Book Reviews - By Reviewer (R)
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- Ramirez, Carlos D.
- How the Republicans Caused the Stock Market Crash of 1929: GPT's, Failed Transitions, and Commercial Policy
- by Bernard C. Beaudreau
- reviewed by Carlos D. Ramirez on August 24, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Ramrattan, Lall B.
- The Lost Art of Economics: Essays on Economics and the Economics Profession
- by David Colander
- reviewed by Lall B. Ramrattan on February 20, 2003
- 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)
- Ranieri, Ruggero
- Studies in Economic and Social History: Essays in Honour of Derek H. Aldcroft
- by Michael J. Oliver (editor)
- reviewed by Ruggero Ranieri on January 28, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Ransom, Roger L.
- Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War
- by David G. Surdam
- reviewed by Roger L. Ransom on November 14, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Ransom, Roger
- The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865
- by Mark R. Wilson
- reviewed by Roger Ransom on October 1, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Military and War (O)
- Rashid, Salim
- The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478-1776: From Commercial Arithmetic to Life Annuities and Joint Stocks
- by Geoffrey Poitras
- reviewed by Salim Rashid on February 25, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Rauchway, Eric
- It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States
- by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks
- reviewed by Eric Rauchway on April 13, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Ray, Himanshu Prabha
- Symbols of Trade: Roman and Pseudo-Roman Objects Found in India
- by S. Suresh
- reviewed by Himanshu Prabha Ray on May 10, 2005
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Reagan, Patrick D.
- Ideologies and Institutions: American Conservative and Liberal Governance Prescriptions Since 1933
- by J. Richard Piper
- reviewed by Patrick D. Reagan on March 18, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere: A Conceptual History, 1919-1933
- by Vincent Gaddis
- reviewed by Patrick D. Reagan on September 2, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Redenius, Scott A.
- Moving Money: Banking and Finance in the Industrializing World
- by Daniel Verdier
- reviewed by Scott A. Redenius on October 7, 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)
- Redish, Angela
- Monetary Standards in the Periphery: Paper, Silver and Gold, 1854-1933
- by Pablo Martin Acena and Jaime Reis
- reviewed by Angela Redish on September 18, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4), 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)
- A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States
- by John H. Wood
- reviewed by Angela Redish on December 21, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Redmount, Esther
- The Bouchayers of Grenoble and French Industrial Enterprise, 1850 -1970
- by Robert J. Smith
- reviewed by Esther Redmount on September 6, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Marketing Michelin: Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France
- by Stephen L. Harp
- reviewed by Esther Redmount on September 16, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Reed, Barbara Straus
- E.W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers
- by Gerald J. Baldasty
- reviewed by Barbara Straus Reed on August 25, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Rei, Claudia
- Political Institutions and Financial Development
- by Stephen Haber, Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast (editors)
- reviewed by Claudia Rei on July 2, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Reid Jr., Joseph D.
- Immigration and American Unionism
- by Vernon M. Briggs Jr.
- reviewed by Joseph D. Reid Jr. on December 3, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Reis, Jaime
- European Economic History: From Mercantilism to Maastricht and Beyond
- by Ejvind Damsgaard Hansen
- reviewed by Jaime Reis on September 26, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- 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)
- Reiss, Julian
- How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science
- by Geoffrey M. Hodgson
- reviewed by Julian Reiss on December 24, 2002
- 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: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Rhode, Paul
- The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945
- by Victoria Saker Woeste
- reviewed by Paul Rhode on February 15, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden
- by Douglas Cazaux Sackman
- reviewed by Paul Rhode on November 14, 2006
- Geographic area: Middle East (6), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- California Dreaming: Ideology, Society, and Technology in the Citrus Industry of Palestine, 1890-1939
- by Nahum Karlinsky
- reviewed by Paul Rhode on November 14, 2006
- Geographic area: Middle East (6), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Richards, Lawrence
- Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States
- by Clete Daniel
- reviewed by Lawrence Richards on June 21, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor
- by David Witwer
- reviewed by Lawrence Richards on June 3, 2009
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Richardson, Gary
- Modelling the Middle Ages: The History and Theory of England's Economic Development
- by John Hatcher and Mark Bailey
- reviewed by Gary Richardson on March 17, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Richardson, David
- The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775-1810
- by Selwyn H. H. Carrington
- reviewed by David Richardson on September 3, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Richardson, Gary
- Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries: Work, Power, and Representation
- by Maarten Prak, Catharina Lis, Jan Lucassen and Hugo Soly (editors)
- reviewed by Gary Richardson on October 24, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Richardson, Mike
- Managing the Modern Workplace: Productivity, Politics, and Workplace Culture in Postwar Britain
- by Joseph Melling and Alan Booth (editors)
- reviewed by Mike Richardson on August 9, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Richardson, Gary
- The Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve: A History
- by Robert L. Hetzel
- reviewed by Gary Richardson on December 3, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Riello, Giorgio
- The Golden Age: Essays in British Social and Economic History, 1850-1870
- by Ian Inkster, Colin Griffin, Jeff Hill and Judith Rowbotham (editors)
- reviewed by Giorgio Riello on February 18, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Rima, Ingrid H.
- Two Hundred Years of Say's Law: Essays on Economic Theory's Most Controversial Principle
- by Steven Kates (editor)
- reviewed by Ingrid H. Rima on November 18, 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: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- The Status of Women in Classical Economic Thought
- by Robert Dimand and Chris Nyland (editors)
- reviewed by Ingrid H. Rima on August 7, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought
- by Alessandro Roncaglia
- reviewed by Ingrid H. Rima on June 28, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Ringrose, David
- Apogee of Empire: Spain and New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759-1789
- by Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein
- reviewed by David Ringrose on April 16, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Ritschl, Albrecht
- Fifty Years of the Deutsche Mark. Central Bank and the Currency in Germany since 1948
- by Deutsche Bundesbank (editor)
- reviewed by Albrecht Ritschl on February 28, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Marshall Plan: Fifty Years After
- by Martin A. Schain (editor)
- reviewed by Albrecht Ritschl on March 19, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Robertson, Andrew
- Knowledge Works: Managing Intellectual Capital at Toshiba
- by W. Mark Fruin
- reviewed by Andrew Robertson on July 7, 1999
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Robertson, Paul L.
- Sources of Industrial Leadership: Studies of Seven Industries
- by David C. Mowery and Richard R. Nelson (editors)
- reviewed by Paul L. Robertson on January 16, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Robertson, Paul
- The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924-1970
- by Robert F. Freeland
- reviewed by Paul Robertson on March 28, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Rock, David
- A New Economic History of Argentina
- by Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor (editors)
- reviewed by David Rock on July 22, 2004
- 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)
- Rockoff, Hugh
- The Making of Global Finance, 1880-1913
- by Marc Flandreau and Frederic Zumer
- reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on February 1, 2005
- 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)
- Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy
- by Robert Higgs
- reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on July 1, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
- A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
- by Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz
- reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on January 1, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Economic Disasters of the Twentieth Century
- by Michael J. Oliver and Derek H. Aldcroft (editors)
- reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on June 8, 2008
- 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), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Roehner, Bertrand M.
- Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
- by Carlota Perez
- reviewed by Bertrand M. Roehner on January 22, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences
- by James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (editors)
- reviewed by Bertrand M. Roehner on March 19, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Rollings, Neil
- Living with the Century
- by Alec Cairncross
- reviewed by Neil Rollings on August 8, 2000
- Geographic area:
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Romani, Roberto
- The Historicity of Economics: Continuities and Discontinuities of Historical Thought in 19th and 20th Century Economics
- by Heino H. Nau and Bertram Schefold (editors)
- reviewed by Roberto Romani on April 8, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Ronning, Gerald
- Industrializing the Rockies: Growth, Competition, and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868-1914
- by David A. Wolff
- reviewed by Gerald Ronning on August 17, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Ros, Jaime
- Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism
- by Sarah Babb
- reviewed by Jaime Ros on July 29, 2005
- 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: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Rose, Clare
- Men and Menswear: Sartorial Consumption in Britain, 1880-1939
- by Laura Ugolini
- reviewed by Clare Rose on June 26, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Rosenbloom, Joshua L.
- The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Impact
- by Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson
- reviewed by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on September 8, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860
- by Robert A. Margo
- reviewed by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Income and Wealth (Q), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930
- by Gunther Peck
- reviewed by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on May 23, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent
- Burgundy to Champagne: The Wine Trade in Early Modern France
- by Thomas Brennan
- reviewed by Jean-Laurent Rosenthal on October 30, 1998
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-1900: Integration and Deregulation
- by Karl Gunnar Persson
- reviewed by Jean-Laurent Rosenthal on May 14, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Rossi, John Paul
- Advocate for American Enterprise: William Buck Dana and the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 1865-1910
- by Douglas Steeples
- reviewed by John Paul Rossi on September 16, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Rothenberg, Winifred B.
- From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers
- by Allan Kulikoff
- reviewed by Winifred B. Rothenberg on September 7, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Rothenberg, Winifred Barr
- The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord
- by Brian Donahue
- reviewed by Winifred Barr Rothenberg on December 23, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K)
- Rothenberg, Winifred B.
- The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860
- by Morton J. Horwitz
- reviewed by Winifred B. Rothenberg on April 12, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Rousseau, Peter L.
- State Banking in Early America: A New Economic History
- by Howard Bodenhorn
- reviewed by Peter L. Rousseau on November 28, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The First Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the Birth of American Finance
- by Robert E. Wright
- reviewed by Peter L. Rousseau on September 26, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Baring Brothers and the Birth of Modern Finance
- by Peter E. Austin
- reviewed by Peter L. Rousseau on November 10, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Roy, Tirthankar
- Imperialism, Nationalism and the Making of the
- by Aditya Mukherjee
- reviewed by Tirthankar Roy on January 5, 2004
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Rubin, Jared
- Muslim Civilization: The Causes of Decline and the Need for Reform
- by M. Umer Chapra
- reviewed by Jared Rubin on June 16, 2008
- Geographic area: Asia (2), Middle East (6)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0), Medieval (3)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (l), Military and War (O), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Russell, Malcolm
- Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001
- by Kenneth Warren
- reviewed by Malcolm Russell on November 22, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Ryan, Paul
- Learning on the Shop Floor: Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeship
- by Bert De Munck, Steven L. Kaplan and Hugo Soly (editors)
- reviewed by Paul Ryan on September 20, 2008
- Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Ryden, David
- Money, Trade, and Power: The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society
- by Jack P. Greene, Rosemary Brana-Shute and Randy J. Sparks (editors)
- reviewed by David Ryden on April 2, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Ryden, David B.
- The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives and New Directions
- by Cathy Matson (editor)
- reviewed by David B. Ryden on January 24, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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