen
reviewed by Louis P. Cain on July 25, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960
by Hugh R. Slotten
reviewed by Carole E. Scott on March 8, 2002
  • Geographic area: 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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America
by Robert G. Angevine
reviewed by David Surdam on March 24, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Railroading Economics: The Creation of the Free Market Mythology
by Michael Perelman
reviewed by Richard Vedder on January 19, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History
by Robert W. Fogel
reviewed by Lance Davis on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Railroads and American Law
by James W. Ely Jr.
reviewed by Harvey G. Hudspeth on July 16, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat
by John E. Clark Jr.
reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams on May 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad
by H. Roger Grant
reviewed by Bill Beck on April 6, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Railways in Britain and the United States 1830-1940
by Geoffrey Channon
reviewed by Albert J. Churella on January 10, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929
by Maury Klein
reviewed by Robert Zevin on February 8, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
reviewed by Gerald Gunderson on September 18, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Reconstruction in the Cane Field: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes 1862-1880
by John C. Rodrigue
reviewed by Robert C. Kenzer on October 26, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T)
Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry
by Hugh S. Gorman
reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on August 17, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England
by Diana Muir
reviewed by Jane Knodell on May 24, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K)
Reflections of Eminent Economists
by Michael Szenberg and Lall Ramrattan (editors)
reviewed by Arthur M. Diamond Jr. on August 31, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution: Conversations with Economic Historians
by John S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain and Samuel H. Williamson (editors)
reviewed by Michael Haupert on August 29, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
Reflections on the Great Depression
by Randall E. Parker
reviewed by Gene Smiley on April 1, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (v)
Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920
by Steven W. Usselman
reviewed by Jeff Schramm on September 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Reigniting the Labor Movement: Restoring Means to Ends in a Democratic Labor Movement
by Gerald Friedman
reviewed by Hoyt N. Wheeler on August 28, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900-1930
by Amy E. Slaton
reviewed by James B. McSwain on October 5, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930
by Gunther Peck
reviewed by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on May 23, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Reluctant Economist: Perspectives on Economics, Economic History, and Demography
by Richard A. Easterlin
reviewed by Lee A. Craig on November 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
Reluctant Partners: A History of Multilateral Trade Cooperation, 1850-2000
by Andrew Brown
reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on September 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • 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)
Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: From Protectionism to Globalization
by Nitsan Chorev
reviewed by Douglas A. Irwin on January 11, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Renewing Birmingham: Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929-1979
by Christopher MacGregor Scribner
reviewed by Gordon E. Harvey on December 17, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence
by Bruce H. Mann
reviewed by David T. Flynn on February 23, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Rethinking the Great Depression
by Gene Smiley
reviewed by David C. Wheelock on February 5, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Revisiting U.S. Trade Policy: Decisions in Perspective
by Alfred E. Eckes Jr.
reviewed by James Gerber on December 5, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Revival of Laissez-Faire in American Macroeconomic Theory: A Case Study of the Pioneers
by Sherryl Davis Kasper
reviewed by Roger W. Garrison on April 22, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State
by Max M. Edling
reviewed by Robert A. McGuire on May 25, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Rexall Story: A History of Genius and Neglect
by Mickey C. Smith
reviewed by Marvin Fischbaum on September 11, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Riches from Atlantic Commerce: Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585-1817
by Johannes Postma and Victor Enthoven (editors)
reviewed by Paul M. Hohenberg on June 28, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors: The Transformation of Rural Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1720-1850
by Thomas S. Wermuth
reviewed by Donald Parkerson on January 30, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
by David Eltis
reviewed by Jan Hogendorn on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
The Rise of Big Government in the United States
by John F. Walker and Harold G. Vatter
reviewed by Werner Troesken on January 13, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Rise, Fall, and Replacement of Industrywide Bargaining in the Basic Steel Industry
by Garth L. Magnum and R. Scott McNabb
reviewed by Howard R. Stanger on March 12, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter & Gamble
by Davis Dyer, Frederick Dalzell and Rowena Olegario
reviewed by Michael Landry on June 17, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850
by Kim M. Gruenwald
reviewed by Diane Lindstrom on January 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control
by Karen M. O'Neill
reviewed by Brooks A. Kaiser on December 22, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control
by Karen M. O'Neill
reviewed by Brooks A. Kaiser on December 22, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia
by Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee
reviewed by James Oberly on July 20, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Road to Serfdom: Texts and Documents -- The Definitive Edition
by F. A. Hayek
reviewed by Steven Horwitz on June 11, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes
by John Franch
reviewed by Robert Whaples on July 2, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery
by Eliot A. Rosen
reviewed by Elmus Wicker on June 19, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Roots of American Industrialization
by David R. Meyer
reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on November 13, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917
by Elizabeth Sanders
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on April 6, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
The Rotten Fruits of Economic Controls and the Rise from the Ashes, 1965-1989
by Thomas E. Hall
reviewed by J. Peter Ferderer on July 2, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution, 1862-1969
by Robert Fitzgerald
reviewed by John F. Wilson on August 21, 1995
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Rum and Axes: The Rise of a Connecticut Merchant Family, 1795-1850
by Janet Siskind
reviewed by Barry Levy on August 9, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Sacred Debts: State Civil War Claims and American Federalism, 1861-1880
by Kyle S. Sinisi
reviewed by Robert W. Burg on March 8, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present
by Martin V. Melosi
reviewed by James B. McSwain on May 16, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Geography (K), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Schumpeter and the Endogeneity of Technology: Some American Perspectives
by Nathan Rosenberg
reviewed by Avi J. Cohen on August 11, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Schumpeter's Market: Enterprise and Evolution
by David Reisman
reviewed by Frederic Sautet on September 2, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Second Bank of the United States and Ohio (1803-1860): A Collision of Interests
by Marion A. Brown
reviewed by Larry Schweikart on January 13, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South
by Donald Holley
reviewed by Craig Heinicke on March 26, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Second Information Revolution
by Gerald W. Brock
reviewed by David Gabel on August 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
by Heather Andrea Williams
reviewed by Ilyana Kuziemko on July 6, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Selling Themselves: The Emergence of Canadian Advertising
by Russell Johnston
reviewed by George Emery on February 23, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature
by Mark Daniel Barringer
reviewed by Peter J. Hill on August 26, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor
by David Witwer
reviewed by Lawrence Richards on June 3, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries
by Alfred D. Chandler
reviewed by Kyle Bruce on January 13, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle
by Leonard L. Richards
reviewed by Robert A. McGuire on October 14, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism
by Thomas R. Heinrich
reviewed by John K. Brown on August 12, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Shoemakers of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1850-1880: The Family during the Transition from Hand to Machine Labor
by William H. Mulligan, Jr.
reviewed by Christiane Diehl Taylor on August 17, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Shopping at Giant Foods: Chinese American Supermarkets in Northern California
by Alfred Yee
reviewed by Albert J. Churella on February 20, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas
by Sally E. Hadden
reviewed by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel on July 22, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery
by Don E. Fehrenbacher and Ward M. McAfee
reviewed by Donald F. Schaefer on April 9, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Slavery and American Economic Development
by Gavin Wright
reviewed by Jeremy Atack on May 18, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T)
The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective
by Robert William Fogel
reviewed by Leonard Carlson on February 6, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Slavery in the American Mountain South
by Wilma Dunaway
reviewed by Jenny B. Wahl on October 2, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
Slavery in the Development of the Americas
by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (editors)
reviewed by Gavin Wright on June 24, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Africa (1), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 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), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Small Business Policy and the American Creed
by Sandra M. Anglund
reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford on June 7, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
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)
Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America
by William G. Roy
reviewed by Margaret Levenstein on August 12, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
by Walter Johnson
reviewed by Robert Wolff on June 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
by Walter Johnson
reviewed by Robert Whaples on June 15, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Soul's Economy: Market and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920
by Jeffrey Sklansky
reviewed by Donald Frey on January 31, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
South Carolina and the New Deal
by Jack Irby Hayes Jr
reviewed by Jim Couch on January 28, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development
by David L. Carlton and Peter A. Coclanis
reviewed by William H. Phillips on November 4, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South 1865-1965
by Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie
reviewed by Craig Heinicke on December 7, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Sowing Modernity: America's First Agricultural Revolution
by Peter D. McClelland
reviewed by Mary Eschelbach Hansen on February 28, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed over Industry
by Lawrence E. Mitchell
reviewed by J. Peter Ferderer on June 5, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse
by Richard R. John
reviewed by Mary K. McGuire on August 27, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
State and Party in America's New Deal
by Kenneth Finegold and Theda Skocpol
reviewed by Garry Young on March 18, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
State Banking in Early America: A New Economic History
by Howard Bodenhorn
reviewed by Peter L. Rousseau on November 28, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
State of the Union: A Century of American Labor
by Nelson Lichtenstein
reviewed by Walter Licht on September 13, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The State, Regulation and the Economy: An Historical Perspective
by Lars Magnusson and Jan Ottosson (editors)
reviewed by Mark Kanazawa on July 3, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940
by Arwen Mohun
reviewed by Jeffrey M. Hornstein on November 14, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Store Wars: Shopkeepers and the Culture of Mass Marketing, 1890-1939
by David Monod
reviewed by David A. Horowitz on September 8, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin and Community in Autotown, U.S.A.
by Lisa M. Fine
reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd Jr. on August 12, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Street of Dreams, Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century
by Howard M. Wachtel
reviewed by Edwin Perkins on August 22, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America
by Stephen H. Norwood
reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on August 15, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century
by JoAnne Yates
reviewed by Thomas Haigh on May 9, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924-1970
by Robert F. Freeland
reviewed by Paul Robertson on March 28, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Studies in Economic and Social History: Essays in Honour of Derek H. Aldcroft
by Michael J. Oliver (editor)
reviewed by Ruggero Ranieri on January 28, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 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), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller
by Steve Weinberg
reviewed by Bryan C. McCannon on January 20, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball, 1903-2003
by Henry D. Fetter
reviewed by Michael J. Haupert on May 5, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T)
Taking the Risk out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty
by Alex Carey
reviewed by Karen S. Miller on October 1, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Taking Trade to the Streets: The Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape Globalization
by Susan Ariel Aaronson
reviewed by Alfred E. Eckes on August 25, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America
by Camilla Townsend
reviewed by A. Glenn Crothers on May 23, 2001
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War
by Mark Thornton and Robert B. Ekelund Jr.
reviewed by David G. Surdam on April 14, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Taste, Trade and Technology: The Development of the International Meat Industry since 1840
by Richard Perren
reviewed by Lee A. Craig on December 20, 2006
  • Geographic area: Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • 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), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Taxation in Colonial America
by Alvin Rabushka
reviewed by Roger Hewett on August 27, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975
by Julian E. Zelizer
reviewed by Dennis J. Ventry on June 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Great Debate Over Tax Reform
by Joel Selmrod and Jon Bakija
reviewed by James K. Self on October 5, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
Technological Change and the Evolution of Corporate Innovation: The Structure of Patenting, 1890-1990
by Birgitte Andersen
reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on July 6, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology and Geography, 1850-1950
by Gregory J. Downey
reviewed by Tomas Nonnenmacher on November 4, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Labor and Employment History (T)
A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco
by David F. Selvin
reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd on March 18, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South
by Janet Irons
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on April 30, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century
by William R. Childs
reviewed by Gary Libecap on March 3, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal
by Keith J. Volanto
reviewed by Ryan Johnson on December 22, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Theories of Financial Disturbance: An Examination of Critical Theories of Finance from Adam Smith to the Present Day
by Jan Toporowski
reviewed by Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr. on November 18, 2005
  • Geographic area: 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: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America and the New Deal
by Sarah Phillips
reviewed by Jon Fox on March 3, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Thomas F. Walsh: Progressive Businessman and Colorado Mining Tycoon
by John C. Stewart
reviewed by Joshua C. Hall on December 17, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
Thorstein Veblen and the Revival of Free Market Capitalism
by Janet T. Knoedler, Robert E. Prasch and Dell P. Champlin (editors)
reviewed by Warren J. Samuels on November 7, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Thurman Arnold: A Biography
by Spencer Weber Waller
reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on November 7, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)
Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking
by Wilson J. Warren
reviewed by Thomas N. Maloney on May 6, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Ties That Bind: Economic and Political Dilemmas of Urban Utility Networks, 1800-1990
by Charles David Jacobson
reviewed by Hugh Gorman on December 7, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman
reviewed by Thomas Weiss on November 16, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
Timken: from Missouri to Mars--A Century of Leadership
by Bettye H. Pruitt
reviewed by Roberto Mazzoleni on June 14, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow
reviewed by Christopher A. Baylor on July 11, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow
reviewed by Milton Goldin on June 24, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
To Form a More Perfect Union: A New Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution
by Robert A. McGuire
reviewed by Keith T. Poole on January 12, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
To Provide for the General Welfare: A History of the Federal Spending Power
by Theodore Sky
reviewed by Michael R. Adamson on January 14, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
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)
Trade and the American Dream: A Social History of Postwar Trade Policy
by Susan Ariel Aaronson
reviewed by Mira Wilkins on November 20, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America
by Marianne S. Wokeck
reviewed by Simone A. Wegge on October 8, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power
by Doron S. Ben-Atar
reviewed by David Jeremy on October 15, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
A Trading Nation: Canadian Trade Policy from Colonialism to Globalization
by Michael Hart
reviewed by Bill Marr on August 13, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 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), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Tradition of Free Trade
by Lars Magnusson
reviewed by William K. Hutchinson on February 23, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM
by David Eltis, Stephen D. Behrendt, David Richardson and Herbert S. Klein
reviewed by Lorena S. Walsh on October 18, 2000
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Transferring Wealth and Power from the Old to the New World: Monetary and Fiscal Institutions in the 17th through the 19th Centuries
by Michael D. Bordo and Roberto Cortes-Conde (editors)
reviewed by Benjamin Chabot on May 27, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860
by Morton J. Horwitz
reviewed by Winifred B. Rothenberg on April 12, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Troubled Waters: Steamboats, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821-1860
by Paul F. Paskoff
reviewed by Michael Allen on August 4, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade
by Robert H. Gudmestad
reviewed by Jonathan Pritchett on July 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market
by Sally H. Clarke
reviewed by Avner Offer on April 29, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Turning Trees into Dollars: The British Columbia Coastal Lumber Industry, 1858-1913
by Gordon Hak
reviewed by William Marr on November 29, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
U.S. Bank Deregulation in Historical Perspective
by Charles W. Calomiris
reviewed by John A. James on February 19, 2002
  • Geographic area: 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)
The U.S. Brewing Industry: Data and Economic Analysis
by Victor J. Tremblay and Carol Horton Tremblay
reviewed by Jon P. Nelson on May 31, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
U.S. Development Aid: An Historic First
by Samuel Hale Butterfield
reviewed by John R. Hanson II on September 30, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
U.S. Economic History Since 1945
by Michael French
reviewed by Randy R. Grant on October 1, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Understanding Economic Recovery in the 1930s: Endogenous Propagation in the Great Depression
by Frank G. Steindl
reviewed by David C. Wheelock on July 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture
by Lawrence Richards
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on November 19, 2008
  • Geographic area: 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), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism
by Ileen A. DeVault
reviewed by Daniel Jacoby on March 8, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The United States National Debt, 1787-1900
by Robert E. Wright (editor)
reviewed by Franklin Noll on March 22, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Universal Service: Competition, Interconnection and Monopoly in the Making of the American Telephone System
by Milton L. Mueller
reviewed by Jeff Kraft on February 12, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Unlikely Partners: Philanthropic Foundations and the Labor Movement
by Richard Magat
reviewed by Milton Goldin on December 16, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy
by Richardson Dilworth
reviewed by Ed Duggan on January 4, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Veblen in Perspective: His Life and Thought
by Stephen Edgell
reviewed by Donald Stabile on January 24, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
by Rodney Stark
reviewed by Eric Jones on March 20, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes? A Tale of Two Schools of Free-Market Economics
by Mark Skousen
reviewed by Pedro Garcia Duarte on March 1, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Virginia and the Panic of 1819: The First Great Depression and the Commonwealth
by Clyde A. Haulman
reviewed by James Karmel on June 25, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
reviewed by David S. Landes on February 12, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Voice of Business: Hill & Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations
by Karen S. Miller
reviewed by Pamela W. Laird on September 9, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Voluntary City: Choice, Community and Civil Society
by David T. Beito, Peter Gordon and Alexander Tabarrok (editors)
reviewed by Richard Lester on November 26, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860
by Robert A. Margo
reviewed by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Income and Wealth (Q), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America
by Beatrix Hoffman
reviewed by Melissa A. Thomasson on July 10, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle Class Investors
by Edwin J. Perkins
reviewed by David L. Mason on February 21, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors
by Edwin J. Perkins
reviewed by Kenneth A. Snowden on September 12, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
War and Taxes
by Steven A. Bank, Kirk J. Stark and Joseph J. Thorndike
reviewed by W. Elliot Brownlee on May 14, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)
War and Welfare: Europe and the United States, 1945 to the Present
by Jytte Klausen
reviewed by David Coates on September 5, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
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)
Warhogs: A History of War Profits in America
by Stuart D. Brandes
reviewed by Jacob Vander Meulen on February 17, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Warriors into Workers: The Civil War and the Formation of Urban-Industrial Society in a Northern City
by Russell L. Johnson
reviewed by Brandon Dupont on February 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935
by Donald J. Pisani
reviewed by Peter J. Hill on October 20, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Water, Race, and Disease
by Werner Troesken
reviewed by John C. Brown on June 1, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Weather Channel: The Improbable Rise of a Media Phenomenon
by Frank Batten
reviewed by Toby G. Bates on November 12, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania
by Adrienne D. Hood
reviewed by Kris Inwood on July 1, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
by Daniel Walker Howe
reviewed by Jenny Wahl on September 22, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
When Washington Shut down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy
by William L. Silber
reviewed by Jon Moen on June 12, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O)
Where Is Our Responsibility? Unions and Economic Change in the New England Textile Industry, 1870-1960
by William F. Hartford
reviewed by Debbie Mullin on April 10, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Whiskey Trade of the Northwestern Plains: A Multidisciplinary Study
by Margaret A. Kennedy
reviewed by Steven D. Swearingin on July 10, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
A White-Collar Profession: African American Certified Public Accountants Since 1921
by Theresa A. Hammond
reviewed by Dale L. Flesher on September 23, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Who's In Charge? Workers and Managers in the United States
by Peter Liebhold and Harry Rubenstein
reviewed by Nelson Lichtenstein on March 6, 1996
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
by Didier Sornette
reviewed by Gary Santoni on April 15, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Widows and Orphans First: The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880-1939
by S. J. Kleinberg
reviewed by Carolyn M. Moehling on June 7, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T)
Winners, Losers and Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology
by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis
reviewed by Bill Goffe on July 24, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Women's Work? American Schoolteachers, 1650-1920
by Joel Perlmann and Robert A. Margo
reviewed by Susan B. Carter on July 1, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Worst Tax? A History of the Property Tax in America
by Glenn Fisher
reviewed by John Joseph Wallis on June 4, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism
by Elizabeth Faue
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on October 2, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum U.S.,1840-1860
by Joseph P. Ferrie
reviewed by Richard H. Steckel on August 4, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)