Book Reviews: By subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
- The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Impact
- by Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson
- reviewed by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on September 8, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- 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)
- And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society, 1920 to the 1990s
- by Elliott Barkan
- reviewed by Masao Suzuki on August 6, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Asbestos and Fire: Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk
- by Rachel Maines
- reviewed by Mark Aldrich on August 31, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere
- by Richard H. Steckel and Jerome C. Rose (editors)
- reviewed by William J. Collins on May 13, 2003
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0), Prehistoric (1), Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Birth Quake: The Baby Boom and Its Aftershocks
- by Diane J. Macunovich
- reviewed by Randall J. Olsen on May 23, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Labor and Employment History (T)
- 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)
- Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier
- by Anne Kelly Knowles
- reviewed by Metin Cosgel on March 27, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Coerced and Free Migrations: Global Perspectives
- by David Eltis (editor)
- reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on December 31, 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)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium
- by Dirk Hoerder
- reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on April 21, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture
- by Eric L. Jones
- reviewed by Avner Greif on July 31, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Debating American Immigration, 1882 - Present
- by Roger Daniels and Otis L. Graham
- reviewed by Barry R. Chiswick on October 31, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks: Four Centuries of History
- by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Gelina Harlaftis and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou (editors)
- reviewed by Sakis Gekas on July 15, 2005
- 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: Business History (B), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France
- by Paul V. Dutton
- reviewed by John Murray on July 12, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4), 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1859
- by Akira Hayami, Osamu Saito and Ronald P. Toby (editors)
- reviewed by Carl Mosk on October 22, 2004
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression
- by Harold James
- reviewed by Tim Hatton on January 4, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World
- by Robert William Fogel
- reviewed by Cormac Ó Gráda on October 19, 2004
- 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: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- 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)
- Family Fictions and Family Facts: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet and the Population Question in England, 1798-1859
- by Brian Cooper
- reviewed by Evelyn L. Forget on January 11, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- 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)
- 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)
- Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance
- by Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson
- reviewed by Drew Keeling on June 13, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy
- by Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson
- reviewed by Marvin McInnis on August 4, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Globalization in Historical Perspective
- by Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamson (editors)
- reviewed by William J. Collins on November 7, 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: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster
- by Werner Troesken
- reviewed by Robert A. Margo on June 27, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2: Further Evidence
- by Peter H. Lindert
- reviewed by Robert A. Margo on June 18, 2004
- 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: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume I: The Story
- by Peter H. Lindert
- reviewed by Robert A. Margo on April 28, 2004
- 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: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume One: Population
- by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
- reviewed by Trevon D. Logan on July 17, 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: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- History Matters: Essays on Economic Growth, Technology, and Demographic Change
- by Timothy Guinnane, William Sundstrom and Warren Whatley (editors)
- reviewed by Lance Davis on April 12, 2004
- Geographic area: Asia (2), 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: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
- A History of Household Government in America
- by Carole Shammas
- reviewed by Gloria L. Main on March 26, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- 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)
- Immigration and American Unionism
- by Vernon M. Briggs Jr.
- reviewed by Joseph D. Reid Jr. on December 3, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717
- by Alan Gallay
- reviewed by Peter C. Mancall on April 4, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981
- by Amy Sue Bix
- reviewed by Robert H. Zieger on September 21, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in New York and London, 1880-1914: Enterprise and Culture
- by Andrew Godley
- reviewed by Carmel U. Chiswick on June 3, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), 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)
- Mass Migration under Sail: European Immigration to the Antebellum United States
- by Scott A. Carson
- reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on May 18, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Migration and Economic Growth: A Study of Great Britain and the Atlantic Economy
- by Brinley Thomas
- reviewed by James Foreman-Peck on August 14, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- 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)
- Modelling the Middle Ages: The History and Theory of England's Economic Development
- by John Hatcher and Mark Bailey
- reviewed by Gary Richardson on March 17, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- 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)
- The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson
- by Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke and Alan M. Taylor (editors)
- reviewed by Dan Bogart on June 3, 2008
- 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: 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), Income and Wealth (Q), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
- New Spain's Century of Depression
- by Woodrow Wilson Borah
- reviewed by Richard Salvucci on August 1, 2001
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds
- by John E. Murray
- reviewed by Melissa A. Thomasson on February 4, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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 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)
- Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England
- by Gloria L. Main
- reviewed by Daniel Scott Smith on December 10, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), 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)
- Population and Disease: Transforming English Society, 1550-1850
- by Peter Razzell
- reviewed by Andrew Hinde on July 9, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Poverty and Life Expectancy: The Jamaica Paradox
- by James C. Riley
- reviewed by Chulhee Lee on January 30, 2007
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Quantitative Economic History: The Good of Counting
- by Joshua L. Rosenbloom (editor)
- reviewed by Mary Eschelbach Hansen on September 26, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855
- by F. Matthew Gallman
- reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on August 15, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Regulated Lives: Life Insurance and British Society, 1800-1914
- by Timothy Alborn
- reviewed by Sharon Ann Murphy on January 18, 2010
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Reluctant Economist: Perspectives on Economics, Economic History, and Demography
- by Richard A. Easterlin
- reviewed by Lee A. Craig on November 30, 2004
- 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: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History
- by Douglass C. North and Robert Paul Thomas
- reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on December 21, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History
- by James C. Riley
- reviewed by Richard A. Easterlin on February 12, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- 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)
- Secular Cycles
- by Peter Turchin and Sergey A. Nefedov
- reviewed by Harry Kitsikopoulos on December 30, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 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), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The Shoemakers of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1850-1880: The Family during the Transition from Hand to Machine Labor
- by William H. Mulligan, Jr.
- reviewed by Christiane Diehl Taylor on August 17, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Studies in Economic and Social History: Essays in Honour of Derek H. Aldcroft
- by Michael J. Oliver (editor)
- reviewed by Ruggero Ranieri on January 28, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- The Vanishing Irish: Households, Migration, and the Rural Economy in Ireland, 1850-1914
- by Timothy W. Guinnane
- reviewed by Henry A. Gemery on August 11, 1998
- Geographic area:
- Time period: 16th Century (4)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France
- by Andrea A. Rusnock
- reviewed by Bernard Harris on May 10, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Water, Race, and Disease
- by Werner Troesken
- reviewed by John C. Brown on June 1, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), 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)
- 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)
- Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum U.S.,1840-1860
- by Joseph P. Ferrie
- reviewed by Richard H. Steckel on August 4, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
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