Book Reviews: By subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
- 1896: The Presidential Campaign: Cartoons and Commentary
- by Rebecca Edwards and Sarah DeFeo
- reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on February 13, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Advances in Agricultural Economic History, Vol.1, New Frontiers in Agricultural History
- by Kyle D. Kauffman (editor)
- reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (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)
- An Age of Transition? Economy and Society in the Later Middle Ages
- by Christopher Dyer
- reviewed by Joseph P. Huffman on December 13, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour and Aristocratic Dominance
- by Jairus Banaji
- reviewed by George Grantham on May 12, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume VII, 1850-1914
- by E. J.T. Collins (editor)
- reviewed by Joyce Burnette on July 24, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- An Agrarian History of South Asia
- by David Ludden
- reviewed by Marcia J. Frost on June 1, 2000
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan
- by Thomas C. Smith
- reviewed by Osamu Saito on May 11, 2006
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Agricultural Development in Jiangnan, 1620-1850
- by Li Bozhong
- reviewed by Kenneth Pomeranz on July 7, 2003
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 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), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873
- by Jeremy Burchardt
- reviewed by Bethanie Afton on August 7, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- 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)
- American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980
- by Jon Lauck
- reviewed by Bruce Gardner on June 12, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost
- by Bruce L. Gardner
- reviewed by Julian M. Alston on June 27, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean 1898-1934
- by César Ayala
- reviewed by Alan Dye on September 3, 2000
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- 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)
- Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California
- by Steven P. Erie
- reviewed by Gary D. Libecap on December 23, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 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)
- The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860-1914: Commercial, Extractive and Industrial Enterprise
- by David O. Whitten and Bessie E. Whitten
- reviewed by David L. Mason on July 3, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Black Diamonds! Black Gold!: The Saga of Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company
- by Don Woodard
- reviewed by Jason Manning on January 5, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
- by Judith A. Carney
- reviewed by Russell R. Menard on May 14, 2002
- Geographic area: Africa (1), North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Boss: Management Tips for Today from a Nineteenth Century Cattle Drive
- by Tim Frazier and Dana Frazier
- reviewed by Howard R. Stanger on June 1, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
- 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)
- Cameroon's Tycoon: Max Esser's Expedition and Its Consequences
- by E. M. Chilver and Ute Röschenthaler (editors)
- reviewed by Ralph A. Austen on August 14, 2002
- Geographic area: Africa (1)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida
- by Jane G. Landers (editor)
- reviewed by Russell R. Menard on March 19, 2001
- 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), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Pressure
- by Ester Boserup
- reviewed by Giovanni Federico on April 16, 2001
- 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)
- Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies
- by David E. Nye
- reviewed by Martin V. Melosi on August 5, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s
- by Charles K. Hyde
- reviewed by Roger Burt on August 11, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Corn and Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance
- by Arturo Warman
- reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on August 1, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
- by Virginia DeJohn Anderson
- reviewed by Russell R. Menard on April 12, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899-1929
- by Alan B. Dye
- reviewed by Richard Salvucci on September 6, 1999
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920
- by David Vaught
- reviewed by Kerry Odell on April 20, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880-1930
- by Julie A. Charlip
- reviewed by Héctor Lindo-Fuentes on September 8, 2003
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation
- by J. William Harris
- reviewed by Nancy Virts on April 18, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis
- by Michael Williams
- reviewed by Gary Libecap on August 4, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K)
- The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920
- by Andrew C. Isenberg
- reviewed by Richard DePolt on June 4, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Development of Modern Agriculture: British Farming since 1931
- by John Martin
- reviewed by Peter Dewey on November 7, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Down and Out on the Family Farm: Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929-1945
- by Michael Johnson Grant
- reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on February 16, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 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)
- Ecology, Colonialism, and Cattle: Central India in the Nineteenth Century
- by Laxman D. Satya
- reviewed by David Gilmartin on August 25, 2006
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany
- by Paul Warde
- reviewed by Oliver Volckart on May 22, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- 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)
- Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production
- by Vaclav Smil
- reviewed by D. Gale Johnson on November 28, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Estadísticas históricas de España: Siglos XIX - XX
- by Albert Carreras and Xavier Tafunell (editors)
- reviewed by Mauricio Drelichman on August 16, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- 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), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), 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), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Estates, Enterprise and Investment at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution: Estate Management and Accounting in the North-East of England, c.1700-1780
- by David Oldroyd
- reviewed by James Jaffe on April 2, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
- Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture
- by Deborah Fitzgerald
- reviewed by Bruce Gardner on June 20, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and Its European Rivals, 1688-1815
- by Leandro Prados de la Escosura (editor)
- reviewed by Gregory Clark on October 7, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century
- by Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht
- reviewed by William Boal on April 20, 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), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
- by Gregory Clark
- reviewed by Robert A. Margo on March 11, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
- 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), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Farm on the North Talbot Road
- by Allan G. Bogue
- reviewed by Robert Ankli on August 29, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Farm Production in England 1700-1914
- by M. E. Turner, J. V. Beckett and B. Afton
- reviewed by Nicola Verdon on August 19, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution
- by Robert C. Allen
- reviewed by R. W. Davies on June 9, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- 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)
- Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000
- by Giovanni Federico
- reviewed by Bruce Gardner on March 14, 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- 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)
- Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century
- by Peter E. Pope
- reviewed by Luca Codignola on March 22, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia
- by Douglas C. Harris
- reviewed by D. Bruce Johnsen on January 15, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933
- by Margaret Beattie Bogue
- reviewed by Jerome K. Laurent on July 12, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Food and the City in Europe since 1800
- by Peter J. Atkins, Peter Lummel and Derek J. Oddy (editors)
- reviewed by Richard Perren on February 27, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- 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), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War
- by John C. Willis
- reviewed by J. William Harris on July 18, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade
- by Barton H. Barbour
- reviewed by Ann Harper Fender on March 11, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- 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)
- From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture
- by Dennis S. Nordin and Roy V. Scott
- reviewed by David Danbom on February 15, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000
- by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal and Zephyr Frank (editors)
- reviewed by Jeremy Baskes on January 26, 2007
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s
- by Ken Fones-Wolf
- reviewed by Janet Irons on October 12, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Gold Rush Capitalists: Greed and Growth in Sacramento
- by Mark A. Eifler
- reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on August 30, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)
- A Good Day's Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression
- by Dwight W. Hoover
- reviewed by Alan G. Bogue on October 24, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume Four: Economic Sectors
- by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
- reviewed by Lee J. Alston on June 26, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Horses in Society: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920
- by Margaret E. Derry
- reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford on September 20, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Military and War (O)
- How Cartels Endure and How They Fail: Studies of Industrial Collusion
- by Peter Z. Grossman (editor)
- reviewed by Richard Sicotte on January 25, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- India and the World Economy, 1850-1950
- by G. Balachandran (editor)
- reviewed by David Clingingsmith on February 1, 2007
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- 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)
- Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
- by Angela Lakwete
- reviewed by William H. Phillips on April 19, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Invisible Fuel: Manufactured and Natural Gas in America, 1800-2000
- by Christopher J. Castaneda
- reviewed by Andrew Jenkins on July 2, 2001
- 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), Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Irrigation Development and Agrarian Change: A Study of Sindh, Pakistan
- by Jayantha Perera
- reviewed by Anwar Naseem on May 26, 2006
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- 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)
- John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier
- by Albert L. Hurtado
- reviewed by Lynne Pierson Doti on September 13, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
- Kill and Chill: Restructuring Canada's Beef Commodity Chain
- by Ian MacLachlan
- reviewed by Daniel V. Gordon on May 24, 2002
- 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), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Labour, Land and Capital: From Slavery to Free Labour in Asante, 1807-1956
- by Gareth Austin
- reviewed by Nathan Nunn on August 21, 2006
- Geographic area: Africa (1)
- 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), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- Land, Power, and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada
- by John Clarke
- reviewed by Douglas McCalla on April 19, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K)
- 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)
- Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime: The Creation of Private Property in Russia, 1906-1915
- by Stephen F. Williams
- reviewed by Steven Nafziger on July 27, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier
- by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
- reviewed by Anthony J. Amato on March 11, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K)
- Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000
- by James C. McCann
- reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on October 4, 2005
- Geographic area: Africa (1)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Making Freedom Pay: North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves, 1864-1900
- by Sharon Ann Holt
- reviewed by Nancy Virts on May 21, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Making Peasants Backward: Managing Populations in Russian Agricultural Cooperatives, 1861-1914
- by Yanni Kotsonis
- reviewed by Oliver Hayward on May 12, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- The Mechanics of Optimism: Mining Companies, Technology, and the Hot Spring Gold Rush, Montana Territory, 1864-1868
- by Jeffery J. Safford
- reviewed by Lynne Pierson Doti on November 16, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
- Money, Land and Trade: An Economic History of the Muslim Mediterranean
- by Nelly Hanna (editor)
- reviewed by Metin Cosgel on August 8, 2003
- Geographic area: Middle East (6)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Money, Markets and Trade in Late Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of John H.A. Munro
- by Lawrin Armstrong, Ivana Elbl and Martin M. Elb (editors)
- reviewed by Karine van der Beek on September 5, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), 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), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia
- by Peter Boomgaard, David Henley and Manon Osseweijer (editors)
- reviewed by S. Nawiyanto on August 18, 2006
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 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), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Natural Gas Market: Sixty Years of Regulation and Deregulation
- by Paul W. MacAvoy
- reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on July 30, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Natural Resources: Neither Curse nor Destiny
- by Daniel Lederman and William F. Maloney (editors)
- reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman on February 22, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- 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)
- The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier
- by Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill
- reviewed by Frank D. Lewis on January 6, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn
- by Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias
- reviewed by David B. Danbom on August 31, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Oil and Development in Venezuela during the 20th Century
- by Jorge Salazar-Carrillo and Bernadette West
- reviewed by M. del Mar Rubio on November 18, 2004
- 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America
- by Sean Patrick Adams
- reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on May 6, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- On the Border of Economic Theory and History
- by Amit Bhaduri
- reviewed by Marcia J. Frost on May 1, 2001
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment
- by Geoff Cunfer
- reviewed by Matthew T. Gregg on April 24, 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), Historical Geography (K)
- 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)
- Origins and Growth of the Global Economy: From the Fifteenth Century Onward
- by Ronald E. Seavoy
- reviewed by Laura Cruz on November 25, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- 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)
- The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Cote D'Ivoire, 1880-1995
- by Thomas J. Bassett
- reviewed by Sylvain H. Boko on September 30, 2003
- Geographic area: Africa (1)
- 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)
- The Peasants of Languedoc
- by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
- reviewed by Anne E.C. McCants on December 12, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 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)
- Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860
- by Tom Downey
- reviewed by Lawrence A. Peskin on January 25, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- 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)
- Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South
- by Shawn Everett Kantor
- reviewed by Dennis Halcoussis on August 13, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Populism
- by Worth Robert Miller
- reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on February 13, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782
- by Ronald Hoffman
- reviewed by Evan Haefeli on January 19, 2001
- 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), Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- 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)
- Regions, Institutions and Agrarian Change in European History
- by Rosemary L. Hopcroft
- reviewed by George Grantham on September 13, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors: The Transformation of Rural Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1720-1850
- by Thomas S. Wermuth
- reviewed by Donald Parkerson on January 30, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Rise of Capitalism on the Pampas: The Estancias of Buenos Aires, 1785-1870
- by Samuel Amaral
- reviewed by Edward Beatty on June 1, 2000
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- 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)
- Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England: Gender, Work and Wages
- by Nicola Verdon
- reviewed by Joyce Burnette on January 25, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South
- by Donald Holley
- reviewed by Craig Heinicke on March 26, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature
- by Mark Daniel Barringer
- reviewed by Peter J. Hill on August 26, 2002
- 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), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Sexual Revolutions: Gender and Labor at the Dawn of Agriculture
- by Jane Peterson
- reviewed by Richard H. Steckel on June 24, 2003
- Geographic area: Middle East (6)
- Time period: Prehistoric (1)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia
- by Peter H. Lindert
- reviewed by D. Gale Johnson on June 1, 2001
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Slavery and American Economic Development
- by Gavin Wright
- reviewed by Jeremy Atack on May 18, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 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), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paolo, 1750-1850
- by Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein
- reviewed by James Oakes on May 3, 2006
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- 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)
- Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia
- by Peter Boomgaard and David Henley (editors)
- reviewed by Frans D. Huijzendveld on September 14, 2005
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development
- by David L. Carlton and Peter A. Coclanis
- reviewed by William H. Phillips on November 4, 2003
- 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South 1865-1965
- by Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie
- reviewed by Craig Heinicke on December 7, 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), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Sowing Modernity: America's First Agricultural Revolution
- by Peter D. McClelland
- reviewed by Mary Eschelbach Hansen on February 28, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862
- by Christopher Mills Isett
- reviewed by Peer Vries on August 10, 2007
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados
- by Russell R. Menard
- reviewed by David Eltis on November 10, 2006
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Taste, Trade and Technology: The Development of the International Meat Industry since 1840
- by Richard Perren
- reviewed by Lee A. Craig on December 20, 2006
- Geographic area: Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal
- by Keith J. Volanto
- reviewed by Ryan Johnson on December 22, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America and the New Deal
- by Sarah Phillips
- reviewed by Jon Fox on March 3, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Thomas F. Walsh: Progressive Businessman and Colorado Mining Tycoon
- by John C. Stewart
- reviewed by Joshua C. Hall on December 17, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
- Titles, Conflict and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Frontier
- by Lee J. Alston, Gary D. Libecap and Bernardo Mueller
- reviewed by D. Bruce Johnsen on July 1, 2000
- 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680
- by Stuart B. Schwartz (editor)
- reviewed by David Eltis on December 31, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Turning Trees into Dollars: The British Columbia Coastal Lumber Industry, 1858-1913
- by Gordon Hak
- reviewed by William Marr on November 29, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935
- by Donald J. Pisani
- reviewed by Peter J. Hill on October 20, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Weathering the Storm: The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression
- by Peter Boomgaard and Ian Brown (editors)
- reviewed by John Drabble on July 24, 2003
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- When the Potato Failed: Causes and Effects of the Last European Subsistence Crisis, 1845-1850
- by Cormac Ó Gráda, Richard Paping and Eric Vanhaute (editors)
- reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on November 29, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Women, Work, and Wages in England, 1600-1850
- by Penelope Lane, Neil Raven and K. D. M. Snell (editors)
- reviewed by Joyce Burnette on March 2, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Labor and Employment History (T)
- The World System and the Earth System: Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability since the Neolithic
- by Alf Hornborg and Carole L. Crumley (editors)
- reviewed by Eric Jones on March 9, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
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