Book Reviews By Time (19th Century)

Time Period:
18th Century
19th Century

Mothers of Innovation: How Expanding Social Networks Gave Birth to the Industrial Revolution

Author:

Dudley, Leonard

Reviewer:

Jones, Eric

Subject:

History of Technology, including Technological Change

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 18, 2013

Josephus Daniels: His Life and Times

Author:

Craig, Lee A.

Reviewer:

Hanes, Christopher

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Military and War

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 7, 2013

The Concept of Equilibrium in Different Economic Traditions: An Historical Investigation

Author:

Tieben, Bert

Reviewer:

Weintraub, E. Roy

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Jun 5, 2013

Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History

Author:

Reviewer:

Horn, Jeff

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: May 24, 2013

Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease

Author:

Harrison, Mark

Reviewer:

Coelho, Philip R. P.

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Historical Demography, including Migration

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

Medieval

16th Century

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: May 23, 2013

Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth

Author:

McLean, Ian W.

Reviewer:

Harper, Ian

Subject:

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands

Post date: May 10, 2013

German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709-1920

Author:

Grubb, Farley

Reviewer:

Wegge, Simone A.

Subject:

Historical Demography, including Migration

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 1, 2013

The Telegraph in America, 1832-1920

Author:

Hochfelder, David

Reviewer:

Nalbach, Alex

Subject:

Business History

History of Technology, including Technological Change

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 30, 2013

Welfare and Old Age in Europe and North America: The Development of Social Insurance

Author:

Reviewer:

Silvestre, Javier

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

North America

Post date: Apr 19, 2013

The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy

Author:

McCraw, Thomas K.

Reviewer:

Brownlee, W. Elliot

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 18, 2013

The Economics of Edwin Chadwick: Incentives Matter

Author:

Ekelund, Robert B.

Price, Edward O.

Reviewer:

Singleton, John D.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Apr 3, 2013

Female Economic Strategies in the Modern World

Author:

Reviewer:

Arthi, Vellore

Subject:

Household, Family and Consumer History

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Apr 2, 2013

Bengal Industries and the British Industrial Revolution, 1757-1857

Author:

Ray, Indrajit

Reviewer:

Tomlinson, B. R.

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Mar 27, 2013

Slaves For Hire: Renting Enslaved Laborers in Antebellum Virginia

Author:

Zaborney, John J.

Reviewer:

Bourne, Jenny

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 21, 2013

Entrepreneurial Families: Business, Marriage and Life in the Early Nineteenth Century

Author:

Popp, Andrew

Reviewer:

Lubinski, Christina

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Mar 6, 2013

The Growth of Public Expenditure in the United Kingdom from 1870 to 2005

Author:

Lee, Clive

Reviewer:

Earley, Martin

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Feb 4, 2013

The Standard of Living and Revolutions in Russia, 1700–1917

Author:

Mironov, Boris

Reviewer:

Baten, Joerg

Subject:

Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 16, 2013

The Development of American Finance

Author:

Konings, Martijn

Reviewer:

Redenius, Scott A.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 15, 2013

‘Merely for Money’? Business Culture in the British Atlantic, 1750-1815

Author:

Haggerty, Sheryllynne

Reviewer:

Hoppit, Julian

Subject:

Business History

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

North America

Post date: Jan 11, 2013

Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the South

Author:

Hall, Randal L.

Reviewer:

Reback, Charles

Subject:

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 10, 2013

Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm

Author:

James, Harold

Reviewer:

Guinnane, Timothy W.

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 8, 2013

Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South

Author:

Giesen, James C.

Reviewer:

Hall, Randal L.

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 2, 2013

Buying America from the Indians: Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights

Author:

Watson, Blake A.

Reviewer:

Wishart, David M.

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 31, 2012

From Industrial to Legal Standardization, 1871-1914: Transnational Insurance Law and the Great San Francisco Earthquake

Author:

Röder, Tilmann J.

Reviewer:

Pearson, Robin

Subject:

Business History

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Dec 19, 2012

Time Period:
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII

Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850

Author:

Freeman, Mark

Pearson, Robin

Taylor, James

Reviewer:

Hilt, Eric

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 12, 2012

Money over Two Centuries: Selected Topics in British Monetary History

Author:

Capie, Forrest

Wood, Geoffrey

Reviewer:

Wood, John H.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 4, 2012

Monetary and Banking History: Essays in Honour of Forrest Capie

Author:

Wood, Geoffrey

Mills, Terence C.

Crafts, Nicholas

Reviewer:

Neal, Larry

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Nov 29, 2012

The Evolution of a Nation: How Geography and Law Shaped the American States

Author:

Berkowitz, Daniel

Clay, Karen B.

Reviewer:

Margo, Robert A.

Subject:

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Historical Geography

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 27, 2012

The American Reaper: Harvesting Networks and Technology, 1830-1910

Author:

Winder, Gordon M.

Reviewer:

Finlay, Mark

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Business History

History of Technology, including Technological Change

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 15, 2012

Commerce and Culture: Nineteenth-Century Business Elites

Author:

Lee, Robert

Reviewer:

Pearson, Robin

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Asia

Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands

Europe

North America

Post date: Nov 13, 2012

The Social Economics of Thorstein Veblen

Author:

Reisman, David

Reviewer:

Hudson, Michael

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 23, 2012

Meat, Commerce and the City: The London Food Market, 1800-1855

Author:

Metcalfe, Robyn S.

Reviewer:

Perren, Richard

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Oct 9, 2012

Europe's Green Revolution and Others Since: The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding

Author:

Harwood, Jonathan

Reviewer:

Lipton, Michael

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Oct 8, 2012

Odd Couple: International Trade and Labor Standards in History

Author:

Huberman, Michael

Reviewer:

Baumann, Brittany A.

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Oct 3, 2012

Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States

Author:

Lind, Michael

Reviewer:

Dighe, Ranjit S.

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 2, 2012

An Economic History of Organized Crime: A National and Transnational Approach

Author:

McCarthy, Dennis M.P.

Reviewer:

Dimico, Arcangelo

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Sep 26, 2012

The Political Economy of Pipelines: A Century of Comparative Institutional Development

Author:

Makholm, Jeff D.

Reviewer:

Castaneda, Christopher J.

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

North America

Post date: Sep 21, 2012

America’s First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837

Author:

Roberts, Alasdair

Reviewer:

Rousseau, Peter L.

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 17, 2012

The Evolving Structure of the East Asian Economic System since 1700: A Comparative Analysis

Author:

Latham, A.J.H.

Kawakatsu, Heita

Reviewer:

Grove, Linda

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Sep 12, 2012

Crises and Cycles in Economic Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias

Author:

Besomi, Daniele

Reviewer:

Trautwein, Hans-Michael

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Sep 3, 2012

Joseph A. Schumpeter: A Theory of Social and Economic Evolution

Author:

Andersen, Esben Sloth

Reviewer:

Diamond, Arthur M. Jr.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Aug 20, 2012

The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry and Invention

Author:

Rosen, William

Reviewer:

Nuvolari, Alessandro

Subject:

History of Technology, including Technological Change

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 14, 2012

Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780-1820

Author:

Tomory, Leslie

Reviewer:

Jones, Peter M.

Subject:

Business History

History of Technology, including Technological Change

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 13, 2012

Response to John Murray’s Review of Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress: Diseases and Economic Developmen

Author:

McGuire, Robert A.

Coelho, Philip R. P.

Reviewer:

McGuire, Robert A.

Coelho, Philip R. P.

Subject:

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Servitude and Slavery

Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

Time Period:

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 3, 2012

Jewish Economies: Development and Migration in America and Beyond – Volume I: The Economic Life of American Jewry

Author:

Kuznets, Simon

Lo, Stephanie

Weyl, E. Glen

Reviewer:

Schiffman, Daniel A.

Subject:

Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods

Education and Human Resource Development

Historical Demography, including Migration

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Middle East

North America

Post date: Aug 1, 2012

The Reinterpretation of Italian Economic History: From Unification to the Great War

Author:

Fenoaltea, Stefano

Reviewer:

A'Hearn, Brian

Subject:

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jul 9, 2012

Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

Author:

Nasar, Sylvia

Reviewer:

Prasch, Robert E.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Jul 3, 2012

Law and Long-Term Economic Change: A Eurasian Perspective

Author:

Ma, Debin

van Zanden, Jan Luiten

Reviewer:

Sng, Tuan-Hwee

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

Medieval

16th Century

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Europe

Post date: Jun 29, 2012

Time Period:
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930

Author:

Fisk, Catherine L.

Reviewer:

Khan, B. Zorina

Subject:

History of Technology, including Technological Change

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 13, 2012

Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

Author:

White, Richard

Reviewer:

Brown, John Howard

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Business History

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 12, 2012

Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress: Diseases and Economic Development

Author:

McGuire, Robert A.

Coelho, Philip R. P.

Reviewer:

Murray, John E.

Subject:

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Servitude and Slavery

Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

Time Period:

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 8, 2012

A History of Entrepreneurship

Author:

Hébert, Robert F.

Link, Albert N.

Reviewer:

Diamond, Arthur M.

Subject:

Business History

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Apr 19, 2012

Mining and the State in Brazilian Development

Author:

Triner, Gail D.

Reviewer:

Hartzmark, Amanda

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Mar 23, 2012

Creating Wine: The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840-1914

Author:

Simpson, James

Reviewer:

Johnson, Noel

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Europe

Post date: Mar 20, 2012

Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South

Author:

Delfino, Susanna

Gillespie, Michele

Reviewer:

Carlson, Leonard A.

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Servitude and Slavery

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

North America

Post date: Mar 6, 2012

Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America

Author:

Murphy, Sharon Ann

Reviewer:

Hilt, Eric

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 1, 2012

The Age of Central Banks

Author:

Giannini, Curzio

Reviewer:

Wood, John H.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Feb 28, 2012

Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe

Author:

Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent

Wong, R. Bin

Reviewer:

Ma, Debin

Subject:

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

Medieval

16th Century

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Asia

Europe

Post date: Feb 8, 2012

The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World

Author:

Allen, Douglas W.

Reviewer:

Koyama, Mark

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Military and War

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Feb 7, 2012

Philanthropy in America: A History

Author:

Zunz, Olivier

Reviewer:

Frey, Donald E.

Subject:

Education and Human Resource Development

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 31, 2012

Economic Evolution and Revolution in Historical Time

Author:

Rhode, Paul W.

Rosenbloom, Joshua L.

Weiman, David F.

Reviewer:

Moehling, Carolyn M.

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Education and Human Resource Development

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Servitude and Slavery

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Labor and Employment History

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Africa

Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands

North America

Post date: Jan 16, 2012

Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850

Author:

Parthasarathi, Prasannan

Reviewer:

Mokyr, Joel

Subject:

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Economic Planning and Policy

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Asia

Europe

Post date: Jan 9, 2012

So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism

Author:

Fichter, James R.

Reviewer:

Cox, Thomas H.

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Asia

Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands

Europe

North America

Post date: Jan 2, 2012

Famous Figures and Diagrams in Economics

Author:

Blaug, Mark

Lloyd, Peter

Reviewer:

Whaples, Robert

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Dec 21, 2011

The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700

Author:

Floud, Roderick

Fogel, Robert W.

Harris, Bernard

Hong, Sok Chul

Reviewer:

Cvrcek, Tomas

Subject:

Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

North America

Post date: Dec 19, 2011

Locating the Industrial Revolution: Inducement and Response

Author:

Jones, Eric L.

Reviewer:

Bogart, Dan

Subject:

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 15, 2011

The Birth of Modern Europe: Culture and Economy, 1400-1800: Essays in Honor of Jan de Vries

Author:

Cruz, Laura

Mokyr, Joel

Reviewer:

Hohenberg, Paul M.

Subject:

Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Historical Demography, including Migration

Household, Family and Consumer History

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Labor and Employment History

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

Medieval

16th Century

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Asia

Europe

North America

Post date: Dec 13, 2011

Institutions and European Trade: Merchant Guilds, 1000-1800

Author:

Ogilvie, Sheilagh

Reviewer:

Harreld, Donald J.

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

Medieval

16th Century

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 2, 2011

A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth

Author:

Field, Alexander J.

Reviewer:

Rhode, Paul

Subject:

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 1, 2011

Time Period:
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Southern Society and Its Transformations, 1790-1860

Author:

Delfino, Susanna

Gillespie, Michele

Kyriadoudes, Louis M.

Reviewer:

Wahl, Jenny

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Business History

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 29, 2011

Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan

Author:

Gramlich-Oka, Bettina

Smits, Gregory

Reviewer:

Hellyer, Robert

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

16th Century

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Nov 8, 2011

Monetary Theory and Policy from Hume and Smith to Wicksell: Money, Credit, and the Economy

Author:

Arnon, Arie

Reviewer:

Humphrey, Thomas M.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Oct 20, 2011

A Decent Provision: Australian Welfare Policy, 1870 to 1949

Author:

Murphy, John

Reviewer:

Roe, Jill

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands

Post date: Oct 7, 2011

The Development of the Art Market in England: Money as Muse, 1730-1900

Author:

Bayer, Thomas M.

Page, John R.

Reviewer:

Jensen, Robert

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 25, 2011

Time Period:
Medieval
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind

Author:

Williamson, Jeffrey G.

Reviewer:

Roy, Tirthankar

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Asia

Europe

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Middle East

Post date: Jul 25, 2011

Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform

Author:

Smith, Ronald A.

Reviewer:

Depken, Craig A.

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 20, 2011

Time Period:
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII

Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s

Author:

Irwin, Douglas A.

Sylla, Richard

Reviewer:

Baack, Ben

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 5, 2011

Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution

Author:

Horn, Jeff

Rosenband, Leonard N.

Smith, Merritt Roe

Reviewer:

Jones, Eric

Subject:

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Jul 1, 2011

The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East

Author:

Kuran, Timur

Reviewer:

Çizakça, Murat

Subject:

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

Medieval

16th Century

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Middle East

Post date: Jun 30, 2011

A Most Magnificent Machine: America Adopts the Railroad, 1825-1862

Author:

Miner, Craig H.

Reviewer:

Malone, Laurence J.

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 23, 2011

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe

Author:

Broadberry, Stephen

O’Rourke, Kevin

Reviewer:

Diebolt, Claude

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 15, 2011

Time Period:
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort

Author:

Mehrling, Perry

Reviewer:

Pearce, Douglas K.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 9, 2011

The Moral Rhetoric of Political Economy: Justice and Modern Economic Thought

Author:

Turpin, Paul

Reviewer:

Frey, Donald E.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Jun 7, 2011

Living Standards in Latin American History: Height, Welfare, and Development, 1750-2000

Author:

Salvatore, Ricardo D.

Coatsworth, John H.

Challú, Amílcar E.

Reviewer:

Salvucci, Richard

Subject:

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Jun 6, 2011

The Futures: The Rise of the Speculator and the Origins of the World’s Biggest Markets

Author:

Lambert, Emily

Reviewer:

Santos, Joseph M.

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 3, 2011

Paradoxes of Prosperity: Wealth-Seeking versus Christian Values in Pre-Civil War America

Author:

Ratner, Lorman A.

Kaufman, Paula T.

Teeter, Dwight L. Jr.

Reviewer:

Frey, Donald E.

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 17, 2011

The Appeal of Insurance

Author:

Clark, Geoffrey

Anderson, Gregory

Thomann, Christian

Schulenburg, J.-Matthias Graf von der

Reviewer:

Murphy, Sharon Ann

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

North America

Post date: May 9, 2011

Canadian Policy Debates and Case Studies in Honour of David Laidler

Author:

Leeson, Robert

Reviewer:

Emery, Herb

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 19, 2011

David Laidler’s Contributions to Economics

Author:

Leeson, Robert

Reviewer:

Humphrey, Thomas M.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

North America

Post date: Apr 2, 2011

Shadows in the Valley: A Cultural History of Illness, Death, and Loss in New England, 1840-1916

Author:

Swedlund, Alan C.

Reviewer:

Murray, John E.

Subject:

Historical Demography, including Migration

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 31, 2011

Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800

Author:

Grossman, Richard S.

Reviewer:

White, Eugene

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Europe

North America

Post date: Mar 10, 2011

Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation

Author:

Majewski, John

Reviewer:

Delfino, Susanna

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Economic Planning and Policy

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 8, 2011

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World

Author:

McCloskey, Deirdre N.

Reviewer:

Rubin, Jared

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Feb 23, 2011

The Determinants of Entrepreneurship: Leadership, Culture and Institutions

Author:

Garcia-Ruiz, José L.

Toninelli, Pier Angelo

Reviewer:

Godley, Andrew

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Feb 17, 2011

The Politics of Provisions: Food Riots, Moral Economy, and Market Transition in England, c. 1500-1850

Author:

Bohstedt, John

Reviewer:

Ó Gráda, Cormac

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Household, Family and Consumer History

Markets and Institutions

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

16th Century

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Feb 16, 2011

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

Author:

Allen, Robert C.

Reviewer:

Leunig, Tim

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Feb 15, 2011

On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa

Author:

Lydon, Ghislaine

Reviewer:

Daddi Addoun, Yacine

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Africa

Middle East

Post date: Feb 3, 2011

Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England

Author:

Steedman, Carolyn

Reviewer:

Burnette, Joyce

Subject:

Household, Family and Consumer History

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Feb 1, 2011

Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution

Author:

Humphries, Jane

Reviewer:

Tuttle, Carolyn

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 27, 2011

Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution

Author:

Humphries, Jane

Reviewer:

Tuttle, Carolyn

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 17, 2011

Getting Good Crops: Economic and Diplomatic Survival Strategies of the Montana Bitterroot Salish Indians, 1870-1891

Author:

Bigart, Robert J.

Reviewer:

Wishart, David M.

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Historical Geography

Military and War

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 3, 2011

Making the Market: Victorian Origins of Corporate Capitalism

Author:

Johnson, Paul

Reviewer:

Pearson, Robin

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Labor and Employment History

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 28, 2010

Vineyards and Vaqueros: Indian Labor and the Economic Expansion of Southern California, 1771-1877

Author:

Phillips, George Harwood

Reviewer:

Dippel, Christian

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Labor and Employment History

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 21, 2010

Handbook of World Exchange Rates, 1590-1914

Author:

Denzel, Markus A.

Reviewer:

Officer, Lawrence H.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

16th Century

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Dec 13, 2010

International Migration in the Age of Globalization: Historical and Recent Experiences.

Author:

Solimano, Andrés

Reviewer:

Cohn, Raymond

Subject:

Historical Demography, including Migration

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

North America

Post date: Dec 6, 2010

The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain, 1700-1850

Author:

Mokyr, Joel

Reviewer:

Harley, C. Knick

Subject:

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

History of Technology, including Technological Change

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 2, 2010

The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000

Author:

Heerma van Voss, Lex

Hiemstra-Kuperus, Els

van Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise

Reviewer:

Dublin, Thomas

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Nov 18, 2010

Pauper Capital: London and the Poor Law, 1790-1870

Author:

Green, David R.

Reviewer:

Boyer, George R.

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Labor and Employment History

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Nov 17, 2010

Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans

Author:

Anderson, Terry L.

Benson, Bruce L.

Flanagan, Thomas E.

Reviewer:

Carlson, Leonard

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 16, 2010

An Economic History of the American Steel Industry

Author:

Rogers, Robert P.

Reviewer:

Nonnenmacher, Tomas

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 15, 2010

An Economic History of Europe: Knowledge, Institutions and Growth, 600 to the Present

Author:

Persson, Karl Gunnar

Reviewer:

Wandschneider, Kirsten

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

Medieval

16th Century

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Nov 3, 2010

Convergence and Divergence of National Financial Systems: Evidence from the Gold Standards, 1871-1971

Author:

Baubeau, Patrice

Ögren, Anders

Reviewer:

Diebolt, Claude

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Nov 2, 2010

Time Period: 19th Century

Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of Microfinance

Author:

Yenawine, Bruce H.

Reviewer:

Phillips, Ronnie J.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

North America

Post date: Oct 27, 2010

Doing Well and Doing Good: Ross & Glendining – Scottish Enterprise in New Zealand

Author:

Jones, Stephen R.H.

Reviewer:

Roberts, Evan

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands

Post date: Oct 20, 2010

Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson

Author:

Kelley, Blair L. M.

Reviewer:

Moreno, Paul

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 14, 2010

Tracks Across Continents, Paths through History: The Economic Dynamics of Standardization in Railway Gauge

Author:

Puffert, Douglas J.

Reviewer:

Bogart, Dan

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Oct 12, 2010

When Sugar Ruled: Economy and Society in Northwestern Argentina, Tucumán, 1876-1916

Author:

Juarez-Dappe, Patricia

Reviewer:

Johnson, Lyman L.

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Oct 8, 2010

The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery

Author:

Draper, Nicholas

Reviewer:

Anderson, Jennifer L.

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Oct 6, 2010

The Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Industry, 1860-1902: Economic Cycles, Business Decision-Making and Regional Dynamics

Author:

Healey, R.G.

Reviewer:

Adams, Sean Patrick

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Business History

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 5, 2010

Hired Hands or Human Resources? Case Studies of HRM Programs and Practices in Early American Industry

Author:

Kaufman, Bruce

Reviewer:

Pearson, Chad

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 4, 2010

Two Centuries of Solidarity: German, Belgian, and Dutch Social Health Insurance, 1770-2008

Author:

Companje, K.P.

Hendriks, R.H.M.

Veraghtert, K.F.E.

Widdershoven, B.E.M.

Reviewer:

Murray, John E.

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Sep 30, 2010

No Wealth but Life: Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1880-1945

Author:

Backhouse, Roger E.

Nishizawa, Tamotsu

Reviewer:

Johnson, Marianne

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Sep 28, 2010

State and Financial Systems in Europe and the USA: Historical Perspectives on Regulation and Supervision in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Author:

Battilossi, Stefano

Reis, Jaime

Reviewer:

Hoag, Christopher

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Sep 27, 2010

The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America’s First Banking Collapse

Author:

Kamensky, Jane

Reviewer:

Hilt, Eric

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 23, 2010

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth: A Portrait with Family and Friends

Author:

Barbé, Lluis

Reviewer:

Samuels, Warren J.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Sep 1, 2010

Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800-1914

Author:

Mills, Catherine

Reviewer:

Rogers, Donald

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 31, 2010

Empire and Globalization: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c. 1850–1914

Author:

Magee, Gary B.

Thompson, Andrew S.

Reviewer:

Michie, Ranald

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Historical Demography, including Migration

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Europe

Post date: Aug 30, 2010

Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War.

Author:

Egnal, Marc

Reviewer:

McGuire, Robert A.

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Servitude and Slavery

Military and War

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 24, 2010

Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry

Author:

Jones, Geoffrey

Reviewer:

Giertz-Mårtenson, Ingrid

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Aug 18, 2010

Paying for the Liberal State: The Rise of Public Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Author:

Cardoso, José Luís

Lains, Pedro

Reviewer:

Dincecco, Mark

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 13, 2010

Elgar Companion to Adam Smith

Author:

Young, Jeffrey T.

Reviewer:

Wight, Jonathan B.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Aug 11, 2010

A History of Russian Economic Thought

Author:

Barnett, Vincent

Reviewer:

Makasheva, Natalia A.

Samuels, Warren J.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 6, 2010

Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821: Private Enterprise and Popular Coinage

Author:

Selgin, George

Reviewer:

Wood, John

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 6, 2010

False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World.

Author:

Beattie, Alan

Reviewer:

Jones,, Eric

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

General or Comparative

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Aug 4, 2010

Bailouts: Public Money, Private Profits

Author:

Wright,, Robert E.

Reviewer:

Jalil, Andrew

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 17, 2010

The Road from Ruin: How to Revive Capitalism and Put America Back on Top

Author:

Bishop, Matthew

Green, Michael

Reviewer:

Neill, Robin F.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

North America

Post date: Jun 16, 2010

The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism

Author:

Appleby, Joyce

Reviewer:

Hohenberg, Paul M.

Subject:

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Labor and Employment History

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Jun 15, 2010

The World of Private Banking

Author:

Cassis, Youssef

Cottrell, Philip

Reviewer:

Austin, Peter

Subject:

Business History

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 14, 2010

Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1815-1914

Author:

Michie, Ranald C.

Reviewer:

Hannah, Leslie

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 11, 2010

Common Land, Wine and the French Revolution: Rural Society and Economy in Southern France, c. 1789-1820

Author:

Plack, Noelle

Reviewer:

Liebowitz, Jonathan J.

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 10, 2010

The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times

Author:

Landes, David S.

Mokyr, Joel

Baumol, William J.

Reviewer:

Blackford, Mansel G.

Subject:

Business History

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

General or Comparative

Ancient

Medieval

16th Century

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Jun 7, 2010

The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas

Author:

Medema, Steven G.

Reviewer:

Horwitz, Steven

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Europe

North America

Post date: Jun 4, 2010

Making Capitalism Safe: Work Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880-1940

Author:

Rogers, Donald W.

Reviewer:

Aldrich, Mark

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Labor and Employment History

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 28, 2010

The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times

Author:

Landes, David S.

Mokyr, Joel

Baumol, William J.

Reviewer:

Brenner, Reuven

Subject:

Business History

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

General or Comparative

Ancient

Medieval

16th Century

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: May 4, 2010

The Baltimore Bank Riot: Political Upheaval in Antebellum Maryland

Author:

Shalhope, Robert E.

Reviewer:

Bodenhorn, Howard

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 22, 2010

The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship: Enterprise, Home and Household in London, c. 1800-1870

Author:

Kay, Alison C.

Reviewer:

Burnette, Joyce

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Mar 26, 2010

The Rise and Fall of the American System: Nationalism and the Development of the American Economy, 1800-1837

Author:

Ha, Songho

Reviewer:

Wahl, Jenny

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 23, 2010

The Intellectual Foundations of Alfred Marshall’s Economic Science: A Rounded Globe of Knowledge

Author:

Cook, Simon

Reviewer:

Caldari, Katia

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Mar 3, 2010

Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Innovation in the United States, 1790-1865

Author:

Thomson, Ross

Reviewer:

Cook, Lisa D.

Subject:

History of Technology, including Technological Change

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 8, 2010

Politics, Markets, and Mexico’s “London Debt,” 1823–1887

Author:

Salvucci, Richard J.

Reviewer:

Musacchio, Aldo

Subject:

Military and War

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Jan 24, 2010

West Indian Slavery and British Abolition, 1783-1807

Author:

Ryden, David Beck

Reviewer:

Walvin, James

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Jan 19, 2010

Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada

Author:

Craig, Béatrice

Reviewer:

Gerriets, Marilyn

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 6, 2010

After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy

Author:

Milgate, Murray

Stimson, Shannon C.

Reviewer:

Frey, Donald E.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 5, 2010

The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

Author:

Stiles, T. J.

Reviewer:

Whaples, Robert

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 30, 2009

Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America

Author:

Herndon, Ruth Wallis

Murray, John E.

Reviewer:

Grubb, Farley

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 28, 2009

Chatham Dockyard, 1815-1865: The Industrial Transformation

Author:

MacDougall, Philip

Reviewer:

Buxton, Ian

Subject:

Military and War

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Oct 29, 2009

Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War

Author:

Costa, Dora L.

Kahn, Matthew E.

Reviewer:

Wanamaker, Marianne

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 7, 2009

Virginia and the Panic of 1819: The First Great Depression and the Commonwealth

Author:

Haulman, Clyde A.

Reviewer:

Karmel, James

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 24, 2009

Mass Migration under Sail: European Immigration to the Antebellum United States

Author:

Carson, Scott A.

Reviewer:

Cohn, Raymond L.

Subject:

Historical Demography, including Migration

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 17, 2009

The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba and the United States

Author:

Bergad, Laird W.

Reviewer:

Eltis, David

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 7, 2009

Bankruptcy of Empire: Mexican Silver and the Wars between Spain, Britain and France, 1760-1810

Author:

Marichal, Carlos

Reviewer:

Musacchio, Aldo

Subject:

Military and War

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Apr 30, 2009

Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820-1865

Author:

Barnes, L. Diane

Reviewer:

Green, Jennifer R.

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 5, 2009

Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain

Author:

Poovey, Mary

Reviewer:

Mitch, David

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 18, 2009

Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain

Author:

Burnette, Joyce

Reviewer:

Hatton, Timothy J.

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 17, 2008

Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective

Author:

Hont, Istvan

Reviewer:

Meardon, Stephen

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Oct 16, 2008

Augustin Cournot: Modelling Economics

Author:

Touffut, Jean-Philippe

Reviewer:

Shubik, Martin

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Oct 9, 2008

Child Workers in England, 1780-1820: Parish Apprentices and the Making of the Early Industrial Labour Force

Author:

Honeyman, Katrina

Reviewer:

Sharpe, Pamela

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Oct 5, 2008

Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815-1860

Author:

Davenport, Stewart

Reviewer:

Frey, Donald E.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 23, 2008

Reclaiming Marx’s Capital: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency

Author:

Kliman, Andrew

Reviewer:

Kristjanson-Gural, David

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Sep 22, 2008

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

Author:

Howe, Daniel Walker

Reviewer:

Wahl, Jenny

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 21, 2008

The Chouteaus: First Family of the Fur Trade

Author:

Hoig, Stan

Reviewer:

Fender, Ann Harper

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 7, 2008

Troubled Waters: Steamboats, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821-1860

Author:

Paskoff, Paul F.

Reviewer:

Allen, Michael

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 3, 2008

Population and Disease: Transforming English Society, 1550-1850

Author:

Razzell, Peter

Reviewer:

Hinde, Andrew

Subject:

Historical Demography, including Migration

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jul 8, 2008

One Nation under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe

Author:

Wright, Robert E.

Reviewer:

Stabile, Donald R.

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 6, 2008

Female Labour Power: Women Workers' Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780-1860

Author:

Greenlees, Janet

Reviewer:

Nickless, Pamela J.

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 27, 2008

The Development of Monetary Economics: A Modern Perspective on Monetary Controversies

Author:

O'Brien, D. P.

Reviewer:

Dimand, Robert W.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 18, 2008

Die Kreditbanken in der Gründerzeit

Author:

Burhop, Carsten

Reviewer:

Guinnane, Timothy W.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Feb 8, 2008

A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States

Author:

Mihm, Stephen

Reviewer:

Knodell, Jane

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 22, 2008

The Industrial Revolution: Milestones in Business History

Author:

Horn, Jeff

Reviewer:

Burnette, Joyce

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 20, 2008

Family Fictions and Family Facts: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet and the Population Question in England, 1798-1859

Author:

Cooper, Brian

Reviewer:

Forget, Evelyn L.

Subject:

Household, Family and Consumer History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 10, 2008

Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution

Author:

Morrison-Low, A. D.

Reviewer:

MacLeod, Christine

Subject:

History of Technology, including Technological Change

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 26, 2007

When the Potato Failed: Causes and Effects of the Last European Subsistence Crisis, 1845-1850

Author:

Gráda, Cormac Ó

Paping, Richard

Vanhaute, Eric

Reviewer:

Cohn, Raymond L.

Subject:

Historical Demography, including Migration

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Nov 28, 2007

War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900

Author:

Nye, John V.C.

Reviewer:

Bannerman, Gordon

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Oct 14, 2007

The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865

Author:

Wilson, Mark R.

Reviewer:

Ransom, Roger

Subject:

Military and War

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 30, 2007

The Shoemakers of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1850-1880: The Family during the Transition from Hand to Machine Labor

Author:

Mulligan, William H.

Reviewer:

Taylor, Christiane Diehl

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 16, 2007

State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862

Author:

Isett, Christopher Mills

Reviewer:

Vries, Peer

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Aug 9, 2007

Slavery, Family and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834

Author:

Smith, S.D.

Reviewer:

Burnard, Trevor

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Aug 6, 2007

From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective

Author:

Schonhardt-Bailey, Cheryl

Reviewer:

Boyer, George R.

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 5, 2007

Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Liberalism: Richard Cobden Bicentenary Essays

Author:

Howe, Anthony

Morgan, Simon

Reviewer:

Liggio, Leonard P.

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jul 25, 2007

Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia

Author:

Schocket, Andrew M.

Reviewer:

Adams, Sean Patrick

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 18, 2007

Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America

Author:

Meyer, David R.

Reviewer:

Thomson, Ross

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 17, 2007

Boss: Management Tips for Today from a Nineteenth Century Cattle Drive

Author:

Frazier, Tim

Frazier, Dana

Reviewer:

Stanger, Howard R.

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 31, 2007

Slavery and American Economic Development

Author:

Wright, Gavin

Reviewer:

Atack, Jeremy

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 17, 2007

The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization and in the Age of Revolution

Author:

Horn, Jeff

Reviewer:

Johnson, Noel D.

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: May 15, 2007

The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution

Author:

Miller, Marla R.

Reviewer:

Main, Gloria L.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 10, 2007

The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833

Author:

Bowen, H.V.

Reviewer:

Hejeebu, Santhi

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Apr 8, 2007

Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837-1873

Author:

Sexton, Jay

Reviewer:

Weidenmier, Marc D.

Subject:

Military and War

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 26, 2007

Author:

Huzel, James P.

Reviewer:

Levy, David M.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Mar 25, 2007

Creating Capitalism: Joint-Stock Enterprise in British Politics and Culture, 1800-1870

Author:

Taylor, James

Reviewer:

Michie, Ranald C.

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Mar 11, 2007

Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty: The Critical Years, 1806-1816

Author:

Kaplan, Herbert H.

Reviewer:

Dupont, Brandon

Subject:

Military and War

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Feb 15, 2007

On Classical Economics

Author:

Sowell, Thomas

Reviewer:

Berdell, John

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Feb 1, 2007

Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860

Author:

Downey, Tom

Reviewer:

Peskin, Lawrence A.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 24, 2007

The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives and New Directions

Author:

Matson, Cathy

Reviewer:

Ryden, David B.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 23, 2007

The Glitter of Gold: France, Bimetallism, and the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1848-1873

Author:

Flandreau, Marc

Reviewer:

Sicsic, Pierre

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 4, 2006

Peter Tait: A Remarkable Story

Author:

Waite, John E.

Reviewer:

Jaffe, James

Subject:

Military and War

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 3, 2006

William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics

Author:

Maas, Harro

Reviewer:

White, Michael V.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Nov 26, 2006

Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War

Author:

Onuf, Nicholas

Onuf, Peter

Reviewer:

Flaherty, Jane

Subject:

Military and War

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 22, 2006

Born Losers: A History of Failure in America

Author:

Sandage, Scott A.

Reviewer:

Nance, Susan

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 5, 2006

The "Vanity of the Philosopher": From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics

Author:

Peart, Sandra J.

Levy, David M.

Reviewer:

Hammond, J. Daniel

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Oct 1, 2006

The First Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the Birth of American Finance

Author:

Wright, Robert E.

Reviewer:

Rousseau, Peter L.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 25, 2006

American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante-bellum Economy

Author:

Fishlow, Albert

Reviewer:

Majewski, John

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 24, 2006

Women in Business, 1700-1850

Author:

Phillips, Nicola

Reviewer:

Walsh, Margaret

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Sep 21, 2006

John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier

Author:

Hurtado, Albert L.

Reviewer:

Doti, Lynne Pierson

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 12, 2006

Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South

Author:

Martin, Jonathan D.

Reviewer:

Pritchett, Jonathan B.

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 5, 2006

The Natural Origins of Economics

Author:

Schabas, Margaret

Reviewer:

Moss, Laurence S.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 31, 2006

Ecology, Colonialism, and Cattle: Central India in the Nineteenth Century

Author:

Satya, Laxman D.

Reviewer:

Gilmartin, David

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Aug 24, 2006

American Taxation, American Slavery

Author:

Einhorn, Robin

Reviewer:

Wahl, Jenny

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 8, 2006

Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich

Author:

Wright, Robert E.

Cowen, David J.

Reviewer:

Gunderson, Gerald

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 27, 2006

Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873

Author:

Lubetkin, M. John

Reviewer:

Fender, Ann Harper

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 23, 2006

Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia

Author:

Morgan, Chad

Reviewer:

Adams, Sean Patrick

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 21, 2006

The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan

Author:

Smith, Thomas C.

Reviewer:

Saito, Osamu

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: May 10, 2006

Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paolo, 1750-1850

Author:

Luna, Francisco Vidal

Klein, Herbert S.

Reviewer:

Oakes, James

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: May 2, 2006

Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung, Sozialstruktur und biologischer Lebensstandard in München und dem südlichen Bayern im 19. Jahrhundert

Author:

Schuster, Klaus

Reviewer:

Schwekendiek, Daniel

Subject:

Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Apr 16, 2006

The United States National Debt, 1787-1900

Author:

Wright, Robert E.

Reviewer:

Noll, Franklin

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 21, 2006

1896: The Presidential Campaign: Cartoons and Commentary

Author:

Edwards, Rebecca

DeFeo, Sarah

Reviewer:

Dighe, Ranjit S.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 12, 2006

Populism

Author:

Miller, Worth Robert

Reviewer:

Dighe, Ranjit S.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 12, 2006

Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850

Author:

Pearson, Robin

Reviewer:

Tebeau, Mark

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Feb 2, 2006

From Sugar Triangle to Cotton Triangle: Trade and Shipping between America and Baltic Russia, 1783-1860

Author:

Ahonen, Kalevi

Reviewer:

Hutchinson, William K.

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 29, 2006

An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire

Author:

Campbell, Gwyn

Reviewer:

Worden, Nigel

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Africa

Post date: Dec 22, 2005

Jean-Baptiste Say and the Classical Canon in Economics: The British Connection in French Classicism

Author:

Hollander, Samuel

Reviewer:

Brandão, Maria de Fátima Br

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 15, 2005

Dutra's World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro

Author:

Frank, Zephyr L.

Reviewer:

Eakin, Marshall C.

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Dec 8, 2005

The Mechanics of Optimism: Mining Companies, Technology, and the Hot Spring Gold Rush, Montana Territory, 1864-1868

Author:

Safford, Jeffery J.

Reviewer:

Doti, Lynne Pierson

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 15, 2005

The Hidden Cost of Economic Development: The Biological Standard of Living in Antebellum Pennsylvania

Author:

Cuff, Timothy

Reviewer:

Craig, Lee A.

Subject:

Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 13, 2005

Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and Its European Rivals, 1688-1815

Author:

De la Escosura, Leandro Prados

Reviewer:

Clark, Gregory

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Oct 6, 2005

The Rise of Historical Economics and Social Reform in Germany, 1864-1894

Author:

Grimmer-Solem, Erik

Reviewer:

Balabkins, Nicholas W.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Sep 27, 2005

Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America

Author:

Stoll, Steven

Reviewer:

King, Julia A.

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 23, 2005

Ricardo's Macroeconomics: Money, Trade Cycles, and Growth

Author:

Davis, Timothy

Reviewer:

Ahiakpor, James C.W.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Sep 21, 2005

Gold Rush Capitalists: Greed and Growth in Sacramento

Author:

Eifler, Mark A.

Reviewer:

Castaneda, Christopher J.

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 29, 2005

The Final Victims: Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810

Author:

McMillin, James A.

Reviewer:

Misevich, Philip

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 22, 2005

History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century

Author:

Berend, Ivan T.

Reviewer:

Schulze, Max-Stephan

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 16, 2005

Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom

Author:

Williams, Heather Andrea

Reviewer:

Kuziemko, Ilyana

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 5, 2005

The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania

Author:

Hood, Adrienne D.

Reviewer:

Inwood, Kris

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 30, 2005

Slavery in the Development of the Americas

Author:

Eltis, David

Lewis, Frank D.

Sokoloff, Kenneth L.

Reviewer:

Wright, Gavin

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 23, 2005

The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison

Author:

Gray, Michael P.

Reviewer:

Nickless, Pamela

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 12, 2005

Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism: Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age

Author:

Owen, Thomas C.

Reviewer:

Nafziger, Steven

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 1, 2005

Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America

Author:

Adams, Sean Patrick

Reviewer:

Bodenhorn, Howard

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 5, 2005

The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South

Author:

Penningroth, Dylan C.

Reviewer:

Irwin, James R.

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 20, 2005

The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age

Author:

Leiken, Steven

Reviewer:

Fones-Wolf, Ken

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 29, 2005

The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America

Author:

Angevine, Robert G.

Reviewer:

Surdam, David

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 23, 2005

Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier

Author:

Lockwood, Jeffrey A.

Reviewer:

Amato, Anthony J.

Subject:

Historical Geography

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 10, 2005

T.R. Malthus: The Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University

Author:

Pulle, J. M.

Parry, Trevor Hughes

Reviewer:

Hollander, Samuel

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Mar 9, 2005

Women, Work, and Wages in England, 1600-1850

Author:

Lane, Penelope

Raven, Neil

Snell, K. D. M.

Reviewer:

Burnette, Joyce

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Mar 1, 2005

The Classical Economists Revisited

Author:

O'Brien, D. P.

Reviewer:

Allgoewer, Elisabeth

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Feb 28, 2005

Consuls, Corsairs and Commerce: The Swedish Consular Service and Long-Distance Shipping, 1720-1815

Author:

Müller, Leos M

Reviewer:

Kaukiainen, Yrjö K

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 24, 2005

The Tradition of Free Trade

Author:

Magnusson, Lars

Reviewer:

Hutchinson, William K.

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 22, 2005

Quarter Notes and Bank Notes: The Economics of Music Composition the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Author:

Scherer, F. M.

Reviewer:

Velde, François R. V

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 26, 2005

Les entrepreneurs du Second Empire

Author:

Barjot, Dominique

Anceau, Eric

Lescent-Giles, Isabelle

Marnot, Bruno

Reviewer:

Dormois, Jean-Pierre

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 17, 2005

The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy

Author:

Dilworth, Richardson

Reviewer:

Duggan, Ed

Subject:

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 3, 2005

Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1859

Author:

Hayami, Akira

Saito, Osamu

Toby, Ronald P.

Reviewer:

Mosk, Carl

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Oct 21, 2004

The Political Economy of Public Finance in Britain, 1767-1873

Author:

Dome, Takuo

Reviewer:

Brewer, Anthony

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Oct 20, 2004

Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power

Author:

Ben-Atar, Doron S.

Reviewer:

Jeremy, David

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 14, 2004

Prosperity and Plunder: European Catholic Monasteries in the Age of Revolution, 1650-1815

Author:

Beales, Derek

Reviewer:

Boerner, Lars M.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Oct 3, 2004

The Origins of the American Income Tax: The Revenue Act of 1894 and Its Aftermath

Author:

Joseph, Richard J.

Reviewer:

Brownlee, W. Elliot

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 27, 2004

The German Economy during the Nineteenth Century

Author:

Pierenkemper, Toni

Tilly, Richard H.

Reviewer:

Guinnane, Timothy W.

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Sep 23, 2004

Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions

Author:

Murmann, Johann Peter

Reviewer:

Goldfarb, Brent

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 16, 2004

Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class and Revolution, 1830-1890

Author:

Dawson, Andrew

Reviewer:

Fones-Wolf, Ken

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 23, 2004

The Atlantic Slave Trade

Author:

Postma, Johannes

Reviewer:

Lin, Rachel Chernos

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 23, 2004

The Status of Women in Classical Economic Thought

Author:

Diman, Robert

Nyland, Chris

Reviewer:

Rima, Ingrid H.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 6, 2004

Amartya Sen: A Life Reexamined

Author:

Ghosh, Suman

Reviewer:

Emmett, Ross B.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 4, 2004

Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland

Author:

Bigelow, Gordon

Reviewer:

Peart, Sandra

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jul 19, 2004

The Laces of Ipswich: The Art and Economics of an Early American Industry, 1750-1840

Author:

Raffel, Marta Cotterell

Reviewer:

Miller, Marla R.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 15, 2004

Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640-1845

Author:

Ashworth, William J.

Reviewer:

Carvajal, Paul

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jul 10, 2004

A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade

Author:

Gudmestad, Robert H.

Reviewer:

Pritchett, Jonathan

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 8, 2004

Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry

Author:

Peskin, Lawrence A.

Reviewer:

Meyer, David R.

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 6, 2004

Riches from Atlantic Commerce: Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585-1817

Author:

Postma, Johannes

Enthoven, Victor

Reviewer:

Hohenberg, Paul M.

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 27, 2004

Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat

Author:

Clark Jr., John E.

Reviewer:

Adams, Sean Patrick

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 25, 2004

Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution

Author:

Bezis-Selfa, John

Reviewer:

Kennedy, Michael V.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 24, 2004

Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France

Author:

Rusnock, Andrea A.

Reviewer:

Harris, Bernard

Subject:

Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: May 9, 2004

Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America

Author:

Lakwete, Angela

Reviewer:

Phillips, William H.

Subject:

History of Technology, including Technological Change

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 18, 2004

Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South

Author:

Scarborough, William Kauffman

Reviewer:

Gudmestad, Robert

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 25, 2004

Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War

Author:

Huston, James L.

Reviewer:

Wahl, Jenny B.

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 22, 2004

Sacred Debts: State Civil War Claims and American Federalism, 1861-1880

Author:

Sinisi, Kyle S.

Reviewer:

Burg, Robert W.

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 7, 2004

Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence

Author:

Mann, Bruce H.

Reviewer:

Flynn, David T.

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 22, 2004

Warriors into Workers: The Civil War and the Formation of Urban-Industrial Society in a Northern City

Author:

Johnson, Russell L.

Reviewer:

Dupont, Brandon

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 13, 2004

Money and Politics: European Monetary Unification and the International Gold Standard (1865-1873)

Author:

Einaudi, Luca

Reviewer:

Cohen, Benjamin J.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 29, 2004

River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850

Author:

Gruenwald, Kim M.

Reviewer:

Lindstrom, Diane

Subject:

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 18, 2004

God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860

Author:

Noll, Mark A.

Reviewer:

Frey, Donald E.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 13, 2004

State Banking in Early America: A New Economic History

Author:

Bodenhorn, Howard

Reviewer:

Rousseau, Peter L.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 27, 2003

The Roots of American Industrialization

Author:

Meyer, David R.

Reviewer:

Khan, B. Zorina

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 12, 2003

The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation

Author:

Drescher, Seymour

Reviewer:

Levy, David M.

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Nov 5, 2003

Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and His Business Network, 1823-1893

Author:

Munro, J. Forbes

Reviewer:

White, Nicholas J.

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Middle East

Post date: Oct 15, 2003

Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development

Author:

Inikori, Joseph E.

Reviewer:

O'Rourke, Kevin H.

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 6, 2003

Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America

Author:

Richter, Daniel K.

Reviewer:

Mancall, Peter C.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 5, 2003

Slavery in the American Mountain South

Author:

Dunaway, Wilma

Reviewer:

Wahl, Jenny B.

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 1, 2003

Bonds and Bondholders: British Investors and Mexico's Foreign Debt, 1824-1888

Author:

Costeloe, Michael P.

Reviewer:

Marichal, Carlos

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Sep 17, 2003

The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775-1810

Author:

Carrington, Selwyn H. H.

Reviewer:

Richardson, David

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Sep 2, 2003

Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization

Author:

Roberts, William H.

Reviewer:

Surdam, David

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 1, 2003

Street of Dreams, Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century

Author:

Wachtel, Howard M.

Reviewer:

Perkins, Edwin

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 21, 2003

Hamilton Unbound: Finance and the Creation of the American Republic

Author:

Wright, Robert E.

Reviewer:

Bodenhorn, Howard

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 18, 2003

The 'Mother of All Trades': The Baltic Grain Trade in Amsterdam from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century

Author:

Tielhof, Milja van

Reviewer:

Grafe, Regina

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 17, 2003

The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873

Author:

Burchardt, Jeremy

Reviewer:

Afton, Bethanie

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 6, 2003

Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism

Author:

Perrow, Charles

Reviewer:

Howard, Vicki

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 2, 2003

Encumbered Cuba: Capital Markets and Revolt, 1878-1895

Author:

Fernández, Susan J. F

Reviewer:

Salvucci, Linda K.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Jun 17, 2003

The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920

Author:

Isenberg, Andrew C.

Reviewer:

DePolt, Richard

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 3, 2003

Transferring Wealth and Power from the Old to the New World: Monetary and Fiscal Institutions in the 17th through the 19th Centuries

Author:

Bordo, Michael D.

Cortes-Conde, Roberto

Reviewer:

Chabot, Benjamin

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 26, 2003

Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War

Author:

Thornton, Mark

Ekelund Jr., Robert B.

Reviewer:

Surdam, David G.

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 13, 2003

Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade

Author:

Barbour, Barton H.

Reviewer:

Fender, Ann Harper

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 10, 2003

Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America

Author:

May, Robert E.

Reviewer:

Wynne, Ben

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 24, 2003

Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England: Gender, Work and Wages

Author:

Verdon, Nicola

Reviewer:

Burnette, Joyce

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 24, 2003

American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States

Author:

Glickstein, Jonathan A.

Reviewer:

Margo, Robert A.

Subject:

Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 19, 2002

America's First Veterans and the Revolutionary War Pensions

Author:

Teipe, Emily J.

Reviewer:

Short, Joanna

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 12, 2002

Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780-1860

Author:

Bruegel, Martin

Reviewer:

Malone, Laurence J.

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 16, 2002

Merchants and Migrations: Germans and Americans in Connection, 1776-1835

Author:

Mustafa, Sam A.

Reviewer:

Wegge, Simone A.

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 2, 2002

Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War

Author:

Wilson, Harold S.

Reviewer:

Surdam, David

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 19, 2002

The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War

Author:

DiLorenzo, Thomas J.

Reviewer:

Gunderson, Gerald

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 17, 2002

The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865

Author:

McCurdy, Charles W.

Reviewer:

Wallis, John Joseph

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 3, 2002

Rum and Axes: The Rise of a Connecticut Merchant Family, 1795-1850

Author:

Siskind, Janet

Reviewer:

Levy, Barry

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 8, 2002

International Trade and Political Institutions: Instituting Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century

Author:

McGillivray, Fiona

McLean, Iain

Pahre, Robert

Schonhardt-Bailey, Cheryl

Reviewer:

Nye, John V.C.

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 22, 2002

Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas

Author:

Hadden, Sally E.

Reviewer:

Hummel, Jeffrey Rogers

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 21, 2002

Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age

Author:

Larson, John Lauritz

Reviewer:

Churella, Albert J.

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 13, 2002

Land, Power, and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada

Author:

Clarke, John

Reviewer:

McCalla, Douglas

Subject:

Historical Geography

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 18, 2002

The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860

Author:

Horwitz, Morton J.

Reviewer:

Rothenberg, Winifred B.

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 11, 2002

The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery

Author:

Fehrenbacher, Don E.

McAfee, Ward M.

Reviewer:

Schaefer, Donald F.

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 8, 2002

Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century

Author:

Steinfeld, Robert J.

Reviewer:

Hamilton, Gillian

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 10, 2002

The Golden Age: Essays in British Social and Economic History, 1850-1870

Author:

Inkster, Ian

Hill, Jeff

Griffin, Colin

Rowbotham, Judith

Reviewer:

Riello, Giorgio

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Feb 17, 2002

Bargaining on Europe: Britain and the First Common Market, 1860-1892

Author:

Marsh, Peter T.

Reviewer:

Irwin, Douglas A.

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Feb 10, 2002

Time and Work in England 1750-1830

Author:

Voth, Hans-Joachim

Reviewer:

Humphries, Jane

Subject:

Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Feb 3, 2002

Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors: The Transformation of Rural Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1720-1850

Author:

Wermuth, Thomas S.

Reviewer:

Parkerson, Donald

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 29, 2002

To Wire the World: Perry M. Collins and the North Pacific Telegraph Expedition

Author:

Dwyer, John B.

Reviewer:

Nonnenmacher, Tomas

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 13, 2002

How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics

Author:

Levy, David M.

Reviewer:

Engerman, Stanley L.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 19, 2001

Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery

Author:

Fogel, Robert William

Engerman, Stanley L.

Reviewer:

Weiss, Thomas

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 15, 2001

Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War

Author:

Surdam, David G.

Reviewer:

Ransom, Roger L.

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 13, 2001

After the Galleons: Foreign Trade, Economic Change and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines

Author:

Legarda, Benito J.

Reviewer:

Giraldez, Arturo

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Nov 1, 2001

Reconstruction in the Cane Field: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes 1862-1880

Author:

Rodrigue, John C.

Reviewer:

Kenzer, Robert C.

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 25, 2001

Poverty and Welfare in England, 1700-1850: A Regional Perspective

Author:

King, Steven

Reviewer:

Ziliak, Stephen

Subject:

Military and War

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Oct 23, 2001

The Rise of the English Town 1650-1850

Author:

Chalklin, Christopher

Reviewer:

Stobart, Jon

Subject:

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Oct 21, 2001

Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America

Author:

Wokeck, Marianne S.

Reviewer:

Wegge, Simone A.

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 7, 2001

Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution

Author:

King, Steven

Timmins, Geoffrey

Reviewer:

Honeyman, Katrina

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Sep 20, 2001

Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor

Author:

Engerman, Stanley L.

Reviewer:

Pritchett, Jonathan B.

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Sep 9, 2001

Gold for the Sultan: Western Bankers and Ottoman Finance, 1856-1881

Author:

Clay, Christopher

Reviewer:

Tabak, Faruk

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Middle East

Post date: Sep 8, 2001

The Jacksonian Economy

Author:

Temin, Peter

Reviewer:

Sylla, Richard

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 16, 2001

John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire

Author:

Madsen, Axel

Reviewer:

Fender, Ann Harper

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 9, 2001

The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900

Author:

Bensel, Richard Franklin

Reviewer:

Carlton, David L.

Subject:

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 6, 2001

Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America

Author:

Balleisen, Edward J.

Reviewer:

Hansen, Bradley A.

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 30, 2001

Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883

Author:

Best, Joel

Reviewer:

Hemenway, Robin L. E.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 25, 2001

Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States

Author:

Larson, John Lauritz

Reviewer:

Majewski, John

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 22, 2001

The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia

Author:

Billings, Dwight B.

Blee, Kathleen M.

Reviewer:

Oberly, James

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 19, 2001

Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France: Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805

Author:

Rosenband, Leonard N.

Reviewer:

Huberman, Michael

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jul 18, 2001

Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War

Author:

Willis, John C.

Reviewer:

Harris, J. William

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 17, 2001

Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Master Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850

Author:

Rilling, Donna J.

Reviewer:

McSwain, James B.

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 16, 2001

Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship and Business Organization, 1720-1844

Author:

Harris, Ron

Reviewer:

Kostal, Rande W.

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 12, 2001

Priceless Markets: The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660-1870

Author:

Hoffman, Philip T.

Postel-Vinay, Gilles

Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent

Reviewer:

Quinn, Stephen

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 10, 2001

Republicanism and the French Revolution: An Intellectual History of Jean-Baptiste Say's Political Economy

Author:

Whatmore, Richard

Reviewer:

Baumol, William

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: May 24, 2001

Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America

Author:

Townsend, Camilla

Reviewer:

Crothers, A. Glenn

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 22, 2001

Making Freedom Pay: North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves, 1864-1900

Author:

Holt, Sharon Ann

Reviewer:

Virts, Nancy

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 20, 2001

Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-1900: Integration and Deregulation

Author:

Persson, Karl Gunnar

Reviewer:

Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: May 13, 2001

The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics in Paris, 1830-1870

Author:

Thompson, Victoria E.

Reviewer:

Liebowitz, Jonathan J.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: May 2, 2001

The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation

Author:

Perelman, Michael

Reviewer:

Clark, Gregory

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Mar 6, 2001

The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance

Author:

Rottenberg, Dan

Reviewer:

Schiffman, Daniel A.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 7, 2001

A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia, 1800-1860

Author:

Majewski, John

Reviewer:

Weiss, Thomas

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 7, 2000

The Logic of Charity: Amsterdam, 1800-1850

Author:

Leeuwen, Marco H. D. van

Reviewer:

Boyer, George R.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 6, 2000

The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City

Author:

Wermiel, Sara E.

Reviewer:

McSwain, James B.

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 12, 2000

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM

Author:

Eltis, David

Behrendt, Stephen D.

D, Stephen

Reviewer:

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 17, 2000

The Bank of the United States and the American Economy

Author:

Kaplan, Edward S.

Reviewer:

Morris, Clair E.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 19, 2000

Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn

Author:

Linder, Marc

Zacharias, Lawrence S.

Reviewer:

Danbom, David B.

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 30, 2000

Chinese Capitalism, 1522-1840

Author:

Dixin, Xu

Chengming, Wu

Reviewer:

Pomeranz, Kenneth

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Aug 23, 2000

Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855

Author:

Gallman, F. Matthew

Reviewer:

Cohn, Raymond L.

Subject:

Historical Demography, including Migration

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Aug 14, 2000

Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History

Author:

Fogel, Robert W.

Reviewer:

Davis, Lance

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 30, 2000

Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South

Author:

Smith, Mark M.

Reviewer:

Irwin, James R.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 30, 2000

A History of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building

Author:

Bodenhorn, Howard

Reviewer:

Moen, Jon

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 30, 2000

Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860

Author:

Margo, Robert A.

Reviewer:

Rosenbloom, Joshua L.

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 30, 2000

The Rise of Capitalism on the Pampas: The Estancias of Buenos Aires, 1785-1870

Author:

Amaral, Samuel

Reviewer:

Beatty, Edward

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: May 31, 2000

Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor

Author:

Phelan, Craig

Reviewer:

Weir, Robert E.

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 31, 2000

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

Author:

Johnson, Walter

Reviewer:

Wolff, Robert

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 31, 2000

Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the South

Author:

Thomas, William G.

Reviewer:

Childs, William R.

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 8, 2000

Black '47: Britain and the Famine Irish

Author:

Neal, Frank

Reviewer:

Weir, Ron

Subject:

Historical Demography, including Migration

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Mar 9, 2000

Sowing Modernity: America's First Agricultural Revolution

Author:

McClelland, Peter D.

Reviewer:

Hansen, Mary Eschelbach

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 27, 2000

Silver and Gold: The Political Economy of International Monetary Conferences, 1867-1892

Author:

Reti, Steven P.

Reviewer:

Wood, John H.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Feb 21, 2000

Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850

Author:

Pinchbeck, Ivy

Reviewer:

Burnette, Joyce

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 31, 2000

Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860

Author:

Miller, Judith A.

Reviewer:

Liebowitz, Jonathan J.

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 12, 2000

Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil:The Formation of a Business Environment

Author:

Birchal, Sergio de Oliveira

Reviewer:

Woodward, Ralph Lee

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Nov 8, 1999

E.W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers

Author:

Baldasty, Gerald J.

Reviewer:

Reed, Barbara Straus

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 24, 1999

In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906

Author:

Davis, Lance E.

Gallman, Robert E.

, Karen Gleiter

Reviewer:

Paterson, Donald G.

Subject:

History of Technology, including Technological Change

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 17, 1999

Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum U.S.,1840-1860

Author:

Ferrie, Joseph P.

Reviewer:

Steckel, Richard H.

Subject:

Historical Demography, including Migration

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 3, 1999

Secret Origins of Modern Microeconomics: Dupuit and the Engineers

Author:

Ekelund Jr., Robert B.

Hebert, Robert F.

Reviewer:

Boumans, Marcel

Subject:

Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jul 12, 1999

Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893

Author:

Steeples, Douglas

Whitten, David O.

Reviewer:

O'Brien, Anthony P.

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 28, 1999

Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in Late Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland

Author:

Holmgren, Beth

Reviewer:

Blobaum, Robert E.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 22, 1999

Free Trade Free World: The Advent of GATT

Author:

Zeiler, Thomas W.

Reviewer:

Aaronson, Susan Ariel

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Post date: Jun 15, 1999

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898

Author:

Burrows, Edwin G.

Wallace, Mike

Reviewer:

Goldin, Milton

Subject:

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 11, 1999

The Second Bank of the United States and Ohio (1803-1860): A Collision of Interests

Author:

Brown, Marion A.

Reviewer:

Schweikart, Larry

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 12, 1999

Opening the West: Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860

Author:

Malone, Laurence J.

Reviewer:

Wallis, John Joseph

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 22, 1998

The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Impact

Author:

Hatton, Timothy J.

Williamson, Jeffrey G.

Reviewer:

Rosenbloom, Joshua L.

Subject:

Historical Demography, including Migration

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Sep 7, 1998

Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South

Author:

Kantor, Shawn Everett

Reviewer:

Halcoussis, Dennis

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 12, 1998

Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America

Author:

Roy, William G.

Reviewer:

Levenstein, Margaret

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 11, 1998

The Whiskey Trade of the Northwestern Plains: A Multidisciplinary Study

Author:

Kennedy, Margaret A.

Reviewer:

Swearingin, Steven D.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 9, 1998

Sick, Not Dead: The Health of British Workingmen During the Mortality Decline

Author:

Riley, James C.

Reviewer:

Emery, J. C. Herbert

Subject:

Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jul 8, 1998

The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930

Author:

Gamber, Wendy

Reviewer:

Nickless, Pamela

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 6, 1998

Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925

Author:

Scranton, Philip

Reviewer:

Khan, B. Zorina

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 23, 1998

The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929

Author:

Fetherling, Douglas

Reviewer:

Mann, Ralph

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: May 18, 1998

Civic Charity in a Golden Age: Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam

Author:

McCants, Anne E. C.

Reviewer:

Croxson, Bronwyn

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: May 11, 1998

Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina, 1865-1915

Author:

Kenzer, Robert C.

Reviewer:

Butler, John Sibley

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 19, 1998

Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier

Author:

Knowles, Anne Kelly

Reviewer:

Cosgel, Metin

Subject:

Historical Demography, including Migration

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 26, 1998

Between the Dollar-Sterling Gold Points: Exchange Rates, Parity, and Market Behavior

Author:

Officer, Lawrence H.

Reviewer:

Taylor, Alan M.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Mar 19, 1998

Maffeo Pantaleoni: At the Origin of the Italian School of Economics and Finance

Author:

Baldassarri, Mario

Reviewer:

Bruni, Luigino

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Feb 5, 1998

The Allure of the Foreign: Imported Goods in Postcolonial Latin America

Author:

Orlove, Benjamin

Reviewer:

McCants, Anne E. C.

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Feb 4, 1998

Time Period:
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century

Creating a National Home: Building the Veterans' Welfare State 1860-1900

Author:

Kelly, Patrick J.

Reviewer:

Costa, Dora L.

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 20, 1998

The Greatest Nation on Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War

Author:

Richardson, Heather Cox

Reviewer:

Wright, Gavin

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 18, 1998

Health and Welfare During the Industrial Revolution

Author:

Steckel, Richard

Floud, Roderick

Reviewer:

Craig, Lee A.

Subject:

Income and Wealth

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Jan 14, 1998

An Economic History of the Silk Industry, 1830-1930

Author:

Federico, Giovanni

Reviewer:

Scranton, Philip

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Dec 4, 1997

Time Period:
Medieval
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII

Escape from the Market: Negotiating Work in Lancashire

Author:

Huberman, Michael

Reviewer:

Wolcott, Susan

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Nov 30, 1997

Time Period:
Medieval
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century

Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America

Author:

Ritter, Gretchen

Reviewer:

Schweikart, Larry

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 13, 1997

John Stewart Kennedy: The Man Who Found the Money

Author:

Engelbourg, Saul

Bushkoff, Leonard

Reviewer:

Churella, Albert J.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 24, 1997

Emigration from Europe, 1815-1930

Author:

Baines, Dudley

Reviewer:

Wegge, Simone A.

Subject:

Historical Demography, including Migration

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Jul 31, 1997

Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture

Author:

Hanley, Susan B.

Reviewer:

Honda, Gail

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Jul 15, 1997

Time Period:
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century

The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862

Author:

Sheriff, Carol

Reviewer:

Laurent, Jerome K.

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 13, 1997

The Worst Tax? A History of the Property Tax in America

Author:

Fisher, Glenn

Reviewer:

Wallis, John Joseph

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 3, 1997

Time Period:
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic

Author:

Remer, Rosalind

Reviewer:

Scranton, Philip

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 18, 1996

Time Period:
General or Comparative
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Beyond Labor's Veil

Author:

Weir, Robert E.

Reviewer:

Friedman, Gerald

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 5, 1996

Time Period:
General or Comparative
Ancient
Medieval
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915

Author:

Brown, John

Reviewer:

Churella, Albert J.

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

19th Century

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 22, 1996

Werner von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur

Author:

Feldenkirchen, Wilfried

Reviewer:

Feldenkirchen, Wilfried

Subject:

History of Technology, including Technological Change

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19th Century

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Nov 28, 1994

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