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Fabricating the Keynesian Revolution: Studies of the Inter-war Literature on Money, the Cycle, and Unemployment

by David Laidler

reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond on June 1, 2000

Geographic area: Africa (1)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century

by Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht

reviewed by William Boal on April 20, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T), Urban and Regional History (Z)

Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America

by Daniel K. Richter

reviewed by Peter C. Mancall on October 6, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Family Fictions and Family Facts: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet and the Population Question in England, 1798-1859

by Brian Cooper

reviewed by Evelyn L. Forget on January 11, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)

Family, Family Firm and Strategy: Six Dutch Family Firms in the Food Industry, 1880-1970

by Doreen Arnoldus

reviewed by Andrea Colli on October 19, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias

by Peter M. Garber

reviewed by Charles P. Kindleberger on August 15, 2000

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)

A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World

by Gregory Clark

reviewed by Robert A. Margo on March 11, 2008

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W)

Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880-1990

by Daniel Nelson

reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on August 15, 1997

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)

The Farm on the North Talbot Road

by Allan G. Bogue

reviewed by Robert Ankli on August 29, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)

Farm Production in England 1700-1914

by M. E. Turner, J. V. Beckett and B. Afton

reviewed by Nicola Verdon on August 19, 2002

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)

Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution

by Robert C. Allen

reviewed by R. W. Davies on June 9, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)

Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780-1860

by Martin Bruegel

reviewed by Laurence J. Malone on October 17, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B)

The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945

by Victoria Saker Woeste

reviewed by Paul Rhode on February 15, 2000

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)

FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

by Jim Powell

reviewed by Ellis W. Hawley on March 30, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)

The Federal Landscape: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century West

by Gerald D. Nash

reviewed by Peter J. Hill on January 21, 2000

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)

The Federal Reserve and the Bull Markets: From Benjamin Strong to Alan Greenspan

by Roger W. Spencer and John H. Huston

reviewed by Gary J. Santoni on July 13, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

The Federal Reserve System: An Encyclopedia

by R. W. Hafer

reviewed by Daniel Giedeman on June 9, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000

by Giovanni Federico

reviewed by Bruce Gardner on March 14, 2006

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)

The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930

by Wendy Gamber

reviewed by Pamela Nickless on July 7, 1998

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Female Labour Power: Women Workers' Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780-1860

by Janet Greenlees

reviewed by Pamela J. Nickless on June 28, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)

Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants

by Kathleen M. Barry

reviewed by Vicki Howard on June 29, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland

by Gordon Bigelow

reviewed by Sandra Peart on July 20, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Fiery Dragons: Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma

by Sean Turnell

reviewed by Ian Brown on November 16, 2009

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

Fifty Years of the Deutsche Mark. Central Bank and the Currency in Germany since 1948

by Deutsche Bundesbank (editor)

reviewed by Albrecht Ritschl on February 28, 2000

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Fighting against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor since World War II

by Timothy J. Minchin

reviewed by Gerald Friedman on August 10, 2005

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)

Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s

by Lillian M. Li

reviewed by Pierre-Étienne Will on May 7, 2008

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)

Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City

by Peter D. Norton

reviewed by Werner Troesken on August 5, 2008

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

The Final Victims: Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810

by James A. McMillin

reviewed by Philip Misevich on August 23, 2005

Geographic area: Africa (1), North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Finance Capitalism and Germany's Rise to Industrial Power

by Caroline Fohlin

reviewed by Carsten Burhop on September 14, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Finance from Kaiser to Führer: Budget Politics in Germany, 1912-1934

by C. Edmund Clingan

reviewed by Michael Hughes on August 9, 2001

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development

by Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (editors)

reviewed by Timothy W. Guinnane on September 8, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Labor and Employment History (T)

Financial Crises and What to Do about Them

by Barry Eichengreen

reviewed by Anna J. Schwartz on September 8, 2003

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich

by Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen

reviewed by Gerald Gunderson on July 28, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

A Financial History of the United States

by Jerry W. Markham

reviewed by Robert E. Wright on June 6, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

A Financial History of the United States

by Jerry W. Markham

reviewed by Kenneth Weiher on December 11, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Financing Innovation in the United States: 1870 to the Present

by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (editors)

reviewed by Charles W. Calomiris on July 17, 2009

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Markets and Institutions (W)

Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit

by Lendol Calder

reviewed by Christiane Diehl Taylor on February 3, 2000

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Financing the First World War

by Hew Strachan

reviewed by Hans-Joachim Voth on January 23, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O)

The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City

by Sara E. Wermiel

reviewed by James B. McSwain on November 13, 2000

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)

Firms, Networks and Business Values: The British and American Cotton Industries since 1750

by Mary B. Rose

reviewed by David Higgins on May 11, 2001

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)

The First Crash: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble

by Richard Dale

reviewed by Larry Neal on March 4, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

The First Industrial Region: North-West England, c. 1700-60

by Jon Stobart

reviewed by Steve King on October 26, 2005

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Urban and Regional History (Z)

The First Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the Birth of American Finance

by Robert E. Wright

reviewed by Peter L. Rousseau on September 26, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

The First World War and the International Economy

by Chris Wrigley (editor)

reviewed by David Greasley on May 31, 2001

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century

by Peter E. Pope

reviewed by Luca Codignola on March 22, 2005

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 17th Century (5)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia

by Douglas C. Harris

reviewed by D. Bruce Johnsen on January 15, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933

by Margaret Beattie Bogue

reviewed by Jerome K. Laurent on July 12, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)

The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World

by Nicholas Dawidoff

reviewed by Carl Mosk on September 17, 2003

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Food and the City in Europe since 1800

by Peter J. Atkins, Peter Lummel and Derek J. Oddy (editors)

reviewed by Richard Perren on February 27, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)

For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State

by Jennifer Klein

reviewed by Melissa A. Thomasson on August 26, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T)

For the Common Good? American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity

by Jason Kaufman

reviewed by David T. Beito on February 18, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia

by Woody Holton

reviewed by Robert E. Wright on February 15, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6)
Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Forerunners of Modern Financial Economics: A Random Walk in the History of Economic Thought, 1900-1950

by Donald R. Stabile

reviewed by Geoffrey Poitras on November 2, 2005

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution

by John Bezis-Selfa

reviewed by Michael V. Kennedy on May 25, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

by Amity Shlaes

reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on August 21, 2008

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)

Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War

by John C. Willis

reviewed by J. William Harris on July 18, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade

by Barton H. Barbour

reviewed by Ann Harper Fender on March 11, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)

The Foundations of Economic Method: A Popperian Perspective

by Lawrence A. Boland

reviewed by O.F. Hamouda on April 7, 2005

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia

by Andrew M. Schocket

reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams on July 19, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Four Books on Philanthropy

by Bruce R. Hopkins, Jody Blazek, D. Benson Tesdahl, Lester M. Salamon and Judith Sealander

reviewed by Milton Goldin on May 5, 1998

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism

by Robert William Fogel

reviewed by John Murray on April 9, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (e), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court Packing Crisis of 1937

by Marian C. McKenna

reviewed by Harvey G. Hudspeth on May 16, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy

by James Macdonald

reviewed by Robert E. Wright on May 31, 2006

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)

A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy

by James Macdonald

reviewed by Robert E. Wright on May 31, 2006

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)

The Free Standing Company in the World Economy, 1830-1996

by Mira Wilkins and Harm Schroter

reviewed by Gordon Boyce on July 30, 1999

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Business History (B)

Free Trade Free World: The Advent of GATT

by Thomas W. Zeiler

reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on June 16, 1999

Geographic area:
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain

by Frank Trentmann

reviewed by Peter J. Cain on October 17, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism

by William J. Baumol

reviewed by Joel Mokyr on July 26, 2002

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)

Freedom and Growth: The Rise of States and Markets in Europe, 1300-1750

by S. R. Epstein

reviewed by Karl Gunnar Persson on February 15, 2003

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)

Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer

by Kathleen G. Donohue

reviewed by Larry G. Gerber on June 8, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)

The French Economy in the Twentieth Century

by Jean-Pierre Dormois

reviewed by Marc Flandreau on July 18, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815-1860

by Stewart Davenport

reviewed by Donald E. Frey on September 24, 2008

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

From Boardroom to the War Room: America's Corporate Liberals and FDR's Preparedness Program

by Richard E. Holl

reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on November 7, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)

From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers

by Allan Kulikoff

reviewed by Winifred B. Rothenberg on September 7, 2002

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

From Buildings and Loans to Bail-Outs: A History of the American Savings and Loan Industry, 1831-1995

by David L. Mason

reviewed by Richard H. Keehn on January 26, 2005

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

From Direct Action to Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America, 1933-1972

by Paul D. Moreno

reviewed by Charles A. Shanor on May 27, 1998

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

From Edison to Enron: The Business of Power and What It Means for the Future of Electricity

by Richard Munson

reviewed by David B. Sicilia on January 20, 2008

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes

by Richard J. Smethurst

reviewed by Michael Schiltz on February 7, 2008

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)

From Gold to Euro: On Monetary Theory and the History of Currency Systems

by Heinz-Peter Spahn

reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk on May 10, 2002

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession

by Rakesh Khurana

reviewed by Donald R. Stabile on November 12, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Education and Human Resource Development (G)

From Liberty to Democracy: The Transformation of American Government

by Randall G. Holcombe

reviewed by John Dinan on May 21, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967

by David T. Beito

reviewed by J. C. Herbert Emery on August 1, 2000

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture

by Dennis S. Nordin and Roy V. Scott

reviewed by David Danbom on February 15, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)

From Redstone to Ludlow: John Cleveland Osgood’s Struggle against the United Mine Workers of America

by F. Darrell Munsell

reviewed by Ethan Doetsch on June 4, 2009

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Labor and Employment History (T)

From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000

by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal and Zephyr Frank (editors)

reviewed by Jeremy Baskes on January 26, 2007

Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)

From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry