Book Reviews: By subject: Historical Geography
- The American Way: A Geographical History of Crisis and Recovery
- by Carville Earle
- reviewed by Sukkoo Kim on September 12, 2003
- 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: Historical Geography (K)
- Anglo-American Shipbuilding in World War II: A Geographical Perspective
- by Michael Lindberg and Daniel Todd
- reviewed by Christopher Tassava on November 7, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Historical Geography (K), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century
- by April Lee Hatfield
- reviewed by Lorena S. Walsh on September 19, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- 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)
- Bristol Historical Resource CD
- by Peter Wardley (editor)
- reviewed by Lisa Bud-Frierman on March 12, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Geography (K), Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-century France and England
- by Mary Sponberg Pedley
- reviewed by Susan Danforth on November 16, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Business History (B), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest
- by Linda Carlson
- reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd on September 14, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Historical Geography (K), Labor and Employment History (T)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Europe's Third World: The European Periphery in the Interwar Years
- by Derek H. Aldcroft
- reviewed by Nikolaus Wolf on June 14, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K)
- 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)
- 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 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 Three: Economic Structure and Performance
- by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
- reviewed by Joseph H. Davis on July 23, 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: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Is Geography Destiny? Lessons from Latin America
- by John Luke Gallup, Alejandro Gaviria and Eduardo Lora
- reviewed by Patrice Franko on January 13, 2005
- 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: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K)
- Japanese Industrial History: Technology, Urbanization, and Economic Growth
- by Carl Mosk
- reviewed by Mark Metzler on January 22, 2002
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Geography (K), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America
- by David R. Meyer
- reviewed by Ross Thomson on June 18, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- On Hollywood: The Place, the Industry
- by Allen J. Scott
- reviewed by Mike Haupert on October 18, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Historical Geography (K), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- 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)
- Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce, AD 300-900
- by Michael McCormick
- reviewed by David Griffiths on July 16, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- 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)
- Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990
- by John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David R. Smith and Randy William Widdis
- reviewed by Jerome K. Laurent on January 20, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations
- by Peter Bernholz and Roland Vaubel (editors)
- reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman on April 5, 2005
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K)
- The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900
- by Richard Franklin Bensel
- reviewed by David L. Carlton on August 7, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England
- by Diana Muir
- reviewed by Jane Knodell on May 24, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K)
- The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange: Merchants, Commercial Expansion and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low Countries, c. 1550-1630
- by Clé Lesger
- reviewed by Larry Neal on January 12, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present
- by Martin V. Melosi
- reviewed by James B. McSwain on May 16, 2002
- 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: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Geography (K), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The Size of Nations
- by Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore
- reviewed by Leonard Dudley on February 2, 2004
- 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: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology and Geography, 1850-1950
- by Gregory J. Downey
- reviewed by Tomas Nonnenmacher on November 4, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Labor and Employment History (T)
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