Book Reviews: By time period: Medieval
- An Age of Transition? Economy and Society in the Later Middle Ages
- by Christopher Dyer
- reviewed by Joseph P. Huffman on December 13, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Agricultural Development in Jiangnan, 1620-1850
- by Li Bozhong
- reviewed by Kenneth Pomeranz on July 7, 2003
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- 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 Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere
- by Richard H. Steckel and Jerome C. Rose (editors)
- reviewed by William J. Collins on May 13, 2003
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0), Prehistoric (1), Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
- by Richard W. Unger
- reviewed by Erik Aerts on January 11, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- 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)
- The Big Problem of Small Change
- by Thomas J. Sargent and Francois R. Velde
- reviewed by Anna J. Schwartz on July 15, 2002
- 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)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study
- by Stuart J. Borsch
- reviewed by John Munro on March 13, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Britain and Ireland, 1050-1530: Economy and Society
- by Richard Britnell
- reviewed by John Langdon on December 8, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Bruges: Cradle of Capitalism, 1280-1390
- by James M. Murray
- reviewed by Erin Jordan on April 5, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Carolingian Economy
- by Adriaan E. Verhulst
- reviewed by Paolo Squatriti on May 20, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Civil Happiness: Economics and Human Flourishing in Historical Perspective
- by Luigino Bruni
- reviewed by Edd Noell on March 7, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century
- by Fernand Braudel
- reviewed by Alan Heston on August 1, 2000
- Geographic area: Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
- by Timothy Brook
- reviewed by Richard Lufrano on August 26, 1998
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries: Work, Power, and Representation
- by Maarten Prak, Catharina Lis, Jan Lucassen and Hugo Soly (editors)
- reviewed by Gary Richardson on October 24, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478-1776: From Commercial Arithmetic to Life Annuities and Joint Stocks
- by Geoffrey Poitras
- reviewed by Salim Rashid on February 25, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany
- by Paul Warde
- reviewed by Oliver Volckart on May 22, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Économie rurale et société dans l'Europe franque (VI-IX siècles)
- by Jean-Pierre Devroey
- reviewed by George Grantham on July 4, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- 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)
- European Aristocracies and Colonial Elites: Patrimonial Management Strategies and Economic Development, 15th-18th Centuries
- by Paul Janssens and Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla (editors)
- reviewed by Carlos Álvarez-Nogal on March 20, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Freedom and Growth: The Rise of States and Markets in Europe, 1300-1750
- by S. R. Epstein
- reviewed by Karl Gunnar Persson on February 15, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- A History of the European Economy, 1000-2000
- by François Crouzet
- reviewed by Jonathan J. Liebowitz on May 9, 2002
- 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: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- 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)
- 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)
- Learning on the Shop Floor: Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeship
- by Bert De Munck, Steven L. Kaplan and Hugo Soly (editors)
- reviewed by Paul Ryan on September 20, 2008
- Geographic area: Asia (2), 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: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy
- by Richard K. Marshall
- reviewed by Russell Ives Court on November 22, 1999
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain, 850-1520
- by Christopher Dyer
- reviewed by James Masschaele on September 9, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- The Marketplace of Christianity
- by Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Robert F. Hébert and Robert D. Tollison
- reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond on March 29, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Medieval Economic Thought
- by Diana Wood
- reviewed by Lawrin Armstrong on August 27, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Filling the Great Gap in European Economics
- by S.M. Ghazanfar (editor)
- reviewed by M. Umer Chapra on October 26, 2004
- Geographic area: Middle East (6)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- 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)
- Mills in the Medieval Economy: England, 1300-1540
- by John Langdon
- reviewed by Karine van der Beek on January 8, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
- Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Modelling the Middle Ages: The History and Theory of England's Economic Development
- by John Hatcher and Mark Bailey
- reviewed by Gary Richardson on March 17, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire
- by Sevket Pamuk
- reviewed by John Munro on November 1, 2002
- Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire
- by Sevket Pamuk
- reviewed by John Munro on November 21, 2002
- Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- 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)
- Muslim Civilization: The Causes of Decline and the Need for Reform
- by M. Umer Chapra
- reviewed by Jared Rubin on June 16, 2008
- Geographic area: Asia (2), Middle East (6)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0), Medieval (3)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (l), Military and War (O), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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 Peasants of Languedoc
- by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
- reviewed by Anne E.C. McCants on December 12, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Peasants, Merchants, and Markets: Inland Trade in Medieval England, 1150-1350
- by James Masschaele
- reviewed by Gregory Clark on April 1, 1998
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, c. 1350-1650
- by Carla M. Sinopoli
- reviewed by Prasannan Parthasarathi on October 27, 2005
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- 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)
- Production Efficiency in Domesday England, 1086
- by John McDonald
- reviewed by Maristella Botticini on March 15, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China
- by Kai-wing Chow
- reviewed by Nathan Sivin on October 29, 2004
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Puissants et misérables: Système social et monde paysan dans l'Europe des Francs (VI-IX siècles)
- by Jean-Pierre Devroey
- reviewed by George Grantham on July 4, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History
- by Douglass C. North and Robert Paul Thomas
- reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on December 21, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Self-Interest before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science
- by Pierre Force
- reviewed by Gloria Vivenza on September 20, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0), Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Taxation Under the Early Tudors, 1485-1547
- by Roger Schofield
- reviewed by John Munro on June 15, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680
- by Stuart B. Schwartz (editor)
- reviewed by David Eltis on December 31, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Usury, Interest and the Reformation
- by Eric Kerridge
- reviewed by Norman Jones on December 29, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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