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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 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 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 as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics
by Kenneth R. Hoover
reviewed by Steven Horwitz on April 12, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
by Robert H. Nelson
reviewed by Robert D. Tollison on April 15, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Economics in Russia: Studies in Intellectual History
by Vincent Barnett and Joachim Zweynert (editors)
reviewed by Warren J. Samuels on May 22, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Economics in the Long Run: New Deal Theorists and Their Legacies, 1933-1993
by Theodore Rosenof
reviewed by Michael Perelman on February 17, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Economics in the Shadows of Darwin and Marx: Essays on Institutional and Evolutionary Themes
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson
reviewed by Gary Mongiovi on March 24, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Economics of Alfred Marshall: Revisiting Marshall's Legacy
by Richard Arena and Michel Quéré (editors)
reviewed by Katia Caldari on September 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag
by Paul R. Gregory and Valery Lazarev (editors)
reviewed by Mark Harrison on July 10, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Economics of QWERTY: History, Theory, and Policy -- Essays by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis
by Peter Lewin (editor)
reviewed by Richard J. Sullivan on March 28, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914
by Tracy C. Davis
reviewed by Pam Pilbeam on July 25, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Economics of the Great Depression
by Mark Wheeler
reviewed by Elmus Wicker on May 27, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Economics of the Great Depression: A Twenty-First Century Look Back at the Economics of the Interwar Era
by Randall E. Parker
reviewed by David C. Wheelock on November 3, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Economics of World War I
by Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison (editors)
reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman on January 2, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison
by Mark Harrison
reviewed by Geofrey T. Mills on July 22, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Economics, Competition and Academia: An Intellectual History of Sophism versus Virtue
by Donald R. Stabile
reviewed by Donald E. Frey on February 15, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
Economics: The Culture of a Controversial Science
by Melvin W. Reder
reviewed by Ross B. Emmett on March 31, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Économie rurale et société dans l'Europe franque (VI-IX siècles)
by Jean-Pierre Devroey
reviewed by George Grantham on July 4, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Economies beyond Agriculture in the Classical World
by David J. Mattingly and John Salmon (editors)
reviewed by Darel Engen on February 4, 2003
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Economists in Parliament in the Liberal Age (1848-1920)
by Massimo M. Augello and Marco E.L. Guidi (editors)
reviewed by Vincent Barnett on September 29, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Economy and Economics of Ancient Greece
by Takeshi Amemiya
reviewed by Darel Tai Engen on April 15, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Economy and Material Culture of Russia, 1600-1725
by Richard Hellie
reviewed by Lindsey Hughes on January 19, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian
by Peter Sarris
reviewed by Timothy E. Gregory on June 16, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives and New Directions
by Cathy Matson (editor)
reviewed by David B. Ryden on January 24, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750
by Jan de Vries
reviewed by George Grantham on October 3, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England
by Craig Muldrew
reviewed by Anne E. C. McCants on August 2, 1999
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Education and Economic Decline in Britain, 1870 to the 1990s
by Michael Sanderson
reviewed by David Mitch on February 20, 1999
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)
The Effects of Competition: Cartel Policy and the Evolution of Strategy and Structure in British Industry
by George Symeonidis
reviewed by Margaret C. Levenstein on July 9, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Effortless Economy of Science?
by Philip Mirowski
reviewed by Lawrence Boland on February 1, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age
by Gijs Mom
reviewed by Staffan Hultén on March 28, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Electricity and Energy Policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945
by Martin Chick
reviewed by John Neufeld on June 2, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Elgar Companion to Alfred Marshall
by Tiziano Raffaelli, Giacomo Becattini and Marco Dardi (editors)
reviewed by David Andrews on September 28, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Eli Heckscher, International Trade, and Economic History
by Ronald Findlay, Rolf G.H. Henriksson, Hakan Lindgren and Mats Lundahl (editors)
reviewed by Nick Crafts on August 27, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Elites, Minorities, and Economic Growth
by Elise S. Brezis and Peter Temin (editors)
reviewed by Rick Szostak on May 28, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Elusive Union: The Process of Economic and Monetary Union in Europe
by Kenneth Dyson
reviewed by Elaine Fuller on March 26, 1995
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1859
by Akira Hayami, Osamu Saito and Ronald P. Toby (editors)
reviewed by Carl Mosk on October 22, 2004
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800-1930
by Michael Stephen Smith
reviewed by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur on May 8, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Emergence of Modern Central Banking from 1918 to the Present
by Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, Jaime Reis and Gianni Toniolo (editors)
reviewed by Mark Toma on July 13, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Emigration from Europe, 1815-1930
by Dudley Baines
reviewed by Simone A. Wegge on August 1, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Encumbered Cuba: Capital Markets and Revolt, 1878-1895
by Susan J. Fernández
reviewed by Linda K. Salvucci on June 18, 2003
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
An Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics
by Thomas Cate
reviewed by Michael S. Lawlor on August 20, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Encyclopedia of Native American Economic History
by Bruce E. Johansen
reviewed by David M. Wishart on July 19, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History
by Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day and Immanuel Ness (editors)
reviewed by Melvyn Dubofsky on October 16, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Encyclopedia of Tariffs and Trade in U.S. History
by Cynthia Clark Northrup and Elaine C. Prange Turney (editors)
reviewed by Stephen Meardon on January 6, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The End of Economics
by Michael Perelman
reviewed by Anthony P. O'Brien on August 21, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression
by Harold James
reviewed by Tim Hatton on January 4, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925
by Philip Scranton
reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on June 24, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England
by Peter Temin
reviewed by David R. Meyer on August 9, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
The English Poor Laws, 1700-1930
by Anthony Brundage
reviewed by Steve King on March 21, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The English Wool Market, c. 1230-1327
by Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks and Paul R. Dryburgh
reviewed by James M. Murray on June 19, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood
by Bernard F. Dick
reviewed by Jonathan Snyder on October 19, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production
by Vaclav Smil
reviewed by D. Gale Johnson on November 28, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Ensayos de Historia Económica: Uruguay y la región en la economía mundial 1870-1990
by Luis Bértola
reviewed by Michael J. Twomey on May 22, 2002
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Enterprising Slaves and Master Pirates: Understanding Economic Life in the Bahamas
by Virgil Henry Storr
reviewed by Jenny B. Wahl on July 11, 2005
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina, 1865-1915
by Robert C. Kenzer
reviewed by John Sibley Butler on April 20, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Entertainment Industrialised: The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890-1940
by Gerben Bakker
reviewed by Michael Pokorny on April 28, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Entertainment Industry
by Michael Haupert
reviewed by Gerben Bakker on April 26, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance: Samuel P. Black and the Rise of Erie Insurance, 1923-1961
by Samuel P. Black Jr. and John Paul Rossi
reviewed by Jeffrey J. Matthews on October 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil:The Formation of a Business Environment
by Sergio de Oliveira Birchal
reviewed by Ralph Lee Woodward on November 9, 1999
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Envy of the World: A History of the U.S. Economy and Big Business
by Timothy J. Botti
reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on February 7, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World
by Robert William Fogel
reviewed by Cormac Ó Gráda on October 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
Escape from the Market: Negotiating Work in Lancashire
by Michael Huberman
reviewed by Susan Wolcott on December 1, 1997
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Essays in History: Financial, Economic, Personal
by Charles P. Kindleberger
reviewed by David Glasner on March 8, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Essays on the Great Depression
by Ben S. Bernanke
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Essays on the History of Economics
by Warren J. Samuels, Willie Henderson, Kirk D. Johnson and Marianne Johnson (editors)
reviewed by Maria Pia Paganelli on January 18, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Estadísticas históricas de España: Siglos XIX - XX
by Albert Carreras and Xavier Tafunell (editors)
reviewed by Mauricio Drelichman on August 16, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Estates, Enterprise and Investment at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution: Estate Management and Accounting in the North-East of England, c.1700-1780
by David Oldroyd
reviewed by James Jaffe on April 2, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
The Euro: Its Origins, Development and Prospects
by Chris Mulhearn and Howard R Vane
reviewed by Jerry Mushin on January 26, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Europe in the International Economy, 1500-2000
by Derek H. Aldcroft and Anthony Sutcliffe
reviewed by Karl Gunnar Persson on August 7, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Europe Reborn: A History, 1914-2000
by Harold James
reviewed by Joel Mokyr on April 23, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Europe's Third World: The European Periphery in the Interwar Years
by Derek H. Aldcroft
reviewed by Nikolaus Wolf on June 14, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K)
European Aristocracies and Colonial Elites: Patrimonial Management Strategies and Economic Development, 15th-18th Centuries
by Paul Janssens and Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla (editors)
reviewed by Carlos Álvarez-Nogal on March 20, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
European Banks and the American Challenge: Competition and Cooperation in International Banking under Bretton Woods
by Stefano Battilossi and Youssef Cassis (editors)
reviewed by Steven Tolliday on October 23, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945
by Christopher Kobrak and Per H. Hansen (editors)
reviewed by Thomas Ferguson on April 3, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E)
European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India
by Om Prakash
reviewed by John Adams on February 15, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
European Economic History: From Mercantilism to Maastricht and Beyond
by Ejvind Damsgaard Hansen
reviewed by Jaime Reis on September 26, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
European Economists of the Early Twentieth Century, Volume 2. Studies on Neglected Continental Thinkers of Germany and Italy
by Warren J. Samuels (editor)
reviewed by Nicola Giocoli on December 12, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond
by Barry Eichengreen
reviewed by Stephen Broadberry on May 23, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Labor and Employment History (T)
European Industrial Policy: The Twentieth-Century Experience
by James Foreman-Peck and Giovanni Federico
reviewed by Francesca Fauri on May 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
European Integration, 1950-2003: Superstate or New Market Economy?
by John Gillingham
reviewed by Daniel Barbezat on April 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The European Macroeconomy: Growth, Integration and Cycles 1500-1913
by Lee A. Craig and Douglas Fisher
reviewed by Stephen N. Broadberry on October 31, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture
by Deborah Fitzgerald
reviewed by Bruce Gardner on June 20, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture
by Susan B. Hanley
reviewed by Gail Honda on July 16, 1997
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Evolution and Institutions: On Evolutionary Economics and the Evolution of Economics
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson
reviewed by Anne Mayhew on September 26, 2000
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Evolution and Procedures in Central Banking
by David E. Altig and Bruce D. Smith (editors)
reviewed by Stefano Battilossi on March 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Evolution of Institutional Economics: Agency, Structure and Darwinism in American Institutionalism
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson
reviewed by Sherry Davis Kasper on January 20, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Evolution of International Business: An Introduction
by Geoffrey Jones
reviewed by Graham D. Taylor on July 10, 1996
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990
by Dora L. Costa
reviewed by Brian Gratton on December 15, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Law, Politics, and Economics of the GATT and the WTO
by John H. Barton, Judith L. Goldstein, Timothy E. Josling and Richard H. Steinberg
reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on January 9, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Evolution of the World Economy, Precious Metals and India
by John McGuire, Patrick Bertola and Peter Reeves (editors)
reviewed by Arturo Giraldez on May 4, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows: Britain, the Americas, and Australia, 1865-1914
by Lance E. Davis and Robert E. Gallman
reviewed by Alan M. Taylor on May 7, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and Its European Rivals, 1688-1815
by Leandro Prados de la Escosura (editor)
reviewed by Gregory Clark on October 7, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Exchange Rate Regimes in the Twentieth Century
by Derek H. Aldcroft and Michael J. Oliver
reviewed by Anna J. Schwartz on November 24, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Exchange Rates and Economic Policy in the Twentieth Century
by Ross E. Catterall and Derek H. Aldcroft (editors)
reviewed by Stefano Battilossi on December 14, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Extremes in the Archipelago: Trade and Economic Development in the Outer Islands of Indonesia, 1900-1942
by Jeroen Touwen
reviewed by Anne Booth on May 29, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

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