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Tabak, Faruk
Gold for the Sultan: Western Bankers and Ottoman Finance, 1856-1881
by Christopher Clay
reviewed by Faruk Tabak on September 9, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Tallman, Ellis W.
The Great Debate on Banking Reform: Nelson Aldrich and the Origins of the Fed
by Elmus Wicker
reviewed by Ellis W. Tallman on August 11, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Tandy, David
Banking and Business in the Roman World
by Jean Andreau
reviewed by David Tandy on January 29, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Naukratis: Trade in Archaic Greece
by Astrid Möller
reviewed by David Tandy on February 13, 2002
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy
by Richard Seaford
reviewed by David Tandy on March 9, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Tarry, Scott E.
Airline Executives and Federal Regulation: Case Studies in American Enterprise from the Airmail Era to the Dawn of the Jet Age
by David W. Lewis
reviewed by Scott E. Tarry on October 26, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Tassava, Christopher
Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940-1945
by Paul A.C. Koistinen
reviewed by Christopher Tassava on January 7, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Anglo-American Shipbuilding in World War II: A Geographical Perspective
by Michael Lindberg and Daniel Todd
reviewed by Christopher Tassava on November 7, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Geography (K), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Tauger, Mark B.
The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933
by R. W. Davies and Stephen G. Wheatcroft
reviewed by Mark B. Tauger on November 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E)
Taylor, Graham D.
The Evolution of International Business: An Introduction
by Geoffrey Jones
reviewed by Graham D. Taylor on July 10, 1996
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Taylor, Alan M.
Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the 20th Century
by Rosemary Thorp
reviewed by Alan M. Taylor on August 16, 1999
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Taylor, Christiane Diehl
Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit
by Lendol Calder
reviewed by Christiane Diehl Taylor on February 3, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Taylor, Alan M.
Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows: Britain, the Americas, and Australia, 1865-1914
by Lance E. Davis and Robert E. Gallman
reviewed by Alan M. Taylor on May 7, 2002
  • 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), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Taylor, Ranald
The Legacy of Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose: Economic Liberalism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
by Mark Wynne, Harvey Rosenblum and Robert Formaini (editors)
reviewed by Ranald Taylor and Robert Leeson on November 8, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Taylor, Christiane Diehl
The Shoemakers of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1850-1880: The Family during the Transition from Hand to Machine Labor
by William H. Mulligan, Jr.
reviewed by Christiane Diehl Taylor on August 17, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Taylor, Alan M.
Between the Dollar-Sterling Gold Points: Exchange Rates, Parity, and Market Behavior
by Lawrence H. Officer
reviewed by Alan M. Taylor on March 20, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Teagarden, Ernest
Business History and Business Culture
by Andrew Godley and Oliver M. Westall
reviewed by Ernest Teagarden on March 31, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Tebeau, Mark
Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850
by Robin Pearson
reviewed by Mark Tebeau on February 3, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
TeBrake, William
The Rise and Decline of Dutch Technological Leadership: Technology, Economy, and Culture in the Netherlands, 1350–1800
by Karel Davids
reviewed by William TeBrake on March 5, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Teichgraeber, Richard F.
The Idea of Capitalism before the Industrial Revolution
by Richard Grassby
reviewed by Richard F. Teichgraeber on June 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Temin, Peter
Straining at the Anchor: The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880-1935
by Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor
reviewed by Peter Temin on May 2, 2002
  • 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), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses
by David S. Landes
reviewed by Peter Temin on February 28, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Trade in Classical Antiquity
by Neville Morley
reviewed by Peter Temin on June 29, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
by Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris and Richard P. Saller (editors)
reviewed by Peter Temin on May 11, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Capitalism and the Jews
by Jerry Z. Muller
reviewed by Peter Temin on March 10, 2010
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
  • 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), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Thomasson, Melissa A.
The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America
by Beatrix Hoffman
reviewed by Melissa A. Thomasson on July 10, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State
by Jennifer Klein
reviewed by Melissa A. Thomasson on August 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T)
Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds
by John E. Murray
reviewed by Melissa A. Thomasson on February 4, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W)
Thomson, Ross
Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America
by David R. Meyer
reviewed by Ross Thomson on June 18, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Thornton, Mark
Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control
by Philip J. Cook
reviewed by Mark Thornton on April 2, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Tiffany, Paul
Bethlehem Steel: Builder and Arsenal of America
by Kenneth Warren
reviewed by Paul Tiffany on April 22, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Tilly, Richard
Banking on Global Markets: Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the Present
by Christopher Kobrak
reviewed by Richard Tilly on April 30, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Tolliday, Steven
European Banks and the American Challenge: Competition and Cooperation in International Banking under Bretton Woods
by Stefano Battilossi and Youssef Cassis (editors)
reviewed by Steven Tolliday on October 23, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Tollison, Robert D.
Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
by Robert H. Nelson
reviewed by Robert D. Tollison on April 15, 2002
  • 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)
How Economics Became a Mathematical Science
by E. Roy Weintraub
reviewed by Robert D. Tollison on August 7, 2002
  • 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)
Rationality and Freedom
by Amartya Sen
reviewed by Robert D. Tollison on February 11, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Toma, Mark
Charting Twentieth-Century Monetary Policy: Herbert Hoover and Benjamin Strong, 1917-1927
by Silvano A. Wueschner
reviewed by Mark Toma on October 25, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Emergence of Modern Central Banking from 1918 to the Present
by Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, Jaime Reis and Gianni Toniolo (editors)
reviewed by Mark Toma on July 13, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Chairman of the Fed: William McChesney Martin Jr. and the Creation of the American Financial System
by Robert P. Bremner
reviewed by Mark Toma on October 3, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Tomlinson, Jim
Designing a New America: the Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890-1943
by Patrick D. Reagan
reviewed by Jim Tomlinson on February 21, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Strange Survival of Liberal England: Political Leaders, Moral Values and the Reception of Economic Debate
by E.H.H. Green and D.M. Tanner (editors)
reviewed by Jim Tomlinson on April 17, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • 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), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Toninelli, Pier Angelo
Private and Public Enterprises in Europe: Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830-1990
by Robert Millward
reviewed by Pier Angelo Toninelli on February 20, 2006
  • 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), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Toniolo, Gianni
An Economic History of Twentieth-century Europe: Economic Regimes from Laissez-faire to Globalization
by Ivan Berend
reviewed by Gianni Toniolo on April 4, 2007
  • 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)
Touwen, Jeroen
The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities
by Anne Booth
reviewed by Jeroen Touwen on October 7, 1998
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Traflet, Janice M.
Brides Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition
by Vicki Howard
reviewed by Janice M. Traflet on February 1, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Trescott, Paul B.
American Commercial Banks in Corporate Finance, 1929-1941: A Study in Banking Concentration
by Tian Kang Go
reviewed by Paul B. Trescott on April 25, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Triner, Gail D.
Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
by Marshall C. Eakin
reviewed by Gail D. Triner on August 23, 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: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1920
by Anne G. Hanley
reviewed by Gail D. Triner on March 9, 2006
  • 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), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Troesken, Werner
The Rise of Big Government in the United States
by John F. Walker and Harold G. Vatter
reviewed by Werner Troesken on January 13, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates
by Charles R. Geisst
reviewed by Werner Troesken on August 14, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889-1909
by Jonathan W. Singer
reviewed by Werner Troesken on January 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
by Peter D. Norton
reviewed by Werner Troesken on August 5, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Tulchin, Joseph S.
A New Economic History of Argentina
by Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor (editors)
reviewed by Joseph S. Tulchin on February 17, 2005
  • 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)
Tuttle, Carolyn
Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Factor Endowments, Culture, and Politics on Long-run Economic Performance
by Deepak Lal
reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on December 21, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Boys in the Pits: Child Labour in Coal Mines
by Robert McIntosh
reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on December 11, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Child Labor: An American History
by Hugh D. Hindman
reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on July 29, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Centuries of Child Labour: European Experiences from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
by Marjatta Rahikainen
reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on November 11, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Tweedale, Geoffrey
The Global Cigarette: Origins and Evolution of British American Tobacco, 1880-1945
by Howard Cox
reviewed by Geoffrey Tweedale on March 1, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Twomey, Michael J.
Ensayos de Historia Económica: Uruguay y la región en la economía mundial 1870-1990
by Luis Bértola
reviewed by Michael J. Twomey on May 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)
Tympas, Aristotle
How America Got On-Line: Politics, Markets, and the Revolution in Telecommunications
by Alan Stone
reviewed by Aristotle Tympas on September 28, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)

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