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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)
- 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 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 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)
- 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)
- 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 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
- Geographic area:
- Time period:
- Subject:
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 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 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)
- 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 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)
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