Book Reviews - By Title (O)
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- Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn
- by Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias
- reviewed by David B. Danbom on August 31, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Oil and Development in Venezuela during the 20th Century
- by Jorge Salazar-Carrillo and Bernadette West
- reviewed by M. del Mar Rubio on November 18, 2004
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Oil and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-63
- by Uri Bialer
- reviewed by Nachum Gross on May 19, 1999
- Geographic area: Middle East (6)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America
- by Sean Patrick Adams
- reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on May 6, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity
- by David W. Galenson
- reviewed by Robert B. Ekelund Jr. on May 19, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion
- by Samuel Fleischacker
- reviewed by Spencer J. Pack on July 27, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- On Classical Economics
- by Thomas Sowell
- reviewed by John Berdell on February 2, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- On Hollywood: The Place, the Industry
- by Allen J. Scott
- reviewed by Mike Haupert on October 18, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Historical Geography (K), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- On the Border of Economic Theory and History
- by Amit Bhaduri
- reviewed by Marcia J. Frost on May 1, 2001
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment
- by Geoff Cunfer
- reviewed by Matthew T. Gregg on April 24, 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), Historical Geography (K)
- On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry
- by Liesl Miller Orenic
- reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd Jr. on August 27, 2009
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency
- by Robert Kanigel
- reviewed by Hindy Lauer Schachter on November 10, 1997
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928
- by Matthew J. Mancini
- reviewed by Garland Brinkley on October 29, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth
- by Dani Rodrik
- reviewed by Alice Amsden on October 1, 2008
- 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), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- One Nation under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe
- by Robert E. Wright
- reviewed by Donald R. Stabile on July 7, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal
- by David E. Bernstein
- reviewed by Richard K. Vedder on April 11, 2001
- 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)
- Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776
- by Alfred E. Jr. Eckes
- reviewed by Bruce A. Khula on November 2, 1995
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Opening the West: Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860
- by Laurence J. Malone
- reviewed by John Joseph Wallis on October 23, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden
- by Douglas Cazaux Sackman
- 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)
- Order against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913
- by William Summerhill
- reviewed by Albert Fishlow on August 3, 2005
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Orderly Change: International Monetary Relations since Bretton Woods
- by David M. Andrews (editor)
- reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on September 26, 2008
- 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), Military and War (O)
- The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century
- by Roger E. Backhouse
- reviewed by Warren J. Samuels on August 7, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism
- by Charles Perrow
- reviewed by Vicki Howard on August 3, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914: Social Policies Compared
- by E. P. Hennock
- reviewed by Bernard Harris on August 25, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Origins and Economic Impact of the First Bank of the United States, 1791-1797
- by David J. Cowen
- reviewed by Edwin J. Perkins on May 22, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Origins and Growth of the Global Economy: From the Fifteenth Century Onward
- by Ronald E. Seavoy
- reviewed by Laura Cruz on November 25, 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), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds
- by John E. Murray
- reviewed by Melissa A. Thomasson on February 4, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Origins of Commercial Banking in America, 1750-1800
- by Robert E. Wright
- reviewed by Edwin J. Perkins on November 12, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Origins of National Financial Systems: Alexander Gerschenkron Reconsidered
- by Douglas J. Forsyth and Daniel Verdier (editors)
- reviewed by Richard Sylla on March 25, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Origins of the American Income Tax: The Revenue Act of 1894 and Its Aftermath
- by Richard J. Joseph
- reviewed by W. Elliot Brownlee on September 28, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- The Origins of the British Welfare State: Social Welfare in England and Wales, 1800-1945
- by Bernard Harris
- reviewed by Mary MacKinnon on February 16, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce, AD 300-900
- by Michael McCormick
- reviewed by David Griffiths on July 16, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Origins of the Modern Career
- by David Mitch, John Brown and Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
- reviewed by Thomas N. Maloney on April 13, 2005
- 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: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Other People's Money: Debt Denomination and Financial Instability in Emerging Market Economies
- by Barry Eichengreen and Ricardo Hausmann (editors)
- reviewed by Hans-Joachim Voth on November 21, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Other Side of the Frontier: Economic Explorations into Native American History
- by Linda Barrington
- reviewed by Thomas Weiss on January 19, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Owens Valley Revisited: A Reassessment of the West's First Great Water Transfer
- by Gary D. Libecap
- reviewed by Mark Kanazawa on March 1, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Income and Wealth (Q), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
- by Joel Mokyr (editor)
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on April 20, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), 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), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Servitude and Slavery (N), 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), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The Oxford History of Indian Business
- by Dwijendra Tripathi
- reviewed by Geoffrey Jones on September 9, 2005
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
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