Book Reviews - By Reviewer (B)

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)

Balabkins, Nicholas W.

The Rise of Historical Economics and Social Reform in Germany, 1864-1894

by Erik Grimmer-Solem

reviewed by Nicholas W. Balabkins on September 28, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Ball, Alan

Merchants and Markets in Revolutionary Russia, 1917-1930

by Arup Banerji

reviewed by Alan Ball on January 5, 1998

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)

Bannerman, Gordon

War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900

by John V.C. Nye

reviewed by Gordon Bannerman on October 15, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Baofu, Peter

Poverty, Wealth, Dictatorship, Democracy: Resource Scarcity and the Origins of Dictatorship

by Jack Barkstrom

reviewed by Peter Baofu on January 6, 2003

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)

Baranoff, Dalit

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)

Barber, William J.

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)

Barbezat, Daniel

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)

European Integration, 1950-2003: Superstate or New Market Economy?

by John Gillingham

reviewed by Daniel Barbezat on April 30, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Barnes, Bernadine

The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art

by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser

reviewed by Bernadine Barnes on February 21, 2009

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Barnett, Vincent

Economists in Parliament in the Liberal Age (1848-1920)

by Massimo M. Augello and Marco E.L. Guidi (editors)

reviewed by Vincent Barnett on September 29, 2006

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Stalin's Terror Revisited

by Melanie Ilic (editor)

reviewed by Vincent Barnett on January 4, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)

Baskes, Jeremy

The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo Leon, 1848-1910

by Juan Mora-Torres

reviewed by Jeremy Baskes on June 25, 2002

Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Urban and Regional History (Z)

From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000

by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal and Zephyr Frank (editors)

reviewed by Jeremy Baskes on January 26, 2007

Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)

Bateman, Bradley W.

A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures

by Lionel Robbins

reviewed by Bradley W. Bateman on August 29, 2003

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Baten, Joerg

Nation, State, and the Economy in History

by Alice Teichova and Herbert Matis (editors)

reviewed by Joerg Baten on April 23, 2004

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
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)

Bates, Toby G.

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)

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)

Battilossi, Stefano

Evolution and Procedures in Central Banking

by David E. Altig and Bruce D. Smith (editors)

reviewed by Stefano Battilossi on March 26, 2004

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
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)

Exchange Rates and Economic Policy in the Twentieth Century

by Ross E. Catterall and Derek H. Aldcroft (editors)

reviewed by Stefano Battilossi on December 14, 2005

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Baumol, William

Republicanism and the French Revolution: An Intellectual History of Jean-Baptiste Say's Political Economy

by Richard Whatmore

reviewed by William Baumol on May 25, 2001

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Baylor, Christopher A.

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)

Bean, Jonathan J.

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)

Beatty, Edward

The Rise of Capitalism on the Pampas: The Estancias of Buenos Aires, 1785-1870

by Samuel Amaral

reviewed by Edward Beatty on June 1, 2000

Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)

An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America

by Enrique Cárdenas, José Antonio Ocampo and Rosemary Thorp (editors)

reviewed by Edward Beatty on February 22, 2002

Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

The Silver of the Sierra Madre: John Robinson, Boss Shepherd, and the People of the Canyons

by John Mason Hart

reviewed by Edward Beatty on January 9, 2009

Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Labor and Employment History (T)

Beaulier, Scott A.

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)

Beck, Bill

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)

Becker, William H.

Business History around the World

by Franco Amatori and Geoffrey Jones (editors)

reviewed by William H. Becker on January 13, 2006

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Beechert, Edward D.

The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920

by Masayo Umezawa Duus

reviewed by Edward D. Beechert on February 21, 2000

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)

Beito, David 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)

Benjamin, Daniel K.

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)

Benneworth, Paul

Globalisation? Internationalisation and Monopoly Capitalism: Historical Processes and Capitalist Dynamism

by Bob Milward

reviewed by Paul Benneworth on September 9, 2004

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)

Berdell, John

On Classical Economics

by Thomas Sowell

reviewed by John Berdell on February 2, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Berkowitz, Edward

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)

Bernstein, David

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)

Bessen, James

New Frontiers in the Economics of Innovation and New Technology: Essays in Honour of Paul A. David

by Cristiano Antonelli, Dominique Foray, Bronwyn H. Hall and W. Edward Steinmueller (editors)

reviewed by James Bessen on February 22, 2007

Geographic area:
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)

Black, Lawrence

Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain: The Search for a Historical Movement

by Matthew Hilton

reviewed by Lawrence Black on September 17, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P)

Blackford, Mansel G.

Small Firms in the Japanese Economy

by D. H. Whittaker

reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford on July 10, 1997

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Competition and Growth: A Contemporary History of the Continental AG

by Paul Erker

reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford on April 13, 1998

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Business History (B)

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)

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)

Blobaum, Robert E.

Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in Late Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland

by Beth Holmgren

reviewed by Robert E. Blobaum on June 23, 1999

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Blomberg, S. Brock

Terrorism in Western Europe: Explaining the Trends since 1950

by Jan Oskar Engene

reviewed by S. Brock Blomberg on June 29, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

Boal, William

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)

Bodenhorn, Howard

Money and the Nation State: The Financial Revolution, Government and the World Monetary System

by Kevin Dowd and Richard H. Timberlake Jr. (editors)

reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on November 18, 1999

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

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)

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)

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)

Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Financial Markets

by Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on July 30, 2007

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)

Boerner, Lars M.

Prosperity and Plunder: European Catholic Monasteries in the Age of Revolution, 1650-1815

by Derek Beales

reviewed by Lars M. Boerner on October 4, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Boettke, Peter J.

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)

Bogart, Dan

The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson

by Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke and Alan M. Taylor (editors)

reviewed by Dan Bogart on June 3, 2008

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
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: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Income and Wealth (Q), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)

Across the Borders: Financing the World's Railways in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

by Ralf Roth and Gunter Dinhobl (editors)

reviewed by Dan Bogart on September 22, 2009

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Bogue, Allan G.

Advances in Agricultural Economic History, Vol.1, New Frontiers in Agricultural History

by Kyle D. Kauffman (editor)

reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on July 1, 2000

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)

Corn and Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance

by Arturo Warman

reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on August 1, 2003

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

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)

Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000

by James C. McCann

reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on October 4, 2005

Geographic area: Africa (1)
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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)

Bogue, Alan G.

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)

Boianovsky, Mauro

A Companion to the History of Economic Thought

by Warren J. Samuels, Jeff F. Biddle and John B. Davis (editors)

reviewed by Mauro Boianovsky on December 5, 2003

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Boko, Sylvain H.

Physioeconomics: The Basis for Long-Run Economic Growth

by Philip Parker

reviewed by Sylvain H. Boko on September 12, 2001

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)

The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Cote D'Ivoire, 1880-1995

by Thomas J. Bassett

reviewed by Sylvain H. Boko on September 30, 2003

Geographic area: Africa (1)
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)

Dictating Development: How Europe Shaped the Global Periphery

by Jonathan Krieckhaus

reviewed by Sylvain H. Boko on October 4, 2006

Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

Boland, Lawrence

The Effortless Economy of Science?

by Philip Mirowski

reviewed by Lawrence Boland on February 1, 2006

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Booth, Alan

The British Economy since 1945: Engaging with the Debate

by Roger Middleton

reviewed by Alan Booth on July 1, 2000

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

Booth, Anne

Extremes in the Archipelago: Trade and Economic Development in the Outer Islands of Indonesia, 1900-1942

by Jeroen Touwen

reviewed by Anne Booth on May 29, 2002

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

Economic Growth and Development in Singapore: Past and Future

by Gavin Peebles and Peter Wilson

reviewed by Anne Booth on August 13, 2003

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

Booth, Alan

Economic Policy under the Conservatives, 1951-64: A Guide to Documents in the National Archives of the UK

by Astrid Ringe, Neil Rollings and Roger Middleton

reviewed by Alan Booth on June 18, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

Botticini, Maristella

Production Efficiency in Domesday England, 1086

by John McDonald

reviewed by Maristella Botticini on March 15, 2000

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: Medieval (3)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)

Boumans, Marcel

Secret Origins of Modern Microeconomics: Dupuit and the Engineers

by Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Robert F. Hebert

reviewed by Marcel Boumans on July 13, 1999

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)

Bowden, Susan

The British Motor Industry, 1945-94; A Case Study in Industrial Decline

by Timothy R. Whisler

reviewed by Susan Bowden on April 28, 2000

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Time period:
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Boyce, Gordon

The Free Standing Company in the World Economy, 1830-1996

by Mira Wilkins and Harm Schroter

reviewed by Gordon Boyce on July 30, 1999

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Business History (B)

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)

Boyd, Lawrence W.

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)

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)

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)

Boyd Jr., Lawrence W.

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)

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)

Boyer, George R.

The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700-1948

by Lynn Hollen Lees

reviewed by George R. Boyer on May 1, 2000

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

The Logic of Charity: Amsterdam, 1800-1850

by Marco H. D. van Leeuwen

reviewed by George R. Boyer on December 7, 2000

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Poverty in Britain, 1900-1965

by Ian Gazeley

reviewed by George R. Boyer on November 23, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)

From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective

by Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey

reviewed by George R. Boyer on August 6, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Boylan, Anne M.

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)

Brewer, Anthony

The Political Economy of Public Finance in Britain, 1767-1873

by Takuo Dome

reviewed by Anthony Brewer on October 21, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Brezis, Elise S.

The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective

by Angus Maddison

reviewed by Elise S. Brezis on November 26, 2001

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)

The Accounts of the British Empire: Capital Flows from 1799 to 1914

by Mario Tiberi

reviewed by Elise S. Brezis on September 6, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Briggs Jr., Vernon M.

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)

Brinkley, Garland

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)

Broadberry, Stephen N.

The European Macroeconomy: Growth, Integration and Cycles 1500-1913

by Lee A. Craig and Douglas Fisher

reviewed by Stephen N. Broadberry on October 31, 2000

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)

Public Enterprise Revisited: A Closer Look at the 1954-79 UK Labour Productivity Record

by Chrisafis H. Iordanoglou

reviewed by Stephen N. Broadberry on May 3, 2002

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)

Broadberry, Stephen

The Strictures of Inheritance: The Dutch Economy in the Nineteenth Century

by Jan Luiten van Zanden and Arthur van Riel

reviewed by Stephen Broadberry on October 1, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond

by Barry Eichengreen

reviewed by Stephen Broadberry on May 23, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 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), Labor and Employment History (T)

Brown, John K.

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)

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)

Brown, Jonathan

British Petroleum and Global Oil, 1950-1975: The Challenge of Nationalism

by James Bamberg

reviewed by Jonathan Brown on March 4, 2002

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Brown, John C.

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)

Brown, John Howard

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)

Brown, Ian

Fiery Dragons: Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma

by Sean Turnell

reviewed by Ian Brown on November 16, 2009

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

Brownlee, W. Elliot

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)

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)

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)

Brownlow, Graham

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)

Bruce, Kyle

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)

Bruni, Luigino

Maffeo Pantaleoni: At the Origin of the Italian School of Economics and Finance

by Mario Baldassarri

reviewed by Luigino Bruni on February 6, 1998

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Brush, Pippa

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)

Bruton, Henry J.

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)

Bucheli, Marcelo

The Banana: Empires, Trade Wars, and Globalization

by James Wiley

reviewed by Marcelo Bucheli on October 2, 2008

Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Bud-Frierman, Lisa

Bristol Historical Resource CD

by Peter Wardley (editor)

reviewed by Lisa Bud-Frierman on March 12, 2003

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Geography (K), Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Bugos, Glenn

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)

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)

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)

Bun, Kwan Man

Honorable Merchants: Commerce and Self-Cultivation in Late Imperial China

by Richard John Lufrano

reviewed by Kwan Man Bun on October 18, 1997

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

Burdekin, Richard C. K.

The Changing Face of Central Banking: Evolutionary Trends since World War II

by Pierre L. Siklos

reviewed by Richard C. K. Burdekin on May 29, 2003

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Burdekin, Richard C.K.

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)

Burdekin, Richard C. K.

Shanghai's Bund and Beyond: British Banks, Banknote Issuance, and Monetary Policy in China, 1842-1937

by Niv Horesh

reviewed by Richard C. K. Burdekin on October 29, 2009

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Bures, Allen L.

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)

Burg, Robert W.

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)

Burhop, Carsten

Finance Capitalism and Germany's Rise to Industrial Power

by Caroline Fohlin

reviewed by Carsten Burhop on September 14, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Burnard, Trevor

Slavery, Family and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834

by S.D. Smith

reviewed by Trevor Burnard on August 7, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Burnette, Joyce

The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume VII, 1850-1914

by E. J.T. Collins (editor)

reviewed by Joyce Burnette on July 24, 2002

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)

Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England: Gender, Work and Wages

by Nicola Verdon

reviewed by Joyce Burnette on January 25, 2003

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T)

Women, Work, and Wages in England, 1600-1850

by Penelope Lane, Neil Raven and K. D. M. Snell (editors)

reviewed by Joyce Burnette on March 2, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Labor and Employment History (T)

Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History, 1750-1960

by Mary Jo Maynes, Birgitte Soland and Christina Benninghaus

reviewed by Joyce Burnette on May 24, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4)
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), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

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)

Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850

by Ivy Pinchbeck

reviewed by Joyce Burnette on February 1, 2000

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)

Burt, Roger

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)

Butler, John Sibley

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)

Buxton, Ian

Chatham Dockyard, 1815-1865: The Industrial Transformation

by Philip MacDougall (editor)

reviewed by Ian Buxton on October 30, 2009

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Military and War (O), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)

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