Book Reviews - By Title (S)
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- Sacred Debts: State Civil War Claims and American Federalism, 1861-1880
- by Kyle S. Sinisi
- reviewed by Robert W. Burg on March 8, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present
- by Martin V. Melosi
- reviewed by James B. McSwain on May 16, 2002
- 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), Historical Geography (K), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Schumpeter and the Endogeneity of Technology: Some American Perspectives
- by Nathan Rosenberg
- reviewed by Avi J. Cohen on August 11, 2003
- 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Schumpeter on the Economics of Innovation and the Development of Capitalism
- by Arnold Heertje
- reviewed by Mark W. Frank on August 23, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Schumpeter's Market: Enterprise and Evolution
- by David Reisman
- reviewed by Frederic Sautet on September 2, 2005
- 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)
- The Second Bank of the United States and Ohio (1803-1860): A Collision of Interests
- by Marion A. Brown
- reviewed by Larry Schweikart on January 13, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South
- by Donald Holley
- reviewed by Craig Heinicke on March 26, 2002
- 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), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Second Information Revolution
- by Gerald W. Brock
- reviewed by David Gabel on August 9, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution
- by Haim Ofek
- reviewed by João Ricardo Faria on May 30, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: Prehistoric (1)
- Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History, 1750-1960
- by Mary Jo Maynes, Birgitte Soland and Christina Benninghaus
- reviewed by Joyce Burnette on May 24, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- 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), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Secret Origins of Modern Microeconomics: Dupuit and the Engineers
- by Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Robert F. Hebert
- reviewed by Marcel Boumans on July 13, 1999
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
- Self-Interest before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science
- by Pierre Force
- reviewed by Gloria Vivenza on September 20, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0), Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
- by Heather Andrea Williams
- reviewed by Ilyana Kuziemko on July 6, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Selling Themselves: The Emergence of Canadian Advertising
- by Russell Johnston
- reviewed by George Emery on February 23, 2001
- 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), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature
- by Mark Daniel Barringer
- reviewed by Peter J. Hill on August 26, 2002
- 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), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Separatism and Integration: A Study in Analytical History
- by Bertrand M. Roehner
- reviewed by Enrico Spolaore on January 5, 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: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Sexual Revolutions: Gender and Labor at the Dawn of Agriculture
- by Jane Peterson
- reviewed by Richard H. Steckel on June 24, 2003
- Geographic area: Middle East (6)
- Time period: Prehistoric (1)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor
- by David Witwer
- reviewed by Lawrence Richards on June 3, 2009
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Shah's Silk for Europe's Silver: The Eurasian Trade of the Julfa Armenians in Safavid Iran and India (1530-1750)
- by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe
- reviewed by Willem Floor on April 23, 2001
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Shanghai's Bund and Beyond: British Banks, Banknote Issuance, and Monetary Policy in China, 1842-1937
- by Niv Horesh
- reviewed by Richard C. K. Burdekin on October 29, 2009
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries
- by Alfred D. Chandler
- reviewed by Kyle Bruce on January 13, 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: Business History (B)
- Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle
- by Leonard L. Richards
- reviewed by Robert A. McGuire on October 14, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia
- by Peter H. Lindert
- reviewed by D. Gale Johnson on June 1, 2001
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism
- by Thomas R. Heinrich
- reviewed by John K. Brown on August 12, 1997
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The Shoemakers of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1850-1880: The Family during the Transition from Hand to Machine Labor
- by William H. Mulligan, Jr.
- reviewed by Christiane Diehl Taylor on August 17, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Shopping at Giant Foods: Chinese American Supermarkets in Northern California
- by Alfred Yee
- reviewed by Albert J. Churella on February 20, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe
- by Derek J. Penslar
- reviewed by Andrew C. Godley on January 23, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Sick, Not Dead: The Health of British Workingmen During the Mortality Decline
- by James C. Riley
- reviewed by J. C. Herbert Emery on July 9, 1998
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice
- by Luca Molà
- reviewed by Giovanni Federico on September 25, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Silver and Gold: The Political Economy of International Monetary Conferences, 1867-1892
- by Steven P. Reti
- reviewed by John H. Wood on February 22, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Silver of the Sierra Madre: John Robinson, Boss Shepherd, and the People of the Canyons
- by John Mason Hart
- reviewed by Edward Beatty on January 9, 2009
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Size of Nations
- by Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore
- reviewed by Leonard Dudley on February 2, 2004
- 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: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas
- by Sally E. Hadden
- reviewed by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel on July 22, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
- The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery
- by Don E. Fehrenbacher and Ward M. McAfee
- reviewed by Donald F. Schaefer on April 9, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Slavery and American Economic Development
- by Gavin Wright
- reviewed by Jeremy Atack on May 18, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paolo, 1750-1850
- by Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein
- reviewed by James Oakes on May 3, 2006
- 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), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective
- by Robert William Fogel
- reviewed by Leonard Carlson on February 6, 2006
- 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: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Slavery in the American Mountain South
- by Wilma Dunaway
- reviewed by Jenny B. Wahl on October 2, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Slavery in the Development of the Americas
- by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (editors)
- reviewed by Gavin Wright on June 24, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Africa (1), 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800
- by Kenneth Morgan
- reviewed by David Eltis on October 10, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Slavery, Family and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834
- by S.D. Smith
- reviewed by Trevor Burnard on August 7, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Small Business Policy and the American Creed
- by Sandra M. Anglund
- reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford on June 7, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Small Firms in the Japanese Economy
- by D. H. Whittaker
- reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford on July 10, 1997
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Small Firms, Large Concerns: The Development of Small Business in Comparative Perspective
- by Konosuke Odaka and Minoru Sawai
- reviewed by Zoltan J. Acs on October 11, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia
- by Peter Boomgaard and David Henley (editors)
- reviewed by Frans D. Huijzendveld on September 14, 2005
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Smith and Nephew in the Health Care Industry
- by James Foreman-Peck
- reviewed by Marvin Fischbaum on March 24, 1997
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship: Networks and Private Protection during Mexico's Early Industrialization
- by Armando Razo
- reviewed by Aurora Gómez Galvarriato on September 30, 2008
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-53
- by Julie Hessler
- reviewed by Valery Lazarev on January 12, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Social Sources of Financial Power: Domestic Legitimacy and International Financial Orders
- by Leonard Seabrooke
- reviewed by David M. Andrews on November 1, 2006
- Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), 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)
- Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America
- by William G. Roy
- reviewed by Margaret Levenstein on August 12, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700-1948
- by Lynn Hollen Lees
- reviewed by George R. Boyer on May 1, 2000
- 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)
- Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
- by Walter Johnson
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on June 15, 2001
- 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)
- Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
- by Walter Johnson
- reviewed by Robert Wolff on June 1, 2000
- 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)
- The Soul's Economy: Market and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920
- by Jeffrey Sklansky
- reviewed by Donald Frey on January 31, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters
- by Diane Coyle
- reviewed by John A. MacDonald on September 21, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Sources of Industrial Leadership: Studies of Seven Industries
- by David C. Mowery and Richard R. Nelson (editors)
- reviewed by Paul L. Robertson on January 16, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- South Carolina and the New Deal
- by Jack Irby Hayes Jr
- reviewed by Jim Couch on January 28, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development
- by David L. Carlton and Peter A. Coclanis
- reviewed by William H. Phillips on November 4, 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South 1865-1965
- by Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie
- reviewed by Craig Heinicke on December 7, 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), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Khrushchev
- by R. W. Davies
- reviewed by Paul R. Gregory on April 26, 1999
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- Sowing Modernity: America's First Agricultural Revolution
- by Peter D. McClelland
- reviewed by Mary Eschelbach Hansen on February 28, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed over Industry
- by Lawrence E. Mitchell
- reviewed by J. Peter Ferderer on June 5, 2009
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- 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)
- The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth
- by Liah Greenfeld
- reviewed by Deepak Lal on February 17, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse
- by Richard R. John
- reviewed by Mary K. McGuire on August 27, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Stalin's Terror Revisited
- by Melanie Ilic (editor)
- reviewed by Vincent Barnett on January 4, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
- State and Party in America's New Deal
- by Kenneth Finegold and Theda Skocpol
- reviewed by Garry Young on March 18, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- State Banking in Early America: A New Economic History
- by Howard Bodenhorn
- reviewed by Peter L. Rousseau on November 28, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- State of the Union: A Century of American Labor
- by Nelson Lichtenstein
- reviewed by Walter Licht on September 13, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862
- by Christopher Mills Isett
- reviewed by Peer Vries on August 10, 2007
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- 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), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The State, Regulation and the Economy: An Historical Perspective
- by Lars Magnusson and Jan Ottosson (editors)
- reviewed by Mark Kanazawa on July 3, 2002
- 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), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The State, the Financial System and Economic Modernization
- by Richard Sylla, Richard Tilly and Gabriel Tortella (editors)
- reviewed by Caroline Fohlin on May 1, 2000
- 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)
- State-Making and Labor Movements: France and the Unite dStates, 1876-1914
- by Gerald Friedman
- reviewed by Melvyn Dubofsky on February 20, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Statistics and the German State, 1900-1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge
- by J. Adam Tooze
- reviewed by Mark Perlman on April 7, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- The Status of Women in Classical Economic Thought
- by Robert Dimand and Chris Nyland (editors)
- reviewed by Ingrid H. Rima on August 7, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940
- by Arwen Mohun
- reviewed by Jeffrey M. Hornstein on November 14, 2000
- 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: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Store Wars: Shopkeepers and the Culture of Mass Marketing, 1890-1939
- by David Monod
- reviewed by David A. Horowitz on September 8, 1997
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin and Community in Autotown, U.S.A.
- by Lisa M. Fine
- reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd Jr. on August 12, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Straining at the Anchor: The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880-1935
- by Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor
- reviewed by Peter Temin on May 2, 2002
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- 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), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The Strange Survival of Liberal England: Political Leaders, Moral Values and the Reception of Economic Debate
- by E.H.H. Green and D.M. Tanner (editors)
- reviewed by Jim Tomlinson on April 17, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- 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 Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Street of Dreams, Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century
- by Howard M. Wachtel
- reviewed by Edwin Perkins on August 22, 2003
- 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 Strictures of Inheritance: The Dutch Economy in the Nineteenth Century
- by Jan Luiten van Zanden and Arthur van Riel
- reviewed by Stephen Broadberry on October 1, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 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)
- Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America
- by Stephen H. Norwood
- reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on August 15, 2003
- 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)
- Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain, 1889-1966
- by Roy Church and Quentin Outram
- reviewed by Judith Wale on August 23, 1999
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century
- by JoAnne Yates
- reviewed by Thomas Haigh on May 9, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924-1970
- by Robert F. Freeland
- reviewed by Paul Robertson on March 28, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Studies in Economic and Social History: Essays in Honour of Derek H. Aldcroft
- by Michael J. Oliver (editor)
- reviewed by Ruggero Ranieri on January 28, 2003
- 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: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Studies in the Economic History of the Pacific Rim
- by Sally M. Miller, A. J. H. Latham and Dennis O. Flynn (editors)
- reviewed by Sumner La Croix on July 2, 1999
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775-1810
- by Selwyn H. H. Carrington
- reviewed by David Richardson on September 3, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000
- by Howard W. Dick
- reviewed by Heather Sutherland on October 21, 2002
- 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), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Financial Markets
- by Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
- reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on July 30, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth
- by Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich and Will Steffen (editors)
- reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on October 26, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Swallows and Settlers: The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria
- by Thomas R. Gottschang and Diana Lary
- reviewed by Tim Wright on November 30, 2001
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados
- by Russell R. Menard
- reviewed by David Eltis on November 10, 2006
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Symbols of Trade: Roman and Pseudo-Roman Objects Found in India
- by S. Suresh
- reviewed by Himanshu Prabha Ray on May 10, 2005
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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