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The Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime Policy
by Andrew Gibson and Arthur Donovan
reviewed by Gordon Boyce on September 11, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Abolition of Antitrust
by Gary Hull (editor)
reviewed by John Howard Brown on October 17, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law
by John Witt
reviewed by Mark Aldrich on June 11, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation
by Margaret Levenstein
reviewed by Paul Miranti on September 28, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Accounts of the British Empire: Capital Flows from 1799 to 1914
by Mario Tiberi
reviewed by Elise S. Brezis on September 6, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Across the Borders: Financing the World's Railways in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
by Ralf Roth and Gunter Dinhobl (editors)
reviewed by Dan Bogart on September 22, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Adam Smith and the Classics: The Classical Heritage in Adam Smith's Thought
by Gloria Vivenza
reviewed by Leonidas Montes on March 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Adam Smith in Context: A Critical Reassessment of Some Central Components of His Thought
by Leonidas Montes
reviewed by Peter McNamara on September 27, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life
by James R. Otteson
reviewed by Jeffrey T. Young on April 28, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective on Markets, Law, Ethics, and Culture
by Jerry Evensky
reviewed by Sasan Fayazmanesh on January 10, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology
by Duncan K. Foley
reviewed by A. M. C. Waterman on November 21, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives
by E. Wayne Carp (editor)
reviewed by John Murray on June 8, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Advances in Agricultural Economic History, Vol.1, New Frontiers in Agricultural History
by Kyle D. Kauffman (editor)
reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing
by Pamela Walker Laird
reviewed by Jonathan Silva on December 3, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Advertising to the American Woman, 1900-1999
by Daniel Delis Hill
reviewed by Bryan Wuthrich on August 8, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Advocate for American Enterprise: William Buck Dana and the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 1865-1910
by Douglas Steeples
reviewed by 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 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)
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)
The American Economic History Reader: Documents and Readings
by John W. Malsberger and James N. Marshall (editors)
reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on December 31, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
American Economic Policy in the 1990s
by Jeffrey A. Frankel and Peter R. Orszag (editors)
reviewed by William F. Shughart II on August 16, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States
by Jonathan A. Glickstein
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on December 20, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
American Foundations: An Investigative History
by Mark Dowie
reviewed by Donald E. Frey on July 23, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Income and Wealth (Q), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante-bellum Economy
by Albert Fishlow
reviewed by John Majewski on September 25, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The American State Constitutional Tradition
by John J. Dinan
reviewed by John J. Wallis on May 9, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Markets and Institutions (W)
American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean 1898-1934
by César Ayala
reviewed by Alan Dye on September 3, 2000
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
American Taxation, American Slavery
by Robin Einhorn
reviewed by Jenny Wahl on August 9, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Servitude and Slavery (N)
American Trade Policy, 1923-1995
by Edward S. Kaplan
reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on March 20, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
American Treasure and the Price Revolution in Spain, 1501-1650
by Earl J. Hamilton
reviewed by John Munro on January 15, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
American Vanguard: The United Autoworkers during the Reuther Years, 1935-1970
by John Barnard
reviewed by Daniel Jacoby on August 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The American Way: A Geographical History of Crisis and Recovery
by Carville Earle
reviewed by Sukkoo Kim on September 12, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Geography (K)
American Work Values: Their Origin and Development
by Paul Bernstein
reviewed by Donald Frey on February 10, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Americanization of the European Economy: A Compact Survey of American Economic Influence in Europe since the 1880s
by Harm G. Schröter
reviewed by Graham Brownlow on January 27, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
America’s Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics
by Donald E. Frey
reviewed by Samuel Gregg on September 24, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Ancient Economy
by Walter Scheidel and Sitta von Reden (editors)
reviewed by Morris Silver on January 3, 2003
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models
by Joseph G. Manning and Ian Morris (editors)
reviewed by Astrid Moeller on December 28, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
And a Time for Hope: Americans in the Great Depression
by James R. McGovern
reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on February 1, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society, 1920 to the 1990s
by Elliott Barkan
reviewed by Masao Suzuki on August 6, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Anglo-American Shipbuilding in World War II: A Geographical Perspective
by Michael Lindberg and Daniel Todd
reviewed by Christopher Tassava on November 7, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Geography (K), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865
by Charles W. McCurdy
reviewed by John Joseph Wallis on September 4, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930-2004
by Tony A. Freyer
reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on October 10, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Antitrust Religion
by Edwin S. Rockefeller
reviewed by Claire Hammond on September 21, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Apogee of Empire: Spain and New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759-1789
by Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein
reviewed by David Ringrose on April 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution on the Road to War
by Jonathan Kirshner
reviewed by Richard C.K. Burdekin on April 27, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O)
The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century
by Rene J. Barendse
reviewed by Alan Heston on February 26, 2003
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Arms, Economics and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs
by G. C. Peden
reviewed by Mark Harrison on September 23, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Military and War (O)
Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940-1945
by Paul A.C. Koistinen
reviewed by Christopher Tassava on January 7, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Art, luxe et industrie: Bianchini Férier, un siècle de soieries lyonnaises
by Pierre Vernus
reviewed by George J. Sheridan Jr. on February 23, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
by Carol Sheriff
reviewed by Jerome K. Laurent on July 14, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820-1865
by L. Diane Barnes
reviewed by Jennifer R. Green on March 6, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
The Artisans in Eighteenth-Century Eastern India: A History of Survival
by Vipul Singh
reviewed by Ian C. Wendt on April 16, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Asbestos and Fire: Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk
by Rachel Maines
reviewed by Mark Aldrich on August 31, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by Niall Ferguson
reviewed by Niv Horesh on July 31, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Asia-Pacific Dynamism, 1550-2000
by A.J.H. Latham and Heita Kawakatsu (editors)
reviewed by Peter Perdue on March 29, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Asian Economies in the Twentieth Century
by Angus Maddison, D.S. Prasada Rao and W.F. Shepherd (editors)
reviewed by Kelly Olds on May 28, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Asian Merchants and Businessmen in the Indian Ocean and the China Sea
by Denys Lombard and Jean Aubin
reviewed by Arturo Giraldez on November 7, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Aspects of Independent Romania’s Economic History with Particular Reference to Transition for EU Accession
by David Turnock
reviewed by Laura Haar on September 1, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800
by Paola Lanaro (editor)
reviewed by on July 23, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
At the Origins of Mathematical Economics: The Economics of A. N. Isnard (1748-1803)
by Richard van den Berg (editor)
reviewed by Theodore M. Porter on June 5, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Atlantic Economy: Britain, the US and Ireland
by Denis O'Hearn
reviewed by Jane Gray on February 24, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Atlantic Slave Trade
by Johannes Postma
reviewed by Rachel Chernos Lin on August 24, 2004
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century
by April Lee Hatfield
reviewed by Lorena S. Walsh on September 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Augustin Cournot: Modelling Economics
by Jean-Philippe Touffut
reviewed by Martin Shubik on October 10, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption 1939-1955
by Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
reviewed by John Singleton on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
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Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971
by Dimitry Anastakis
reviewed by Thomas W. Zeiler on March 17, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

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