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1896: The Presidential Campaign: Cartoons and Commentary
by Rebecca Edwards and Sarah DeFeo
reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on February 13, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime Policy
by Andrew Gibson and Arthur Donovan
reviewed by Gordon Boyce on September 11, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Abolition of Antitrust
by Gary Hull (editor)
reviewed by John Howard Brown on October 17, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law
by John Witt
reviewed by Mark Aldrich on June 11, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation
by Margaret Levenstein
reviewed by Paul Miranti on September 28, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Accounts of the British Empire: Capital Flows from 1799 to 1914
by Mario Tiberi
reviewed by Elise S. Brezis on September 6, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Across the Borders: Financing the World's Railways in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
by Ralf Roth and Gunter Dinhobl (editors)
reviewed by Dan Bogart on September 22, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
Advances in Agricultural Economic History, Vol.1, New Frontiers in Agricultural History
by Kyle D. Kauffman (editor)
reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing
by Pamela Walker Laird
reviewed by Jonathan Silva on December 3, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Advertising to the American Woman, 1900-1999
by Daniel Delis Hill
reviewed by Bryan Wuthrich on August 8, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Advocate for American Enterprise: William Buck Dana and the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 1865-1910
by Douglas Steeples
reviewed by John Paul Rossi on September 16, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Advocate for American Enterprise: William Buck Dana and the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 1865-1910
by Douglas Steeples
reviewed by Edwin J. Perkins on August 18, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
An Affluent Society? Britain's Postwar Golden Age Revisited
by Lawrence Black and Hugh Pemberton (editors)
reviewed by Mark Clapson on April 6, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
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 Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation
by Charles T. Clotfelter
reviewed by Martha J. Bailey on October 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)
After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona: Decline in Western Resource Towns
by Eric L. Clements
reviewed by Brooks A. Kaiser on June 11, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
After the Galleons: Foreign Trade, Economic Change and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines
by Benito J. Legarda
reviewed by Arturo Giraldez on November 2, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Against the Tide
by Douglas Irwin
reviewed by J. Bradford De Long on January 6, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Impact
by Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson
reviewed by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on September 8, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
An Age of Transition? Economy and Society in the Later Middle Ages
by Christopher Dyer
reviewed by Joseph P. Huffman on December 13, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
by Alan Greenspan
reviewed by Alexander J. Field on December 3, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour and Aristocratic Dominance
by Jairus Banaji
reviewed by George Grantham on May 12, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume VII, 1850-1914
by E. J.T. Collins (editor)
reviewed by Joyce Burnette on July 24, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
An Agrarian History of South Asia
by David Ludden
reviewed by Marcia J. Frost on June 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
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)
Airline Executives and Federal Regulation: Case Studies in American Enterprise from the Airmail Era to the Dawn of the Jet Age
by David W. Lewis
reviewed by Scott E. Tarry on October 26, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry
by F. Robert van der Linden
reviewed by Karen Dunn-Haley on May 28, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Alanson B. Houghton: Ambassador of the New Era
by Jeffrey J. Matthews
reviewed by Thomas D. Westerman on June 14, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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)
The Allure of the Foreign: Imported Goods in Postcolonial Latin America
by Benjamin Orlove
reviewed by Anne E. C. McCants on February 5, 1998
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity
by Alexander J. Field
reviewed by Rick Szostak on June 13, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
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 Communal Utopias
by Donald E. Pitzer
reviewed by John E. Murray on February 3, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980
by Jon Lauck
reviewed by Saker Woeste on July 5, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980
by Jon Lauck
reviewed by Bruce Gardner on June 12, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost
by Bruce L. Gardner
reviewed by Julian M. Alston on June 27, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
American Business Leaders
by Neil A. Hamilton
reviewed by K. Austin Kerr on July 14, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
American Business, 1920-2000: How It Worked
by Thomas K. McCraw
reviewed by Larry Schweikart on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
American Capitalism, 1945-2000: Continuity and Change from Mass Production to the Information Society
by Wyatt Wells
reviewed by Richard Vedder on December 2, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century
by Nelson Lichtenstein (editor)
reviewed by J. David Hoeveler on August 30, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
American Commercial Banks in Corporate Finance, 1929-1941: A Study in Banking Concentration
by Tian Kang Go
reviewed by Paul B. Trescott on April 25, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
American Economic Development since 1945: Growth, Decline and Rejuvenation
by Samuel Rosenberg
reviewed by Louis P. Cain on April 11, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
American Economic Development Since 1945: Growth, Decline and Rejuvenation
by Samuel Rosenberg
reviewed by Gene Smiley on October 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
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)
American Economic Policy in the 1990s
by Jeffrey A. Frankel and Peter R. Orszag (editors)
reviewed by William F. Shughart II on August 16, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States
by Jonathan A. Glickstein
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on December 20, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
American Foundations: An Investigative History
by Mark Dowie
reviewed by Donald E. Frey on July 23, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Income and Wealth (Q), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante-bellum Economy
by Albert Fishlow
reviewed by John Majewski on September 25, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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 Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean 1898-1934
by César Ayala
reviewed by Alan Dye on September 3, 2000
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
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)
American Trade Policy, 1923-1995
by Edward S. Kaplan
reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on March 20, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
American Treasure and the Price Revolution in Spain, 1501-1650
by Earl J. Hamilton
reviewed by John Munro on January 15, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
American Vanguard: The United Autoworkers during the Reuther Years, 1935-1970
by John Barnard
reviewed by Daniel Jacoby on August 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
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)
American Work Values: Their Origin and Development
by Paul Bernstein
reviewed by Donald Frey on February 10, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Americanization of the European Economy: A Compact Survey of American Economic Influence in Europe since the 1880s
by Harm G. Schröter
reviewed by Graham Brownlow on January 27, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
The Ancient Economy
by Walter Scheidel and Sitta von Reden (editors)
reviewed by Morris Silver on January 3, 2003
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models
by Joseph G. Manning and Ian Morris (editors)
reviewed by Astrid Moeller on December 28, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
And a Time for Hope: Americans in the Great Depression
by James R. McGovern
reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on February 1, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society, 1920 to the 1990s
by Elliott Barkan
reviewed by Masao Suzuki on August 6, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Anglo-American Shipbuilding in World War II: A Geographical Perspective
by Michael Lindberg and Daniel Todd
reviewed by Christopher Tassava on November 7, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Geography (K), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865
by Charles W. McCurdy
reviewed by John Joseph Wallis on September 4, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930-2004
by Tony A. Freyer
reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on October 10, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Antitrust Religion
by Edwin S. Rockefeller
reviewed by Claire Hammond on September 21, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution on the Road to War
by Jonathan Kirshner
reviewed by Richard C.K. Burdekin on April 27, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O)
The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century
by Rene J. Barendse
reviewed by Alan Heston on February 26, 2003
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Arms, Economics and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs
by G. C. Peden
reviewed by Mark Harrison on September 23, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Military and War (O)
Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940-1945
by Paul A.C. Koistinen
reviewed by Christopher Tassava on January 7, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Art, luxe et industrie: Bianchini Férier, un siècle de soieries lyonnaises
by Pierre Vernus
reviewed by George J. Sheridan Jr. on February 23, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
by Carol Sheriff
reviewed by Jerome K. Laurent on July 14, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820-1865
by L. Diane Barnes
reviewed by Jennifer R. Green on March 6, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
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)
Asbestos and Fire: Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk
by Rachel Maines
reviewed by Mark Aldrich on August 31, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by Niall Ferguson
reviewed by Niv Horesh on July 31, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
The Asian Economies in the Twentieth Century
by Angus Maddison, D.S. Prasada Rao and W.F. Shepherd (editors)
reviewed by Kelly Olds on May 28, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Asian Merchants and Businessmen in the Indian Ocean and the China Sea
by Denys Lombard and Jean Aubin
reviewed by Arturo Giraldez on November 7, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Aspects of Independent Romania’s Economic History with Particular Reference to Transition for EU Accession
by David Turnock
reviewed by Laura Haar on September 1, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), 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)
Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century
by April Lee Hatfield
reviewed by Lorena S. Walsh on September 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Augustin Cournot: Modelling Economics
by Jean-Philippe Touffut
reviewed by Martin Shubik on October 10, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption 1939-1955
by Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
reviewed by John Singleton on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
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Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971
by Dimitry Anastakis
reviewed by Thomas W. Zeiler on March 17, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The 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)
Baetica Felix: People and Prosperity in Southern Spain from Caesar to Septimius Severus
by Evan W. Haley
reviewed by George Grantham on July 27, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915
by John Brown
reviewed by Albert J. Churella on April 23, 1996
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Banana: Empires, Trade Wars, and Globalization
by James Wiley
reviewed by Marcelo Bucheli on October 2, 2008
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000
by Marcelo Bucheli
reviewed by Alan Dye on August 20, 2008
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Bank for International Settlements: Evolution and Evaluation
by James C. Baker
reviewed by A.M. Endres on July 11, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Bank of the United States and the American Economy
by Edward S. Kaplan
reviewed by Clair E. Morris on September 20, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Banking and Business in the Roman World
by Jean Andreau
reviewed by David Tandy on January 29, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Banking and Economic Development: Brazil, 1889-1930
by Gail D. Triner
reviewed by Aldo Musacchio on July 16, 2001
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897-1937
by Linsun Cheng
reviewed by Man Bun Kwan on December 16, 2003
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Banking on Alaska: The Story of the National Bank of Alaska
by Terrence Cole and Elmer E. Rasmuson
reviewed by Richard H. Keehn on July 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Banking on Global Markets: Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the Present
by Christopher Kobrak
reviewed by Richard Tilly on April 30, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Banking Panics of the Gilded Age
by Elmus Wicker
reviewed by Frank Steindl on March 8, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Banking Panics of the Great Depression
by Elmus Wicker
reviewed by John H. Wood on May 28, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Banking, the State and Industrial Promotion in Developing Japan, 1900-73
by Shinji Ogura
reviewed by James Mak on March 5, 2003
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
Banksters, Bosses, and Smart Money: A Social History of the Great Toledo Bank Crash of 1931
by Timothy Messer-Kruse
reviewed by Lynne Pierson Doti on October 28, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
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)
Bargaining on Europe: Britain and the First Common Market, 1860-1892
by Peter T. Marsh
reviewed by Douglas A. Irwin on February 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Baring Brothers and the Birth of Modern Finance
by Peter E. Austin
reviewed by Peter L. Rousseau on November 10, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Battle of the Single European Market: Achievements and Economic Thought, 1945-2000
by Gilles Grin
reviewed by John Gillingham on July 19, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Battles for the Standard: Bimetallism and the Spread of the Gold Standard in the Nineteenth Century
by Ted Wilson
reviewed by Christopher M. Meissner on January 25, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
Bertil Ohlin: A Centennial Celebration (1899-1999)
by Ronald Findlay, Lars Jonung and Mats Lindahl (editors)
reviewed by Michael F. Metcalf on February 3, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Best of Intentions: The Triumph and Failure of the Great Society Under Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon
by Irwin Unger
reviewed by Stephen Ziliak on October 27, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century
by Mark H. Rose, Bruce E. Seely and Paul F. Barrett
reviewed by William R. Childs on May 25, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Bethlehem Steel: Builder and Arsenal of America
by Kenneth Warren
reviewed by Paul Tiffany on April 22, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Between East and West: The Moluccas and the Traffic in Spices up to the Arrival of Europeans
by R. A. Donkin
reviewed by Gerrit Knaap on July 21, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2)
  • Time period: Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Between the Dollar-Sterling Gold Points: Exchange Rates, Parity, and Market Behavior
by Lawrence H. Officer
reviewed by Alan M. Taylor on March 20, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Beyond Broker State: Federal Policies Toward Small Business, 1936-1961
by Jonathan J. Bean
reviewed by Colin Gordon on January 9, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California
by Steven P. Erie
reviewed by Gary D. Libecap on December 23, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Beyond Labor's Veil
by Robert E. Weir
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on December 6, 1996
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
BFGoodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870-1995
by K. Austin Kerr and Mansel G. Blackford
reviewed by Kenneth L. Simons on December 16, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korea, 1960-1990
by Eum Mee Kim
reviewed by Tawni Hunt Ferrarini on December 2, 1997
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration
by Jonathan J. Bean
reviewed by William M. McClenahan on April 16, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001
by Kenneth Warren
reviewed by Malcolm Russell on November 22, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Bimetallism: An Economic and Historical Analysis
by Angela Redish
reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on November 8, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists
by J.E. King (editor)
reviewed by Steven Kates on March 17, 2008
  • Geographic area: Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
The Biological Standard of Living in Comparative Perspective
by John Komlos and Joerg Baten
reviewed by John E. Murray on February 21, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America
by Walter A. Friedman
reviewed by Scott J. Vitell on September 23, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860-1914: Commercial, Extractive and Industrial Enterprise
by David O. Whitten and Bessie E. Whitten
reviewed by David L. Mason on July 3, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Birth Quake: The Baby Boom and Its Aftershocks
by Diane J. Macunovich
reviewed by Randall J. Olsen on May 23, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Labor and Employment History (T)
Black '47: Britain and the Famine Irish
by Frank Neal
reviewed by Ron Weir on March 10, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History
by Paul A. Moreno
reviewed by Vernon M. Briggs Jr. on May 14, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 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)
Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary
by Michael E Lomax
reviewed by Michael Haupert on September 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925-1985
by Robert J. Jr. Weems
reviewed by Brian Adkins on December 17, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study
by Stuart J. Borsch
reviewed by John Munro on March 13, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
Black Diamonds! Black Gold!: The Saga of Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company
by Don Woodard
reviewed by Jason Manning on January 5, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
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)
Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940
by Howell John Harris
reviewed by Daniel Jacoby on October 12, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms: Buying and Selling Securities in Canada 1870-1940
by Christopher Armstrong
reviewed by Ranald C. Michie on March 20, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Blues: A History of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield System
by Robert Cunningham III and Robert M. Jr. Cunningham
reviewed by Colin Gordon on June 22, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)
Bonds and Bondholders: British Investors and Mexico's Foreign Debt, 1824-1888
by Michael P. Costeloe
reviewed by Carlos Marichal on September 18, 2003
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age
by John Lauritz Larson
reviewed by Albert J. Churella on June 14, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
by Scott A. Sandage
reviewed by Susan Nance on October 6, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Boss: Management Tips for Today from a Nineteenth Century Cattle Drive
by Tim Frazier and Dana Frazier
reviewed by Howard R. Stanger on June 1, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
The Bouchayers of Grenoble and French Industrial Enterprise, 1850 -1970
by Robert J. Smith
reviewed by Esther Redmount on September 6, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
by Marc Levinson
reviewed by William Sjostrom on April 4, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
by Marc Levinson
reviewed by William Sjostrom on April 2, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Boys in the Pits: Child Labour in Coal Mines
by Robert McIntosh
reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on December 11, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Brides Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition
by Vicki Howard
reviewed by Janice M. Traflet on February 1, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Bristol Historical Resource CD
by Peter Wardley (editor)
reviewed by Lisa Bud-Frierman on March 12, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Geography (K), Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Britain and Ireland, 1050-1530: Economy and Society
by Richard Britnell
reviewed by John Langdon on December 8, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Britain and Japan: A Comparative Economic and Social History Since 1900
by Kenneth D. Brown
reviewed by Michael Smitka on September 17, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis, 1944-1947: From Liberation to the Truman Doctrine
by Anthanasios Lykogiannis
reviewed by Gail Makinen on June 13, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Britain's Economic Blockade of Germany, 1914-1919
by Eric W. Osborne
reviewed by Jari Eloranta on July 22, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
British Conservatism and Trade Unionism, 1945-1964
by Peter Dorey
reviewed by Jim Phillips on October 6, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
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)
The British Economy in the Twentieth Century
by Alan Booth
reviewed by Roger Middleton on November 21, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The British Economy since 1945: Engaging with the Debate
by Roger Middleton
reviewed by Alan Booth on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The British Motor Industry, 1945-94; A Case Study in Industrial Decline
by Timothy R. Whisler
reviewed by Susan Bowden on April 28, 2000
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  • Time period:
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British Petroleum and Global Oil, 1950-1975: The Challenge of Nationalism
by James Bamberg
reviewed by Jonathan Brown on March 4, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
British Trade Unions since 1933
by Chris Wrigley
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on March 3, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets: How to Fix America's Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry
by Barry B. LePatner
reviewed by Richard Vedder on September 3, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889-1909
by Jonathan W. Singer
reviewed by Werner Troesken on January 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Bronze Age Economics: The First Political Economies
by Timothy Earle
reviewed by Michael W. Graves on June 5, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), Prehistoric (1), 16th Century (4), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Bruges: Cradle of Capitalism, 1280-1390
by James M. Murray
reviewed by Erin Jordan on April 5, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
Builders: Herman and George R. Brown
by Joseph A. Pratt and Christopher J. Castaneda
reviewed by Paul Carlson on March 30, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Building a Global Bank: The Transformation of Banco Santander
by Mauro F. Guillen and Adrian Tschoegl
reviewed by Joseph M. Santos on January 22, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956
by Jason Scott Smith
reviewed by Price V. Fishback on July 16, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border
by Casey Walsh
reviewed by Paul Ganster on June 30, 2009
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
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)
Business and Industry in Nazi Germany
by Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener (editors)
reviewed by Thomas Ferguson on April 3, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E)
Business and Politics in Europe. 1900-1970: Essays in Honour of Alice Teichova
by Terry Gourvish (editor)
reviewed by Maurice Kirby on October 8, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia
by David Glasner
reviewed by Robert Whaples on September 5, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Business Elites and Corporate Governance in France and the UK
by Mairi Maclean, Charles Harvey and Jon Press
reviewed by Hugo Cerón-Anaya on November 17, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Business History and Business Culture
by Andrew Godley and Oliver M. Westall
reviewed by Ernest Teagarden on March 31, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Business History around the World
by Franco Amatori and Geoffrey Jones (editors)
reviewed by William H. Becker on January 13, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison
by Michael P. Gray
reviewed by Pamela Nickless on June 13, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865
by Mark R. Wilson
reviewed by Roger Ransom on October 1, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Military and War (O)
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)
The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps
by Michael Thad Allen
reviewed by Kees Gispen on March 4, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
The Byzantine Economy
by Angeliki E. Laiou and Cécile Morrisson
reviewed by Timothy E. Gregory on October 31, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War
by James L. Huston
reviewed by Jenny B. Wahl on March 23, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
California Dreaming: Ideology, Society, and Technology in the Citrus Industry of Palestine, 1890-1939
by Nahum Karlinsky
reviewed by Paul Rhode on November 14, 2006
  • Geographic area: Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier
by Anne Kelly Knowles
reviewed by Metin Cosgel on March 27, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America, Volume 2: The Long Twentieth Century
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, John Coatsworth and Roberto Cortes-Conde (editors)
reviewed by Albert Fishlow on April 11, 2007
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, Volume III: Structural Change and Growth, 1939-2000
by Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson (editors)
reviewed by Albert Carreras on October 21, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
by Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris and Richard P. Saller (editors)
reviewed by Peter Temin on May 11, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume III: The Twentieth Century
by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman (editors)
reviewed by Gary Libecap on March 28, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Cameroon's Tycoon: Max Esser's Expedition and Its Consequences
by E. M. Chilver and Ute Röschenthaler (editors)
reviewed by Ralph A. Austen on August 14, 2002
  • Geographic area: Africa (1)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Capital Flows and Crises
by Barry Eichengreen
reviewed by Joseph R. Mason on August 27, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Capital Intentions: Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850-1920
by Edith Sparks
reviewed by Pamela J. Nickless on March 28, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)
Capital Markets and Corporate Governance in Japan, Germany and the United States: Organizational Response to Market Inefficiencies
by Helmut Dietl
reviewed by Hideaki Miyajima on October 19, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal
by David Brian Robertson
reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on January 8, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
by Joseph A. Schumpeter
reviewed by Thomas K. McCraw on September 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Capitalist Development in the Twentieth Century: An Evolutionary-Keynesian Approach
by John Cornwall and Wendy Cornwall
reviewed by Richard K. Vedder on August 5, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
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 Carolingian Economy
by Adriaan E. Verhulst
reviewed by Paolo Squatriti on May 20, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America
by Thomas A. Kinney
reviewed by Tom Dicke on August 1, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile
by Lewis H. Siegelbaum
reviewed by Perry L. Patterson on August 6, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
Castles, Battles and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History
by Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll
reviewed by Peter Howlett on February 3, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Military and War (O)
Catching up Twice: The Nature of Dutch Industrial Growth during the Twentieth Century in a Comparative Perspective
by Herman J. de Jong
reviewed by Hein A.M. Klemann on May 27, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Celebrating Irving Fisher: The Legacy of a Great Economist
by Robert W. Dimand and John Geanakoplos (editors)
reviewed by Franck Jovanovic on May 4, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 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), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Central Bank Cooperation at the Bank for International Settlements, 1930-1973
by Gianni Toniolo
reviewed by Geoffrey Wood on October 11, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Central Europe in the Twentieth Century. An Economic History Perspective
by Alice Teichova
reviewed by Michael Palairet on August 20, 1998
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
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)
Chairman of the Fed: William McChesney Martin Jr. and the Creation of the American Financial System
by Robert P. Bremner
reviewed by Mark Toma on October 3, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950
by Avner Offer
reviewed by John F. Helliwell on January 18, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Changing Face of Central Banking: Evolutionary Trends since World War II
by Pierre L. Siklos
reviewed by Richard C. K. Burdekin on May 29, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
Charting Twentieth-Century Monetary Policy: Herbert Hoover and Benjamin Strong, 1917-1927
by Silvano A. Wueschner
reviewed by Mark Toma on October 25, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Chatham Dockyard, 1815-1865: The Industrial Transformation
by Philip MacDougall (editor)
reviewed by Ian Buxton on October 30, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Military and War (O), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars
by Georg Leidenberger
reviewed by David J. St. Clair on October 17, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Child Labor: An American History
by Hugh D. Hindman
reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on July 29, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
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)
Chimneys in the Desert: Industrialization in Argentina during the Export Boom Years, 1870-1930
by Fernando Rocchi
reviewed by Joel Horowitz on June 12, 2006
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937
by Tomoko Shiroyama
reviewed by Niv Horesh on August 22, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
China Maritime Customs and China's Trade Statistics, 1859-1948
by Thomas P. Lyons
reviewed by Tim Wright on July 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Chinese 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)
Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945
by Parks M. Coble
reviewed by Andrea McElderry on June 6, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run
by Angus Maddison
reviewed by Thomas R. Gottschang on July 3, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business
by Lowell J. Satre
reviewed by Roger Southall on June 21, 2005
  • Geographic area: Africa (1)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N)
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)
Christian Theology and Market Economics
by Ian R. Harper and Samuel Gregg (editors)
reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond on October 8, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
Cigarette Wars, The Triumph of the Little White Slaver
by Cassandra Tate
reviewed by Kay Kiefer on October 4, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Cities of Heat and Light: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America
by Mark Rose
reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on August 21, 1995
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919
by Margaret Garb
reviewed by Fred H. Smith on May 1, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Urban and Regional History (Z)
City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870-1920
by Jerome P. Bjelopera
reviewed by Nikki Mandell on December 5, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Civic Charity in a Golden Age: Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam
by Anne E. C. McCants
reviewed by Bronwyn Croxson on May 12, 1998
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization
by William H. Roberts
reviewed by David Surdam on September 2, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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 Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
by Dylan C. Penningroth
reviewed by James R. Irwin on April 21, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the USSR
by Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff
reviewed by Mark Harrison on January 17, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
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)
Classical Macroeconomics: Some Modern Variations and Distortions
by James C. W. Ahiakpor
reviewed by Marin Muzhani on December 28, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: 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)
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
by Robert J. Steinfeld
reviewed by Gillian Hamilton on March 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
The Collapse of Darwinism, or The Rise of a Realist Theory of Life
by Graeme Donald Snooks
reviewed by Geoffrey M. Hodgson on June 27, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
A Companion to the History of Economic Thought
by Warren J. Samuels, Jeff F. Biddle and John B. Davis (editors)
reviewed by Mauro Boianovsky on December 5, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life
by Paul Seabright
reviewed by Haim Ofek on January 29, 2007
  • Geographic area:
  • Time period: Prehistoric (1), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest
by Linda Carlson
reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd on September 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Historical Geography (K), Labor and Employment History (T)
Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences
by James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (editors)
reviewed by Bertrand M. Roehner on March 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Comparative Public Policy: Patterns of Post-war Transformation
by Francis G. Castles
reviewed by Jim F. Couch on May 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Competition and Growth: A Contemporary History of the Continental AG
by Paul Erker
reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford on April 13, 1998
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Competition Solution: The Bipartisan Secret behind American Prosperity
by Paul A. London
reviewed by Richard K. Vedder on September 21, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Concept and Controversy: Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market
by W. W. Rostow
reviewed by Louis P. Cain on July 18, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 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)
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)
Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century
by Daniel Sidorick
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on November 12, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Pressure
by Ester Boserup
reviewed by Giovanni Federico on April 16, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War
by Harold S. Wilson
reviewed by David Surdam on September 20, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
by Timothy Brook
reviewed by Richard Lufrano on August 26, 1998
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll-Call Voting
by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal
reviewed by Jac Heckelman on August 20, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
by Thomas Frank
reviewed by David Cochran on February 11, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years
by Julie Novkov
reviewed by David Bernstein on June 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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 Twentieth-Century Britain: The Search for a Historical Movement
by Matthew Hilton
reviewed by Lawrence Black on September 17, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
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)
Consumers Against Capitalism? Consumer Cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan, 1840-1990
by Ellen Furlough and Carl Strikwerda
reviewed by Gerd-Rainer Horn on September 1, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies
by David E. Nye
reviewed by Martin V. Melosi on August 5, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
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)
Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883
by Joel Best
reviewed by Robin L. E. Hemenway on July 26, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Conversations on Growth, Stability, and Trade: An Historical Perspective
by Brian Snowdon
reviewed by Christopher Hanes on April 18, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Coping with Crisis: International Financial Institutions in the Interwar Period
by Makoto Kasuya (editor)
reviewed by Kris James Mitchener on December 18, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s
by Charles K. Hyde
reviewed by Roger Burt on August 11, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Copyright and Other Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen and the Commodification of Creativity
by Helle Porsdam (editor)
reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on June 16, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: 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)
The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930
by Nikki Mandell
reviewed by Howard R. Stanger on June 20, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History
by Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin (editors)
reviewed by Louis P. Cain on August 2, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Creating a National Home: Building the Veterans' Welfare State 1860-1900
by Patrick J. Kelly
reviewed by Dora L. Costa on January 21, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development
by Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode
reviewed by Lee A. Craig on May 12, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Creating Better Futures: Scenario Planning as a Tool for a Better Tomorrow
by James A. Ogilvy
reviewed by Allen L. Bures on August 21, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Creating Capitalism: Joint-Stock Enterprise in British Politics and Culture, 1800-1870
by James Taylor
reviewed by Ranald C. Michie on March 12, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business
by Roland Marchand
reviewed by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf on January 20, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact
by Vaclav Smil
reviewed by Joel Mokyr on December 30, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
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)
Crusading Liberal: Paul H. Douglas of Illinois
by Roger Biles
reviewed by Alice O'Connor on June 16, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 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)
Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899-1929
by Alan B. Dye
reviewed by Richard Salvucci on September 6, 1999
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey
reviewed by Philip R.P. Coelho on June 10, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920
by David Vaught
reviewed by Kerry Odell on April 20, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880-1930
by Julie A. Charlip
reviewed by Héctor Lindo-Fuentes on September 8, 2003
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany
by Bernd Widdig
reviewed by Hans-Joachim Voth on December 3, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), 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)
Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States
by Clete Daniel
reviewed by Lawrence Richards on June 21, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium
by Dirk Hoerder
reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on April 21, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture
by Eric L. Jones
reviewed by Avner Greif on July 31, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Currency Boards and Dollarization
by Kurt Schuler
reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on November 14, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich
by Neil Gregor
reviewed by Alfred C. Mierzejewski on May 20, 1999
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
De Revolutie die in Haar Eigen Staart Beet: Hoe de Economische Geschiedenis onze ideeën over Economische Groei veranderde
by J.W. Drukker
reviewed by Joel Mokyr on September 5, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 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 of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Debating American Immigration, 1882 - Present
by Roger Daniels and Otis L. Graham
reviewed by Barry R. Chiswick on October 31, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South
by Mark M. Smith
reviewed by James R. Irwin on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America
by David A. Skeel
reviewed by Bradley A. Hansen on April 17, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837-1873
by Jay Sexton
reviewed by Marc D. Weidenmier on March 27, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Decline of Latin American Economies: Growth, Institutions, and Crisis
by Sebastian Edwards, Gerardo Esquivel and Graciela Márquez (editors)
reviewed by Richard J. Salvucci on January 31, 2008
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation
by J. William Harris
reviewed by Nancy Virts on April 18, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy
by Edward C. Lorenz
reviewed by Mark Perlman on March 14, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T)
The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century
by Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin and Eugene N. White
reviewed by Louis P. Cain on September 23, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
Deflation: Current and Historical Perspectives
by Richard C.K. Burdekin and Pierre L. Siklos (editors)
reviewed by Kris James Mitchener on November 9, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis
by Michael Williams
reviewed by Gary Libecap on August 4, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K)
Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West
by Thomas A. Krainz
reviewed by Dawn Saunders on April 12, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Democracy and Redistribution
by Carles Boix
reviewed by Jari Eloranta on February 18, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893
by Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten
reviewed by Anthony P. O'Brien on June 29, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
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)
Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy
by Robert Higgs
reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on July 1, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890 - 1943
by Patrick D. Reagan
reviewed by Robert Cuff on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
Designing a New America: the Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890-1943
by Patrick D. Reagan
reviewed by Jim Tomlinson on February 21, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Designing US Economic Policy: An Analytical Biography of Leon H. Keyserling
by W. Robert Brazelton
reviewed by Craufurd Goodwin on November 23, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Designs Within Disorder: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Economists, and the Shaping of American Economic Policy, 1933-1945
by William J. Barber
reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on July 6, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
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)
The Destruction of the Soviet Economic System: An Insiders' History
by Michael Ellmanand and Vladimir Kontorovich (editors)
reviewed by Perry L. Patterson on July 25, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
Determinants of Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Empirical Study
by Robert J. Barro
reviewed by John W. Dawson on July 18, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
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)
Deutschlands Krise und Konjunktur, 1924-1934: Binnenkonjuktur, Auslandsverschuldung und Reparationsproblem zwischen Dawes-Plan und Transfersperre
by Albrecht Ritschl
reviewed by Hans-Joachim Voth on March 10, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Development of Mexico's Tourism Industry: Pyramids by Day, Martinis by Night
by Dina Berger
reviewed by Byron Crites on December 20, 2006
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Development of Modern Agriculture: British Farming since 1931
by John Martin
reviewed by Peter Dewey on November 7, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
The Development of Modern Spain: An Economic History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
by Gabriel Tortella
reviewed by Vera Zamagni on May 16, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
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)
Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970
by Erik Gilbert
reviewed by Abdul Sheriff on February 9, 2005
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks: Four Centuries of History
by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Gelina Harlaftis and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou (editors)
reviewed by Sakis Gekas on July 15, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Dictating Development: How Europe Shaped the Global Periphery
by Jonathan Krieckhaus
reviewed by Sylvain H. Boko on October 4, 2006
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
A Dictionary of Economics
by John Black
reviewed by Robert Whaples on March 17, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
Die Kreditbanken in der Gründerzeit
by Carsten Burhop
reviewed by Timothy W. Guinnane on February 9, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France
by Paul V. Dutton
reviewed by John Murray on July 12, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W)
Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism: Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age
by Thomas C. Owen
reviewed by Steven Nafziger on June 2, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Disaster in Dearborn: The Story of the Edsel
by Thomas E. Bonsall
reviewed by Thomas R. Winpenny on September 23, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Discriminating Risk: The U.S. Mortgage Lending Industry in the Twentieth Century
by Guy Stuart
reviewed by William J. Collins on June 21, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
by Stephen A. Marglin
reviewed by Eric Jones on March 31, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
Distinguished Women Economists
by James Cicarelli and Julianne Cicarelli
reviewed by Claire Hammond on October 7, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth
by Marc Egnal
reviewed by Leonard Carlson on August 18, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South
by Jonathan D. Martin
reviewed by Jonathan B. Pritchett on September 6, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Markets and Institutions (W)
Domestic Goods: The Material, the Moral, and the Economic in the Postwar Years
by Joy Parr
reviewed by Pippa Brush on February 11, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Down and Out on the Family Farm: Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929-1945
by Michael Johnson Grant
reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on February 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Dragon Multinational: A New Model for Global Growth
by John A. Mathews
reviewed by Stephen A. Kolenda on July 21, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Dutra's World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
by Zephyr L. Frank
reviewed by Marshall C. Eakin on December 9, 2005
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q)
The Dynamic of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415-1980
by David B. Abernethy
reviewed by K. N. Chaudhuri on December 17, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Dynamic Society: Exploring the Sources of Global Change
by Graeme Donald Snooks
reviewed by Gregory Clark on March 16, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler and the New Economy
by Richard N. Langlois
reviewed by Arthur M. Diamond Jr. on August 6, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses
by David S. Landes
reviewed by Peter Temin on February 28, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
E.W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers
by Gerald J. Baldasty
reviewed by Barbara Straus Reed on August 25, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
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)
East Meets West: Banking, Commerce and Investment in the Ottoman Empire
by Philip L. Cottrell, Monica Pohle Fraser and Iain L. Fraser (editors)
reviewed by Metin Cosgel on December 19, 2008
  • Geographic area: Middle East (6)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
East-West Trade and the Cold War
by Jari Eloranta and Jari Ojala (editors)
reviewed by Martin C. Spechler on November 4, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800-1950
by Mark Tebeau
reviewed by Dalit Baranoff on June 17, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Ecology, Colonialism, and Cattle: Central India in the Nineteenth Century
by Laxman D. Satya
reviewed by David Gilmartin on August 25, 2006
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective: A Book of Essays
by Alexander Gerschenkron
reviewed by Albert Fishlow on February 14, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Economic Change and the National Question in Twentieth-Century Europe
by Alice Teichova, Herbert Matis and Jaroslav Pátek (editors)
reviewed by Laura N. Stanciu Haar on March 12, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Economic Change in China, c. 1800-1950
by Philip Richardson
reviewed by Debin Ma on June 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Economic Cycles: Long Cycles and Business Cycles since 1870
by Solomos Solomou
reviewed by Forrest Capie on August 12, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Economic Development of Latin America in the Twentieth Century
by André Hofman
reviewed by Noel Maurer on October 13, 2000
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Economic Disasters of the Twentieth Century
by Michael J. Oliver and Derek H. Aldcroft (editors)
reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on June 8, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Economic Engagements with Art
by Neil De Marchi and Craufurd D.W. Goodwin (editors)
reviewed by Manuel Santos-Redondo on January 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Economic Growth and Change: National and Regional Patterns of Convergence and Divergence
by John Adams and Francesco Pigliaru (editors)
reviewed by Stephen L. Parente on May 8, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Economic Growth and Development in Singapore: Past and Future
by Gavin Peebles and Peter Wilson
reviewed by Anne Booth on August 13, 2003
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
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)
The Economic History of India 1857-1947
by Tirthankar Roy
reviewed by Santhi Hejeebu on March 18, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
An Economic History of London, 1800-1914
by Michael Ball and David Sunderland
reviewed by David R. Green on April 8, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Urban and Regional History (Z)
An Economic History of Malaysia, c.1800-1990: The Transition to Modern Economic Growth
by John H. Drabble
reviewed by Charles Hirschman on July 9, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
An Economic History of the Silk Industry, 1830-1930
by Giovanni Federico
reviewed by Philip Scranton on December 5, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
An Economic History of Twentieth-century Europe: Economic Regimes from Laissez-faire to Globalization
by Ivan Berend
reviewed by Gianni Toniolo on April 4, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America
by Enrique Cárdenas, José Antonio Ocampo and Rosemary Thorp (editors)
reviewed by Edward Beatty on February 22, 2002
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
reviewed by Michael Munger on October 8, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Economic Policy under the Conservatives, 1951-64: A Guide to Documents in the National Archives of the UK
by Astrid Ringe, Neil Rollings and Roger Middleton
reviewed by Alan Booth on June 18, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Economic Relations between Britain and Australasia, 1945-1970
by John Singleton and Paul L. Robertson
reviewed by Jonathan Pincus on January 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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 Systems of Foraging, Agricultural, and Industrial Societies
by Frederic L. Pryor
reviewed by George Grantham on January 25, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
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 and Politics in the Weimar Republic
by Theo Balderston
reviewed by Mark Spoerer on March 24, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Economics and the Historian
by Thomas G. Rawski
reviewed by Michael Dintenfass on September 30, 1996
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
Economics and the Historian
by Thomas G. Rawski
reviewed by Lynne Kiesling on September 30, 1996
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics
by Kenneth R. Hoover
reviewed by Steven Horwitz on April 12, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
by Robert H. Nelson
reviewed by Robert D. Tollison on April 15, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
Economics in the Long Run: New Deal Theorists and Their Legacies, 1933-1993
by Theodore Rosenof
reviewed by Michael Perelman on February 17, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Economics in the Shadows of Darwin and Marx: Essays on Institutional and Evolutionary Themes
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson
reviewed by Gary Mongiovi on March 24, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Economics of Alfred Marshall: Revisiting Marshall's Legacy
by Richard Arena and Michel Quéré (editors)
reviewed by Katia Caldari on September 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag
by Paul R. Gregory and Valery Lazarev (editors)
reviewed by Mark Harrison on July 10, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Economics of QWERTY: History, Theory, and Policy -- Essays by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis
by Peter Lewin (editor)
reviewed by Richard J. Sullivan on March 28, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914
by Tracy C. Davis
reviewed by Pam Pilbeam on July 25, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Economics of the Great Depression
by Mark Wheeler
reviewed by Elmus Wicker on May 27, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Economics of the Great Depression: A Twenty-First Century Look Back at the Economics of the Interwar Era
by Randall E. Parker
reviewed by David C. Wheelock on November 3, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Economics of World War I
by Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison (editors)
reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman on January 2, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison
by Mark Harrison
reviewed by Geofrey T. Mills on July 22, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Economics, Competition and Academia: An Intellectual History of Sophism versus Virtue
by Donald R. Stabile
reviewed by Donald E. Frey on February 15, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
Economics: The Culture of a Controversial Science
by Melvin W. Reder
reviewed by Ross B. Emmett on March 31, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Économie rurale et société dans l'Europe franque (VI-IX siècles)
by Jean-Pierre Devroey
reviewed by George Grantham on July 4, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Economies beyond Agriculture in the Classical World
by David J. Mattingly and John Salmon (editors)
reviewed by Darel Engen on February 4, 2003
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Economists in Parliament in the Liberal Age (1848-1920)
by Massimo M. Augello and Marco E.L. Guidi (editors)
reviewed by Vincent Barnett on September 29, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Economy and Economics of Ancient Greece
by Takeshi Amemiya
reviewed by Darel Tai Engen on April 15, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Economy and Material Culture of Russia, 1600-1725
by Richard Hellie
reviewed by Lindsey Hughes on January 19, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian
by Peter Sarris
reviewed by Timothy E. Gregory on June 16, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
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)
Education and Economic Decline in Britain, 1870 to the 1990s
by Michael Sanderson
reviewed by David Mitch on February 20, 1999
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)
The Effects of Competition: Cartel Policy and the Evolution of Strategy and Structure in British Industry
by George Symeonidis
reviewed by Margaret C. Levenstein on July 9, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Effortless Economy of Science?
by Philip Mirowski
reviewed by Lawrence Boland on February 1, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age
by Gijs Mom
reviewed by Staffan Hultén on March 28, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Electricity and Energy Policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945
by Martin Chick
reviewed by John Neufeld on June 2, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Elgar Companion to Alfred Marshall
by Tiziano Raffaelli, Giacomo Becattini and Marco Dardi (editors)
reviewed by David Andrews on September 28, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
Elusive Union: The Process of Economic and Monetary Union in Europe
by Kenneth Dyson
reviewed by Elaine Fuller on March 26, 1995
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
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)
The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800-1930
by Michael Stephen Smith
reviewed by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur on May 8, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Emergence of Modern Central Banking from 1918 to the Present
by Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, Jaime Reis and Gianni Toniolo (editors)
reviewed by Mark Toma on July 13, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Emigration from Europe, 1815-1930
by Dudley Baines
reviewed by Simone A. Wegge on August 1, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Encumbered Cuba: Capital Markets and Revolt, 1878-1895
by Susan J. Fernández
reviewed by Linda K. Salvucci on June 18, 2003
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
An Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics
by Thomas Cate
reviewed by Michael S. Lawlor on August 20, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Encyclopedia of Native American Economic History
by Bruce E. Johansen
reviewed by David M. Wishart on July 19, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History
by Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day and Immanuel Ness (editors)
reviewed by Melvyn Dubofsky on October 16, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 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)
Encyclopedia of Tariffs and Trade in U.S. History
by Cynthia Clark Northrup and Elaine C. Prange Turney (editors)
reviewed by Stephen Meardon on January 6, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The End of Economics
by Michael Perelman
reviewed by Anthony P. O'Brien on August 21, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression
by Harold James
reviewed by Tim Hatton on January 4, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925
by Philip Scranton
reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on June 24, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England
by Peter Temin
reviewed by David R. Meyer on August 9, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
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)
The English Wool Market, c. 1230-1327
by Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks and Paul R. Dryburgh
reviewed by James M. Murray on June 19, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood
by Bernard F. Dick
reviewed by Jonathan Snyder on October 19, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production
by Vaclav Smil
reviewed by D. Gale Johnson on November 28, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 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)
Ensayos de Historia Económica: Uruguay y la región en la economía mundial 1870-1990
by Luis Bértola
reviewed by Michael J. Twomey on May 22, 2002
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
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)
Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina, 1865-1915
by Robert C. Kenzer
reviewed by John Sibley Butler on April 20, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Entertainment Industrialised: The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890-1940
by Gerben Bakker
reviewed by Michael Pokorny on April 28, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Entertainment Industry
by Michael Haupert
reviewed by Gerben Bakker on April 26, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance: Samuel P. Black and the Rise of Erie Insurance, 1923-1961
by Samuel P. Black Jr. and John Paul Rossi
reviewed by Jeffrey J. Matthews on October 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil:The Formation of a Business Environment
by Sergio de Oliveira Birchal
reviewed by Ralph Lee Woodward on November 9, 1999
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
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)
Escape from the Market: Negotiating Work in Lancashire
by Michael Huberman
reviewed by Susan Wolcott on December 1, 1997
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Essays in History: Financial, Economic, Personal
by Charles P. Kindleberger
reviewed by David Glasner on March 8, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Essays on the Great Depression
by Ben S. Bernanke
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
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)
Estadísticas históricas de España: Siglos XIX - XX
by Albert Carreras and Xavier Tafunell (editors)
reviewed by Mauricio Drelichman on August 16, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
The Euro: Its Origins, Development and Prospects
by Chris Mulhearn and Howard R Vane
reviewed by Jerry Mushin on January 26, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Europe in the International Economy, 1500-2000
by Derek H. Aldcroft and Anthony Sutcliffe
reviewed by Karl Gunnar Persson on August 7, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Europe Reborn: A History, 1914-2000
by Harold James
reviewed by Joel Mokyr on April 23, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Europe's Third World: The European Periphery in the Interwar Years
by Derek H. Aldcroft
reviewed by Nikolaus Wolf on June 14, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K)
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 Banks and the American Challenge: Competition and Cooperation in International Banking under Bretton Woods
by Stefano Battilossi and Youssef Cassis (editors)
reviewed by Steven Tolliday on October 23, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945
by Christopher Kobrak and Per H. Hansen (editors)
reviewed by Thomas Ferguson on April 3, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E)
European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India
by Om Prakash
reviewed by John Adams on February 15, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: 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)
European Economists of the Early Twentieth Century, Volume 2. Studies on Neglected Continental Thinkers of Germany and Italy
by Warren J. Samuels (editor)
reviewed by Nicola Giocoli on December 12, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond
by Barry Eichengreen
reviewed by Stephen Broadberry on May 23, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 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), Labor and Employment History (T)
European Industrial Policy: The Twentieth-Century Experience
by James Foreman-Peck and Giovanni Federico
reviewed by Francesca Fauri on May 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
European Integration, 1950-2003: Superstate or New Market Economy?
by John Gillingham
reviewed by Daniel Barbezat on April 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The 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)
Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture
by Deborah Fitzgerald
reviewed by Bruce Gardner on June 20, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture
by Susan B. Hanley
reviewed by Gail Honda on July 16, 1997
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Evolution and Institutions: On Evolutionary Economics and the Evolution of Economics
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson
reviewed by Anne Mayhew on September 26, 2000
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Evolution and Procedures in Central Banking
by David E. Altig and Bruce D. Smith (editors)
reviewed by Stefano Battilossi on March 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Evolution of Institutional Economics: Agency, Structure and Darwinism in American Institutionalism
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson
reviewed by Sherry Davis Kasper on January 20, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Evolution of International Business: An Introduction
by Geoffrey Jones
reviewed by Graham D. Taylor on July 10, 1996
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990
by Dora L. Costa
reviewed by Brian Gratton on December 15, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Law, Politics, and Economics of the GATT and the WTO
by John H. Barton, Judith L. Goldstein, Timothy E. Josling and Richard H. Steinberg
reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on January 9, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Evolution of the World Economy, Precious Metals and India
by John McGuire, Patrick Bertola and Peter Reeves (editors)
reviewed by Arturo Giraldez on May 4, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows: Britain, the Americas, and Australia, 1865-1914
by Lance E. Davis and Robert E. Gallman
reviewed by Alan M. Taylor on May 7, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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)
Exchange Rate Regimes in the Twentieth Century
by Derek H. Aldcroft and Michael J. Oliver
reviewed by Anna J. Schwartz on November 24, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Exchange Rates and Economic Policy in the Twentieth Century
by Ross E. Catterall and Derek H. Aldcroft (editors)
reviewed by Stefano Battilossi on December 14, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Extremes in the Archipelago: Trade and Economic Development in the Outer Islands of Indonesia, 1900-1942
by Jeroen Touwen
reviewed by Anne Booth on May 29, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Fabricating the Keynesian Revolution: Studies of the Inter-war Literature on Money, the Cycle, and Unemployment
by David Laidler
reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond on June 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Africa (1)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century
by Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht
reviewed by William Boal on April 20, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T), Urban and Regional History (Z)
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)
Family Fictions and Family Facts: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet and the Population Question in England, 1798-1859
by Brian Cooper
reviewed by Evelyn L. Forget on January 11, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Family, Family Firm and Strategy: Six Dutch Family Firms in the Food Industry, 1880-1970
by Doreen Arnoldus
reviewed by Andrea Colli on October 19, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
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)
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
by Gregory Clark
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on March 11, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W)
Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880-1990
by Daniel Nelson
reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on August 15, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Farm on the North Talbot Road
by Allan G. Bogue
reviewed by Robert Ankli on August 29, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
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 to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution
by Robert C. Allen
reviewed by R. W. Davies on June 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
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)
The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945
by Victoria Saker Woeste
reviewed by Paul Rhode on February 15, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
by Jim Powell
reviewed by Ellis W. Hawley on March 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Federal Landscape: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century West
by Gerald D. Nash
reviewed by Peter J. Hill on January 21, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
The Federal Reserve and the Bull Markets: From Benjamin Strong to Alan Greenspan
by Roger W. Spencer and John H. Huston
reviewed by Gary J. Santoni on July 13, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Federal Reserve System: An Encyclopedia
by R. W. Hafer
reviewed by Daniel Giedeman on June 9, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000
by Giovanni Federico
reviewed by Bruce Gardner on March 14, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930
by Wendy Gamber
reviewed by Pamela Nickless on July 7, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants
by Kathleen M. Barry
reviewed by Vicki Howard on June 29, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland
by Gordon Bigelow
reviewed by Sandra Peart on July 20, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Fiery Dragons: Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma
by Sean Turnell
reviewed by Ian Brown on November 16, 2009
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Fifty Years of the Deutsche Mark. Central Bank and the Currency in Germany since 1948
by Deutsche Bundesbank (editor)
reviewed by Albrecht Ritschl on February 28, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Fighting against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor since World War II
by Timothy J. Minchin
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on August 10, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
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)
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
by Peter D. Norton
reviewed by Werner Troesken on August 5, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The 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 Capitalism and Germany's Rise to Industrial Power
by Caroline Fohlin
reviewed by Carsten Burhop on September 14, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Finance from Kaiser to Führer: Budget Politics in Germany, 1912-1934
by C. Edmund Clingan
reviewed by Michael Hughes on August 9, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
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 Crises and What to Do about Them
by Barry Eichengreen
reviewed by Anna J. Schwartz on September 8, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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 Kenneth Weiher on December 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
Financing Innovation in the United States: 1870 to the Present
by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (editors)
reviewed by Charles W. Calomiris on July 17, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Markets and Institutions (W)
Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit
by Lendol Calder
reviewed by Christiane Diehl Taylor on February 3, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Financing the First World War
by Hew Strachan
reviewed by Hans-Joachim Voth on January 23, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O)
The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City
by Sara E. Wermiel
reviewed by James B. McSwain on November 13, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
The First World War and the International Economy
by Chris Wrigley (editor)
reviewed by David Greasley on May 31, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century
by Peter E. Pope
reviewed by Luca Codignola on March 22, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia
by Douglas C. Harris
reviewed by D. Bruce Johnsen on January 15, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World
by Nicholas Dawidoff
reviewed by Carl Mosk on September 17, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Food and the City in Europe since 1800
by Peter J. Atkins, Peter Lummel and Derek J. Oddy (editors)
reviewed by Richard Perren on February 27, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State
by Jennifer Klein
reviewed by Melissa A. Thomasson on August 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T)
For the Common Good? American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity
by Jason Kaufman
reviewed by David T. Beito on February 18, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Forerunners of Modern Financial Economics: A Random Walk in the History of Economic Thought, 1900-1950
by Donald R. Stabile
reviewed by Geoffrey Poitras on November 2, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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 Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
by Amity Shlaes
reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on August 21, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War
by John C. Willis
reviewed by J. William Harris on July 18, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade
by Barton H. Barbour
reviewed by Ann Harper Fender on March 11, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
The Foundations of Economic Method: A Popperian Perspective
by Lawrence A. Boland
reviewed by O.F. Hamouda on April 7, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia
by Andrew M. Schocket
reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams on July 19, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Four Books on Philanthropy
by Bruce R. Hopkins, Jody Blazek, D. Benson Tesdahl, Lester M. Salamon and Judith Sealander
reviewed by Milton Goldin on May 5, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
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)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court Packing Crisis of 1937
by Marian C. McKenna
reviewed by Harvey G. Hudspeth on May 16, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy
by James Macdonald
reviewed by Robert E. Wright on May 31, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)
A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy
by James Macdonald
reviewed by Robert E. Wright on May 31, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)
The Free Standing Company in the World Economy, 1830-1996
by Mira Wilkins and Harm Schroter
reviewed by Gordon Boyce on July 30, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Free Trade Free World: The Advent of GATT
by Thomas W. Zeiler
reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on June 16, 1999
  • Geographic area:
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain
by Frank Trentmann
reviewed by Peter J. Cain on October 17, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism
by William J. Baumol
reviewed by Joel Mokyr on July 26, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
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)
Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer
by Kathleen G. Donohue
reviewed by Larry G. Gerber on June 8, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
The French Economy in the Twentieth Century
by Jean-Pierre Dormois
reviewed by Marc Flandreau on July 18, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815-1860
by Stewart Davenport
reviewed by Donald E. Frey on September 24, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
From Boardroom to the War Room: America's Corporate Liberals and FDR's Preparedness Program
by Richard E. Holl
reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on November 7, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)
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 Buildings and Loans to Bail-Outs: A History of the American Savings and Loan Industry, 1831-1995
by David L. Mason
reviewed by Richard H. Keehn on January 26, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
From Direct Action to Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America, 1933-1972
by Paul D. Moreno
reviewed by Charles A. Shanor on May 27, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
From Edison to Enron: The Business of Power and What It Means for the Future of Electricity
by Richard Munson
reviewed by David B. Sicilia on January 20, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes
by Richard J. Smethurst
reviewed by Michael Schiltz on February 7, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)
From Gold to Euro: On Monetary Theory and the History of Currency Systems
by Heinz-Peter Spahn
reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk on May 10, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
by Rakesh Khurana
reviewed by Donald R. Stabile on November 12, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Education and Human Resource Development (G)
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 Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967
by David T. Beito
reviewed by J. C. Herbert Emery on August 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture
by Dennis S. Nordin and Roy V. Scott
reviewed by David Danbom on February 15, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
From Redstone to Ludlow: John Cleveland Osgood’s Struggle against the United Mine Workers of America
by F. Darrell Munsell
reviewed by Ethan Doetsch on June 4, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Labor and Employment History (T)
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 Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry
by Albert J. Churella
reviewed by John K. Brown on January 15, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry
by Albert J. Churella
reviewed by Philip Scranton on January 7, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
From Sugar Triangle to Cotton Triangle: Trade and Shipping between America and Baltic Russia, 1783-1860
by Kalevi Ahonen
reviewed by William K. Hutchinson on January 30, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective
by Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
reviewed by George R. Boyer on August 6, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Funding American State, 1941-1995: The Rise and Fall of the Era of Easy Finance
by W. Elliot Brownlee
reviewed by Richard K. Vedder on December 16, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
A Future of Capitalism: The Economic Vision of Robert Heilbroner
by Michael C. Carroll
reviewed by Ross B. Emmett on January 15, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Future of U.S. Capitalism
by Frederic L. Pryor
reviewed by Robert Higgs on October 24, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The G.I. Bill: A New Deal for Veterans
by Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin
reviewed by Keith W. Olson on October 13, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Military and War (O)
The Gas Station in America
by John A. Jakle and Kieth A. Sculle
reviewed by Tom Dicke on May 16, 1995
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama
by John A. Salmond
reviewed by Clete Daniel on July 25, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870-1920
by Maury Klein
reviewed by Tomas Nonnenmacher on December 12, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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 German Economy during the Nineteenth Century
by Toni Pierenkemper and Richard H. Tilly
reviewed by Timothy W. Guinnane on September 24, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
German Industry and Global Enterprise BASF: The History of A Company
by Werner Abelshauser, Wolfgang von Hippel, Jeffrey Allan Johnson and Raymond G. Stokes
reviewed by J. Steven Jones on May 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's _My Years with General Motors_
by John McDonald
reviewed by David L. Mason on August 9, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
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)
Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s
by Ken Fones-Wolf
reviewed by Janet Irons on October 12, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Glitter of Gold: France, Bimetallism, and the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1848-1873
by Marc Flandreau
reviewed by Pierre Sicsic on December 5, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Global Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis and Growth
by Maurice Obstfeld and Alan M. Taylor
reviewed by Marc D. Weidenmier on December 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Global Chemical Industry in the Age of the Petrochemical Revolution
by Louis Galambos, Takashi Hikino and Vera Zamagni (editors)
reviewed by Alessandro Nuvolari on August 17, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Global Cigarette: Origins and Evolution of British American Tobacco, 1880-1945
by Howard Cox
reviewed by Geoffrey Tweedale on March 1, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector
by Lester M. Salamon, Helmut K. Anheier, Regina List and S. Stefan Toepler
reviewed by Milton Goldin on March 27, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
The Global Economy in the 1990s: A Long-Run Perspective
by Paul W. Rhode and Gianni Toniolo (editors)
reviewed by Christopher Hanes on July 13, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Income and Wealth (Q)
The Global Export of Capital from Great Britain, 1865-1914: A Statistical Survey
by Irving Stone
reviewed by Michael Edelstein on November 4, 1999
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods
by Barry J. Eichengreen
reviewed by Anna J. Schwartz on March 21, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance
by Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson
reviewed by Drew Keeling on June 13, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
Global Monetary Regime and National Central Banking: The Case of Hungary, 1921-1929
by Gyorgy Peteri
reviewed by Elmus Wicker on April 21, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Globalisation? Internationalisation and Monopoly Capitalism: Historical Processes and Capitalist Dynamism
by Bob Milward
reviewed by Paul Benneworth on September 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy
by Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson
reviewed by Marvin McInnis on August 4, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Globalization and Its Enemies
by Daniel Cohen
reviewed by John R. Hanson on December 27, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Globalization and the American Century
by Alfred E. Eckes Jr. and Thomas W. Zeiler
reviewed by Wyatt Wells on March 1, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950
by Jeffrey G. Williamson
reviewed by Sevket Pamuk on June 25, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Income and Wealth (Q), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Globalization in Historical Perspective
by Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamson (editors)
reviewed by William J. Collins on November 7, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Globalization: A Short History
by Jürgen Osterhammel and Niels P. Petersson
reviewed by Kevin H. O'Rourke on May 15, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System
by Barry J. Eichengreen
reviewed by George Selgin on October 6, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
God's Capitalist: Asa Candler of Coca-Cola
by Kathryn W. Kemp
reviewed by Thomas R. Winpenny on January 29, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory
by Lisa Jardine
reviewed by Anne E.C. McCants on July 7, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929
by Douglas Fetherling
reviewed by Ralph Mann on May 19, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Gold for the Sultan: Western Bankers and Ottoman Finance, 1856-1881
by Christopher Clay
reviewed by Faruk Tabak on September 9, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Gold Rush Capitalists: Greed and Growth in Sacramento
by Mark A. Eifler
reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on August 30, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Gold Standard Illusion: France, the Bank of France, and the International Gold Standard, 1914-1939
by Kenneth Moure
reviewed by Pierre Sicsic on January 21, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971
by Francis J. Gavin
reviewed by Harold James on January 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America
by Gretchen Ritter
reviewed by Larry Schweikart on October 14, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Golden Age: Essays in British Social and Economic History, 1850-1870
by Ian Inkster, Colin Griffin, Jeff Hill and Judith Rowbotham (editors)
reviewed by Giorgio Riello on February 18, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
by William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm
reviewed by William R. Keech on May 7, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
A Good Day's Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression
by Dwight W. Hoover
reviewed by Alan G. Bogue on October 24, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
reviewed by Milton Goldin on February 12, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Urban and Regional History (Z)
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)
The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer
by Jon Agar
reviewed by Roger Middleton on September 10, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
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)
Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor
by Craig Phelan
reviewed by Robert E. Weir on June 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Great Breakthrough and its Cause
by Julian Simon
reviewed by Paul M. Hohenberg on May 29, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
The Great Debate on Banking Reform: Nelson Aldrich and the Origins of the Fed
by Elmus Wicker
reviewed by Ellis W. Tallman on August 11, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Great Depression in Europe, 1929-1939
by Patricia Clavin
reviewed by Pete Ferderer on April 17, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Great Depression: An International Disaster of Perverse Economic Policies
by Thomas E. Hall and David J. Ferguson
reviewed by Elmus Wicker on August 20, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy
by Kenneth Pomeranz
reviewed by Deepak Lal on October 2, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster
by Werner Troesken
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on June 27, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Great Lobster War
by Ron Formisano
reviewed by Debbie Mullin on March 25, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
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 Population Spike and After: Reflections on the 21st Century
by W. W. Rostow
reviewed by Timothy W. Guinnane on June 8, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
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)
Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century
by Mark Blyth
reviewed by Janet T. Knoedler on August 6, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
by David Hackett Fischer
reviewed by John H. Munro on February 24, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Greatest Nation on Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War
by Heather Cox Richardson
reviewed by Gavin Wright on January 19, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
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)
Growth Company: Dow Chemical's First Century
by E. N. Brandt
reviewed by John K. Smith on January 19, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Growth of American Government: Governance from the Cleveland Era to the Present
by Ballard C. Campbell
reviewed by Rebecca Menes on September 2, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Growth of the Italian Economy 1820-1960
by Jon Cohen and Giovanni Federico
reviewed by Brian A'Hearn on September 27, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 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), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Growth Triumphant: The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective
by Richard A. Easterlin
reviewed by Dora L. Costa on August 23, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Growth, Inequality and Globalization: Theory, History and Policy
by Philippe Aghion and Jeffrey C. Williamson
reviewed by John R. Hanson on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Income and Wealth (Q)
Guardians of the Nation? Economists, General, and Economic Reform in Latin America
by Glen Biglaiser
reviewed by William McGreevey on May 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 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)
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)
Guns and Rubles: The Defense Industry in the Stalinist State
by Mark Harrison (editor)
reviewed by Steven Nafziger on December 15, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Military and War (O), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
reviewed by Joel Mokyr on May 28, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937
by Christopher A. Reed
reviewed by Elisabeth Köll on December 7, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
Hard Work: The Making of Labor History
by Melvyn Dubofsky
reviewed by Robert Whaples on June 15, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Harmony and the Balance: An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century English Economic Thought
by Andrea Finkelstein
reviewed by Edward J. Harpham on June 18, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek
by Bruce Caldwell
reviewed by D. E. Moggridge on July 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Hayek: Economist and Social Philosopher, A Critical Retrospect
by Stephen Frowen
reviewed by Steven Horwitz on June 11, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science
by Christopher Sellers
reviewed by Mark Aldrich on March 12, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past
by Dora L. Costa (editor)
reviewed by John E. Murray on January 5, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
Health and Welfare During the Industrial Revolution
by Richard Steckel and Roderick Floud
reviewed by Lee A. Craig on January 15, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Income and Wealth (Q)
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)
Henry George's Legacy in Economic Thought
by John Laurent (editor)
reviewed by Donald E. Frey on May 12, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Heqanakht Papyri
by James P. Allen
reviewed by Morris Silver on November 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)
Her Day in Court: Women’s Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada
by Maya Shatzmiller
reviewed by Ghislaine Lydon on May 1, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere: A Conceptual History, 1919-1933
by Vincent Gaddis
reviewed by Patrick D. Reagan on September 2, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life
by Mark Francis
reviewed by Sandra J. Peart on October 13, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War
by Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn
reviewed by Marianne Wanamaker on September 8, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Military and War (O), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Hidden Collective Factors in Speculative Trading: A Study in Analytical Economics
by Bertrand M. Roehner
reviewed by David A. Zalewski on February 21, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Hidden Cost of Economic Development: The Biological Standard of Living in Antebellum Pennsylvania
by Timothy Cuff
reviewed by Lee A. Craig on November 14, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980
by Timothy Minchin
reviewed by Thomas Lyons on June 18, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), 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)
The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory
by Ranjit S. Dighe (editor)
reviewed by Timothy E. Sullivan on January 20, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Historians of Economics and Economic Thought: The Construction of Disciplinary Memory
by Steven Medema and Warren Samuels (editors)
reviewed by Roger Frantz on October 4, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
A Historical Guide to World Slavery
by Seymour Drescher and Stanley L. Engerman
reviewed by Robert Whaples on July 28, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Markets and Institutions (W)
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, Volume Two: Work and Welfare
by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
reviewed by Thomas N. Maloney on August 4, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Historical Statistics of U.S.
by 1997 Cambridge University Press
reviewed by William Hutchinson on December 3, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
The Historicity of Economics: Continuities and Discontinuities of Historical Thought in 19th and 20th Century Economics
by Heino H. Nau and Bertram Schefold (editors)
reviewed by Roberto Romani on April 8, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century
by Ivan T. Berend
reviewed by Max-Stephan Schulze on August 17, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
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 Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building
by Howard Bodenhorn
reviewed by Jon Moen on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship
by Juliet E. K. Walker
reviewed by Maceo Dailey on June 11, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
The History of Consumer Credit: Doctrines and Practices
by Rosa-Maria Gelpi and François Julien-Labruyère
reviewed by Lendol G. Calder on August 25, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
A History of Corporate Finance
by Jonathan B. Baskin and Paul J. Miranti
reviewed by Robert E. Wright on July 20, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures
by Lionel Robbins
reviewed by Bradley W. Bateman on August 29, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The History of Family Business, 1850-2000
by Andrea Colli
reviewed by Alison C. Kay on December 23, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The History of Foreign Exchange
by Paul Einzig
reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on January 20, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945
by Mira Wilkins
reviewed by Michael Edelstein on January 28, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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 Mechanical Invention
by Abbott Payson Usher
reviewed by George Grantham on December 11, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
A History of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China's Finance Capitalism
by Zhaojin Ji
reviewed by Catherine Schenk on October 9, 2003
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 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)
A History of Monetary Unions
by John F. Chown
reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on August 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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 Russian Economic Thought
by Vincent Barnett
reviewed by Natalia A. Makasheva and Warren J. Samuels on February 5, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The History of the Bundesbank: Lessons for the European Central Bank
by Jakob de Haan (editor)
reviewed by Hans-Joachim Voth on August 22, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
A History of the Federal Reserve, Vol. I: 1913-51
by Allan H. Meltzer
reviewed by John H. Wood on June 25, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society
by Mary Poovey
reviewed by Timothy Alborn on September 13, 1999
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s
by Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley
reviewed by D. Jonathan Snyder on February 12, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Honorable Merchants: Commerce and Self-Cultivation in Late Imperial China
by Richard John Lufrano
reviewed by Kwan Man Bun on October 18, 1997
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Horses in Society: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920
by Margaret E. Derry
reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford on September 20, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Military and War (O)
A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia, 1800-1860
by John Majewski
reviewed by Thomas Weiss on December 8, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Household Accounts: Working Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States
by Susan Porter Benson
reviewed by Marianne Ward on February 18, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
by Olivia Remie Constable
reviewed by Avner Greif on July 25, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Ancient (2), Medieval (3)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
How America Got On-Line: Politics, Markets, and the Revolution in Telecommunications
by Alan Stone
reviewed by Aristotle Tympas on September 28, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
How Cartels Endure and How They Fail: Studies of Industrial Collusion
by Peter Z. Grossman (editor)
reviewed by Richard Sicotte on January 25, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
by Carl Abbott
reviewed by Fred H. Smith on May 26, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Urban and Regional History (Z)
How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy
by Richard H. K. Vietor
reviewed by Jari Eloranta on August 17, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
How Economics Became a Mathematical Science
by E. Roy Weintraub
reviewed by Robert D. Tollison on August 7, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson
reviewed by Julian Reiss on December 24, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan
by Kathleen Thelen
reviewed by Thomas N. Maloney on November 23, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics
by David M. Levy
reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman on December 20, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
How the Republicans Caused the Stock Market Crash of 1929: GPT's, Failed Transitions, and Commercial Policy
by Bernard C. Beaudreau
reviewed by Carlos D. Ramirez on August 24, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Hunger: A Modern History
by James Vernon
reviewed by Timothy Cuff on August 18, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), 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)
Ideologies and Institutions: American Conservative and Liberal Governance Prescriptions Since 1933
by J. Richard Piper
reviewed by Patrick D. Reagan on March 18, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Ideology and the International Economy: The Decline and Fall of Bretton Woods
by Robert Leeson
reviewed by Peter B. Kenen on August 2, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
If I Were Boss, The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis
by Sinclair Lewis
reviewed by Peter Baida on December 7, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Immigrants and the Industries of London, 1500-1700
by Lien Bich Luu
reviewed by Patrick Wallis on December 27, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
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)
The Impact of the English Civil War on the Economy of London, 1642-50
by Ben Coates
reviewed by Stephen Quinn on September 23, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Imperialism, Nationalism and the Making of the
by Aditya Mukherjee
reviewed by Tirthankar Roy on January 5, 2004
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns
by Dario Gaggio
reviewed by Hugo Ceron-Anaya on October 6, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
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 Praise of Empires: Globalization and Order
by Deepak Lal
reviewed by Jack A. Goldstone on February 24, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
by Alice Kessler-Harris
reviewed by Joyce P. Jacobsen on June 26, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906
by Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman and Karen Gleiter
reviewed by Donald G. Paterson on August 18, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
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)
In Search of Prosperity: Analytic Narratives on Economic Growth
by Dani Rodrik (editor)
reviewed by Richard Pomfret on August 22, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919
by Susan Zeiger
reviewed by Pamela Nickless on June 4, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States
by Angel Kwolek-Folland
reviewed by Mary A. Yeager on April 1, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
India and the World Economy, 1850-1950
by G. Balachandran (editor)
reviewed by David Clingingsmith on February 1, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
India: The Emerging Giant
by Arvind Panagariya
reviewed by Arjun Jayadev on September 29, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
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 Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities
by Anne Booth
reviewed by Jeroen Touwen on October 7, 1998
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Indonesian Exports, Peasant Agriculture and the World Economy, 1850-2000: Economic Structures in a Southeast Asian State
by Hiroyoshi Kano
reviewed by Pierre van der Eng on November 5, 2009
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Industrial Constructions: The Sources of German Industrial Power
by Gary Herrigel
reviewed by Ronald A. Shearer on January 29, 1998
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984
by Steven High
reviewed by Robert M. Schwab on September 25, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820-1920
by William H. Thiesen
reviewed by Richard Sicotte on November 3, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Military and War (O), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
Industrializing the Rockies: Growth, Competition, and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868-1914
by David A. Wolff
reviewed by Gerald Ronning on August 17, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
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)
Information Revolutions in the History of the West
by Leonard Dudley
reviewed by Eric Jones on December 16, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 17th Century (5), 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), Military and War (O), Markets and Institutions (W)
Inside IG Farben: Hoechst during the Third Reich
by Stephan H. Lindner
reviewed by Jonas Scherner on January 7, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Inside the Economist's Mind: Conversations with Eminent Economists
by Paul A. Samuelson and William Barnett (editors)
reviewed by Michael Szenberg on April 27, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Institutional Change and American Economic Growth
by Lance E. Davis and Douglass C. North
reviewed by Cynthia Taft Morris on November 4, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Institutions and Investment: The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico before 1911
by Edward Beatty
reviewed by Kenneth L. Sokoloff on June 7, 2002
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Markets and Institutions (W)
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade
by Avner Greif
reviewed by Philip T. Hoffman on August 7, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
International Banking and Financial Systems: Evolution and Stability
by Luigi De Rosa (editor)
reviewed by David A. Zalewski on March 23, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
International Economic Integration in Historical Perspective
by Dennis M.P. McCarthy
reviewed by John R. Hanson II on June 11, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
International Financial History in the Twentieth Century: System and Anarchy
by Marc Flandreau, Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich and Harold James (editors)
reviewed by Joseph R. Mason on March 3, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
International Organizations and the Analysis of Economic Policy, 1919-1950
by Anthony M. Endres and Grant A. Fleming
reviewed by D. E. Moggridge on December 19, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The International Origins of the Federal Reserve System
by J. Lawrence Broz
reviewed by David C. Wheelock on June 3, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
International Trade and Political Institutions: Instituting Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century
by Fiona McGillivray, Iain McLean, Robert Pahre and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
reviewed by John V.C. Nye on July 23, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945 to 2005
by Paul E. Ceruzzi
reviewed by Glenn Bugos on November 3, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Military and War (O), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia, 1917-1929
by James W. Heinzen
reviewed by Stephen Wheatcroft on June 17, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E)
Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981
by Amy Sue Bix
reviewed by Robert H. Zieger on September 21, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
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)
Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries
by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
reviewed by Kenneth Lipartito on January 8, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), 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 Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece
by David M. Schaps
reviewed by Morris Silver on April 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Investing for Middle America: John Elliot Tappan and the Origins of American Express Financial Advisors
by Kenneth Lipartito and Carol Heher Peters
reviewed by Douglas Steeples on February 19, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Invisible Fuel: Manufactured and Natural Gas in America, 1800-2000
by Christopher J. Castaneda
reviewed by Andrew Jenkins on July 2, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers
by Herbert H. Harwood Jr.
reviewed by Fred H. Smith on August 5, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
by Peter T. Leeson
reviewed by Daniel K. Benjamin on October 3, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Iron Horse and the Windy City: How Railroads Shaped Chicago
by David M. Young
reviewed by Louis P. Cain on September 26, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Iron Shipbuilding on the Thames, 1832-1915: An Economic and Business History
by A. J. Arnold
reviewed by Jon Sumida on January 28, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture and Justice in America
by John David Skretny
reviewed by Paul Moreno on October 29, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Irony of State Intervention: American Industrial Relations Policy in Comparative Perspective, 1914-1939
by Larry G. Gerber
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on February 17, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Irrigation Development and Agrarian Change: A Study of Sindh, Pakistan
by Jayantha Perera
reviewed by Anwar Naseem on May 26, 2006
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
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)
Is War Necessary for Economic Growth? Military Procurement and Technology Development
by Vernon W. Ruttan
reviewed by Robert Higgs on June 21, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Military and War (O)
Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism
by Timur Kuran
reviewed by Frederic L. Pryor on August 23, 2004
  • Geographic area: Middle East (6)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States
by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks
reviewed by Eric Rauchway on April 13, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer before and after the Bayh-Dole Act
by David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, Bhaven N. Sampat and Arvids A. Ziedonis
reviewed by Roberto Mazzoleni on November 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980
by Christopher Newfield
reviewed by Henry J. Bruton on April 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Jacksonian Economy
by Peter Temin
reviewed by Richard Sylla on August 17, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949
by Kaoru Sugihara (editor)
reviewed by Ming-Hsuan Lee on December 17, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920
by Masayo Umezawa Duus
reviewed by Edward D. Beechert on February 21, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Japanese Economic System and Its Historical Origins
by Tetsuji Okazaki and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara (editors)
reviewed by Jennifer Frankl on August 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Japanese Industrial History: Technology, Urbanization, and Economic Growth
by Carl Mosk
reviewed by Mark Metzler on January 22, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Geography (K), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Japanese Success? British Failure? Comparisons in Business Performance since 1945
by Etsuo Abe and Terry Gourvish (editors)
reviewed by Andrew C. Godley on February 19, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873
by M. John Lubetkin
reviewed by Ann Harper Fender on July 24, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
Jean-Baptiste Say and the Classical Canon in Economics: The British Connection in French Classicism
by Samuel Hollander
reviewed by Maria de Fátima Brandão on December 16, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in New York and London, 1880-1914: Enterprise and Culture
by Andrew Godley
reviewed by Carmel U. Chiswick on June 3, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits
by W. Carl Biven
reviewed by Toby G. Bates on January 23, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
Joan Robinson's Economics: A Centennial Celebration
by Bill Gibson (editor)
reviewed by Michael S. Lawlor on November 13, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics
by Richard Parker
reviewed by Peter J. Boettke on November 6, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace
by Donald Markwell
reviewed by Michael S. Lawlor on February 2, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
John Stewart Kennedy: The Man Who Found the Money
by Saul Engelbourg and Leonard Bushkoff
reviewed by Albert J. Churella on August 25, 1997
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier
by Albert L. Hurtado
reviewed by Lynne Pierson Doti on September 13, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
JSTOR: A History
by Roger C. Schonfield
reviewed by Royce Kurtz on October 24, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Just Taxes: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1914-1979
by Martin Daunton
reviewed by Hugh Pemberton on March 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole and Rehabilitation
by Peter Fearon
reviewed by Todd Sorensen on November 5, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Kellogg's Six-Hour Day
by Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt
reviewed by Robert Whaples on September 11, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Kennedy-Johnson Tax Cut: A Revisionist History
by Martin F. J. Prachowny
reviewed by Richard K. Vedder on October 17, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Keynes and His Battles
by Gilles Dostaler
reviewed by M. G. Hayes on August 23, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Keynes, Chicago and Friedman
by Robert Leeson
reviewed by Warren J. Samuels on February 2, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
Kill and Chill: Restructuring Canada's Beef Commodity Chain
by Ian MacLachlan
reviewed by Daniel V. Gordon on May 24, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Kimono in the Boardroom: the Invisible Evolution of Japanese Women Managers
by Jean R. Renshaw
reviewed by Christienne L. Hinz on September 19, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions
by Johann Peter Murmann
reviewed by Brent Goldfarb on September 17, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Knowledge Works: Managing Intellectual Capital at Toshiba
by W. Mark Fruin
reviewed by Andrew Robertson on July 7, 1999
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Korea Under Siege, 1876-1945: Capital Formation and Economic Transformation
by Young-Iob Chung
reviewed by Myung Soo Cha on October 20, 2006
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
L'électricité en réseaux: Networks of Power
by Thomas Hughes
reviewed by John Neufeld on June 22, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
La Compañía de Tranvías de La Coruña, 1901-2005: Redes de transporte local
by Alberte Martínez, Carlos Piñeiro and Carlos Velasco
reviewed by Jesús Mirás-Araujo on December 22, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
La conexión cubana: Narcotráfico, contrabando y juego en Cuba entre los años 20 y comienzos de la Revolución
by Eduardo Saenz Rovner
reviewed by William McGreevey on August 22, 2005
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
La economía argentina en la segunda mitad del siglo XX
by Juan Carlos de Pablo
reviewed by Kurt Schuler on November 28, 2005
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
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)
Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism
by Jonathan Cutler
reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd on April 22, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Laboring for Freedom: A New Look at the History of Labor in America
by Daniel Jacoby
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on November 16, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Labor’s Canvas: American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s
by Laura Hapke
reviewed by Cameron M. Weber on May 13, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Labour, Land and Capital: From Slavery to Free Labour in Asante, 1807-1956
by Gareth Austin
reviewed by Nathan Nunn on August 21, 2006
  • Geographic area: Africa (1)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
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 Rights, Ethno-Nationality and Sovereignty in History
by Stanley L. Engerman and Jacob Metzer (editors)
reviewed by David M. Wishart on February 26, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Land, Power, and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada
by John Clarke
reviewed by Douglas McCalla on April 19, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K)
Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925
by Douglas C. Harris
reviewed by D. Bruce Johnsen on July 22, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America
by Steven Stoll
reviewed by Julia A. King on September 24, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Latin America and the World Economy since 1800
by John Coatsworth and Alan Taylor
reviewed by Richard Salvucci on February 21, 2000
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the South
by William G. Thomas
reviewed by William R. Childs on May 9, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries
by Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff and Peter Temin
reviewed by Henry A. Gemery on February 15, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
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 Legacy of Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose: Economic Liberalism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
by Mark Wynne, Harvey Rosenblum and Robert Formaini (editors)
reviewed by Ranald Taylor and Robert Leeson on November 8, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Les écrits de Fernand Braudel and Les mémoires de la Méditerranée: préhistoire et antiquité
by Fernand Braudel
reviewed by Cheng-chung Lai on August 23, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Les entrepreneurs du Second Empire
by Dominique Barjot, Eric Anceau, Isabelle Lescent-Giles and Bruno Marnot
reviewed by Jean-Pierre Dormois on January 18, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan
by Mark Metzler
reviewed by Eugene N. White on January 2, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O)
The Liability Century: Insurance and Tort Law from the Progressive Era to 9/11
by Kenneth S. Abraham
reviewed by Sachin S. Pandya on May 5, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime: The Creation of Private Property in Russia, 1906-1915
by Stephen F. Williams
reviewed by Steven Nafziger on July 27, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman
by Maury Klein
reviewed by Albert J. Churella on August 29, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Limits of Protectionism: Building Coalitions for Free Trade
by Michael Lusztig
reviewed by Anthony Patrick O'Brien on December 3, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Lincoln Electric: A History
by Virginia P. Dawson
reviewed by Daniel Nelson on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class and Revolution, 1830-1890
by Andrew Dawson
reviewed by Ken Fones-Wolf on August 24, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Living Economic and Social History
by Pat Hudson (editor)
reviewed by Simon Ville on March 15, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
A Living Wage
by Lawrence B. Glickman
reviewed by Richard Schneirov on July 3, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: 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)
Living with the Century
by Alec Cairncross
reviewed by Neil Rollings on August 8, 2000
  • Geographic area:
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy
by Richard K. Marshall
reviewed by Russell Ives Court on November 22, 1999
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier
by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
reviewed by Anthony J. Amato on March 11, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K)
The Logic of Charity: Amsterdam, 1800-1850
by Marco H. D. van Leeuwen
reviewed by George R. Boyer on December 7, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century
by Youssef Cassis and Éric Bussière (editors)
reviewed by Mira Wilkins on November 15, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets during Industrialization
by Joshua L. Rosenbloom
reviewed by Warren C. Whatley on October 18, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization
by Saskia Sassen
reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on March 31, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Lost Art of Economics: Essays on Economics and the Economics Profession
by David Colander
reviewed by Lall B. Ramrattan on February 20, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
Maffeo Pantaleoni: At the Origin of the Italian School of Economics and Finance
by Mario Baldassarri
reviewed by Luigino Bruni on February 6, 1998
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970-2002
by Richard Saunders Jr.
reviewed by William R. Childs on April 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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 a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain, 850-1520
by Christopher Dyer
reviewed by James Masschaele on September 9, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry
by James M. Rubenstein
reviewed by Thomas Winpenny on February 25, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Making Chicago Price Theory: Friedman-Stigler Correspondence, 1945-1957
by J. Daniel Hammond and Claire H. Hammond (editors)
reviewed by Craig Freedman on September 27, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Making Connections: The Long-distance Bus Industry in the USA
by Margaret Walsh
reviewed by John Singleton on February 16, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Making Freedom Pay: North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves, 1864-1900
by Sharon Ann Holt
reviewed by Nancy Virts on May 21, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Making Health Work: Human Growth in Modern Japan
by Carl Mosk
reviewed by Mitsuhiko Kimura on October 31, 1997
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
Making History Count: A Primer in Quantitative Methods for Historians
by Charles H. Feinstein and Mark Thomas
reviewed by Walter D. Kamphoefner on March 5, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
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)
The Making of Global Finance, 1880-1913
by Marc Flandreau and Frederic Zumer
reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on February 1, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Making of Harrod's Dynamics
by Daniele Besomi
reviewed by Steve Keen on April 11, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective
by Eric Helleiner
reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on September 26, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo Leon, 1848-1910
by Juan Mora-Torres
reviewed by Jeremy Baskes on June 25, 2002
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change
by Morris L. Bian
reviewed by Tim Wright on November 12, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Military and War (O), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Making Peasants Backward: Managing Populations in Russian Agricultural Cooperatives, 1861-1914
by Yanni Kotsonis
reviewed by Oliver Hayward on May 12, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
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)
Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970
by Christophe Lecuyer
reviewed by Glenn Bugos on February 5, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States: A Reader
by David C. Hammack
reviewed by Milton Goldin on April 10, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream
by M. Jeffrey Hardwick
reviewed by Scott J. Vitell on April 2, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Man behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
by Leslie Berlin
reviewed by Rasigan Maharajh on December 6, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance
by Dan Rottenberg
reviewed by Daniel A. Schiffman on January 8, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Management of the British Economy, 1945-2001
by Nicholas Woodward
reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk on September 9, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Managing for the Long Run: Lessons in Competitive Advantage from Great Family Businesses
by Danny Miller and Isabel Le Breton-Miller
reviewed by Jeffrey J. Matthews on August 8, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism
by Sarah Babb
reviewed by Jaime Ros on July 29, 2005
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Managing the Modern Workplace: Productivity, Politics, and Workplace Culture in Postwar Britain
by Joseph Melling and Alan Booth (editors)
reviewed by Mike Richardson on August 9, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T)
Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America
by Robert E. May
reviewed by Ben Wynne on February 25, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Manpower in Economic Growth: The American Record since 1800
by Stanley Lebergott
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on February 27, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
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)
Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric
by Stephen B. Adams and Orville R. Butler
reviewed by Eric John Abrahamson on February 4, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
by David Christian
reviewed by J.W. Drukker on January 23, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Markets and Institutions (W)
Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold Innis
by Alexander John Watson
reviewed by Robin Neill on March 15, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and His Business Network, 1823-1893
by J. Forbes Munro
reviewed by Nicholas J. White on October 16, 2003
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Maritime Traders in the Ancient Greek World
by Charles M. Reed
reviewed by Darel Tai Engen on July 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Market Dominance: How Firms Gain, Hold, or Lose It and the Impact on Economic Performance
by David I. Rosenbaum (editor)
reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on March 2, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Market Education: The Unknown History
by Andrew J. Coulson
reviewed by Martin West on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)
Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850-2000: British Performance in International Perspective
by Stephen Broadberry
reviewed by Alex Field on June 15, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Market, the State, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 1934-2000
by William H. Becker and William M. McClenahan Jr.
reviewed by Jonathan J. Bean on July 1, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Marketing Michelin: Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France
by Stephen L. Harp
reviewed by Esther Redmount on September 16, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Marketplace of Christianity
by Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Robert F. Hébert and Robert D. Tollison
reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond on March 29, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence
by T. H. Breen
reviewed by Farley Grubb on December 7, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Marshall Plan: Fifty Years After
by Martin A. Schain (editor)
reviewed by Albrecht Ritschl on March 19, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Marshall's Tendencies: What Can Economists Know?
by John Sutton
reviewed by Bruce Larson on March 28, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream: How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business
by Jane R. Plitt
reviewed by Sheila L. Skemp on August 12, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Mass Migration under Sail: European Immigration to the Antebellum United States
by Scott A. Carson
reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on May 18, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Mass Motorization and Mass Transit: An American History and Policy Analysis
by David W. Jones
reviewed by James A. Dunn Jr. on December 24, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Mass Production, the Stock Market Crash, and the Great Depression: The Macroeconomics of Electrification
by Bernard C. Beaudreau
reviewed by William J. Hausman on February 28, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
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)
Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South
by William Kauffman Scarborough
reviewed by Robert Gudmestad on March 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
The Mechanics of Optimism: Mining Companies, Technology, and the Hot Spring Gold Rush, Montana Territory, 1864-1868
by Jeffery J. Safford
reviewed by Lynne Pierson Doti on November 16, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
Medieval Economic Thought
by Diana Wood
reviewed by Lawrin Armstrong on August 27, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Filling the Great Gap in European Economics
by S.M. Ghazanfar (editor)
reviewed by M. Umer Chapra on October 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Mediterranean Response to Globalization before 1950
by Sevket Pamuk and Jeffrey G. Williamson (editors)
reviewed by James Simpson on August 22, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Mellon: An American Life
by David Cannadine
reviewed by Robert Whaples on December 29, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Men and Menswear: Sartorial Consumption in Britain, 1880-1939
by Laura Ugolini
reviewed by Clare Rose on June 26, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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 Markets in Revolutionary Russia, 1917-1930
by Arup Banerji
reviewed by Alan Ball on January 5, 1998
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
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 Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China
by Madeleine Zelin
reviewed by Carol H. Shiue on September 5, 2006
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
by Geoffrey Jones
reviewed by Mira Wilkins on August 22, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Merging Lines: American Railroads, 1900-1970
by Richard Saunders Jr.
reviewed by William Huneke on February 20, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Mexican Economy, 1870-1930: Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth
by Jeffrey L. Bortz and Stephen Haber (editors)
reviewed by Philip Keefer on March 15, 2003
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Migration and Economic Growth: A Study of Great Britain and the Atlantic Economy
by Brinley Thomas
reviewed by James Foreman-Peck on August 14, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Migration and Inequality in Germany, 1870-1913
by Oliver Grant
reviewed by Simone A. Wegge on April 21, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Mills in the Medieval Economy: England, 1300-1540
by John Langdon
reviewed by Karine van der Beek on January 8, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
The Mining Law of 1872: Past, Politics, and Prospects
by Gordon Morris Bakken
reviewed by Gary D. Libecap on December 9, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement
by James B. Jacobs
reviewed by Melvyn Dubofsky on October 19, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Modeling Rational Agents: From Interwar Economics to Early Modern Game Theory
by Nicola Giocoli
reviewed by Esther-Mirjam Sent on December 19, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Modelling the Middle Ages: The History and Theory of England's Economic Development
by John Hatcher and Mark Bailey
reviewed by Gary Richardson on March 17, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal
by Sanford M. Jacoby
reviewed by Michael Huberman on March 18, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal
by Sanford M. Jacoby
reviewed by Edward Berkowitz on February 28, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade, and the Railways, 1917-1924
by Anthony Heywood
reviewed by Oliver Hayward on September 15, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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 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)
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 United States, 1867-1960
by Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz
reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on January 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Monetary History, Exchange Rates and Financial Markets: Essays in Honour of Charles Goodhart, Volume Two
by Paul Mizen (editor)
reviewed by Lars Jonung on March 10, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
Monetary Policy and the Great Inflation in the United States: The Federal Reserve and the Failure of Macroeconomic Policy, 1965-79
by Thomas Mayer
reviewed by Stephen J. Perez on January 26, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve: A History
by Robert L. Hetzel
reviewed by Gary Richardson on December 3, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Monetary Regimes and Inflation: History, Economic and Political Relationships
by Peter Bernholz
reviewed by Pierre Siklos on July 22, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Monetary Regimes of the Twentieth Century
by Andrew Britton
reviewed by George Macesich on August 8, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Monetary Standards in the Periphery: Paper, Silver and Gold, 1854-1933
by Pablo Martin Acena and Jaime Reis
reviewed by Angela Redish on September 18, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Monetary Theory and Bretton Woods: The Construction of an International Monetary Order
by Filippo Cesarano
reviewed by John H. Wood on June 2, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Money and Its Uses in the Ancient Greek World
by Andrew Meadows and Kirsty Shipton (editors)
reviewed by David M. Schaps on April 8, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Money and Monetary Regimes: Struggle for Monetary Supremacy
by George Macesich
reviewed by Gerald P. Dwyer Jr. on May 17, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Money and Morals in America: A History
by Patricia O'Toole
reviewed by Donald Frey on January 25, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Money and Politics: European Monetary Unification and the International Gold Standard (1865-1873)
by Luca Einaudi
reviewed by Benjamin J. Cohen on January 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy
by Richard Seaford
reviewed by David Tandy on March 9, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Money and the Nation State: The Financial Revolution, Government and the World Monetary System
by Kevin Dowd and Richard H. Timberlake Jr. (editors)
reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on November 18, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: Financing the Vatican, 1850-1950
by Stephen F. Pollard
reviewed by Patrick J. Hayes on June 3, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Money Doctors: The Experience of Financial Advising, 1850-2000
by Marc Flandreau (editor)
reviewed by Anna J. Schwartz on September 21, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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, Land and Trade: An Economic History of the Muslim Mediterranean
by Nelly Hanna (editor)
reviewed by Metin Cosgel on August 8, 2003
  • Geographic area: Middle East (6)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Money, Markets and Trade in Late Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of John H.A. Munro
by Lawrin Armstrong, Ivana Elbl and Martin M. Elb (editors)
reviewed by Karine van der Beek on September 5, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Money, Markets, and Sovereignty
by Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds
reviewed by George Selgin on November 4, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • 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)
Monitoring the World Economy: 1820-1992
by Angus Maddison
reviewed by John R. Hanson on February 5, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates
by Charles R. Geisst
reviewed by Werner Troesken on August 14, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
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)
Moose Pastures and Mergers: The Ontario Securities Commission and the Regulation of Share Markets in Canada, 1940-1980
by Christopher Armstrong
reviewed by Ben Forster on January 31, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America
by Robert M. Collins
reviewed by William Keech on February 13, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
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)
Moving Money: Banking and Finance in the Industrializing World
by Daniel Verdier
reviewed by Scott A. Redenius on October 7, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Mr. Kaiser Goes to Washington: The Rise of a Government Entrepreneur
by Stephen B. Adams
reviewed by Mark S. Foster on January 14, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Much More than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921
by Robert F. Burk
reviewed by Michael Haupert on January 21, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T)
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)
Muslim Civilization: The Causes of Decline and the Need for Reform
by M. Umer Chapra
reviewed by Jared Rubin on June 16, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (l), Military and War (O), Markets and Institutions (W)
Mutually Beneficial: The Guardian and Life Insurance in America
by Robert E. Wright and George David Smith
reviewed by Richard H. Keehn on November 30, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Mystery of Economic Growth
by Elhanan Helpman
reviewed by George K. Davis on March 29, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
NASA and the Space Industry
by Joan Lisa Bromberg
reviewed by Glenn Bugos on April 26, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
NASA and the Space Industry
by Joan Lisa Bromberg
reviewed by Roger Handberg on February 20, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty: The Critical Years, 1806-1816
by Herbert H. Kaplan
reviewed by Brandon Dupont on February 16, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O)
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States
by Stephen Mihm
reviewed by Jane Knodell on January 23, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
Nation, State, and the Economy in History
by Alice Teichova and Herbert Matis (editors)
reviewed by Joerg Baten on April 23, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
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)
Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1920
by Anne G. Hanley
reviewed by Gail D. Triner on March 9, 2006
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Natural Gas Market: Sixty Years of Regulation and Deregulation
by Paul W. MacAvoy
reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on July 30, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Natural Instability of Markets: Expectations, Increasing Returns, and the Collapse of Capitalism
by Michael Perelman
reviewed by Thomas E. Hall on May 15, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Natural Resources: Neither Curse nor Destiny
by Daniel Lederman and William F. Maloney (editors)
reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman on February 22, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush
by Kathryn Morse
reviewed by Mark Kanazawa on December 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Nature: An Economic History
by Geerat J. Vermeij
reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on April 8, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Naukratis: Trade in Archaic Greece
by Astrid Möller
reviewed by David Tandy on February 13, 2002
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America
by Edward J. Balleisen
reviewed by Bradley A. Hansen on July 31, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America
by David R. Meyer
reviewed by Ross Thomson on June 18, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995
by Louis Galambos and Jane E. Sewell
reviewed by James H. Madison on November 18, 1996
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995
by Louis Galambos and Jane E. Sewell
reviewed by Marvin Fischbaum on January 27, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
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 Deal and Public Policy
by Byron D. Daynes, William D. Pederson and Michael P. Riccards
reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on April 5, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
New Deal Fat Cats: Business, Labor, and Campaign Finance in the 1936 Presidential Election
by Michael J. Webber
reviewed by Jim F. Couch on July 5, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
A New Economic History of Argentina
by Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor (editors)
reviewed by Joseph S. Tulchin on February 17, 2005
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
A New Economic History of Argentina
by Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor (editors)
reviewed by David Rock on July 22, 2004
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
New Frontiers in the Economics of Innovation and New Technology: Essays in Honour of Paul A. David
by Cristiano Antonelli, Dominique Foray, Bronwyn H. Hall and W. Edward Steinmueller (editors)
reviewed by James Bessen on February 22, 2007
  • Geographic area:
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
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)
The New South's New Frontier: A Social History of Economic Development in Southwestern North Carolina
by Stephen Wallace Taylor
reviewed by William H. Phillips on March 13, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Urban and Regional History (Z)
New Spain's Century of Depression
by Woodrow Wilson Borah
reviewed by Richard Salvucci on August 1, 2001
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
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)
The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad
by Robert E. Mohowski
reviewed by H. Roger Grant on November 12, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes
by Allen J. Matusow
reviewed by David Stebenne on August 24, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
No Ordinary Academics: Economics and Political Science at the University of Saskatchewan, 1910-1960
by Shirley Spafford
reviewed by Robin F. Neill on September 22, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Nonprofits and Government: Collaboration and Conflict
by Elizabeth T. Boris and C. Eugene Steuerle
reviewed by Milton Goldin on July 16, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
by Robert Wright
reviewed by J. Bradford De Long on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War
by David G. Surdam
reviewed by Roger L. Ransom on November 14, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Norwegian Catch-Up: Development and Globalization before World War II
by Jonathon W. Moses
reviewed by Ola Honningdal Grytten on October 14, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier
by Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill
reviewed by Frank D. Lewis on January 6, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
A Not-So-Dismal Science: A Broader View of Economies and Societies
by Mancur Olson and Satu Kähkönen (editors)
reviewed by John Adams on March 7, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Markets and Institutions (W)
Nylon: The Story of a Fashion Revolution
by Susannah Handley
reviewed by Michael Palairet on November 9, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn
by Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias
reviewed by David B. Danbom on August 31, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Oil and Development in Venezuela during the 20th Century
by Jorge Salazar-Carrillo and Bernadette West
reviewed by M. del Mar Rubio on November 18, 2004
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Oil and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-63
by Uri Bialer
reviewed by Nachum Gross on May 19, 1999
  • Geographic area: Middle East (6)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America
by Sean Patrick Adams
reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on May 6, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), 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)
On Hollywood: The Place, the Industry
by Allen J. Scott
reviewed by Mike Haupert on October 18, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Geography (K), Urban and Regional History (Z)
On the Border of Economic Theory and History
by Amit Bhaduri
reviewed by Marcia J. Frost on May 1, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment
by Geoff Cunfer
reviewed by Matthew T. Gregg on April 24, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K)
On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry
by Liesl Miller Orenic
reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd Jr. on August 27, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency
by Robert Kanigel
reviewed by Hindy Lauer Schachter on November 10, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928
by Matthew J. Mancini
reviewed by Garland Brinkley on October 29, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth
by Dani Rodrik
reviewed by Alice Amsden on October 1, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal
by David E. Bernstein
reviewed by Richard K. Vedder on April 11, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776
by Alfred E. Jr. Eckes
reviewed by Bruce A. Khula on November 2, 1995
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Opening the West: Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860
by Laurence J. Malone
reviewed by John Joseph Wallis on October 23, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden
by Douglas Cazaux Sackman
reviewed by Paul Rhode on November 14, 2006
  • Geographic area: Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Order against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913
by William Summerhill
reviewed by Albert Fishlow on August 3, 2005
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Orderly Change: International Monetary Relations since Bretton Woods
by David M. Andrews (editor)
reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on September 26, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O)
The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century
by Roger E. Backhouse
reviewed by Warren J. Samuels on August 7, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism
by Charles Perrow
reviewed by Vicki Howard on August 3, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914: Social Policies Compared
by E. P. Hennock
reviewed by Bernard Harris on August 25, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
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)
Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds
by John E. Murray
reviewed by Melissa A. Thomasson on February 4, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
The Origins of National Financial Systems: Alexander Gerschenkron Reconsidered
by Douglas J. Forsyth and Daniel Verdier (editors)
reviewed by Richard Sylla on March 25, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Origins of the American Income Tax: The Revenue Act of 1894 and Its Aftermath
by Richard J. Joseph
reviewed by W. Elliot Brownlee on September 28, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Origins of the British Welfare State: Social Welfare in England and Wales, 1800-1945
by Bernard Harris
reviewed by Mary MacKinnon on February 16, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce, AD 300-900
by Michael McCormick
reviewed by David Griffiths on July 16, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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)
Other People's Money: Debt Denomination and Financial Instability in Emerging Market Economies
by Barry Eichengreen and Ricardo Hausmann (editors)
reviewed by Hans-Joachim Voth on November 21, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Other Side of the Frontier: Economic Explorations into Native American History
by Linda Barrington
reviewed by Thomas Weiss on January 19, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Owens Valley Revisited: A Reassessment of the West's First Great Water Transfer
by Gary D. Libecap
reviewed by Mark Kanazawa on March 1, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Income and Wealth (Q), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
by Joel Mokyr (editor)
reviewed by Robert Whaples on April 20, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
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)
Pain and Profits: The History of the Headache and Its Remedies in America
by Jan R. McTavish
reviewed by Marc Law on May 12, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Painting Outside the Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art
by David W. Galenson
reviewed by Richard Agnello on May 31, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm
by Robert F. Bruner and Sean D. Carr
reviewed by Jon R. Moen on October 3, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction
by David Zimmerman
reviewed by Scott Dalrymple on October 26, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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 Past and Future of America's Economy: Long Waves of Innovation that Power Cycles of Growth
by Robert D. Atkinson
reviewed by Wyatt Wells on May 26, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Past and Future of Central Bank Cooperation
by Claudio Borio, Gianni Toniolo and Piet Clement (editors)
reviewed by C.A.E. Goodhart on February 23, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art
by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
reviewed by Bernadine Barnes on February 21, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Patterns of Speculation: A Study in Observational Econophysics
by Bertrand M. Roehner
reviewed by Graeme D. Snooks on February 12, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Paul Samuelson: On Being an Economist
by Michael Szenberg, Aron Gottesman and Lall Ramrattan
reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond on March 5, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control
by Philip J. Cook
reviewed by Mark Thornton on April 2, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Cote D'Ivoire, 1880-1995
by Thomas J. Bassett
reviewed by Sylvain H. Boko on September 30, 2003
  • Geographic area: Africa (1)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
The Peasants of Languedoc
by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
reviewed by Anne E.C. McCants on December 12, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Peasants, Merchants, and Markets: Inland Trade in Medieval England, 1150-1350
by James Masschaele
reviewed by Gregory Clark on April 1, 1998
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Peddling Panaceas: Popular Economists in the New Deal Era
by Gary Dean Best
reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on October 10, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
A Penny for the Governor, A Dollar for Uncle Sam: Income Taxation in Washington
by Phil Roberts
reviewed by Terri A. Sexton on October 15, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Pensions, Politics, and the Elderly: Historic Social Movements and Their Lessons for Our Aging Society
by Daniel J. B. Mitchell
reviewed by Robert Whaples on January 7, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
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)
A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America
by Michael A. Bernstein
reviewed by William J. Barber on April 2, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States since 1945
by William A. Darity Jr. and Samuel L. Myers Jr.
reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on February 15, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Peter Tait: A Remarkable Story
by John E. Waite
reviewed by James Jaffe on December 4, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Military and War (O)
Philanthropic Foundations: New Scholarship, New Possibilities
by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
reviewed by Milton Goldin on August 30, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Physioeconomics: The Basis for Long-Run Economic Growth
by Philip Parker
reviewed by Sylvain H. Boko on September 12, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
Pioneers of Financial Economics: Volume 2, Twentieth-Century Contributions
by Geoffrey Poitras (editor)
reviewed by Ramon P. DeGennaro on October 29, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Planning Ahead and Falling Behind: The East German Economy in Comparison with West Germany, 1936-2002
by Jaap Sleifer
reviewed by Timothy W. Guinnane on January 19, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 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)
Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia
by Chad Morgan
reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams on July 22, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Military and War (O), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
by William F. Ruddiman
reviewed by Robert Whaples on July 21, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce
by Sarah Abrevaya Stein
reviewed by Andrew Godley on June 23, 2009
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
by Meg Jacobs
reviewed by Robert Collins on July 13, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W)
Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches
by Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal
reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on August 15, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Income and Wealth (Q)
Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations
by Peter Bernholz and Roland Vaubel (editors)
reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman on April 5, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K)
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 American Industrialization, 1877-1900
by Richard Franklin Bensel
reviewed by David L. Carlton on August 7, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Political Economy of Argentina in the Twentieth Century
by Roberto Cortés Conde
reviewed by André Martínez Fritscher on July 3, 2009
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, c. 1350-1650
by Carla M. Sinopoli
reviewed by Prasannan Parthasarathi on October 27, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Political Economy of Protection: Theory and the Chilean Experience
by Daniel Lederman
reviewed by Douglas A. Irwin on January 28, 2006
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The 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 Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives
by Paul R. Gregory
reviewed by Mark Harrison on July 10, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Political Economy of the New Deal
by Jim Couch and William F. Shughart II
reviewed by Price V. Fishback on June 21, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Political Economy of the World Bank: The Early Years
by Michele Alacevich
reviewed by Louis Galambos on October 14, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
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)
Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America: Essays in Policy, History, and Political Economy
by Stephen Haber (editor)
reviewed by Anne Hanley on April 18, 2001
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Political Institutions and Financial Development
by Stephen Haber, Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast (editors)
reviewed by Claudia Rei on July 2, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South
by Shawn Everett Kantor
reviewed by Dennis Halcoussis on August 13, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
The Politics of Child Support in America
by Jocelyn Elise Crowley
reviewed by Stephen T. Ziliak on March 24, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876-1929
by Stephen Haber, Armando Razo and Noel Maurer
reviewed by Gary Libecap on May 21, 2004
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: A Choice of Pleasures
by John Sedgwick
reviewed by Michael J. Haupert on July 27, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Popularization of Malthus in Early Nineteenth-Century England: Martineau, Cobbett and the Pauper Press
by James P. Huzel
reviewed by David M. Levy on March 26, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
Populism
by Worth Robert Miller
reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on February 13, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Poverty and Life Expectancy: The Jamaica Paradox
by James C. Riley
reviewed by Chulhee Lee on January 30, 2007
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
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)
Poverty in Britain, 1900-1965
by Ian Gazeley
reviewed by George R. Boyer on November 23, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
Poverty in the Roman World
by Margaret Atkins and Robin Osborne (editors)
reviewed by Willem M. Jongman on July 19, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Poverty, Wealth, Dictatorship, Democracy: Resource Scarcity and the Origins of Dictatorship
by Jack Barkstrom
reviewed by Peter Baofu on January 6, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)
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)
The Power and the Money: The Mexican Financial System, 1876-1932
by Noel Maurer
reviewed by Enrique Cárdenas on September 11, 2003
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age
by Steven Leiken
reviewed by Ken Fones-Wolf on March 30, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation
by Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor
reviewed by Mark Aldrich on February 6, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
Prelude to Trade Wars: American Tariff Policy, 1890-1922
by Edward S. Kaplan and Thomas W. Ryley
reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on March 20, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Price of Progress: Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 to 1929
by R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson
reviewed by W. Elliot Brownlee on November 20, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
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)
Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic
by Rosalind Remer
reviewed by Richard R. John on October 15, 1996
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic
by Rosalind Remer
reviewed by Philip Scranton on December 19, 1996
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Private and Public Enterprises in Europe: Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830-1990
by Robert Millward
reviewed by Pier Angelo Toninelli on February 20, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
Production Efficiency in Domesday England, 1086
by John McDonald
reviewed by Maristella Botticini on March 15, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry: Labour, Capital, and Technology in Britain and America, 1860-1914
by Gary Bryan Magee
reviewed by Andrew C. Godley on February 17, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Profiting the Crown: Canada's Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990
by Matthew J. Bellamy
reviewed by Heather Nelson on February 19, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the 20th Century
by Rosemary Thorp
reviewed by Alan M. Taylor on August 16, 1999
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Promise of Private Pensions: The First Hundred Years
by Steven A. Sass
reviewed by Samuel H. Williamson on October 12, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
by Thomas K. McCraw
reviewed by Richard N. Langlois on November 14, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
by Max Weber
reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman on March 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), 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)
Public Enterprise Revisited: A Closer Look at the 1954-79 UK Labour Productivity Record
by Chrisafis H. Iordanoglou
reviewed by Stephen N. Broadberry on May 3, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937
by Susan M. Sterett
reviewed by Joanna Short on December 9, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
Public Spending in the 20th Century: A Global Perspective
by Vito Tanzi and Ludger Schuknecht
reviewed by Roger Middleton on October 16, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China
by Kai-wing Chow
reviewed by Nathan Sivin on October 29, 2004
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Puissants et misérables: Système social et monde paysan dans l'Europe des Francs (VI-IX siècles)
by Jean-Pierre Devroey
reviewed by George Grantham on July 4, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
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)
Pushing the Envelope: The American Aircraft Industry
by Donald M. Pattillo
reviewed by Virginia P. Dawson on March 19, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Quantitative Economic History: The Good of Counting
by Joshua L. Rosenbloom (editor)
reviewed by Mary Eschelbach Hansen on September 26, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
The Race between Education and Technology
by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz
reviewed by Peter H. Lindert on November 29, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Labor and Employment History (T)
Race, Jobs, and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941-46
by Andrew Edmund Kersten
reviewed by Thomas N. Maloney on April 19, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Race, Liberalism, and Economics
by David Colander, Robert E. Prasch and Falguni A. Sheth (editors)
reviewed by Stanley Engerman on July 12, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940
by Andrew Wender Cohen
reviewed by Louis P. Cain on July 25, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960
by Hugh R. Slotten
reviewed by Carole E. Scott on March 8, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America
by Robert G. Angevine
reviewed by David Surdam on March 24, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Railroading Economics: The Creation of the Free Market Mythology
by Michael Perelman
reviewed by Richard Vedder on January 19, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History
by Robert W. Fogel
reviewed by Lance Davis on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Railroads and American Law
by James W. Ely Jr.
reviewed by Harvey G. Hudspeth on July 16, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat
by John E. Clark Jr.
reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams on May 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad
by H. Roger Grant
reviewed by Bill Beck on April 6, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Railways in Britain and the United States 1830-1940
by Geoffrey Channon
reviewed by Albert J. Churella on January 10, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929
by Maury Klein
reviewed by Robert Zevin on February 8, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Rationality and Freedom
by Amartya Sen
reviewed by Robert D. Tollison on February 11, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
reviewed by Gerald Gunderson on September 18, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Rebuilding Germany: The Creation of the Social Market Economy, 1945-1957
by James C. van Hook
reviewed by Jonas Scherner on April 29, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855
by F. Matthew Gallman
reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on August 15, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Recessions and Depressions: Understanding Business Cycles
by Todd A. Knoop
reviewed by David Glasner on October 12, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Reclaiming Marx’s Capital: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency
by Andrew Kliman
reviewed by David Kristjanson-Gural on September 23, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Reconstruction in the Cane Field: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes 1862-1880
by John C. Rodrigue
reviewed by Robert C. Kenzer on October 26, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T)
The Record of Global Economic Development
by Eric L. Jones
reviewed by Morris Altman on March 18, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Records of American Business
by James M. O'Toole
reviewed by Randall C. Jimerson on May 11, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry
by Hugh S. Gorman
reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on August 17, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England
by Diana Muir
reviewed by Jane Knodell on May 24, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K)
Reflections of Eminent Economists
by Michael Szenberg and Lall Ramrattan (editors)
reviewed by Arthur M. Diamond Jr. on August 31, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution: Conversations with Economic Historians
by John S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain and Samuel H. Williamson (editors)
reviewed by Michael Haupert on August 29, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
Reflections on the Great Depression
by Randall E. Parker
reviewed by Gene Smiley on April 1, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (v)
Reforming Financial Systems: Historical Implications for Policy
by Gerald Jr. Caprio and Dimitri Vittas
reviewed by Michael Haupert on December 4, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Regions, Institutions and Agrarian Change in European History
by Rosemary L. Hopcroft
reviewed by George Grantham on September 13, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Markets and Institutions (W)
Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920
by Steven W. Usselman
reviewed by Jeff Schramm on September 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Reigniting the Labor Movement: Restoring Means to Ends in a Democratic Labor Movement
by Gerald Friedman
reviewed by Hoyt N. Wheeler on August 28, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900-1930
by Amy E. Slaton
reviewed by James B. McSwain on October 5, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930
by Gunther Peck
reviewed by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on May 23, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Reluctant Economist: Perspectives on Economics, Economic History, and Demography
by Richard A. Easterlin
reviewed by Lee A. Craig on November 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
Reluctant Partners: A History of Multilateral Trade Cooperation, 1850-2000
by Andrew Brown
reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on September 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Remaking the Postwar World Economy: Robot and British Policy in the 1950s
by Peter Burnham
reviewed by Catherine Schenk on January 18, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: From Protectionism to Globalization
by Nitsan Chorev
reviewed by Douglas A. Irwin on January 11, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Renewing Birmingham: Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929-1979
by Christopher MacGregor Scribner
reviewed by Gordon E. Harvey on December 17, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Urban and Regional History (Z)
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 Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster
by Lawrence J. Vale and Thomas J. Campanella (editors)
reviewed by Donald E. Frey on November 2, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Military and War (O), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Resurgence of East Asia, 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives
by Giovanni Arrighi, Takeshi Hamashita and Mark Selden
reviewed by Debin Ma on February 15, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Liberalism: Richard Cobden Bicentenary Essays
by Anthony Howe and Simon Morgan (editors)
reviewed by Leonard P. Liggio on July 26, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Rethinking the Great Depression
by Gene Smiley
reviewed by David C. Wheelock on February 5, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Revisiting U.S. Trade Policy: Decisions in Perspective
by Alfred E. Eckes Jr.
reviewed by James Gerber on December 5, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Revival of Laissez-Faire in American Macroeconomic Theory: A Case Study of the Pioneers
by Sherryl Davis Kasper
reviewed by Roger W. Garrison on April 22, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
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)
Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in Late Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland
by Beth Holmgren
reviewed by Robert E. Blobaum on June 23, 1999
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Rexall Story: A History of Genius and Neglect
by Mickey C. Smith
reviewed by Marvin Fischbaum on September 11, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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 and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR from 1945
by Philip Hanson
reviewed by Vladimir Kontorovich on October 17, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Rise of "The Rest": Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies
by Alice Amsden
reviewed by John R. Hanson II on September 9, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 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)
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 Big Government in the United States
by John F. Walker and Harold G. Vatter
reviewed by Werner Troesken on January 13, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
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 Historical Economics and Social Reform in Germany, 1864-1894
by Erik Grimmer-Solem
reviewed by Nicholas W. Balabkins on September 28, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange: Merchants, Commercial Expansion and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low Countries, c. 1550-1630
by Clé Lesger
reviewed by Larry Neal on January 12, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History
by Douglass C. North and Robert Paul Thomas
reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on December 21, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Rise, Fall, and Replacement of Industrywide Bargaining in the Basic Steel Industry
by Garth L. Magnum and R. Scott McNabb
reviewed by Howard R. Stanger on March 12, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History
by James C. Riley
reviewed by Richard A. Easterlin on February 12, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter & Gamble
by Davis Dyer, Frederick Dalzell and Rowena Olegario
reviewed by Michael Landry on June 17, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
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)
Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control
by Karen M. O'Neill
reviewed by Brooks A. Kaiser on December 22, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control
by Karen M. O'Neill
reviewed by Brooks A. Kaiser on December 22, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia
by Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee
reviewed by James Oberly on July 20, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Road to Prosperity: An Economic History of Finland
by Jari Ojala, Jari Eloranta and Jukka Jalava (editors)
reviewed by Lars Fredrik Andersson on June 8, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Road to Serfdom: Texts and Documents -- The Definitive Edition
by F. A. Hayek
reviewed by Steven Horwitz on June 11, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes
by John Franch
reviewed by Robert Whaples on July 2, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery
by Eliot A. Rosen
reviewed by Elmus Wicker on June 19, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
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)
Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917
by Elizabeth Sanders
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on April 6, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
The Rotten Fruits of Economic Controls and the Rise from the Ashes, 1965-1989
by Thomas E. Hall
reviewed by J. Peter Ferderer on July 2, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution, 1862-1969
by Robert Fitzgerald
reviewed by John F. Wilson on August 21, 1995
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
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)
Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England: Gender, Work and Wages
by Nicola Verdon
reviewed by Joyce Burnette on January 25, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T)
Russia's Economic Transitions: From Late Tsarism to the New Millennium
by Nicolas Spulber
reviewed by Carol Leonard on March 31, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Russia's Foreign Trade and Economic Expansion in the Seventeenth Century: Windows on the World
by J. T. Kotilaine
reviewed by Valéry Lazarev on April 28, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Sacred Debts: State Civil War Claims and American Federalism, 1861-1880
by Kyle S. Sinisi
reviewed by Robert W. Burg on March 8, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
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)
Schumpeter and the Endogeneity of Technology: Some American Perspectives
by Nathan Rosenberg
reviewed by Avi J. Cohen on August 11, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Schumpeter on the Economics of Innovation and the Development of Capitalism
by Arnold Heertje
reviewed by Mark W. Frank on August 23, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Schumpeter's Market: Enterprise and Evolution
by David Reisman
reviewed by Frederic Sautet on September 2, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Second Bank of the United States and Ohio (1803-1860): A Collision of Interests
by Marion A. Brown
reviewed by Larry Schweikart on January 13, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South
by Donald Holley
reviewed by Craig Heinicke on March 26, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Second Information Revolution
by Gerald W. Brock
reviewed by David Gabel on August 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution
by Haim Ofek
reviewed by João Ricardo Faria on May 30, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: Prehistoric (1)
  • Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
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)
Secret Origins of Modern Microeconomics: Dupuit and the Engineers
by Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Robert F. Hebert
reviewed by Marcel Boumans on July 13, 1999
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
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)
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
by Heather Andrea Williams
reviewed by Ilyana Kuziemko on July 6, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Selling Themselves: The Emergence of Canadian Advertising
by Russell Johnston
reviewed by George Emery on February 23, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature
by Mark Daniel Barringer
reviewed by Peter J. Hill on August 26, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Separatism and Integration: A Study in Analytical History
by Bertrand M. Roehner
reviewed by Enrico Spolaore on January 5, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Sexual Revolutions: Gender and Labor at the Dawn of Agriculture
by Jane Peterson
reviewed by Richard H. Steckel on June 24, 2003
  • Geographic area: Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Prehistoric (1)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor
by David Witwer
reviewed by Lawrence Richards on June 3, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
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)
Shanghai's Bund and Beyond: British Banks, Banknote Issuance, and Monetary Policy in China, 1842-1937
by Niv Horesh
reviewed by Richard C. K. Burdekin on October 29, 2009
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries
by Alfred D. Chandler
reviewed by Kyle Bruce on January 13, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
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)
Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia
by Peter H. Lindert
reviewed by D. Gale Johnson on June 1, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism
by Thomas R. Heinrich
reviewed by John K. Brown on August 12, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Shoemakers of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1850-1880: The Family during the Transition from Hand to Machine Labor
by William H. Mulligan, Jr.
reviewed by Christiane Diehl Taylor on August 17, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Shopping at Giant Foods: Chinese American Supermarkets in Northern California
by Alfred Yee
reviewed by Albert J. Churella on February 20, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe
by Derek J. Penslar
reviewed by Andrew C. Godley on January 23, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Sick, Not Dead: The Health of British Workingmen During the Mortality Decline
by James C. Riley
reviewed by J. C. Herbert Emery on July 9, 1998
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice
by Luca Molà
reviewed by Giovanni Federico on September 25, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Silver and Gold: The Political Economy of International Monetary Conferences, 1867-1892
by Steven P. Reti
reviewed by John H. Wood on February 22, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Silver of the Sierra Madre: John Robinson, Boss Shepherd, and the People of the Canyons
by John Mason Hart
reviewed by Edward Beatty on January 9, 2009
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Labor and Employment History (T)
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 American Mountain South
by Wilma Dunaway
reviewed by Jenny B. Wahl on October 2, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: 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)
Small Business Policy and the American Creed
by Sandra M. Anglund
reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford on June 7, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Small Firms in the Japanese Economy
by D. H. Whittaker
reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford on July 10, 1997
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Small Firms, Large Concerns: The Development of Small Business in Comparative Perspective
by Konosuke Odaka and Minoru Sawai
reviewed by Zoltan J. Acs on October 11, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia
by Peter Boomgaard and David Henley (editors)
reviewed by Frans D. Huijzendveld on September 14, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Smith and Nephew in the Health Care Industry
by James Foreman-Peck
reviewed by Marvin Fischbaum on March 24, 1997
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship: Networks and Private Protection during Mexico's Early Industrialization
by Armando Razo
reviewed by Aurora Gómez Galvarriato on September 30, 2008
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-53
by Julie Hessler
reviewed by Valery Lazarev on January 12, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Social Sources of Financial Power: Domestic Legitimacy and International Financial Orders
by Leonard Seabrooke
reviewed by David M. Andrews on November 1, 2006
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America
by William G. Roy
reviewed by Margaret Levenstein on August 12, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
by Walter Johnson
reviewed by Robert Wolff on June 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
by Walter Johnson
reviewed by Robert Whaples on June 15, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Soul's Economy: Market and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920
by Jeffrey Sklansky
reviewed by Donald Frey on January 31, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters
by Diane Coyle
reviewed by John A. MacDonald on September 21, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Sources of Industrial Leadership: Studies of Seven Industries
by David C. Mowery and Richard R. Nelson (editors)
reviewed by Paul L. Robertson on January 16, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
South Carolina and the New Deal
by Jack Irby Hayes Jr
reviewed by Jim Couch on January 28, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), 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)
Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South 1865-1965
by Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie
reviewed by Craig Heinicke on December 7, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Khrushchev
by R. W. Davies
reviewed by Paul R. Gregory on April 26, 1999
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Sowing Modernity: America's First Agricultural Revolution
by Peter D. McClelland
reviewed by Mary Eschelbach Hansen on February 28, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed over Industry
by Lawrence E. Mitchell
reviewed by J. Peter Ferderer on June 5, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth
by Liah Greenfeld
reviewed by Deepak Lal on February 17, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse
by Richard R. John
reviewed by Mary K. McGuire on August 27, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Stalin's Terror Revisited
by Melanie Ilic (editor)
reviewed by Vincent Barnett on January 4, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
State and Party in America's New Deal
by Kenneth Finegold and Theda Skocpol
reviewed by Garry Young on March 18, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
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 of the Union: A Century of American Labor
by Nelson Lichtenstein
reviewed by Walter Licht on September 13, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
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 State, Regulation and the Economy: An Historical Perspective
by Lars Magnusson and Jan Ottosson (editors)
reviewed by Mark Kanazawa on July 3, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The State, the Financial System and Economic Modernization
by Richard Sylla, Richard Tilly and Gabriel Tortella (editors)
reviewed by Caroline Fohlin on May 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
State-Making and Labor Movements: France and the Unite dStates, 1876-1914
by Gerald Friedman
reviewed by Melvyn Dubofsky on February 20, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Statistics and the German State, 1900-1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge
by J. Adam Tooze
reviewed by Mark Perlman on April 7, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940
by Arwen Mohun
reviewed by Jeffrey M. Hornstein on November 14, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Store Wars: Shopkeepers and the Culture of Mass Marketing, 1890-1939
by David Monod
reviewed by David A. Horowitz on September 8, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin and Community in Autotown, U.S.A.
by Lisa M. Fine
reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd Jr. on August 12, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Straining at the Anchor: The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880-1935
by Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor
reviewed by Peter Temin on May 2, 2002
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Strange Survival of Liberal England: Political Leaders, Moral Values and the Reception of Economic Debate
by E.H.H. Green and D.M. Tanner (editors)
reviewed by Jim Tomlinson on April 17, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America
by Stephen H. Norwood
reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on August 15, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain, 1889-1966
by Roy Church and Quentin Outram
reviewed by Judith Wale on August 23, 1999
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century
by JoAnne Yates
reviewed by Thomas Haigh on May 9, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924-1970
by Robert F. Freeland
reviewed by Paul Robertson on March 28, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Studies in Economic and Social History: Essays in Honour of Derek H. Aldcroft
by Michael J. Oliver (editor)
reviewed by Ruggero Ranieri on January 28, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Studies in the Economic History of the Pacific Rim
by Sally M. Miller, A. J. H. Latham and Dennis O. Flynn (editors)
reviewed by Sumner La Croix on July 2, 1999
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
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)
Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000
by Howard W. Dick
reviewed by Heather Sutherland on October 21, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Urban and Regional History (Z)
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)
Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth
by Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich and Will Steffen (editors)
reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on October 26, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Swallows and Settlers: The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria
by Thomas R. Gottschang and Diana Lary
reviewed by Tim Wright on November 30, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados
by Russell R. Menard
reviewed by David Eltis on November 10, 2006
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Symbols of Trade: Roman and Pseudo-Roman Objects Found in India
by S. Suresh
reviewed by Himanshu Prabha Ray on May 10, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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)
Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller
by Steve Weinberg
reviewed by Bryan C. McCannon on January 20, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball, 1903-2003
by Henry D. Fetter
reviewed by Michael J. Haupert on May 5, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T)
Taking the Risk out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty
by Alex Carey
reviewed by Karen S. Miller on October 1, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Taking Trade to the Streets: The Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape Globalization
by Susan Ariel Aaronson
reviewed by Alfred E. Eckes on August 25, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America
by Camilla Townsend
reviewed by A. Glenn Crothers on May 23, 2001
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War
by Mark Thornton and Robert B. Ekelund Jr.
reviewed by David G. Surdam on April 14, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Tariffs, Trade and European Integration 1947-1957: From Study Group to Common Market
by Wendy Asbeek Brusse
reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk on February 18, 1999
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France
by Leora Auslander
reviewed by Tracey Deutscht on September 16, 1997
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Taste, Trade and Technology: The Development of the International Meat Industry since 1840
by Richard Perren
reviewed by Lee A. Craig on December 20, 2006
  • Geographic area: Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
Taxation Under the Early Tudors, 1485-1547
by Roger Schofield
reviewed by John Munro on June 15, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975
by Julian E. Zelizer
reviewed by Dennis J. Ventry on June 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Great Debate Over Tax Reform
by Joel Selmrod and Jon Bakija
reviewed by James K. Self on October 5, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
Technological Change and the Evolution of Corporate Innovation: The Structure of Patenting, 1890-1990
by Birgitte Andersen
reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on July 6, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
by Carlota Perez
reviewed by Bertrand M. Roehner on January 22, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Technology Matters: Questions to Live With
by David E. Nye
reviewed by Rick Szostak on June 23, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Technology, Industrial Conflict and the Development of Technical Education in Nineteenth-Century England
by Bernard Cronin
reviewed by Michael Sanderson on July 19, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Labor and Employment History (T)
Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology and Geography, 1850-1950
by Gregory J. Downey
reviewed by Tomas Nonnenmacher on November 4, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Labor and Employment History (T)
Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor
by Stanley L. Engerman (editor)
reviewed by Jonathan B. Pritchett on September 10, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T)
A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco
by David F. Selvin
reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd on March 18, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Terrorism in Western Europe: Explaining the Trends since 1950
by Jan Oskar Engene
reviewed by S. Brock Blomberg on June 29, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South
by Janet Irons
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on April 30, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century
by William R. Childs
reviewed by Gary Libecap on March 3, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal
by Keith J. Volanto
reviewed by Ryan Johnson on December 22, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), 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)
This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America and the New Deal
by Sarah Phillips
reviewed by Jon Fox on March 3, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Thomas F. Walsh: Progressive Businessman and Colorado Mining Tycoon
by John C. Stewart
reviewed by Joshua C. Hall on December 17, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
Thorstein Veblen and the Revival of Free Market Capitalism
by Janet T. Knoedler, Robert E. Prasch and Dell P. Champlin (editors)
reviewed by Warren J. Samuels on November 7, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Thurman Arnold: A Biography
by Spencer Weber Waller
reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on November 7, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)
Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking
by Wilson J. Warren
reviewed by Thomas N. Maloney on May 6, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Ties That Bind: Economic and Political Dilemmas of Urban Utility Networks, 1800-1990
by Charles David Jacobson
reviewed by Hugh Gorman on December 7, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
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)
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman
reviewed by Thomas Weiss on November 16, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
Timken: from Missouri to Mars--A Century of Leadership
by Bettye H. Pruitt
reviewed by Roberto Mazzoleni on June 14, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow
reviewed by Christopher A. Baylor on July 11, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow
reviewed by Milton Goldin on June 24, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Titles, Conflict and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Frontier
by Lee J. Alston, Gary D. Libecap and Bernardo Mueller
reviewed by D. Bruce Johnsen on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
To Wire the World: Perry M. Collins and the North Pacific Telegraph Expedition
by John B. Dwyer
reviewed by Tomas Nonnenmacher on January 14, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico, 1865-Present
by Jurgen Buchenau
reviewed by Marie Francois on April 15, 2005
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Trade and the American Dream: A Social History of Postwar Trade Policy
by Susan Ariel Aaronson
reviewed by Mira Wilkins on November 20, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Trade in Classical Antiquity
by Neville Morley
reviewed by Peter Temin on June 29, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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)
Trade Unionism and the State: The Construction of Industrial Relations Institutions in Britain, 1890-2000
by Chris Howell
reviewed by James W. Stitt on January 8, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Trade Unions and the Economy: 1870-2000
by Derek H. Aldcroft and Michael J. Oliver
reviewed by Sharon Otoo on August 8, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
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)
Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India
by Tirthankar Roy
reviewed by Susan Wolcott on February 20, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations and Their Consequences
by Vaclav Smil
reviewed by Joel Mokyr on December 30, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Triumph of Capitalism
by Robert A. Degen
reviewed by Joseph M. Santos on August 26, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), 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), Markets and Institutions (W)
Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns
by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton
reviewed by John A. James on August 28, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Triumph of the South: A Regional Economic History of Early Twentieth Century Britain
by Peter Scott
reviewed by Peter Wardley on October 21, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680
by Stuart B. Schwartz (editor)
reviewed by David Eltis on December 31, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
by Marshall C. Eakin
reviewed by Gail D. Triner on August 23, 2002
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Troubled Waters: Steamboats, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821-1860
by Paul F. Paskoff
reviewed by Michael Allen on August 4, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade
by Robert H. Gudmestad
reviewed by Jonathan Pritchett on July 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market
by Sally H. Clarke
reviewed by Avner Offer on April 29, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks, and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin
by Brett Sheehan
reviewed by Andrea McElderry on December 4, 2003
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W)
Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914
by Martin Daunton
reviewed by Hugh Pemberton on March 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age
by Anne Goldgar
reviewed by Larry Neal on August 3, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Turning Trees into Dollars: The British Columbia Coastal Lumber Industry, 1858-1913
by Gordon Hak
reviewed by William Marr on November 29, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Two Hundred Years of Say's Law: Essays on Economic Theory's Most Controversial Principle
by Steven Kates (editor)
reviewed by Ingrid H. Rima on November 18, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
U.S. Bank Deregulation in Historical Perspective
by Charles W. Calomiris
reviewed by John A. James on February 19, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The U.S. Brewing Industry: Data and Economic Analysis
by Victor J. Tremblay and Carol Horton Tremblay
reviewed by Jon P. Nelson on May 31, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
U.S. Development Aid: An Historic First
by Samuel Hale Butterfield
reviewed by John R. Hanson II on September 30, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
U.S. Economic History Since 1945
by Michael French
reviewed by Randy R. Grant on October 1, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 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)
Understanding Economic Recovery in the 1930s: Endogenous Propagation in the Great Depression
by Frank G. Steindl
reviewed by David C. Wheelock on July 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Understanding the Process of Economic Change
by Douglass C. North
reviewed by Alexander J. Field on February 15, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Factor Endowments, Culture, and Politics on Long-run Economic Performance
by Deepak Lal
reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on December 21, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture
by Lawrence Richards
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on November 19, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 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)
United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism
by Ileen A. DeVault
reviewed by Daniel Jacoby on March 8, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Universal Service: Competition, Interconnection and Monopoly in the Making of the American Telephone System
by Milton L. Mueller
reviewed by Jeff Kraft on February 12, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Unlikely Partners: Philanthropic Foundations and the Labor Movement
by Richard Magat
reviewed by Milton Goldin on December 16, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy
by Richardson Dilworth
reviewed by Ed Duggan on January 4, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Usury, Interest and the Reformation
by Eric Kerridge
reviewed by Norman Jones on December 29, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Valuing Cultural Heritage: Applying Environmental Valuation Techniqu