Book Reviews: By subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
- The Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime Policy
- by Andrew Gibson and Arthur Donovan
- reviewed by Gordon Boyce on September 11, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Across the Borders: Financing the World's Railways in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- by Ralf Roth and Gunter Dinhobl (editors)
- reviewed by Dan Bogart on September 22, 2009
- 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), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Airline Executives and Federal Regulation: Case Studies in American Enterprise from the Airmail Era to the Dawn of the Jet Age
- by David W. Lewis
- reviewed by Scott E. Tarry on October 26, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry
- by F. Robert van der Linden
- reviewed by Karen Dunn-Haley on May 28, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante-bellum Economy
- by Albert Fishlow
- reviewed by John Majewski on September 25, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
- by Carol Sheriff
- reviewed by Jerome K. Laurent on July 14, 1997
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century
- by Mark H. Rose, Bruce E. Seely and Paul F. Barrett
- reviewed by William R. Childs on May 25, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860-1914: Commercial, Extractive and Industrial Enterprise
- by David O. Whitten and Bessie E. Whitten
- reviewed by David L. Mason on July 3, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- British Petroleum and Global Oil, 1950-1975: The Challenge of Nationalism
- by James Bamberg
- reviewed by Jonathan Brown on March 4, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889-1909
- by Jonathan W. Singer
- reviewed by Werner Troesken on January 9, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America
- by Thomas A. Kinney
- reviewed by Tom Dicke on August 1, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile
- by Lewis H. Siegelbaum
- reviewed by Perry L. Patterson on August 6, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars
- by Georg Leidenberger
- reviewed by David J. St. Clair on October 17, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Cities of Heat and Light: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America
- by Mark Rose
- reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on August 21, 1995
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization
- by William H. Roberts
- reviewed by David Surdam on September 2, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- Creating Capitalism: Joint-Stock Enterprise in British Politics and Culture, 1800-1870
- by James Taylor
- reviewed by Ranald C. Michie on March 12, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications
- by Paul Starr
- reviewed by Douglas Galbi on September 9, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- 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)
- Economic Disasters of the Twentieth Century
- by Michael J. Oliver and Derek H. Aldcroft (editors)
- reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on June 8, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age
- by Gijs Mom
- reviewed by Staffan Hultén on March 28, 2007
- 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: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Electricity and Energy Policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945
- by Martin Chick
- reviewed by John Neufeld on June 2, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants
- by Kathleen M. Barry
- reviewed by Vicki Howard on June 29, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
- by Peter D. Norton
- reviewed by Werner Troesken on August 5, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- by T. J. Stiles
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on December 31, 2009
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia
- by Andrew M. Schocket
- reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams on July 19, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- From Edison to Enron: The Business of Power and What It Means for the Future of Electricity
- by Richard Munson
- reviewed by David B. Sicilia on January 20, 2008
- 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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry
- by Albert J. Churella
- reviewed by Philip Scranton on January 7, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry
- by Albert J. Churella
- reviewed by John K. Brown on January 15, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The Gas Station in America
- by John A. Jakle and Kieth A. Sculle
- reviewed by Tom Dicke on May 16, 1995
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- Heat, Power and Light: Revolutions in Energy Services
- by Roger Fouquet
- reviewed by Vaclav Smil on December 30, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume Four: Economic Sectors
- by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
- reviewed by Lee J. Alston on June 26, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820-1920
- by William H. Thiesen
- reviewed by Richard Sicotte on November 3, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Military and War (O), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States
- by John Lauritz Larson
- reviewed by John Majewski on July 23, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Invisible Fuel: Manufactured and Natural Gas in America, 1800-2000
- by Christopher J. Castaneda
- reviewed by Andrew Jenkins on July 2, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers
- by Herbert H. Harwood Jr.
- reviewed by Fred H. Smith on August 5, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- 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)
- The Iron Horse and the Windy City: How Railroads Shaped Chicago
- by David M. Young
- reviewed by Louis P. Cain on September 26, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873
- by M. John Lubetkin
- reviewed by Ann Harper Fender on July 24, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- L'électricité en réseaux: Networks of Power
- by Thomas Hughes
- reviewed by John Neufeld on June 22, 2005
- 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: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- La Compañía de Tranvías de La Coruña, 1901-2005: Redes de transporte local
- by Alberte Martínez, Carlos Piñeiro and Carlos Velasco
- reviewed by Jesús Mirás-Araujo on December 22, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- 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)
- Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the South
- by William G. Thomas
- reviewed by William R. Childs on May 9, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman
- by Maury Klein
- reviewed by Albert J. Churella on August 29, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970-2002
- by Richard Saunders Jr.
- reviewed by William R. Childs on April 9, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Making Connections: The Long-distance Bus Industry in the USA
- by Margaret Walsh
- reviewed by John Singleton on February 16, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and His Business Network, 1823-1893
- by J. Forbes Munro
- reviewed by Nicholas J. White on October 16, 2003
- Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Mass Motorization and Mass Transit: An American History and Policy Analysis
- by David W. Jones
- reviewed by James A. Dunn Jr. on December 24, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Merging Lines: American Railroads, 1900-1970
- by Richard Saunders Jr.
- reviewed by William Huneke on February 20, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade, and the Railways, 1917-1924
- by Anthony Heywood
- reviewed by Oliver Hayward on September 15, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing
- by John Benson and Laura Ugolini (editors)
- reviewed by Nicholas Alexander on May 14, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad
- by Robert E. Mohowski
- reviewed by H. Roger Grant on November 12, 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), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- Oil and Development in Venezuela during the 20th Century
- by Jorge Salazar-Carrillo and Bernadette West
- reviewed by M. del Mar Rubio on November 18, 2004
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Opening the West: Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860
- by Laurence J. Malone
- reviewed by John Joseph Wallis on October 23, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Order against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913
- by William Summerhill
- reviewed by Albert Fishlow on August 3, 2005
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- Private and Public Enterprises in Europe: Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830-1990
- by Robert Millward
- reviewed by Pier Angelo Toninelli on February 20, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940
- by Andrew Wender Cohen
- reviewed by Louis P. Cain on July 25, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America
- by Robert G. Angevine
- reviewed by David Surdam on March 24, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Railroading Economics: The Creation of the Free Market Mythology
- by Michael Perelman
- reviewed by Richard Vedder on January 19, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History
- by Robert W. Fogel
- reviewed by Lance Davis on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat
- by John E. Clark Jr.
- reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams on May 26, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad
- by H. Roger Grant
- reviewed by Bill Beck on April 6, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Railways in Britain and the United States 1830-1940
- by Geoffrey Channon
- reviewed by Albert J. Churella on January 10, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry
- by Hugh S. Gorman
- reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on August 17, 2003
- 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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920
- by Steven W. Usselman
- reviewed by Jeff Schramm on September 14, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The Rexall Story: A History of Genius and Neglect
- by Mickey C. Smith
- reviewed by Marvin Fischbaum on September 11, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850
- by Kim M. Gruenwald
- reviewed by Diane Lindstrom on January 19, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes
- by John Franch
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on July 2, 2009
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism
- by Thomas R. Heinrich
- reviewed by John K. Brown on August 12, 1997
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The State, Regulation and the Economy: An Historical Perspective
- by Lars Magnusson and Jan Ottosson (editors)
- reviewed by Mark Kanazawa on July 3, 2002
- 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: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller
- by Steve Weinberg
- reviewed by Bryan C. McCannon on January 20, 2009
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century
- by William R. Childs
- reviewed by Gary Libecap on March 3, 2006
- 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), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Ties That Bind: Economic and Political Dilemmas of Urban Utility Networks, 1800-1990
- by Charles David Jacobson
- reviewed by Hugh Gorman on December 7, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
- by Ron Chernow
- reviewed by Christopher A. Baylor on July 11, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- To Wire the World: Perry M. Collins and the North Pacific Telegraph Expedition
- by John B. Dwyer
- reviewed by Tomas Nonnenmacher on January 14, 2002
- Geographic area: Asia (2), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Troubled Waters: Steamboats, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821-1860
- by Paul F. Paskoff
- reviewed by Michael Allen on August 4, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market
- by Sally H. Clarke
- reviewed by Avner Offer on April 29, 2009
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Universal Service: Competition, Interconnection and Monopoly in the Making of the American Telephone System
- by Milton L. Mueller
- reviewed by Jeff Kraft on February 12, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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