Book Reviews - By Reviewer (W)
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- Wahl, Jenny B.
- Slavery in the American Mountain South
- by Wilma Dunaway
- reviewed by Jenny B. Wahl on October 2, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War
- by James L. Huston
- reviewed by Jenny B. Wahl on March 23, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Enterprising Slaves and Master Pirates: Understanding Economic Life in the Bahamas
- by Virgil Henry Storr
- reviewed by Jenny B. Wahl on July 11, 2005
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Wahl, Jenny
- American Taxation, American Slavery
- by Robin Einhorn
- reviewed by Jenny Wahl on August 9, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
- by Daniel Walker Howe
- reviewed by Jenny Wahl on September 22, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Wale, Judith
- Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain, 1889-1966
- by Roy Church and Quentin Outram
- reviewed by Judith Wale on August 23, 1999
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Wallis, John Joseph
- The Worst Tax? A History of the Property Tax in America
- by Glenn Fisher
- reviewed by John Joseph Wallis on June 4, 1997
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Opening the West: Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860
- by Laurence J. Malone
- reviewed by John Joseph Wallis on October 23, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865
- by Charles W. McCurdy
- reviewed by John Joseph Wallis on September 4, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Wallis, Patrick
- Immigrants and the Industries of London, 1500-1700
- by Lien Bich Luu
- reviewed by Patrick Wallis on December 27, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Wallis, John J.
- The American State Constitutional Tradition
- by John J. Dinan
- reviewed by John J. Wallis on May 9, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Walsh, Lorena S.
- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM
- by David Eltis, Stephen D. Behrendt, David Richardson and Herbert S. Klein
- reviewed by Lorena S. Walsh on October 18, 2000
- Geographic area: Africa (1), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century
- by April Lee Hatfield
- reviewed by Lorena S. Walsh on September 19, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Walsh, Margaret
- Women in Business, 1700-1850
- by Nicola Phillips
- reviewed by Margaret Walsh on September 22, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Walvin, James
- West Indian Slavery and British Abolition, 1783-1807
- by David Beck Ryden
- reviewed by James Walvin on January 20, 2010
- 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)
- Wanamaker, Marianne
- Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War
- by Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn
- reviewed by Marianne Wanamaker on September 8, 2009
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Military and War (O), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Ward, Marianne
- Household Accounts: Working Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States
- by Susan Porter Benson
- reviewed by Marianne Ward on February 18, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- Wardley, Peter
- Barclays: The Business of Banking, 1690-1996
- by Margaret Ackrill and Leslie Hannah
- reviewed by Peter Wardley on March 31, 2004
- 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: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Triumph of the South: A Regional Economic History of Early Twentieth Century Britain
- by Peter Scott
- reviewed by Peter Wardley on October 21, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- 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), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Waterman, A. M. C.
- Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology
- by Duncan K. Foley
- reviewed by A. M. C. Waterman on November 21, 2007
- 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)
- Weber, Cameron M.
- Labor’s Canvas: American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s
- by Laura Hapke
- reviewed by Cameron M. Weber on May 13, 2009
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Wegge, Simone A.
- Emigration from Europe, 1815-1930
- by Dudley Baines
- reviewed by Simone A. Wegge on August 1, 1997
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America
- by Marianne S. Wokeck
- reviewed by Simone A. Wegge on October 8, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Merchants and Migrations: Germans and Americans in Connection, 1776-1835
- by Sam A. Mustafa
- reviewed by Simone A. Wegge on October 3, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Migration and Inequality in Germany, 1870-1913
- by Oliver Grant
- reviewed by Simone A. Wegge on April 21, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- 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), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Weidenmier, Marc D.
- Global Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis and Growth
- by Maurice Obstfeld and Alan M. Taylor
- reviewed by Marc D. Weidenmier on December 14, 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), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837-1873
- by Jay Sexton
- reviewed by Marc D. Weidenmier on March 27, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Weiher, Kenneth
- A Financial History of the United States
- by Jerry W. Markham
- reviewed by Kenneth Weiher on December 11, 2002
- 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)
- Weir, Ron
- Black '47: Britain and the Famine Irish
- by Frank Neal
- reviewed by Ron Weir on March 10, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Weir, Robert E.
- Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor
- by Craig Phelan
- reviewed by Robert E. Weir on June 1, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Weiss, Thomas
- The Other Side of the Frontier: Economic Explorations into Native American History
- by Linda Barrington
- reviewed by Thomas Weiss on January 19, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia, 1800-1860
- by John Majewski
- reviewed by Thomas Weiss on December 8, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
- by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman
- reviewed by Thomas Weiss on November 16, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Wells, Wyatt
- Globalization and the American Century
- by Alfred E. Eckes Jr. and Thomas W. Zeiler
- reviewed by Wyatt Wells on March 1, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- The Past and Future of America's Economy: Long Waves of Innovation that Power Cycles of Growth
- by Robert D. Atkinson
- reviewed by Wyatt Wells on May 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: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Wendt, Ian C.
- The Artisans in Eighteenth-Century Eastern India: A History of Survival
- by Vipul Singh
- reviewed by Ian C. Wendt on April 16, 2007
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- West, Martin
- Market Education: The Unknown History
- by Andrew J. Coulson
- reviewed by Martin West on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)
- Westerman, Thomas D.
- Alanson B. Houghton: Ambassador of the New Era
- by Jeffrey J. Matthews
- reviewed by Thomas D. Westerman on June 14, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Whaples, Robert
- Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia
- by David Glasner
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on September 5, 1997
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Pensions, Politics, and the Elderly: Historic Social Movements and Their Lessons for Our Aging Society
- by Daniel J. B. Mitchell
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on January 7, 2002
- 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)
- Kellogg's Six-Hour Day
- by Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on September 11, 1998
- 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)
- A Historical Guide to World Slavery
- by Seymour Drescher and Stanley L. Engerman
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on July 28, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Who's Who in Economics (Third Edition)
- by Mark Blaug
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on February 11, 2000
- 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)
- Hard Work: The Making of Labor History
- by Melvyn Dubofsky
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on June 15, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
- by Walter Johnson
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on June 15, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- A Dictionary of Economics
- by John Black
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on March 17, 2003
- 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)
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
- by Joel Mokyr (editor)
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on April 20, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
- by William F. Ruddiman
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on July 21, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Mellon: An American Life
- by David Cannadine
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on December 29, 2008
- 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), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes
- by John Franch
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on July 2, 2009
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- by T. J. Stiles
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on December 31, 2009
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Whatley, Warren C.
- Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets during Industrialization
- by Joshua L. Rosenbloom
- reviewed by Warren C. Whatley on October 18, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Whatley, Christopher A
- The Transformation of Scotland: The Economy since 1700
- by T.M. Devine, C.H. Lee and G.C. Peden (editors)
- reviewed by Christopher A Whatley on August 5, 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: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Wheatcroft, Stephen
- Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia, 1917-1929
- by James W. Heinzen
- reviewed by Stephen Wheatcroft on June 17, 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)
- Wheeler, Hoyt N.
- Reigniting the Labor Movement: Restoring Means to Ends in a Democratic Labor Movement
- by Gerald Friedman
- reviewed by Hoyt N. Wheeler on August 28, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Wheelock, David C.
- The International Origins of the Federal Reserve System
- by J. Lawrence Broz
- reviewed by David C. Wheelock on June 3, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Rethinking the Great Depression
- by Gene Smiley
- reviewed by David C. Wheelock on February 5, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Understanding Economic Recovery in the 1930s: Endogenous Propagation in the Great Depression
- by Frank G. Steindl
- reviewed by David C. Wheelock on July 9, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The Economics of the Great Depression: A Twenty-First Century Look Back at the Economics of the Interwar Era
- by Randall E. Parker
- reviewed by David C. Wheelock on November 3, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- A History of Macroeconomic Policy in the United States
- by John H. Wood
- reviewed by David C. Wheelock on June 29, 2009
- 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: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- White, Nicholas J.
- Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and His Business Network, 1823-1893
- by J. Forbes Munro
- reviewed by Nicholas J. White on October 16, 2003
- Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- White, Michael V.
- William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics
- by Harro Maas
- reviewed by Michael V. White on November 27, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- White, Eugene N.
- Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan
- by Mark Metzler
- reviewed by Eugene N. White on January 2, 2007
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O)
- Whitehead, John C.
- Valuing Cultural Heritage: Applying Environmental Valuation Techniques to Historic Buildings, Monuments and Artifacts
- by Ståle Navrud and Richard C. Ready (editors)
- reviewed by John C. Whitehead on January 10, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Whitman, T. Stephen
- Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715-1919
- by Karin L. Zipf
- reviewed by T. Stephen Whitman on September 30, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Wicker, Elmus
- The Great Depression: An International Disaster of Perverse Economic Policies
- by Thomas E. Hall and David J. Ferguson
- reviewed by Elmus Wicker on August 20, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Economics of the Great Depression
- by Mark Wheeler
- reviewed by Elmus Wicker on May 27, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Global Monetary Regime and National Central Banking: The Case of Hungary, 1921-1929
- by Gyorgy Peteri
- reviewed by Elmus Wicker on April 21, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery
- by Eliot A. Rosen
- reviewed by Elmus Wicker on June 19, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Wilkins, Mira
- Trade and the American Dream: A Social History of Postwar Trade Policy
- by Susan Ariel Aaronson
- reviewed by Mira Wilkins on November 20, 1997
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- by Geoffrey Jones
- reviewed by Mira Wilkins on August 22, 2000
- 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), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century
- by Youssef Cassis and Éric Bussière (editors)
- reviewed by Mira Wilkins on November 15, 2006
- 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), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Will, Pierre-Étienne
- Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s
- by Lillian M. Li
- reviewed by Pierre-Étienne Will on May 7, 2008
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 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 Planning and Policy (E), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Williamson, Samuel H.
- The Promise of Private Pensions: The First Hundred Years
- by Steven A. Sass
- reviewed by Samuel H. Williamson on October 12, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition
- by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
- reviewed by Samuel H. Williamson on October 25, 2006
- 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: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- Wilson, John F.
- Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution, 1862-1969
- by Robert Fitzgerald
- reviewed by John F. Wilson on August 21, 1995
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Wilson, John
- The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000
- by Janet E. Hunter and S. Sugiyama (editors)
- reviewed by John Wilson on February 7, 2003
- Geographic area: Asia (2), 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: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Winpenny, Thomas R.
- God's Capitalist: Asa Candler of Coca-Cola
- by Kathryn W. Kemp
- reviewed by Thomas R. Winpenny on January 29, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Disaster in Dearborn: The Story of the Edsel
- by Thomas E. Bonsall
- reviewed by Thomas R. Winpenny on September 23, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Winpenny, Thomas
- Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry
- by James M. Rubenstein
- reviewed by Thomas Winpenny on February 25, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Wishart, David M.
- The Encyclopedia of Native American Economic History
- by Bruce E. Johansen
- reviewed by David M. Wishart on July 19, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Land Rights, Ethno-Nationality and Sovereignty in History
- by Stanley L. Engerman and Jacob Metzer (editors)
- reviewed by David M. Wishart on February 26, 2005
- 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Woeste, Saker
- American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980
- by Jon Lauck
- reviewed by Saker Woeste on July 5, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Wolcott, Susan
- Escape from the Market: Negotiating Work in Lancashire
- by Michael Huberman
- reviewed by Susan Wolcott on December 1, 1997
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India
- by Tirthankar Roy
- reviewed by Susan Wolcott on February 20, 2001
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- King Cotton: A Tribute to Douglas A. Farnie
- by J. F. Wilson (editor)
- reviewed by Susan Wolcott on March 2, 2010
- Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Wolf, Nikolaus
- Europe's Third World: The European Periphery in the Interwar Years
- by Derek H. Aldcroft
- reviewed by Nikolaus Wolf on June 14, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K)
- Wolff, Robert
- Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
- by Walter Johnson
- reviewed by Robert Wolff on June 1, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Wood, John H.
- The Banking Panics of the Great Depression
- by Elmus Wicker
- reviewed by John H. Wood on May 28, 1997
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Silver and Gold: The Political Economy of International Monetary Conferences, 1867-1892
- by Steven P. Reti
- reviewed by John H. Wood on February 22, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- A History of the Federal Reserve, Vol. I: 1913-51
- by Allan H. Meltzer
- reviewed by John H. Wood on June 25, 2003
- 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)
- Macroeconomics in Retrospect: The Selected Essays of David Laidler
- by David Laidler
- reviewed by John H. Wood on February 10, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 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), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Wood, Geoffrey
- Central Bank Cooperation at the Bank for International Settlements, 1930-1973
- by Gianni Toniolo
- reviewed by Geoffrey Wood on October 11, 2005
- 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)
- Wood, John H.
- Monetary Theory and Bretton Woods: The Construction of an International Monetary Order
- by Filippo Cesarano
- reviewed by John H. Wood on June 2, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4), 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), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Wood, John
- A History of the Federal Reserve: Vol. II, 1951-85
- by Allan H. Meltzer
- reviewed by John Wood on January 19, 2010
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Woodward, Ralph Lee
- Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil:The Formation of a Business Environment
- by Sergio de Oliveira Birchal
- reviewed by Ralph Lee Woodward on November 9, 1999
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Worden, Nigel
- An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire
- by Gwyn Campbell
- reviewed by Nigel Worden on December 23, 2005
- Geographic area: Africa (1)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Wright, Robert E.
- A History of Corporate Finance
- by Jonathan B. Baskin and Paul J. Miranti
- reviewed by Robert E. Wright on July 20, 1997
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Wright, Gavin
- The Greatest Nation on Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- reviewed by Gavin Wright on January 19, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Wright, Robert E.
- Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
- by Woody Holton
- reviewed by Robert E. Wright on February 15, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Wright, Tim
- Swallows and Settlers: The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria
- by Thomas R. Gottschang and Diana Lary
- reviewed by Tim Wright on November 30, 2001
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Wright, Robert E.
- A Financial History of the United States
- by Jerry W. Markham
- reviewed by Robert E. Wright on June 6, 2002
- 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: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Wright, Tim
- China Maritime Customs and China's Trade Statistics, 1859-1948
- by Thomas P. Lyons
- reviewed by Tim Wright on July 30, 2004
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Wright, Robert E.
- Alexander Hamilton
- by Ron Chernow
- reviewed by Robert E. Wright on May 3, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Wright, Gavin
- Slavery in the Development of the Americas
- by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (editors)
- reviewed by Gavin Wright on June 24, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Africa (1), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Wright, Robert E.
- A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy
- by James Macdonald
- reviewed by Robert E. Wright on May 31, 2006
- 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), Military and War (O)
- A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy
- by James Macdonald
- reviewed by Robert E. Wright on May 31, 2006
- 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), Military and War (O)
- Wright, Gavin
- Government and the American Economy: A New History
- by Price Fishback et al (editor)
- reviewed by Gavin Wright on October 19, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Wright, Tim
- The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change
- by Morris L. Bian
- reviewed by Tim Wright on November 12, 2008
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Military and War (O), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Wuthrich, Bryan
- Advertising to the American Woman, 1900-1999
- by Daniel Delis Hill
- reviewed by Bryan Wuthrich on August 8, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Wynne, Ben
- Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America
- by Robert E. May
- reviewed by Ben Wynne on February 25, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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