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Cain, Louis P.

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)

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)

Concept and Controversy: Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market

by W. W. Rostow

reviewed by Louis P. Cain on July 18, 2003

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

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)

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)

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)

Cain, Peter J.

Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain

by Frank Trentmann

reviewed by Peter J. Cain on October 17, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Caldari, Katia

The Economics of Alfred Marshall: Revisiting Marshall's Legacy

by Richard Arena and Michel Quéré (editors)

reviewed by Katia Caldari on September 16, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Calder, Lendol G.

The History of Consumer Credit: Doctrines and Practices

by Rosa-Maria Gelpi and François Julien-Labruyère

reviewed by Lendol G. Calder on August 25, 2000

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)

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)

Caldwell, Bruce

The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought

by Jerry Z. Muller

reviewed by Bruce Caldwell on April 26, 2005

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: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Calomiris, Charles W.

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)

Capie, Forrest

Economic Cycles: Long Cycles and Business Cycles since 1870

by Solomos Solomou

reviewed by Forrest Capie on August 12, 1999

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)

Carden, Art

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)

Cárdenas, Enrique

The Power and the Money: The Mexican Financial System, 1876-1932

by Noel Maurer

reviewed by Enrique Cárdenas on September 11, 2003

Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
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)

Carlson, Leonard

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)

Carlson, Paul

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)

Carlson, Leonard

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)

Carlton, David L.

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)

Carreras, Albert

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, Volume III: Structural Change and Growth, 1939-2000

by Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson (editors)

reviewed by Albert Carreras on October 21, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

Carter, Susan B.

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)

Carvajal, Paul

Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640-1845

by William J. Ashworth

reviewed by Paul Carvajal on July 11, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Castaneda, Christopher J.

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Caunce, Stephen

Kinship and Capitalism: Marriage, Family, and Business in the English-Speaking World, 1580-1740

by Richard Grassby

reviewed by Stephen Caunce on June 4, 2002

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
Subject: Business History (B), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Cerón-Anaya, Hugo

Business Elites and Corporate Governance in France and the UK

by Mairi Maclean, Charles Harvey and Jon Press

reviewed by Hugo Cerón-Anaya on November 17, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Ceron-Anaya, Hugo

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)

Cha, Myung Soo

Korea Under Siege, 1876-1945: Capital Formation and Economic Transformation

by Young-Iob Chung

reviewed by Myung Soo Cha on October 20, 2006

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

Chabot, Benjamin

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)

Chapra, M. Umer

Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Filling the Great Gap in European Economics

by S.M. Ghazanfar (editor)

reviewed by M. Umer Chapra on October 26, 2004

Geographic area: Middle East (6)
Time period: Medieval (3)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Chaudhuri, K. N.

The Dynamic of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415-1980

by David B. Abernethy

reviewed by K. N. Chaudhuri on December 17, 2001

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Childs, William R.

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)

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)

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)

Chiswick, Barry R.

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)

Chiswick, Carmel U.

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)

Churella, Albert J.

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)

John Stewart Kennedy: The Man Who Found the Money

by Saul Engelbourg and Leonard Bushkoff

reviewed by Albert J. Churella on August 25, 1997

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

Clapson, Mark

An Affluent Society? Britain's Postwar Golden Age Revisited

by Lawrence Black and Hugh Pemberton (editors)

reviewed by Mark Clapson on April 6, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)

Clark, Gregory

The Dynamic Society: Exploring the Sources of Global Change

by Graeme Donald Snooks

reviewed by Gregory Clark on March 16, 1997

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)

Peasants, Merchants, and Markets: Inland Trade in Medieval England, 1150-1350

by James Masschaele

reviewed by Gregory Clark on April 1, 1998

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: Medieval (3)
Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)

The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation

by Michael Perelman

reviewed by Gregory Clark on March 7, 2001

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Labor and Employment History (T)

Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and Its European Rivals, 1688-1815

by Leandro Prados de la Escosura (editor)

reviewed by Gregory Clark on October 7, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)

Clingingsmith, David

India and the World Economy, 1850-1950

by G. Balachandran (editor)

reviewed by David Clingingsmith on February 1, 2007

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)

Coates, David

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)

Cochran, David

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)

Codignola, Luca

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)

Coelho, Philip R. P.

The Economic Future in Historical Perspective

by Paul A. David and Mark P. Thomas (editors)

reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on June 25, 2004

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
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), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)

Nature: An Economic History

by Geerat J. Vermeij

reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on April 8, 2005

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)

Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth

by Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich and Will Steffen (editors)

reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on October 26, 2007

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

The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History

by Douglass C. North and Robert Paul Thomas

reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on December 21, 2001

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N), Markets and Institutions (W)

Coelho, Philip R.P.

The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey

reviewed by Philip R.P. Coelho on June 10, 2008

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Cohen, Avi J.

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)

Cohen, Benjamin J.

Money and Politics: European Monetary Unification and the International Gold Standard (1865-1873)

by Luca Einaudi

reviewed by Benjamin J. Cohen on January 30, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Cohn, Raymond L.

Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855

by F. Matthew Gallman

reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on August 15, 2000

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)

Coerced and Free Migrations: Global Perspectives

by David Eltis (editor)

reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on December 31, 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)
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N)

Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium

by Dirk Hoerder

reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on April 21, 2004

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)

When the Potato Failed: Causes and Effects of the Last European Subsistence Crisis, 1845-1850

by Cormac Ó Gráda, Richard Paping and Eric Vanhaute (editors)

reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on November 29, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)

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)

Colli, Andrea

Family, Family Firm and Strategy: Six Dutch Family Firms in the Food Industry, 1880-1970

by Doreen Arnoldus

reviewed by Andrea Colli on October 19, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Collins, William J.

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)

Globalization in Historical Perspective

by Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamson (editors)

reviewed by William J. Collins on November 7, 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: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)

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)

Collins, Robert

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)

Cosgel, Metin

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)

Money, Land and Trade: An Economic History of the Muslim Mediterranean

by Nelly Hanna (editor)

reviewed by Metin Cosgel on August 8, 2003

Geographic area: Middle East (6)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)

East Meets West: Banking, Commerce and Investment in the Ottoman Empire

by Philip L. Cottrell, Monica Pohle Fraser and Iain L. Fraser (editors)

reviewed by Metin Cosgel on December 19, 2008

Geographic area: Middle East (6)
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), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Costa, Dora L.

Growth Triumphant: The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective

by Richard A. Easterlin

reviewed by Dora L. Costa on August 23, 1997

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

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)

Couch, Jim F.

Comparative Public Policy: Patterns of Post-war Transformation

by Francis G. Castles

reviewed by Jim F. Couch on May 1, 2000

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

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)

Couch, Jim

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)

Court, Russell Ives

The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy

by Richard K. Marshall

reviewed by Russell Ives Court on November 22, 1999

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: Medieval (3)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Cowen, David J.

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)

Crafts, Nick

Eli Heckscher, International Trade, and Economic History

by Ronald Findlay, Rolf G.H. Henriksson, Hakan Lindgren and Mats Lundahl (editors)

reviewed by Nick Crafts on August 27, 2007

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
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), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Craig, Lee A.

Health and Welfare During the Industrial Revolution

by Richard Steckel and Roderick Floud

reviewed by Lee A. Craig on January 15, 1998

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Income and Wealth (Q)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Crites, Byron

The Development of Mexico's Tourism Industry: Pyramids by Day, Martinis by Night

by Dina Berger

reviewed by Byron Crites on December 20, 2006

Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Crothers, A. Glenn

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)

Croxson, Bronwyn

Civic Charity in a Golden Age: Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam

by Anne E. C. McCants

reviewed by Bronwyn Croxson on May 12, 1998

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)

Cruz, Laura

Origins and Growth of the Global Economy: From the Fifteenth Century Onward

by Ronald E. Seavoy

reviewed by Laura Cruz on November 25, 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), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)

Cuff, Robert

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)

Cuff, Timothy

Hunger: A Modern History

by James Vernon

reviewed by Timothy Cuff on August 18, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

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