Book Reviews - By Title (U)

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U.S. Bank Deregulation in Historical Perspective
by Charles W. Calomiris
reviewed by John A. James on February 19, 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)
The U.S. Brewing Industry: Data and Economic Analysis
by Victor J. Tremblay and Carol Horton Tremblay
reviewed by Jon P. Nelson on May 31, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
U.S. Development Aid: An Historic First
by Samuel Hale Butterfield
reviewed by John R. Hanson II on September 30, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
U.S. Economic History Since 1945
by Michael French
reviewed by Randy R. Grant on October 1, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present
by David S. Landes
reviewed by Paul M. Hohenberg on April 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Understanding Economic Recovery in the 1930s: Endogenous Propagation in the Great Depression
by Frank G. Steindl
reviewed by David C. Wheelock on July 9, 2004
  • 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)
Understanding the Process of Economic Change
by Douglass C. North
reviewed by Alexander J. Field on February 15, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Factor Endowments, Culture, and Politics on Long-run Economic Performance
by Deepak Lal
reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on December 21, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture
by Lawrence Richards
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on November 19, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism
by Ileen A. DeVault
reviewed by Daniel Jacoby on March 8, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The United States National Debt, 1787-1900
by Robert E. Wright (editor)
reviewed by Franklin Noll on March 22, 2006
  • 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)
Universal Service: Competition, Interconnection and Monopoly in the Making of the American Telephone System
by Milton L. Mueller
reviewed by Jeff Kraft on February 12, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Unlikely Partners: Philanthropic Foundations and the Labor Movement
by Richard Magat
reviewed by Milton Goldin on December 16, 1998
  • 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 Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy
by Richardson Dilworth
reviewed by Ed Duggan on January 4, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Usury, Interest and the Reformation
by Eric Kerridge
reviewed by Norman Jones on December 29, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

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