Book Reviews - By Title (R)
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- The Race between Education and Technology
- by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz
- reviewed by Peter H. Lindert on November 29, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Race, Jobs, and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941-46
- by Andrew Edmund Kersten
- reviewed by Thomas N. Maloney on April 19, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Race, Liberalism, and Economics
- by David Colander, Robert E. Prasch and Falguni A. Sheth (editors)
- reviewed by Stanley Engerman on July 12, 2004
- 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), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940
- by Andrew Wender Cohen
- reviewed by Louis P. Cain on July 25, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960
- by Hugh R. Slotten
- reviewed by Carole E. Scott on March 8, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America
- by Robert G. Angevine
- reviewed by David Surdam on March 24, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Railroading Economics: The Creation of the Free Market Mythology
- by Michael Perelman
- reviewed by Richard Vedder on January 19, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History
- by Robert W. Fogel
- reviewed by Lance Davis on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Railroads and American Law
- by James W. Ely Jr.
- reviewed by Harvey G. Hudspeth on July 16, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat
- by John E. Clark Jr.
- reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams on May 26, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad
- by H. Roger Grant
- reviewed by Bill Beck on April 6, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Railways in Britain and the United States 1830-1940
- by Geoffrey Channon
- reviewed by Albert J. Churella on January 10, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929
- by Maury Klein
- reviewed by Robert Zevin on February 8, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Rationality and Freedom
- by Amartya Sen
- reviewed by Robert D. Tollison on February 11, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
- by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
- reviewed by Gerald Gunderson on September 18, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Rebuilding Germany: The Creation of the Social Market Economy, 1945-1957
- by James C. van Hook
- reviewed by Jonas Scherner on April 29, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855
- by F. Matthew Gallman
- reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on August 15, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Recessions and Depressions: Understanding Business Cycles
- by Todd A. Knoop
- reviewed by David Glasner on October 12, 2005
- 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), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Reclaiming Marx’s Capital: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency
- by Andrew Kliman
- reviewed by David Kristjanson-Gural on September 23, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Reconstruction in the Cane Field: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes 1862-1880
- by John C. Rodrigue
- reviewed by Robert C. Kenzer on October 26, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Record of Global Economic Development
- by Eric L. Jones
- reviewed by Morris Altman on March 18, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Records of American Business
- by James M. O'Toole
- reviewed by Randall C. Jimerson on May 11, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry
- by Hugh S. Gorman
- reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on August 17, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England
- by Diana Muir
- reviewed by Jane Knodell on May 24, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K)
- Reflections of Eminent Economists
- by Michael Szenberg and Lall Ramrattan (editors)
- reviewed by Arthur M. Diamond Jr. on August 31, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution: Conversations with Economic Historians
- by John S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain and Samuel H. Williamson (editors)
- reviewed by Michael Haupert on August 29, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
- Reflections on the Great Depression
- by Randall E. Parker
- reviewed by Gene Smiley on April 1, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (v)
- Reforming Financial Systems: Historical Implications for Policy
- by Gerald Jr. Caprio and Dimitri Vittas
- reviewed by Michael Haupert on December 4, 1997
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Regions, Institutions and Agrarian Change in European History
- by Rosemary L. Hopcroft
- reviewed by George Grantham on September 13, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920
- by Steven W. Usselman
- reviewed by Jeff Schramm on September 14, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Reigniting the Labor Movement: Restoring Means to Ends in a Democratic Labor Movement
- by Gerald Friedman
- reviewed by Hoyt N. Wheeler on August 28, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900-1930
- by Amy E. Slaton
- reviewed by James B. McSwain on October 5, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930
- by Gunther Peck
- reviewed by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on May 23, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Reluctant Economist: Perspectives on Economics, Economic History, and Demography
- by Richard A. Easterlin
- reviewed by Lee A. Craig on November 30, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
- Time period: 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), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Reluctant Partners: A History of Multilateral Trade Cooperation, 1850-2000
- by Andrew Brown
- reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on September 16, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Remaking the Postwar World Economy: Robot and British Policy in the 1950s
- by Peter Burnham
- reviewed by Catherine Schenk on January 18, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: From Protectionism to Globalization
- by Nitsan Chorev
- reviewed by Douglas A. Irwin on January 11, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Renewing Birmingham: Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929-1979
- by Christopher MacGregor Scribner
- reviewed by Gordon E. Harvey on December 17, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence
- by Bruce H. Mann
- reviewed by David T. Flynn on February 23, 2004
- 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Republicanism and the French Revolution: An Intellectual History of Jean-Baptiste Say's Political Economy
- by Richard Whatmore
- reviewed by William Baumol on May 25, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt across Three Centuries
- by Michael Tomz
- reviewed by Kim Oosterlinck on February 11, 2008
- 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: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster
- by Lawrence J. Vale and Thomas J. Campanella (editors)
- reviewed by Donald E. Frey on November 2, 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: Military and War (O), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The Resurgence of East Asia, 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives
- by Giovanni Arrighi, Takeshi Hamashita and Mark Selden
- reviewed by Debin Ma on February 15, 2005
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- 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), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Liberalism: Richard Cobden Bicentenary Essays
- by Anthony Howe and Simon Morgan (editors)
- reviewed by Leonard P. Liggio on July 26, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Rethinking the Great Depression
- by Gene Smiley
- reviewed by David C. Wheelock on February 5, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Revisiting U.S. Trade Policy: Decisions in Perspective
- by Alfred E. Eckes Jr.
- reviewed by James Gerber on December 5, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- The Revival of Laissez-Faire in American Macroeconomic Theory: A Case Study of the Pioneers
- by Sherryl Davis Kasper
- reviewed by Roger W. Garrison on April 22, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State
- by Max M. Edling
- reviewed by Robert A. McGuire on May 25, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in Late Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland
- by Beth Holmgren
- reviewed by Robert E. Blobaum on June 23, 1999
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Rexall Story: A History of Genius and Neglect
- by Mickey C. Smith
- reviewed by Marvin Fischbaum on September 11, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Ricardo's Macroeconomics: Money, Trade Cycles, and Growth
- by Timothy Davis
- reviewed by James C.W. Ahiakpor on September 22, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Riches from Atlantic Commerce: Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585-1817
- by Johannes Postma and Victor Enthoven (editors)
- reviewed by Paul M. Hohenberg on June 28, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors: The Transformation of Rural Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1720-1850
- by Thomas S. Wermuth
- reviewed by Donald Parkerson on January 30, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Rise and Decline of Dutch Technological Leadership: Technology, Economy, and Culture in the Netherlands, 1350–1800
- by Karel Davids
- reviewed by William TeBrake on March 5, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR from 1945
- by Philip Hanson
- reviewed by Vladimir Kontorovich on October 17, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- The Rise of "The Rest": Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies
- by Alice Amsden
- reviewed by John R. Hanson II on September 9, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 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)
- The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
- by David Eltis
- reviewed by Jan Hogendorn on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: Africa (1), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
- The Rise of Big Government in the United States
- by John F. Walker and Harold G. Vatter
- reviewed by Werner Troesken on January 13, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- The Rise of Capitalism on the Pampas: The Estancias of Buenos Aires, 1785-1870
- by Samuel Amaral
- reviewed by Edward Beatty on June 1, 2000
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1770
- by David Ormrod
- reviewed by Paul M. Hohenberg on December 11, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Rise of Historical Economics and Social Reform in Germany, 1864-1894
- by Erik Grimmer-Solem
- reviewed by Nicholas W. Balabkins on September 28, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange: Merchants, Commercial Expansion and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low Countries, c. 1550-1630
- by Clé Lesger
- reviewed by Larry Neal on January 12, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The Rise of the English Town 1650-1850
- by Christopher Chalklin
- reviewed by Jon Stobart on October 22, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History
- by Douglass C. North and Robert Paul Thomas
- reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on December 21, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Rise, Fall, and Replacement of Industrywide Bargaining in the Basic Steel Industry
- by Garth L. Magnum and R. Scott McNabb
- reviewed by Howard R. Stanger on March 12, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History
- by James C. Riley
- reviewed by Richard A. Easterlin on February 12, 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: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter & Gamble
- by Davis Dyer, Frederick Dalzell and Rowena Olegario
- reviewed by Michael Landry on June 17, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850
- by Kim M. Gruenwald
- reviewed by Diane Lindstrom on January 19, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control
- by Karen M. O'Neill
- reviewed by Brooks A. Kaiser on December 22, 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control
- by Karen M. O'Neill
- reviewed by Brooks A. Kaiser on December 22, 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia
- by Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee
- reviewed by James Oberly on July 20, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Road to Prosperity: An Economic History of Finland
- by Jari Ojala, Jari Eloranta and Jukka Jalava (editors)
- reviewed by Lars Fredrik Andersson on June 8, 2007
- 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), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- The Road to Serfdom: Texts and Documents -- The Definitive Edition
- by F. A. Hayek
- reviewed by Steven Horwitz on June 11, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes
- by John Franch
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on July 2, 2009
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery
- by Eliot A. Rosen
- reviewed by Elmus Wicker on June 19, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The Roots of American Industrialization
- by David R. Meyer
- reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on November 13, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917
- by Elizabeth Sanders
- reviewed by Gerald Friedman on April 6, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Rotten Fruits of Economic Controls and the Rise from the Ashes, 1965-1989
- by Thomas E. Hall
- reviewed by J. Peter Ferderer on July 2, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution, 1862-1969
- by Robert Fitzgerald
- reviewed by John F. Wilson on August 21, 1995
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Rum and Axes: The Rise of a Connecticut Merchant Family, 1795-1850
- by Janet Siskind
- reviewed by Barry Levy on August 9, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England: Gender, Work and Wages
- by Nicola Verdon
- reviewed by Joyce Burnette on January 25, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Russia's Economic Transitions: From Late Tsarism to the New Millennium
- by Nicolas Spulber
- reviewed by Carol Leonard on March 31, 2005
- 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), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Russia's Foreign Trade and Economic Expansion in the Seventeenth Century: Windows on the World
- by J. T. Kotilaine
- reviewed by Valéry Lazarev on April 28, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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