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The Accounts of the British Empire: Capital Flows from 1799 to 1914
by Mario Tiberi
reviewed by Elise S. Brezis on September 6, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development
by Joseph E. Inikori
reviewed by Kevin H. O'Rourke on October 7, 2003
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • 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), Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
After the Galleons: Foreign Trade, Economic Change and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines
by Benito J. Legarda
reviewed by Arturo Giraldez on November 2, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Against the Tide
by Douglas Irwin
reviewed by J. Bradford De Long on January 6, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Alanson B. Houghton: Ambassador of the New Era
by Jeffrey J. Matthews
reviewed by Thomas D. Westerman on June 14, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Allure of the Foreign: Imported Goods in Postcolonial Latin America
by Benjamin Orlove
reviewed by Anne E. C. McCants on February 5, 1998
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
American Trade Policy, 1923-1995
by Edward S. Kaplan
reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on March 20, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
American Treasure and the Price Revolution in Spain, 1501-1650
by Earl J. Hamilton
reviewed by John Munro on January 15, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Apogee of Empire: Spain and New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759-1789
by Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein
reviewed by David Ringrose on April 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century
by Rene J. Barendse
reviewed by Alan Heston on February 26, 2003
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800
by Paola Lanaro (editor)
reviewed by on July 23, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Atlantic Economy: Britain, the US and Ireland
by Denis O'Hearn
reviewed by Jane Gray on February 24, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), 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: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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)
Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971
by Dimitry Anastakis
reviewed by Thomas W. Zeiler on March 17, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Banana: Empires, Trade Wars, and Globalization
by James Wiley
reviewed by Marcelo Bucheli on October 2, 2008
  • 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), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000
by Marcelo Bucheli
reviewed by Alan Dye on August 20, 2008
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Bargaining on Europe: Britain and the First Common Market, 1860-1892
by Peter T. Marsh
reviewed by Douglas A. Irwin on February 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Battle of the Single European Market: Achievements and Economic Thought, 1945-2000
by Gilles Grin
reviewed by John Gillingham on July 19, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Between East and West: The Moluccas and the Traffic in Spices up to the Arrival of Europeans
by R. A. Donkin
reviewed by Gerrit Knaap on July 21, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2)
  • Time period: Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Bonds and Bondholders: British Investors and Mexico's Foreign Debt, 1824-1888
by Michael P. Costeloe
reviewed by Carlos Marichal on September 18, 2003
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
by Marc Levinson
reviewed by William Sjostrom on April 4, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
Britain's Economic Blockade of Germany, 1914-1919
by Eric W. Osborne
reviewed by Jari Eloranta on July 22, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Bullion for Goods: European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean Trade, 1500-1800
by Om Prakash
reviewed by Lakshmi Subramanian on May 20, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Business and Politics in Europe. 1900-1970: Essays in Honour of Alice Teichova
by Terry Gourvish (editor)
reviewed by Maurice Kirby on October 8, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833
by H.V. Bowen
reviewed by Santhi Hejeebu on April 9, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America, Volume 2: The Long Twentieth Century
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, John Coatsworth and Roberto Cortes-Conde (editors)
reviewed by Albert Fishlow on April 11, 2007
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History
by Frederick H. Smith
reviewed by Russell R. Menard on June 2, 2006
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937
by Tomoko Shiroyama
reviewed by Niv Horesh on August 22, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
China Maritime Customs and China's Trade Statistics, 1859-1948
by Thomas P. Lyons
reviewed by Tim Wright on July 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run
by Angus Maddison
reviewed by Thomas R. Gottschang on July 3, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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)
Consuls, Corsairs and Commerce: The Swedish Consular Service and Long-Distance Shipping, 1720-1815
by Leos Müller
reviewed by Yrjö Kaukiainen on February 25, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Conversations on Growth, Stability, and Trade: An Historical Perspective
by Brian Snowdon
reviewed by Christopher Hanes on April 18, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640-1845
by William J. Ashworth
reviewed by Paul Carvajal on July 11, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837-1873
by Jay Sexton
reviewed by Marc D. Weidenmier on March 27, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Decline of Latin American Economies: Growth, Institutions, and Crisis
by Sebastian Edwards, Gerardo Esquivel and Graciela Márquez (editors)
reviewed by Richard J. Salvucci on January 31, 2008
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy
by Edward C. Lorenz
reviewed by Mark Perlman on March 14, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T)
A Deus ex Machina Revisited: Atlantic Colonial Trade and European Economic Development
by P.C. Emmer, O. Pétré-Grenouilleau and J.V. Roitman (editors)
reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman on January 3, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 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), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Development of Mexico's Tourism Industry: Pyramids by Day, Martinis by Night
by Dina Berger
reviewed by Byron Crites on December 20, 2006
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970
by Erik Gilbert
reviewed by Abdul Sheriff on February 9, 2005
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
Dragon Multinational: A New Model for Global Growth
by John A. Mathews
reviewed by Stephen A. Kolenda on July 21, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Dynamic of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415-1980
by David B. Abernethy
reviewed by K. N. Chaudhuri on December 17, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
East Meets West: Banking, Commerce and Investment in the Ottoman Empire
by Philip L. Cottrell, Monica Pohle Fraser and Iain L. Fraser (editors)
reviewed by Metin Cosgel on December 19, 2008
  • Geographic area: Middle East (6)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
East-West Trade and the Cold War
by Jari Eloranta and Jari Ojala (editors)
reviewed by Martin C. Spechler on November 4, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Economic Relations between Britain and Australasia, 1945-1970
by John Singleton and Paul L. Robertson
reviewed by Jonathan Pincus on January 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Economics and Ideology of Free Trade: A Historical Review
by Leonard Gomes
reviewed by Lawrence Officer on August 14, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), 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: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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)
Eli Heckscher, International Trade, and Economic History
by Ronald Findlay, Rolf G.H. Henriksson, Hakan Lindgren and Mats Lundahl (editors)
reviewed by Nick Crafts on August 27, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Encyclopedia of Tariffs and Trade in U.S. History
by Cynthia Clark Northrup and Elaine C. Prange Turney (editors)
reviewed by Stephen Meardon on January 6, 2005
  • 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: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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 English Wool Market, c. 1230-1327
by Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks and Paul R. Dryburgh
reviewed by James M. Murray on June 19, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Entertainment Industrialised: The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890-1940
by Gerben Bakker
reviewed by Michael Pokorny on April 28, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
European Integration, 1950-2003: Superstate or New Market Economy?
by John Gillingham
reviewed by Daniel Barbezat on April 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Law, Politics, and Economics of the GATT and the WTO
by John H. Barton, Judith L. Goldstein, Timothy E. Josling and Richard H. Steinberg
reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on January 9, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Evolution of the World Economy, Precious Metals and India
by John McGuire, Patrick Bertola and Peter Reeves (editors)
reviewed by Arturo Giraldez on May 4, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2)
  • 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: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows: Britain, the Americas, and Australia, 1865-1914
by Lance E. Davis and Robert E. Gallman
reviewed by Alan M. Taylor on May 7, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Final Victims: Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810
by James A. McMillin
reviewed by Philip Misevich on August 23, 2005
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Firms, Networks and Business Values: The British and American Cotton Industries since 1750
by Mary B. Rose
reviewed by David Higgins on May 11, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Free Trade Free World: The Advent of GATT
by Thomas W. Zeiler
reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on June 16, 1999
  • Geographic area:
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain
by Frank Trentmann
reviewed by Peter J. Cain on October 17, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
From Sugar Triangle to Cotton Triangle: Trade and Shipping between America and Baltic Russia, 1783-1860
by Kalevi Ahonen
reviewed by William K. Hutchinson on January 30, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective
by Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
reviewed by George R. Boyer on August 6, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Glitter of Gold: France, Bimetallism, and the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1848-1873
by Marc Flandreau
reviewed by Pierre Sicsic on December 5, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Global Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis and Growth
by Maurice Obstfeld and Alan M. Taylor
reviewed by Marc D. Weidenmier on December 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
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 and Its Enemies
by Daniel Cohen
reviewed by John R. Hanson on December 27, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Globalization and the American Century
by Alfred E. Eckes Jr. and Thomas W. Zeiler
reviewed by Wyatt Wells on March 1, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950
by Jeffrey G. Williamson
reviewed by Sevket Pamuk on June 25, 2007
  • 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), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Income and Wealth (Q), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
Globalization: A Short History
by Jürgen Osterhammel and Niels P. Petersson
reviewed by Kevin H. O'Rourke on May 15, 2006
  • 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: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory
by Lisa Jardine
reviewed by Anne E.C. McCants on July 7, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971
by Francis J. Gavin
reviewed by Harold James on January 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume Five: Governance and International Relations
by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
reviewed by Gary D. Libecap on April 19, 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: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000
by Janet E. Hunter and S. Sugiyama (editors)
reviewed by John Wilson on February 7, 2003
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945
by Mira Wilkins
reviewed by Michael Edelstein on January 28, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
by Olivia Remie Constable
reviewed by Avner Greif on July 25, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Ancient (2), Medieval (3)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
The Impact of the English Civil War on the Economy of London, 1642-50
by Ben Coates
reviewed by Stephen Quinn on September 23, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
In Irons: Britain's Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy
by Richard Buel Jr.
reviewed by James F. Shepherd on April 16, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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)
Indonesian Exports, Peasant Agriculture and the World Economy, 1850-2000: Economic Structures in a Southeast Asian State
by Hiroyoshi Kano
reviewed by Pierre van der Eng on November 5, 2009
  • 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), Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade
by Avner Greif
reviewed by Philip T. Hoffman on August 7, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
International Economic Integration in Historical Perspective
by Dennis M.P. McCarthy
reviewed by John R. Hanson II on June 11, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
International Trade and Political Institutions: Instituting Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century
by Fiona McGillivray, Iain McLean, Robert Pahre and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
reviewed by John V.C. Nye on July 23, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
by Peter T. Leeson
reviewed by Daniel K. Benjamin on October 3, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949
by Kaoru Sugihara (editor)
reviewed by Ming-Hsuan Lee on December 17, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective
by Istvan Hont
reviewed by Stephen Meardon on October 17, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace
by Donald Markwell
reviewed by Michael S. Lawlor on February 2, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
by Ha-Joon Chang
reviewed by Douglas Irwin on April 26, 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), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
La conexión cubana: Narcotráfico, contrabando y juego en Cuba entre los años 20 y comienzos de la Revolución
by Eduardo Saenz Rovner
reviewed by William McGreevey on August 22, 2005
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Limits of Protectionism: Building Coalitions for Free Trade
by Michael Lusztig
reviewed by Anthony Patrick O'Brien on December 3, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization
by Saskia Sassen
reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on March 31, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Maritime Traders in the Ancient Greek World
by Charles M. Reed
reviewed by Darel Tai Engen on July 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Market, the State, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 1934-2000
by William H. Becker and William M. McClenahan Jr.
reviewed by Jonathan J. Bean on July 1, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence
by T. H. Breen
reviewed by Farley Grubb on December 7, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Marshall Plan: Fifty Years After
by Martin A. Schain (editor)
reviewed by Albrecht Ritschl on March 19, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Mediterranean Response to Globalization before 1950
by Sevket Pamuk and Jeffrey G. Williamson (editors)
reviewed by James Simpson on August 22, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • 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), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Mercantilism
by Eli F. Heckscher
reviewed by John J. McCusker on December 4, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Merchants and Migrations: Germans and Americans in Connection, 1776-1835
by Sam A. Mustafa
reviewed by Simone A. Wegge on October 3, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
by Geoffrey Jones
reviewed by Mira Wilkins on August 22, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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)
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)
Monitoring the World Economy: 1820-1992
by Angus Maddison
reviewed by John R. Hanson on February 5, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Monsoon Traders: Ships, Skippers and Commodities in Eighteenth-century Makassar
by Gerrit Knaap and Heather Sutherland
reviewed by Om Prakash on October 31, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The 'Mother of All Trades': The Baltic Grain Trade in Amsterdam from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century
by Milja van Tielhof
reviewed by Regina Grafe on August 18, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War
by Nicholas Onuf and Peter Onuf
reviewed by Jane Flaherty on October 23, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Naukratis: Trade in Archaic Greece
by Astrid Möller
reviewed by David Tandy on February 13, 2002
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
The New Imperial Economy: The British Army and the New American Frontier, 1764-1768
by Walter S. Dunn Jr.
reviewed by John Shy on June 8, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War
by David G. Surdam
reviewed by Roger L. Ransom on November 14, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Norwegian Catch-Up: Development and Globalization before World War II
by Jonathon W. Moses
reviewed by Ola Honningdal Grytten on October 14, 2005
  • 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), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Oil and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-63
by Uri Bialer
reviewed by Nachum Gross on May 19, 1999
  • Geographic area: Middle East (6)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth
by Dani Rodrik
reviewed by Alice Amsden on October 1, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 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), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776
by Alfred E. Jr. Eckes
reviewed by Bruce A. Khula on November 2, 1995
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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 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)
Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce
by Sarah Abrevaya Stein
reviewed by Andrew Godley on June 23, 2009
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Political Economy of Argentina in the Twentieth Century
by Roberto Cortés Conde
reviewed by André Martínez Fritscher on July 3, 2009
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Political Economy of Protection: Theory and the Chilean Experience
by Daniel Lederman
reviewed by Douglas A. Irwin on January 28, 2006
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Politics of Trade: The Overseas Merchant in State and Society, 1660-1720
by Perry Gauci
reviewed by Christian J. Koot on January 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: A Choice of Pleasures
by John Sedgwick
reviewed by Michael J. Haupert on July 27, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Power and Plenty: Trade, War and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
by Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O’Rourke
reviewed by Şevket Pamuk on August 19, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 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), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Prelude to Trade Wars: American Tariff Policy, 1890-1922
by Edward S. Kaplan and Thomas W. Ryley
reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on March 20, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Reluctant Partners: A History of Multilateral Trade Cooperation, 1850-2000
by Andrew Brown
reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on September 16, 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: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: From Protectionism to Globalization
by Nitsan Chorev
reviewed by Douglas A. Irwin on January 11, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt across Three Centuries
by Michael Tomz
reviewed by Kim Oosterlinck on February 11, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Resurgence of East Asia, 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives
by Giovanni Arrighi, Takeshi Hamashita and Mark Selden
reviewed by Debin Ma on February 15, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 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), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Liberalism: Richard Cobden Bicentenary Essays
by Anthony Howe and Simon Morgan (editors)
reviewed by Leonard P. Liggio on July 26, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Revisiting U.S. Trade Policy: Decisions in Perspective
by Alfred E. Eckes Jr.
reviewed by James Gerber on December 5, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Riches from Atlantic Commerce: Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585-1817
by Johannes Postma and Victor Enthoven (editors)
reviewed by Paul M. Hohenberg on June 28, 2004
  • Geographic area: 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: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1770
by David Ormrod
reviewed by Paul M. Hohenberg on December 11, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Russia's Foreign Trade and Economic Expansion in the Seventeenth Century: Windows on the World
by J. T. Kotilaine
reviewed by Valéry Lazarev on April 28, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Shah's Silk for Europe's Silver: The Eurasian Trade of the Julfa Armenians in Safavid Iran and India (1530-1750)
by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe
reviewed by Willem Floor on April 23, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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)
Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800
by Kenneth Morgan
reviewed by David Eltis on October 10, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Slavery, Family and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834
by S.D. Smith
reviewed by Trevor Burnard on August 7, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-53
by Julie Hessler
reviewed by Valery Lazarev on January 12, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth
by Liah Greenfeld
reviewed by Deepak Lal on February 17, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Straining at the Anchor: The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880-1935
by Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor
reviewed by Peter Temin on May 2, 2002
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Symbols of Trade: Roman and Pseudo-Roman Objects Found in India
by S. Suresh
reviewed by Himanshu Prabha Ray on May 10, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Taking Trade to the Streets: The Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape Globalization
by Susan Ariel Aaronson
reviewed by Alfred E. Eckes on August 25, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War
by Mark Thornton and Robert B. Ekelund Jr.
reviewed by David G. Surdam on April 14, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Tariffs, Trade and European Integration 1947-1957: From Study Group to Common Market
by Wendy Asbeek Brusse
reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk on February 18, 1999
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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)
Trade and the American Dream: A Social History of Postwar Trade Policy
by Susan Ariel Aaronson
reviewed by Mira Wilkins on November 20, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Trade in Classical Antiquity
by Neville Morley
reviewed by Peter Temin on June 29, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
A Trading Nation: Canadian Trade Policy from Colonialism to Globalization
by Michael Hart
reviewed by Bill Marr on August 13, 2004
  • 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), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660-1760
by K. N. Chaudhuri
reviewed by Santhi Hejeebu on December 20, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Tradition of Free Trade
by Lars Magnusson
reviewed by William K. Hutchinson on February 23, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade
by Robert H. Gudmestad
reviewed by Jonathan Pritchett on July 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
U.S. Development Aid: An Historic First
by Samuel Hale Butterfield
reviewed by John R. Hanson II on September 30, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The War within World War II: The United States and International Cartels
by Robert Franklin Maddox
reviewed by Daniel Barbezat on May 21, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900
by John V.C. Nye
reviewed by Gordon Bannerman on October 15, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Yankee Don't Go Home! Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950
by Julio Moreno
reviewed by William Schell Jr. on September 7, 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: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)