Book Reviews - By Title (W)
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- Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860
- by Robert A. Margo
- reviewed by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Income and Wealth (Q), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America
- by Beatrix Hoffman
- reviewed by Melissa A. Thomasson on July 10, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle Class Investors
- by Edwin J. Perkins
- reviewed by David L. Mason on February 21, 2000
- 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)
- Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors
- by Edwin J. Perkins
- reviewed by Kenneth A. Snowden on September 12, 2000
- 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)
- Walrasian Economics
- by Donald A. Walker
- reviewed by Roger E. Backhouse on December 18, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- War and Taxes
- by Steven A. Bank, Kirk J. Stark and Joseph J. Thorndike
- reviewed by W. Elliot Brownlee on May 14, 2009
- 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), Military and War (O)
- War and Welfare: Europe and the United States, 1945 to the Present
- by Jytte Klausen
- reviewed by David Coates on September 5, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- The War within World War II: The United States and International Cartels
- by Robert Franklin Maddox
- reviewed by Daniel Barbezat on May 21, 2002
- Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900
- by John V.C. Nye
- reviewed by Gordon Bannerman on October 15, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Warhogs: A History of War Profits in America
- by Stuart D. Brandes
- reviewed by Jacob Vander Meulen on February 17, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Warriors into Workers: The Civil War and the Formation of Urban-Industrial Society in a Northern City
- by Russell L. Johnson
- reviewed by Brandon Dupont on February 14, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935
- by Donald J. Pisani
- reviewed by Peter J. Hill on October 20, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Water, Race, and Disease
- by Werner Troesken
- reviewed by John C. Brown on June 1, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Are Some So Rich and Others So Poor
- by David S. Landes
- reviewed by J. Bradford De Long on April 6, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought
- by Alessandro Roncaglia
- reviewed by Ingrid H. Rima on June 28, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- The Weather Channel: The Improbable Rise of a Media Phenomenon
- by Frank Batten
- reviewed by Toby G. Bates on November 12, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Weathering the Storm: The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression
- by Peter Boomgaard and Ian Brown (editors)
- reviewed by John Drabble on July 24, 2003
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania
- by Adrienne D. Hood
- reviewed by Kris Inwood on July 1, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Werner von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur
- by Wilfried Feldenkirchen
- reviewed by Wilfried Feldenkirchen on November 29, 1994
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955
- by S. Jonathan Wiesen
- reviewed by L. M. Stallbaumer-Beishline on June 24, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Western Capitalism in China: A History of the Shanghai Stock Exchange
- by W. A. Thomas
- reviewed by Andrea McElderry on December 12, 2001
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates since 1917
- by Marcel van der Linden
- reviewed by Martin Kragh on October 9, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
- Time period: 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), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
- by Daniel Walker Howe
- reviewed by Jenny Wahl on September 22, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- When the Potato Failed: Causes and Effects of the Last European Subsistence Crisis, 1845-1850
- by Cormac Ó Gráda, Richard Paping and Eric Vanhaute (editors)
- reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on November 29, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- When Washington Shut down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy
- by William L. Silber
- reviewed by Jon Moen on June 12, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O)
- Where Is Our Responsibility? Unions and Economic Change in the New England Textile Industry, 1870-1960
- by William F. Hartford
- reviewed by Debbie Mullin on April 10, 1997
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Whiskey Trade of the Northwestern Plains: A Multidisciplinary Study
- by Margaret A. Kennedy
- reviewed by Steven D. Swearingin on July 10, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- A White-Collar Profession: African American Certified Public Accountants Since 1921
- by Theresa A. Hammond
- reviewed by Dale L. Flesher on September 23, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Who's In Charge? Workers and Managers in the United States
- by Peter Liebhold and Harry Rubenstein
- reviewed by Nelson Lichtenstein on March 6, 1996
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Who's Who in Economics (Third Edition)
- by Mark Blaug
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on February 11, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
- Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
- by Didier Sornette
- reviewed by Gary Santoni on April 15, 2003
- 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)
- Widows and Orphans First: The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880-1939
- by S. J. Kleinberg
- reviewed by Carolyn M. Moehling on June 7, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T)
- William Crookes (1832-1919) and the Commercialization of Science
- by William H. Brock
- reviewed by Larry Stewart on July 1, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics
- by Harro Maas
- reviewed by Michael V. White on November 27, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Winners, Losers and Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology
- by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis
- reviewed by Bill Goffe on July 24, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung, Sozialstruktur und biologischer Lebensstandard in München und dem südlichen Bayern im 19. Jahrhundert
- by Klaus Schuster
- reviewed by Daniel Schwekendiek on April 17, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Women in Business, 1700-1850
- by Nicola Phillips
- reviewed by Margaret Walsh on September 22, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850
- by Ivy Pinchbeck
- reviewed by Joyce Burnette on February 1, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Women's Work? American Schoolteachers, 1650-1920
- by Joel Perlmann and Robert A. Margo
- reviewed by Susan B. Carter on July 1, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Women, Work, and Wages in England, 1600-1850
- by Penelope Lane, Neil Raven and K. D. M. Snell (editors)
- reviewed by Joyce Burnette on March 2, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Working Class Credit and Community since 1918
- by Avram Taylor
- reviewed by Peter Scott on August 30, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump
- by Theo Balderston (editor)
- reviewed by Randall E. Parker on March 23, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective
- by Angus Maddison
- reviewed by Elise S. Brezis on November 26, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- A World History of Tax Rebellions: An Encyclopedia of Tax Rebels, Revolts, and Riots from Antiquity to the Present
- by David F. Burg
- reviewed by Richard Vedder on October 2, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization
- by Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin
- reviewed by James A. Jaffe on March 16, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- The World System and the Earth System: Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability since the Neolithic
- by Alf Hornborg and Carole L. Crumley (editors)
- reviewed by Eric Jones on March 9, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W)
- World War II and the Scramble for Labour in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1939-1948
- by David Johnson
- reviewed by Laird Jones on December 30, 2002
- Geographic area: Africa (1)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Worst Tax? A History of the Property Tax in America
- by Glenn Fisher
- reviewed by John Joseph Wallis on June 4, 1997
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism
- by Elizabeth Faue
- reviewed by Gerald Friedman on October 2, 2003
- 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)
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