Book Reviews - By Reviewer (K)
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- Kaiser, Brooks A.
- 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)
- 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)
- Kamphoefner, Walter D.
- Making History Count: A Primer in Quantitative Methods for Historians
- by Charles H. Feinstein and Mark Thomas
- reviewed by Walter D. Kamphoefner on March 5, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
- Kanazawa, Mark
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Karmel, James
- 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)
- Kasper, Sherry Davis
- 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)
- Kates, Steven
- A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists
- by J.E. King (editor)
- reviewed by Steven Kates on March 17, 2008
- Geographic area: Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Kaukiainen, Yrjö
- 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)
- Kay, Alison C.
- The History of Family Business, 1850-2000
- by Andrea Colli
- reviewed by Alison C. Kay on December 23, 2003
- 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)
- Keech, William
- 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)
- Keech, William R.
- Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
- by William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm
- reviewed by William R. Keech on May 7, 2009
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- 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), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Keefer, Philip
- The Mexican Economy, 1870-1930: Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth
- by Jeffrey L. Bortz and Stephen Haber (editors)
- reviewed by Philip Keefer on March 15, 2003
- 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Keehn, Richard 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Keeling, Drew
- Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance
- by Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson
- reviewed by Drew Keeling on June 13, 2007
- 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: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Keen, Steve
- The Making of Harrod's Dynamics
- by Daniele Besomi
- reviewed by Steve Keen on April 11, 2000
- 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)
- Kenen, Peter B.
- 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)
- Kennedy, Michael V.
- 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)
- Kenzer, Robert C.
- 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)
- Kerr, K. Austin
- 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)
- Khan, B. Zorina
- 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)
- 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)
- The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
- by Joel Mokyr
- reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on January 24, 2003
- 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: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- 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)
- Copyright and Other Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen and the Commodification of Creativity
- by Helle Porsdam (editor)
- reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on June 16, 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: Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914
- by Christine MacLeod
- reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on January 24, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Khula, Bruce A.
- 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)
- Kiefer, Kay
- 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)
- Kiesling, Lynne
- Economics and the Historian
- by Thomas G. Rawski
- reviewed by Lynne Kiesling on September 30, 1996
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
- Kim, Sukkoo
- 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)
- Kimura, Mitsuhiko
- Making Health Work: Human Growth in Modern Japan
- by Carl Mosk
- reviewed by Mitsuhiko Kimura on October 31, 1997
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Kindleberger, Charles P.
- Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias
- by Peter M. Garber
- reviewed by Charles P. Kindleberger on August 15, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
- King, Steve
- The English Poor Laws, 1700-1930
- by Anthony Brundage
- reviewed by Steve King on March 21, 2003
- 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)
- King, Julia A.
- 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)
- King, Steve
- 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)
- Kirby, Maurice
- Business and Politics in Europe. 1900-1970: Essays in Honour of Alice Teichova
- by Terry Gourvish (editor)
- reviewed by Maurice Kirby on October 8, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- 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), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Kleer, Richard A.
- The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists
- by Donald Rutherford (editor)
- reviewed by Richard A. Kleer on April 27, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Klemann, Hein A.M.
- Catching up Twice: The Nature of Dutch Industrial Growth during the Twentieth Century in a Comparative Perspective
- by Herman J. de Jong
- reviewed by Hein A.M. Klemann on May 27, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Knaap, Gerrit
- Between East and West: The Moluccas and the Traffic in Spices up to the Arrival of Europeans
- by R. A. Donkin
- reviewed by Gerrit Knaap on July 21, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2)
- Time period: Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Knodell, Jane
- 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)
- 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)
- Knoedler, Janet T.
- Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century
- by Mark Blyth
- reviewed by Janet T. Knoedler on August 6, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- 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), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Kolenda, Stephen A.
- Dragon Multinational: A New Model for Global Growth
- by John A. Mathews
- reviewed by Stephen A. Kolenda on July 21, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Köll, Elisabeth
- Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937
- by Christopher A. Reed
- reviewed by Elisabeth Köll on December 7, 2005
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Kontorovich, Vladimir
- The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR from 1945
- by Philip Hanson
- reviewed by Vladimir Kontorovich on October 17, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Koot, Christian J.
- The Politics of Trade: The Overseas Merchant in State and Society, 1660-1720
- by Perry Gauci
- reviewed by Christian J. Koot on January 26, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Kostal, Rande W.
- Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship and Business Organization, 1720-1844
- by Ron Harris
- reviewed by Rande W. Kostal on June 13, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Kraft, Jeff
- 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)
- Kragh, Martin
- Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates since 1917
- by Marcel van der Linden
- reviewed by Martin Kragh on October 9, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
- Time period: 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), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Kristjanson-Gural, David
- Reclaiming Marx’s Capital: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency
- by Andrew Kliman
- reviewed by David Kristjanson-Gural on September 23, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Kulikoff, Allan
- 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)
- Kurtz, Royce
- 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)
- Kuziemko, Ilyana
- 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)
- Kwan, Man Bun
- Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897-1937
- by Linsun Cheng
- reviewed by Man Bun Kwan on December 16, 2003
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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