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- Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War
- by James L. Huston
- reviewed by Jenny B. Wahl on March 23, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
- California Dreaming: Ideology, Society, and Technology in the Citrus Industry of Palestine, 1890-1939
- by Nahum Karlinsky
- reviewed by Paul Rhode on November 14, 2006
- Geographic area: Middle East (6), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier
- by Anne Kelly Knowles
- reviewed by Metin Cosgel on March 27, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America, Volume 2: The Long Twentieth Century
- by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, John Coatsworth and Roberto Cortes-Conde (editors)
- reviewed by Albert Fishlow on April 11, 2007
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, Volume III: Structural Change and Growth, 1939-2000
- by Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson (editors)
- reviewed by Albert Carreras on October 21, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
- by Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris and Richard P. Saller (editors)
- reviewed by Peter Temin on May 11, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume III: The Twentieth Century
- by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman (editors)
- reviewed by Gary Libecap on March 28, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Cameroon's Tycoon: Max Esser's Expedition and Its Consequences
- by E. M. Chilver and Ute Röschenthaler (editors)
- reviewed by Ralph A. Austen on August 14, 2002
- Geographic area: Africa (1)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Capital Flows and Crises
- by Barry Eichengreen
- reviewed by Joseph R. Mason on August 27, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Capital Intentions: Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850-1920
- by Edith Sparks
- reviewed by Pamela J. Nickless on March 28, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Capital Markets and Corporate Governance in Japan, Germany and the United States: Organizational Response to Market Inefficiencies
- by Helmut Dietl
- reviewed by Hideaki Miyajima on October 19, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal
- by David Brian Robertson
- reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on January 8, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
- by Joseph A. Schumpeter
- reviewed by Thomas K. McCraw on September 1, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Capitalist Development in the Twentieth Century: An Evolutionary-Keynesian Approach
- by John Cornwall and Wendy Cornwall
- reviewed by Richard K. Vedder on August 5, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe
- by Richard Lachmann
- reviewed by Eric Jones on January 2, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780-2005
- by Youssef Cassis
- reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk on October 22, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History
- by Frederick H. Smith
- reviewed by Russell R. Menard on June 2, 2006
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Carolingian Economy
- by Adriaan E. Verhulst
- reviewed by Paolo Squatriti on May 20, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America
- by Thomas A. Kinney
- reviewed by Tom Dicke on August 1, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile
- by Lewis H. Siegelbaum
- reviewed by Perry L. Patterson on August 6, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America
- by Carl A. Zimring
- reviewed by Scott A. Beaulier on April 29, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Castles, Battles and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History
- by Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll
- reviewed by Peter Howlett on February 3, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Military and War (O)
- Catching up Twice: The Nature of Dutch Industrial Growth during the Twentieth Century in a Comparative Perspective
- by Herman J. de Jong
- reviewed by Hein A.M. Klemann on May 27, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Celebrating Irving Fisher: The Legacy of a Great Economist
- by Robert W. Dimand and John Geanakoplos (editors)
- reviewed by Franck Jovanovic on May 4, 2009
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Central Bank Cooperation at the Bank for International Settlements, 1930-1973
- by Gianni Toniolo
- reviewed by Geoffrey Wood on October 11, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Central Europe in the Twentieth Century. An Economic History Perspective
- by Alice Teichova
- reviewed by Michael Palairet on August 20, 1998
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Centuries of Child Labour: European Experiences from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
- by Marjatta Rahikainen
- reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on November 11, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Chairman of the Fed: William McChesney Martin Jr. and the Creation of the American Financial System
- by Robert P. Bremner
- reviewed by Mark Toma on October 3, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950
- by Avner Offer
- reviewed by John F. Helliwell on January 18, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Changing Face of Central Banking: Evolutionary Trends since World War II
- by Pierre L. Siklos
- reviewed by Richard C. K. Burdekin on May 29, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740-1914
- by Margot C. Finn
- reviewed by Laura Ugolini on April 7, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Charting Twentieth-Century Monetary Policy: Herbert Hoover and Benjamin Strong, 1917-1927
- by Silvano A. Wueschner
- reviewed by Mark Toma on October 25, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Chatham Dockyard, 1815-1865: The Industrial Transformation
- by Philip MacDougall (editor)
- reviewed by Ian Buxton on October 30, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Military and War (O), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars
- by Georg Leidenberger
- reviewed by David J. St. Clair on October 17, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Child Labor: An American History
- by Hugh D. Hindman
- reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on July 29, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Child Workers in England, 1780-1820: Parish Apprentices and the Making of the Early Industrial Labour Force
- by Katrina Honeyman
- reviewed by Pamela Sharpe on October 6, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Chimneys in the Desert: Industrialization in Argentina during the Export Boom Years, 1870-1930
- by Fernando Rocchi
- reviewed by Joel Horowitz on June 12, 2006
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937
- by Tomoko Shiroyama
- reviewed by Niv Horesh on August 22, 2008
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- China Maritime Customs and China's Trade Statistics, 1859-1948
- by Thomas P. Lyons
- reviewed by Tim Wright on July 30, 2004
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Chinese Capitalism, 1522-1840
- by Xu Dixin and Wu Chengming
- reviewed by Kenneth Pomeranz on August 24, 2000
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945
- by Parks M. Coble
- reviewed by Andrea McElderry on June 6, 2005
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run
- by Angus Maddison
- reviewed by Thomas R. Gottschang on July 3, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business
- by Lowell J. Satre
- reviewed by Roger Southall on June 21, 2005
- Geographic area: Africa (1)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- The Chouteaus: First Family of the Fur Trade
- by Stan Hoig
- reviewed by Ann Harper Fender on August 8, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
- Christian Theology and Market Economics
- by Ian R. Harper and Samuel Gregg (editors)
- reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond on October 8, 2009
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Cigarette Wars, The Triumph of the Little White Slaver
- by Cassandra Tate
- reviewed by Kay Kiefer on October 4, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Cities of Heat and Light: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America
- by Mark Rose
- reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on August 21, 1995
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919
- by Margaret Garb
- reviewed by Fred H. Smith on May 1, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870-1920
- by Jerome P. Bjelopera
- reviewed by Nikki Mandell on December 5, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Civic Charity in a Golden Age: Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam
- by Anne E. C. McCants
- reviewed by Bronwyn Croxson on May 12, 1998
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Civil Happiness: Economics and Human Flourishing in Historical Perspective
- by Luigino Bruni
- reviewed by Edd Noell on March 7, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization
- by William H. Roberts
- reviewed by David Surdam on September 2, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century
- by Fernand Braudel
- reviewed by Alan Heston on August 1, 2000
- Geographic area: Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
- by Dylan C. Penningroth
- reviewed by James R. Irwin on April 21, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the USSR
- by Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff
- reviewed by Mark Harrison on January 17, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- The Classical Economists Revisited
- by D. P. O'Brien
- reviewed by Elisabeth Allgoewer on March 1, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Classical Macroeconomics: Some Modern Variations and Distortions
- by James C. W. Ahiakpor
- reviewed by Marin Muzhani on December 28, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Coerced and Free Migrations: Global Perspectives
- by David Eltis (editor)
- reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on December 31, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
- by Robert J. Steinfeld
- reviewed by Gillian Hamilton on March 11, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Collapse of Darwinism, or The Rise of a Realist Theory of Life
- by Graeme Donald Snooks
- reviewed by Geoffrey M. Hodgson on June 27, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Collective Action under the Articles of Confederation
- by Keith L. Dougherty
- reviewed by Robert A. McGuire on April 11, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida
- by Jane G. Landers (editor)
- reviewed by Russell R. Menard on March 19, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-century France and England
- by Mary Sponberg Pedley
- reviewed by Susan Danforth on November 16, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Business History (B), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- A Companion to the History of Economic Thought
- by Warren J. Samuels, Jeff F. Biddle and John B. Davis (editors)
- reviewed by Mauro Boianovsky on December 5, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life
- by Paul Seabright
- reviewed by Haim Ofek on January 29, 2007
- Geographic area:
- Time period: Prehistoric (1), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest
- by Linda Carlson
- reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd on September 14, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Historical Geography (K), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences
- by James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (editors)
- reviewed by Bertrand M. Roehner on March 19, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba and the United States
- by Laird W. Bergad
- reviewed by David Eltis on May 8, 2009
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Comparative Public Policy: Patterns of Post-war Transformation
- by Francis G. Castles
- reviewed by Jim F. Couch on May 1, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Competition and Growth: A Contemporary History of the Continental AG
- by Paul Erker
- reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford on April 13, 1998
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- The Competition Solution: The Bipartisan Secret behind American Prosperity
- by Paul A. London
- reviewed by Richard K. Vedder on September 21, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Concept and Controversy: Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market
- by W. W. Rostow
- reviewed by Louis P. Cain on July 18, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- A Concise History of Economic Thought: From Mercantilism to Monetarism
- by Gianni Vaggi and Peter Groenewegen
- reviewed by David Andrews on January 9, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century
- by Daniel Sidorick
- reviewed by Gerald Friedman on November 12, 2009
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Pressure
- by Ester Boserup
- reviewed by Giovanni Federico on April 16, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War
- by Harold S. Wilson
- reviewed by David Surdam on September 20, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Conflict Potentials in Monetary Unions
- by Lars Jonung and Jürgen Nautz (editors)
- reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on April 30, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
- by Timothy Brook
- reviewed by Richard Lufrano on August 26, 1998
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll-Call Voting
- by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal
- reviewed by Jac Heckelman on August 20, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
- by Thomas Frank
- reviewed by David Cochran on February 11, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years
- by Julie Novkov
- reviewed by David Bernstein on June 11, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Consuls, Corsairs and Commerce: The Swedish Consular Service and Long-Distance Shipping, 1720-1815
- by Leos Müller
- reviewed by Yrjö Kaukiainen on February 25, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6), North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain: The Search for a Historical Movement
- by Matthew Hilton
- reviewed by Lawrence Black on September 17, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire
- by Peter N. Stearns
- reviewed by Jasmine Aimaq on January 1, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- Consumers Against Capitalism? Consumer Cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan, 1840-1990
- by Ellen Furlough and Carl Strikwerda
- reviewed by Gerd-Rainer Horn on September 1, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies
- by David E. Nye
- reviewed by Martin V. Melosi on August 5, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Contract and Property in Early Modern China
- by Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko and Robert Gardella (editors)
- reviewed by Carol H. Shiue on September 30, 2004
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883
- by Joel Best
- reviewed by Robin L. E. Hemenway on July 26, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Conversations on Growth, Stability, and Trade: An Historical Perspective
- by Brian Snowdon
- reviewed by Christopher Hanes on April 18, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Coping with Crisis: International Financial Institutions in the Interwar Period
- by Makoto Kasuya (editor)
- reviewed by Kris James Mitchener on December 18, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s
- by Charles K. Hyde
- reviewed by Roger Burt on August 11, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Copyright and Other Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen and the Commodification of Creativity
- by Helle Porsdam (editor)
- reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on June 16, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Corn and Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance
- by Arturo Warman
- reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on August 1, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930
- by Nikki Mandell
- reviewed by Howard R. Stanger on June 20, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History
- by Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin (editors)
- reviewed by Louis P. Cain on August 2, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law and the Market Economy in Colonial New York
- by Deborah A. Rosen
- reviewed by Anne M. Boylan on April 7, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries: Work, Power, and Representation
- by Maarten Prak, Catharina Lis, Jan Lucassen and Hugo Soly (editors)
- reviewed by Gary Richardson on October 24, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Creating a National Home: Building the Veterans' Welfare State 1860-1900
- by Patrick J. Kelly
- reviewed by Dora L. Costa on January 21, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development
- by Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode
- reviewed by Lee A. Craig on May 12, 2009
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Creating Better Futures: Scenario Planning as a Tool for a Better Tomorrow
- by James A. Ogilvy
- reviewed by Allen L. Bures on August 21, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Creating Capitalism: Joint-Stock Enterprise in British Politics and Culture, 1800-1870
- by James Taylor
- reviewed by Ranald C. Michie on March 12, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business
- by Roland Marchand
- reviewed by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf on January 20, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact
- by Vaclav Smil
- reviewed by Joel Mokyr on December 30, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications
- by Paul Starr
- reviewed by Douglas Galbi on September 9, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
- by Virginia DeJohn Anderson
- reviewed by Russell R. Menard on April 12, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Crusading Liberal: Paul H. Douglas of Illinois
- by Roger Biles
- reviewed by Alice O'Connor on June 16, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899-1929
- by Alan B. Dye
- reviewed by Richard Salvucci on September 6, 1999
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
- by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey
- reviewed by Philip R.P. Coelho on June 10, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920
- by David Vaught
- reviewed by Kerry Odell on April 20, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880-1930
- by Julie A. Charlip
- reviewed by Héctor Lindo-Fuentes on September 8, 2003
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany
- by Bernd Widdig
- reviewed by Hans-Joachim Voth on December 3, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660-1720
- by Natasha Glaisyer
- reviewed by David Hussey on July 5, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business
- by Rowena Olegario
- reviewed by Brandon Dupont on July 15, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States
- by Clete Daniel
- reviewed by Lawrence Richards on June 21, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium
- by Dirk Hoerder
- reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on April 21, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture
- by Eric L. Jones
- reviewed by Avner Greif on July 31, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Currency Boards and Dollarization
- by Kurt Schuler
- reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on November 14, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640-1845
- by William J. Ashworth
- reviewed by Paul Carvajal on July 11, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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