Book Reviews: By time period: 18th Century

Adam Smith and the Classics: The Classical Heritage in Adam Smith's Thought
by Gloria Vivenza
reviewed by Leonidas Montes on March 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Adam Smith in Context: A Critical Reassessment of Some Central Components of His Thought
by Leonidas Montes
reviewed by Peter McNamara on September 27, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life
by James R. Otteson
reviewed by Jeffrey T. Young on April 28, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective on Markets, Law, Ethics, and Culture
by Jerry Evensky
reviewed by Sasan Fayazmanesh on January 10, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology
by Duncan K. Foley
reviewed by A. M. C. Waterman on November 21, 2007
  • 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: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives
by E. Wayne Carp (editor)
reviewed by John Murray on June 8, 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: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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 Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy
by Murray Milgate and Shannon C. Stimson
reviewed by Donald E. Frey on January 6, 2010
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan
by Thomas C. Smith
reviewed by Osamu Saito on May 11, 2006
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), 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)
Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow
reviewed by Robert E. Wright on May 3, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873
by Jeremy Burchardt
reviewed by Bethanie Afton on August 7, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Amartya Sen: A Life Reexamined
by Suman Ghosh
reviewed by Ross B. Emmett on August 5, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
America's First Veterans and the Revolutionary War Pensions
by Emily J. Teipe
reviewed by Joanna Short on December 13, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
The American Economic History Reader: Documents and Readings
by John W. Malsberger and James N. Marshall (editors)
reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on December 31, 2008
  • 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: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The American State Constitutional Tradition
by John J. Dinan
reviewed by John J. Wallis on May 9, 2008
  • 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: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Markets and Institutions (W)
American Taxation, American Slavery
by Robin Einhorn
reviewed by Jenny Wahl on August 9, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Servitude and Slavery (N)
The American Way: A Geographical History of Crisis and Recovery
by Carville Earle
reviewed by Sukkoo Kim on September 12, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Geography (K)
America’s Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics
by Donald E. Frey
reviewed by Samuel Gregg on September 24, 2009
  • 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: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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 Artisans in Eighteenth-Century Eastern India: A History of Survival
by Vipul Singh
reviewed by Ian C. Wendt on April 16, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Asia-Pacific Dynamism, 1550-2000
by A.J.H. Latham and Heita Kawakatsu (editors)
reviewed by Peter Perdue on March 29, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • 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: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
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)
At the Origins of Mathematical Economics: The Economics of A. N. Isnard (1748-1803)
by Richard van den Berg (editor)
reviewed by Theodore M. Porter on June 5, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
The Atlantic Slave Trade
by Johannes Postma
reviewed by Rachel Chernos Lin on August 24, 2004
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), 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: Servitude and Slavery (N)
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)
Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada
by Béatrice Craig
reviewed by Marilyn Gerriets on January 7, 2010
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W)
Bankruptcy of Empire: Mexican Silver and the Wars between Spain, Britain and France, 1760-1810
by Carlos Marichal
reviewed by Aldo Musacchio on May 1, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)
Barclays: The Business of Banking, 1690-1996
by Margaret Ackrill and Leslie Hannah
reviewed by Peter Wardley on March 31, 2004
  • Geographic area: 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), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
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 Biographical Dictionary of British Economists
by Donald Rutherford (editor)
reviewed by Richard A. Kleer on April 27, 2005
  • Geographic area: 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: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
by Judith A. Carney
reviewed by Russell R. Menard on May 14, 2002
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Servitude and Slavery (N)
British Economic Growth, 1688-1959: Trends and Structure
by Phyllis Deane and W. A. Cole
reviewed by Knick Harley on September 18, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
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)
Burgundy to Champagne: The Wine Trade in Early Modern France
by Thomas Brennan
reviewed by Jean-Laurent Rosenthal on October 30, 1998
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe
by Richard Lachmann
reviewed by Eric Jones on January 2, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780-2005
by Youssef Cassis
reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk on October 22, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
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)
Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America
by Carl A. Zimring
reviewed by Scott A. Beaulier on April 29, 2008
  • 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: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Centuries of Child Labour: European Experiences from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
by Marjatta Rahikainen
reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on November 11, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740-1914
by Margot C. Finn
reviewed by Laura Ugolini on April 7, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Child Workers in England, 1780-1820: Parish Apprentices and the Making of the Early Industrial Labour Force
by Katrina Honeyman
reviewed by Pamela Sharpe on October 6, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America
by Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray (editors)
reviewed by Farley Grubb on December 29, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
Chinese Capitalism, 1522-1840
by Xu Dixin and Wu Chengming
reviewed by Kenneth Pomeranz on August 24, 2000
  • 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)
The Chouteaus: First Family of the Fur Trade
by Stan Hoig
reviewed by Ann Harper Fender on August 8, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
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 Classical Economists Revisited
by D. P. O'Brien
reviewed by Elisabeth Allgoewer on March 1, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Coerced and Free Migrations: Global Perspectives
by David Eltis (editor)
reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on December 31, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Collective Action under the Articles of Confederation
by Keith L. Dougherty
reviewed by Robert A. McGuire on April 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida
by Jane G. Landers (editor)
reviewed by Russell R. Menard on March 19, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
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)
The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba and the United States
by Laird W. Bergad
reviewed by David Eltis on May 8, 2009
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
A Concise History of Economic Thought: From Mercantilism to Monetarism
by Gianni Vaggi and Peter Groenewegen
reviewed by David Andrews on January 9, 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: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Conflict Potentials in Monetary Unions
by Lars Jonung and Jürgen Nautz (editors)
reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on April 30, 2007
  • 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: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire
by Peter N. Stearns
reviewed by Jasmine Aimaq on January 1, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Contract and Property in Early Modern China
by Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko and Robert Gardella (editors)
reviewed by Carol H. Shiue on September 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Corn and Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance
by Arturo Warman
reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on August 1, 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law and the Market Economy in Colonial New York
by Deborah A. Rosen
reviewed by Anne M. Boylan on April 7, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
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 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)
Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
by Virginia DeJohn Anderson
reviewed by Russell R. Menard on April 12, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660-1720
by Natasha Glaisyer
reviewed by David Hussey on July 5, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business
by Rowena Olegario
reviewed by Brandon Dupont on July 15, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920
by B. Zorina Khan
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on June 30, 2006
  • 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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920
by Andrew C. Isenberg
reviewed by Richard DePolt on June 4, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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 Monetary Economics: A Modern Perspective on Monetary Controversies
by D. P. O'Brien
reviewed by Robert W. Dimand on June 19, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
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)
Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain
by Keith Wrightson
reviewed by David Stead on March 30, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
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)
The Economic Future in Historical Perspective
by Paul A. David and Mark P. Thomas (editors)
reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on June 25, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • 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), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire
by Gwyn Campbell
reviewed by Nigel Worden on December 23, 2005
  • Geographic area: Africa (1)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment
by Emma Rothschild
reviewed by Glenn Hueckel on September 16, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Long-term Economic Growth
by Richard G. Lipsey, Kenneth I. Carlaw and Clifford T. Bekar
reviewed by Joel Mokyr on August 28, 2006
  • 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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
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)
Economics in Russia: Studies in Intellectual History
by Vincent Barnett and Joachim Zweynert (editors)
reviewed by Warren J. Samuels on May 22, 2009
  • Geographic area: 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: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750
by Jan de Vries
reviewed by George Grantham on October 3, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England
by Craig Muldrew
reviewed by Anne E. C. McCants on August 2, 1999
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Elites, Minorities, and Economic Growth
by Elise S. Brezis and Peter Temin (editors)
reviewed by Rick Szostak on May 28, 2001
  • 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: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1859
by Akira Hayami, Osamu Saito and Ronald P. Toby (editors)
reviewed by Carl Mosk on October 22, 2004
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W)
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 English Poor Laws, 1700-1930
by Anthony Brundage
reviewed by Steve King on March 21, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Enterprising Slaves and Master Pirates: Understanding Economic Life in the Bahamas
by Virgil Henry Storr
reviewed by Jenny B. Wahl on July 11, 2005
  • 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: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Envy of the World: A History of the U.S. Economy and Big Business
by Timothy J. Botti
reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on February 7, 2007
  • 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: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World
by Robert William Fogel
reviewed by Cormac Ó Gráda on October 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
Essays on the History of Economics
by Warren J. Samuels, Willie Henderson, Kirk D. Johnson and Marianne Johnson (editors)
reviewed by Maria Pia Paganelli on January 18, 2006
  • 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: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Estates, Enterprise and Investment at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution: Estate Management and Accounting in the North-East of England, c.1700-1780
by David Oldroyd
reviewed by James Jaffe on April 2, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
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)
European Economic History: From Mercantilism to Maastricht and Beyond
by Ejvind Damsgaard Hansen
reviewed by Jaime Reis on September 26, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • 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)
The European Macroeconomy: Growth, Integration and Cycles 1500-1913
by Lee A. Craig and Douglas Fisher
reviewed by Stephen N. Broadberry on October 31, 2000
  • 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), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
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)
Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and Its European Rivals, 1688-1815
by Leandro Prados de la Escosura (editor)
reviewed by Gregory Clark on October 7, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
by Daniel K. Richter
reviewed by Peter C. Mancall on October 6, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias
by Peter M. Garber
reviewed by Charles P. Kindleberger on August 15, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
Farm Production in England 1700-1914
by M. E. Turner, J. V. Beckett and B. Afton
reviewed by Nicola Verdon on August 19, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780-1860
by Martin Bruegel
reviewed by Laurence J. Malone on October 17, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Female Labour Power: Women Workers' Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780-1860
by Janet Greenlees
reviewed by Pamela J. Nickless on June 28, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s
by Lillian M. Li
reviewed by Pierre-Étienne Will on May 7, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
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)
Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development
by Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (editors)
reviewed by Timothy W. Guinnane on September 8, 2004
  • 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), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Labor and Employment History (T)
Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich
by Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen
reviewed by Gerald Gunderson on July 28, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
A Financial History of the United States
by Jerry W. Markham
reviewed by Robert E. Wright on June 6, 2002
  • 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: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
The First Crash: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble
by Richard Dale
reviewed by Larry Neal on March 4, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The First Industrial Region: North-West England, c. 1700-60
by Jon Stobart
reviewed by Steve King on October 26, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The First Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the Birth of American Finance
by Robert E. Wright
reviewed by Peter L. Rousseau on September 26, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933
by Margaret Beattie Bogue
reviewed by Jerome K. Laurent on July 12, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
by Woody Holton
reviewed by Robert E. Wright on February 15, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution
by John Bezis-Selfa
reviewed by Michael V. Kennedy on May 25, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism
by Robert William Fogel
reviewed by John Murray on April 9, 2003
  • 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: Economic Planning and Policy (e), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers
by Allan Kulikoff
reviewed by Winifred B. Rothenberg on September 7, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
From Liberty to Democracy: The Transformation of American Government
by Randall G. Holcombe
reviewed by John Dinan on May 21, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
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)
Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain
by Joyce Burnette
reviewed by Timothy J. Hatton on December 18, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
by Mary Poovey
reviewed by David Mitch on January 19, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
by Joel Mokyr
reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on January 24, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • 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 Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
by Joel Mokyr
reviewed by William F. Shughart II on March 15, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
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)
God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860
by Mark A. Noll (editor)
reviewed by Donald E. Frey on January 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Governance, Growth and Global Leadership: The Role of the State in Technological Progress, 1750-2000
by Espen Moe
reviewed by Peter T. Leeson on July 25, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Government and the American Economy: A New History
by Price Fishback et al (editor)
reviewed by Gavin Wright on October 19, 2007
  • 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-1900: Integration and Deregulation
by Karl Gunnar Persson
reviewed by Jean-Laurent Rosenthal on May 14, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord
by Brian Donahue
reviewed by Winifred Barr Rothenberg on December 23, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K)
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
by Karl Polanyi
reviewed by Anne Mayhew on June 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Markets and Institutions (W)
Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2: Further Evidence
by Peter H. Lindert
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on June 18, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume I: The Story
by Peter H. Lindert
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on April 28, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400-1800
by S. R. Epstein and Maarten Prak (editors)
reviewed by Christine MacLeod on December 17, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
Hamilton Unbound: Finance and the Creation of the American Republic
by Robert E. Wright
reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on August 19, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914
by Christine MacLeod
reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on January 24, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
HISCO: Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations
by Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas and Andrew Miles
reviewed by Hamish James on August 30, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Labor and Employment History (T)
Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor
by Robert E. Weir and James P. Hanlan (editors)
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on December 2, 2004
  • 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: Labor and Employment History (T)
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)
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)
Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume One: Population
by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
reviewed by Trevon D. Logan on July 17, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume Three: Economic Structure and Performance
by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
reviewed by Joseph H. Davis on July 23, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition
by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
reviewed by Samuel H. Williamson on October 25, 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: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
History Matters: Essays on Economic Growth, Technology, and Demographic Change
by Timothy Guinnane, William Sundstrom and Warren Whatley (editors)
reviewed by Lance Davis on April 12, 2004
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States
by John H. Wood
reviewed by Angela Redish on December 21, 2005
  • 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: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
A History of Household Government in America
by Carole Shammas
reviewed by Gloria L. Main on March 26, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
A History of Macroeconomic Policy in the United States
by John H. Wood
reviewed by David C. Wheelock on June 29, 2009
  • 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: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States
by Robert L. Clark, Lee A. Craig and Jack W. Wilson
reviewed by Price Fishback on October 10, 2003
  • 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), Labor and Employment History (T)
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)
How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Commodity Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States
by John J. McCusker
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on February 6, 2002
  • 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: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
Human Capital and Institutions: A Long Run View
by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (editors)
reviewed by David Mitch on February 12, 2010
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), 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), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Idea of Capitalism before the Industrial Revolution
by Richard Grassby
reviewed by Richard F. Teichgraeber on June 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning
by Regina Lee Blaszczyk
reviewed by Lendol G. Calder on August 13, 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: Business History (B), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Immigration and American Unionism
by Vernon M. Briggs Jr.
reviewed by Joseph D. Reid Jr. on December 3, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Labor and Employment History (T)
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)
In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism
by James Hudnut-Beumler
reviewed by Donald E. Frey on June 22, 2007
  • 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: Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717
by Alan Gallay
reviewed by Peter C. Mancall on April 4, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N)
The Industrial Revolution: Milestones in Business History
by Jeff Horn
reviewed by Joyce Burnette on January 21, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship and Business Organization, 1720-1844
by Ron Harris
reviewed by Rande W. Kostal on June 13, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship and Business Organization, 1720-1844
by Ron Harris
reviewed by Timothy Alborn on June 14, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present
by Jan de Vries
reviewed by Hans-Joachim Voth on May 27, 2009
  • 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), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850
by Robin Pearson
reviewed by Mark Tebeau on February 3, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
by Angela Lakwete
reviewed by William H. Phillips on April 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation
by Michael Perelman
reviewed by Gregory Clark on March 7, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Labor and Employment History (T)
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)
Is Geography Destiny? Lessons from Latin America
by John Luke Gallup, Alejandro Gaviria and Eduardo Lora
reviewed by Patrice Franko on January 13, 2005
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K)
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)
Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800): London’s Leading Scientific Instrument Maker
by Anita McConnell
reviewed by Christine MacLeod on August 7, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
John Hull, the Mint and the Economics of Massachusetts Coinage
by Louis Jordan
reviewed by Ron Michener on February 4, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire
by Axel Madsen
reviewed by Ann Harper Fender on August 10, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
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)
Kinship and Capitalism: Marriage, Family, and Business in the English-Speaking World, 1580-1740
by Richard Grassby
reviewed by Stephen Caunce on June 4, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715-1919
by Karin L. Zipf
reviewed by T. Stephen Whitman on September 30, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Laces of Ipswich: The Art and Economics of an Early American Industry, 1750-1840
by Marta Cotterell Raffel
reviewed by Marla R. Miller on July 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Land, Power, and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada
by John Clarke
reviewed by Douglas McCalla on April 19, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K)
Landscape with Figures: A History of Art Dealing in the United States
by Malcolm Goldstein
reviewed by David W. Galenson on February 27, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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 Living Wage: Lessons from the History of Economic Thought
by Donald R. Stabile
reviewed by Art Carden on July 16, 2009
  • 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: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Labor and Employment History (T)
The London Stock Exchange: A History
by Ranald C. Michie
reviewed by Larry Neal on August 10, 2000
  • Geographic area: 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: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
L’économie morale, pauvreté, crédit et confiance dans l’Europe préindustrielle
by Laurence Fontaine
reviewed by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur on January 12, 2009
  • 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), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Macroeconomics in Retrospect: The Selected Essays of David Laidler
by David Laidler
reviewed by John H. Wood on February 10, 2005
  • 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), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000
by James C. McCann
reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on October 4, 2005
  • Geographic area: Africa (1)
  • 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)
Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Master Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850
by Donna J. Rilling
reviewed by James B. McSwain on July 17, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution
by A. D. Morrison-Low
reviewed by Christine MacLeod on December 27, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution
by Steven King and Geoffrey Timmins
reviewed by Katrina Honeyman on September 21, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry
by Lawrence A. Peskin
reviewed by David R. Meyer on July 7, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860
by Judith A. Miller
reviewed by Jonathan J. Liebowitz on January 13, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation
by Seymour Drescher
reviewed by David M. Levy on November 6, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Servitude and Slavery (N)
The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought
by Jerry Z. Muller
reviewed by Bruce Caldwell on April 26, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 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)
Modern Economic Growth: Rate, Structure and Spread
by Simon Kuznets
reviewed by Richard A. Easterlin on October 29, 2001
  • 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)
The Monetary History of Gold: A Documentary History, 1660-1999
by Mark Duckenfield
reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on December 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 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)
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)
The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War over the American Dollar
by H.W. Brands
reviewed by David J. Cowen on October 3, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Money, Trade, and Power: The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society
by Jack P. Greene, Rosemary Brana-Shute and Randy J. Sparks (editors)
reviewed by David Ryden on April 2, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N)
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)
Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia
by Peter Boomgaard, David Henley and Manon Osseweijer (editors)
reviewed by S. Nawiyanto on August 18, 2006
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
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)
The Natural Origins of Economics
by Margaret Schabas
reviewed by Laurence S. Moss on September 1, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution
by Marla R. Miller
reviewed by Gloria L. Main on May 11, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
New Voices on Adam Smith
by Leonidas Montes and Eric Schliesser (editors)
reviewed by Jeffrey T. Young on March 6, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
New World Economies: The Growth of the Thirteen Colonies and Early Canada
by Marc Egnal
reviewed by Allan Kulikoff on August 6, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity
by David W. Galenson
reviewed by Robert B. Ekelund Jr. on May 19, 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: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion
by Samuel Fleischacker
reviewed by Spencer J. Pack on July 27, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
On Classical Economics
by Thomas Sowell
reviewed by John Berdell on February 2, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
One Nation under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe
by Robert E. Wright
reviewed by Donald R. Stabile on July 7, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Origins and Economic Impact of the First Bank of the United States, 1791-1797
by David J. Cowen
reviewed by Edwin J. Perkins on May 22, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Origins and Growth of the Global Economy: From the Fifteenth Century Onward
by Ronald E. Seavoy
reviewed by Laura Cruz on November 25, 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
The Origins of Commercial Banking in America, 1750-1800
by Robert E. Wright
reviewed by Edwin J. Perkins on November 12, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Origins of the Modern Career
by David Mitch, John Brown and Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
reviewed by Thomas N. Maloney on April 13, 2005
  • 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: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Oxford History of Indian Business
by Dwijendra Tripathi
reviewed by Geoffrey Jones on September 9, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France: Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805
by Leonard N. Rosenband
reviewed by Michael Huberman on July 19, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization and in the Age of Revolution
by Jeff Horn
reviewed by Noel D. Johnson on May 16, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Pattern and Repertoire in History
by Bertrand M. Roehner and Tony Syme
reviewed by John Nye on January 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: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Labor and Employment History (T)
The Peasants of Languedoc
by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
reviewed by Anne E.C. McCants on December 12, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England
by Gloria L. Main
reviewed by Daniel Scott Smith on December 10, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860
by Tom Downey
reviewed by Lawrence A. Peskin on January 25, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Political Economy and Statesmanship: Smith, Hamilton, and the Foundation of the Commercial Republic
by Peter McNamara
reviewed by Richard Sylla on May 14, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Political Economy of Public Finance in Britain, 1767-1873
by Takuo Dome
reviewed by Anthony Brewer on October 21, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Political Economy of Virtue: Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution
by John Shovlin
reviewed by Jonathan Liebowitz on April 10, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Politics and Banking: Ideas, Public Policy, and the Creation of Financial Institutions
by Susan Hoffmann
reviewed by Michael R. McAvoy on June 3, 2003
  • 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: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
Poor Relief and Welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I
by Larry Frohman
reviewed by John E. Murray on April 16, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Population and Disease: Transforming English Society, 1550-1850
by Peter Razzell
reviewed by Andrew Hinde on July 9, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Poverty and Welfare in England, 1700-1850: A Regional Perspective
by Steven King
reviewed by Stephen Ziliak on October 24, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Military and War (O), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
Poverty from the Wealth of Nations: Integration and Polarization in the Global Economy since 1760
by M. Shahid Alam
reviewed by Pierre van der Eng on January 14, 2003
  • 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)
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)
Priceless Markets: The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660-1870
by Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
reviewed by Stephen Quinn on June 11, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Pricing Theory, Financing of International Organisations and Monetary History
by Lawrence H. Officer
reviewed by Richard Sylla on November 27, 2007
  • 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)
Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782
by Ronald Hoffman
reviewed by Evan Haefeli on January 19, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Production and Consumption in English Households, 1600-1750
by Mark Overton, Jane Whittle, Darron Dean and Andrew Hann
reviewed by Carole Shammas on April 1, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
Prosperity and Plunder: European Catholic Monasteries in the Age of Revolution, 1650-1815
by Derek Beales
reviewed by Lars M. Boerner on October 4, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain, 1688-1789
by David Stasavage
reviewed by Stephen Quinn on June 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin
by Pamela Walker Laird
reviewed by Laura J. Owen on July 18, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T)
Quarter Notes and Bank Notes: The Economics of Music Composition the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
by F. M. Scherer
reviewed by François R. Velde on January 27, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence
by Bruce H. Mann
reviewed by David T. Flynn on February 23, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Republicanism and the French Revolution: An Intellectual History of Jean-Baptiste Say's Political Economy
by Richard Whatmore
reviewed by William Baumol on May 25, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State
by Max M. Edling
reviewed by Robert A. McGuire on May 25, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Ricardo's Macroeconomics: Money, Trade Cycles, and Growth
by Timothy Davis
reviewed by James C.W. Ahiakpor on September 22, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors: The Transformation of Rural Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1720-1850
by Thomas S. Wermuth
reviewed by Donald Parkerson on January 30, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Rise and Decline of Dutch Technological Leadership: Technology, Economy, and Culture in the Netherlands, 1350–1800
by Karel Davids
reviewed by William TeBrake on March 5, 2009
  • 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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
by David Eltis
reviewed by Jan Hogendorn on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
The Rise of Capitalism on the Pampas: The Estancias of Buenos Aires, 1785-1870
by Samuel Amaral
reviewed by Edward Beatty on June 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
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 English Town 1650-1850
by Christopher Chalklin
reviewed by Jon Stobart on October 22, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Urban and Regional History (Z)
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)
The Roots of American Industrialization
by David R. Meyer
reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on November 13, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Rum and Axes: The Rise of a Connecticut Merchant Family, 1795-1850
by Janet Siskind
reviewed by Barry Levy on August 9, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present
by Martin V. Melosi
reviewed by James B. McSwain on May 16, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Geography (K), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History, 1750-1960
by Mary Jo Maynes, Birgitte Soland and Christina Benninghaus
reviewed by Joyce Burnette on May 24, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 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)
Secular Cycles
by Peter Turchin and Sergey A. Nefedov
reviewed by Harry Kitsikopoulos on December 30, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
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)
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)
Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle
by Leonard L. Richards
reviewed by Robert A. McGuire on October 14, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas
by Sally E. Hadden
reviewed by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel on July 22, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery
by Don E. Fehrenbacher and Ward M. McAfee
reviewed by Donald F. Schaefer on April 9, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Slavery and American Economic Development
by Gavin Wright
reviewed by Jeremy Atack on May 18, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T)
Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paolo, 1750-1850
by Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein
reviewed by James Oakes on May 3, 2006
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Servitude and Slavery (N)
The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective
by Robert William Fogel
reviewed by Leonard Carlson on February 6, 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: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Slavery in the Development of the Americas
by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (editors)
reviewed by Gavin Wright on June 24, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Africa (1), 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Servitude and Slavery (N)
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)
The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700-1948
by Lynn Hollen Lees
reviewed by George R. Boyer on May 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development
by David L. Carlton and Peter A. Coclanis
reviewed by William H. Phillips on November 4, 2003
  • 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 Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
State Banking in Early America: A New Economic History
by Howard Bodenhorn
reviewed by Peter L. Rousseau on November 28, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862
by Christopher Mills Isett
reviewed by Peer Vries on August 10, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 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), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Status of Women in Classical Economic Thought
by Robert Dimand and Chris Nyland (editors)
reviewed by Ingrid H. Rima on August 7, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Street of Dreams, Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century
by Howard M. Wachtel
reviewed by Edwin Perkins on August 22, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Strictures of Inheritance: The Dutch Economy in the Nineteenth Century
by Jan Luiten van Zanden and Arthur van Riel
reviewed by Stephen Broadberry on October 1, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 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)
Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Innovation in the United States, 1790-1865
by Ross Thomson
reviewed by Lisa D. Cook on February 9, 2010
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775-1810
by Selwyn H. H. Carrington
reviewed by David Richardson on September 3, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Financial Markets
by Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on July 30, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
T.R. Malthus: The Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University
by J. M. Pullen and Trevor Hughes Parry (editors)
reviewed by Samuel Hollander on March 10, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Taxation in Colonial America
by Alvin Rabushka
reviewed by Roger Hewett on August 27, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Theories of Financial Disturbance: An Examination of Critical Theories of Finance from Adam Smith to the Present Day
by Jan Toporowski
reviewed by Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr. on November 18, 2005
  • 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: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Time and Work in England 1750-1830
by Hans-Joachim Voth
reviewed by Jane Humphries on February 4, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
To Form a More Perfect Union: A New Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution
by Robert A. McGuire
reviewed by Keith T. Poole on January 12, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
To Provide for the General Welfare: A History of the Federal Spending Power
by Theodore Sky
reviewed by Michael R. Adamson on January 14, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America
by Marianne S. Wokeck
reviewed by Simone A. Wegge on October 8, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power
by Doron S. Ben-Atar
reviewed by David Jeremy on October 15, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM
by David Eltis, Stephen D. Behrendt, David Richardson and Herbert S. Klein
reviewed by Lorena S. Walsh on October 18, 2000
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Transferring Wealth and Power from the Old to the New World: Monetary and Fiscal Institutions in the 17th through the 19th Centuries
by Michael D. Bordo and Roberto Cortes-Conde (editors)
reviewed by Benjamin Chabot on May 27, 2003
  • Geographic area: 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: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860
by Morton J. Horwitz
reviewed by Winifred B. Rothenberg on April 12, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Transformation of Scotland: The Economy since 1700
by T.M. Devine, C.H. Lee and G.C. Peden (editors)
reviewed by Christopher A Whatley on August 5, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 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)
The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present
by David S. Landes
reviewed by Paul M. Hohenberg on April 1, 2000
  • 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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The United States National Debt, 1787-1900
by Robert E. Wright (editor)
reviewed by Franklin Noll on March 22, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The "Vanity of the Philosopher": From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics
by Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy
reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond on October 2, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
reviewed by David S. Landes on February 12, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
War and Taxes
by Steven A. Bank, Kirk J. Stark and Joseph J. Thorndike
reviewed by W. Elliot Brownlee on May 14, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)
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)
The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania
by Adrienne D. Hood
reviewed by Kris Inwood on July 1, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
West Indian Slavery and British Abolition, 1783-1807
by David Beck Ryden
reviewed by James Walvin on January 20, 2010
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
Women in Business, 1700-1850
by Nicola Phillips
reviewed by Margaret Walsh on September 22, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850
by Ivy Pinchbeck
reviewed by Joyce Burnette on February 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Women's Work? American Schoolteachers, 1650-1920
by Joel Perlmann and Robert A. Margo
reviewed by Susan B. Carter on July 1, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Women, Work, and Wages in England, 1600-1850
by Penelope Lane, Neil Raven and K. D. M. Snell (editors)
reviewed by Joyce Burnette on March 2, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Labor and Employment History (T)