Book Reviews By Time (20th Century: Pre WWII)

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

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

An Economic History of Ireland since Independence

Author:

Bielenberg, Andy

Ryan, Raymond

Reviewer:

Barry, Frank

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: May 2, 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

Keynes’s General Theory for Today: Contemporary Perspectives

Author:

Reviewer:

Davidson, Paul

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Apr 29, 2013

The Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Economy, 1920 to 1938: A National Accounts Study

Author:

Salgado, M.R.P.

Reviewer:

van der Eng, Pierre

Subject:

Income and Wealth

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Apr 25, 2013

Funding Loyalty: The Economics of the Communist Party

Author:

Belova, Eugenia

Lazarev, Valery

Reviewer:

Ericson, Richard E.

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Europe

Post date: Apr 23, 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

Friedrich Hayek: The Ideas and Influence of the Libertarian Economist

Author:

Butler, Eamonn

Reviewer:

Horwitz, Steven

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Apr 11, 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

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

Fighting Foreclosure: The Blaisdell Case, the Contract Clause, and the Great Depression

Author:

Fliter, John A.

Hoff, Derek S.

Reviewer:

Wheelock, David C.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 14, 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

The Digital Flood: The Diffusion of Information Technology across the U.S., Europe, and Asia

Author:

Cortada, James W.

Reviewer:

Garcia-Swartz, Daniel D.

Subject:

Business History

History of Technology, including Technological Change

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Dec 21, 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

Lionel Robbins

Author:

Howson, Susan

Reviewer:

Hands, D. Wade

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 5, 2012

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

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

The Great Recession: Market Failure or Policy Failure?

Author:

Hetzel, Robert L.

Reviewer:

Rockoff, Hugh

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 3, 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

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

Harvesting Gold: Thomas Edison’s Experiment to Re-Invent American Money

Author:

Hammes, David L.

Reviewer:

Tymoigne, Eric

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 11, 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

Rethinking the Keynesian Revolution: Keynes, Hayek, and the Wicksell Connection

Author:

Goodspeed, Tyler Beck

Reviewer:

Garrison, Roger W.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Sep 20, 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

Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines

Author:

Smil, Vaclav

Reviewer:

Sjostrom, William

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Aug 6, 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

America’s Economic Way of War: War and the U.S. Economy from the Spanish-American War to the Persian Gulf War

Author:

Rockoff, Hugh

Reviewer:

Whaples, Robert

Subject:

Military and War

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 17, 2012

The Creative Society – and the Price Americans Paid for It

Author:

Galambos, Louis

Reviewer:

Rahman, Ahmed S.

Subject:

Business History

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 16, 2012

Forms of Enterprise in 20th Century Italy: Boundaries, Structures and Strategies

Author:

Colli, Andrea

Vasta, Michelangelo

Reviewer:

Barbiellini Amidei, Federico

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jul 12, 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

Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s

Author:

Irwin, Douglas A.

Reviewer:

Ploeckl, Florian

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Europe

North America

Post date: Jun 21, 2012

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

Peaceful Surrender: The Depopulation of Rural Spain in the Twentieth Century

Author:

Collantes, Fernando

Pinilla, Vicente

Reviewer:

Rosés, Joan R.

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 6, 2012

Selected Writings of John A. Hobson, 1932-1938: The Struggle for the International Mind

Author:

Hobson, John M.

Tyler, Colin

Reviewer:

Brock, Jason

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 1, 2012

Birth of a Market: The U.S. Treasury Securities Market from the Great War to the Great Depression

Author:

Garbade, Kenneth D.

Reviewer:

Noll, Franklin

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 9, 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

Financing Failure: A Century of Bailouts

Author:

McKinley, Vern

Reviewer:

Smith, Roy C.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 11, 2012

The Age of Equality: The Twentieth Century in Economic Perspective

Author:

Pomfret, Richard

Reviewer:

Huberman, Michael

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Apr 2, 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

The Socialist Car: Automobility in the Eastern Bloc

Author:

Siegelbaum, Lewis H.

Reviewer:

Patterson, Perry L.

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Mar 21, 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

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

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

Economists in the Americas

Author:

Montecinos, Verónica

Markoff, John

Reviewer:

Boianovsky, Mauro

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Jan 11, 2012

The Decline of Jute: Managing Industrial Decline

Author:

Tomlinson, Jim

Morelli, Carlo

Wright, Valerie

Reviewer:

Stewart, Gordon

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 10, 2012

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

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

Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes

Author:

Backhouse, Roger E.

Bateman, Bradley W.

Reviewer:

Kates, Steven

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Dec 20, 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

Central Banking in the Twentieth Century

Author:

Singleton, John

Reviewer:

Siklos, Pierre

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Dec 9, 2011

Keynes on the Wireless

Author:

Keynes, John Maynard

Moggridge, Donald

Reviewer:

Shilts, Wade E.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 8, 2011

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

Michal Kalecki

Author:

López, Julio G.

Assous, Michaël

Reviewer:

Toporowski, Jan

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 7, 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

Roads to Wisdom: Conversations with Ten Nobel Laureates in Economics

Author:

Horn, Karen Ilse

Reviewer:

Ramrattan, Lall

Szenberg, Michael

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Nov 9, 2011

Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink

Author:

Hyman, Louis

Reviewer:

Shester, Katharine L.

Subject:

Business History

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Household, Family and Consumer History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 4, 2011

The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora’s Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance

Author:

Perino, Michael

Reviewer:

Ramirez, Carlos D.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 11, 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 Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918-1947: Science and Social Control

Author:

Rutherford, Malcolm

Reviewer:

Van Horn, Robert

McIntyre, Richard

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 5, 2011

Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System

Author:

Eichengreen, Barry

Reviewer:

Toniolo, Gianni

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

North America

Post date: Aug 24, 2011

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

Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression

Author:

Irwin, Douglas A.

Reviewer:

O’Brien, Anthony Patrick

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 8, 2011

Dude Ranching in Yellowstone Country: Larry Larom and Valley Ranch, 1915-1969

Author:

Kensel, W. Hudson

Reviewer:

Weiss, Thomas

Subject:

Business History

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 7, 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

Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform

Author:

Bernstein, David E.

Reviewer:

Gerber, Scott Douglas

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 27, 2011

The Big Ditch: How America Took, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal

Author:

Maurer, Noel

Yu, Carlos

Reviewer:

Arroyo Abad, Leticia

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Historical Geography

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

North America

Post date: Jun 22, 2011

Historical Foundations of Entrepreneurship Research

Author:

Landström, Hans

Lohrke, Franz

Reviewer:

Hébert, Robert F.

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Jun 17, 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

American Power and Policy

Author:

Leeson, Robert

Reviewer:

Domitrovic, Brian

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 10, 2011

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

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

Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics

Author:

Emmett, Ross B.

Reviewer:

Diamond, Arthur M.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 6, 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

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

Weimar: Die überforderte Republik, 1918-1933

Author:

Büttner, Ursula

Reviewer:

Ferguson, Thomas

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Feb 22, 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

Louis D. Brandeis and the Making of Regulated Competition, 1900-1932

Author:

Berk, Gerald

Reviewer:

McClenahan, William M.

Subject:

Business History

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 31, 2011

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

Fixed Ideas of Money: Small States and Exchange Rate Regimes in Twentieth-Century Europe

Author:

Straumann, Tobias

Reviewer:

Hansen, Per H.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Nov 22, 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

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

The Monetary Conservative: Jacques Rueff and Twentieth-century Free Market Thought.

Author:

Chivvis, Christopher S.

Reviewer:

Domitrovic, Brian

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Nov 12, 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

Slapped by the Invisible Hand: The Panic of 2007

Author:

Gorton, Gary

Reviewer:

Moen, Jon R.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 29, 2010

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

Capitalism, Institutions, and Economic Development

Author:

Heller, Michael G.

Reviewer:

Dupont, Brandon

Subject:

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Oct 11, 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 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

Debt, Innovations, and Deflation: The Theories of Veblen, Fisher, Schumpeter, and Minsky

Author:

Raines, J. Patrick

Leathers, Charles G.

Reviewer:

Kaboub, Fadhel

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Sep 16, 2010

Debt, Innovations, and Deflation: The Theories of Veblen, Fisher, Schumpeter, and Minsky

Author:

Raines, J. Patrick

Leathers, Charles G.

Reviewer:

Kaboub, Fadhel

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

North America

Post date: Sep 14, 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

Relationship Banker: Eugene W. Stetson, Wall Street, and American Business, 1916-1959

Author:

Hunt, James L.

Reviewer:

Ferderer, J. Peter

Subject:

Business History

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 27, 2010

Protection for Exporters: Power and Discrimination in Transatlantic Trade Relations, 1930-2010

Author:

Dür, Andreas

Reviewer:

Maneschi, Andrea

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Europe

North America

Post date: Aug 19, 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

Better Living through Economics

Author:

Siegfried, John J.

Reviewer:

Vedder, Richard

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 12, 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

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

The International Order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s

Author:

Akita, Shigeru

White, Nicholas J.

Reviewer:

Wright, Tim

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Jul 20, 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

The Provocative Joan Robinson: The Making of a Cambridge Economist

Author:

Aslanbeigui, Nahid

Oakes,, Guy

Reviewer:

Namorato, Michael V.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 9, 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

Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917

Author:

Taillon, Paul Michel

Reviewer:

Friedman, Gerald

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 10, 2010

Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy: The Industrialization of Argentina, 1890-1930

Author:

Pineda, Yovanna

Reviewer:

Rocchi, Fernando

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: May 5, 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

Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950

Author:

Musacchio, Aldo

Reviewer:

Hanley, Anne

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Mar 31, 2010

Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power

Author:

Dattel, Gene

Reviewer:

Miller, Melinda

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 25, 2010

A Man of Salt and Trees: The Life of Joy Morton

Author:

Ballowe, James

Reviewer:

Stanger, Howard R.

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 26, 2010

Regulated Lives: Life Insurance and British Society, 1800-1914

Author:

Alborn, Timothy

Reviewer:

Murphy, Sharon Ann

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 17, 2010

Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics

Author:

Mapes, Kathleen

Reviewer:

Allen, Samuel

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 13, 2010

Shanghai's Bund and Beyond: British Banks, Banknote Issuance, and Monetary Policy in China, 1842-1937

Author:

Horesh, Niv

Reviewer:

Burdekin, Richard C. K.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Oct 28, 2009

Across the Borders: Financing the World's Railways in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Author:

Roth, Ralf

Dinhobl, Gunter

Reviewer:

Bogart, Dan

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Sep 21, 2009

Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925

Author:

Harris, Douglas C.

Reviewer:

Johnsen, D. Bruce

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 21, 2009

Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes

Author:

Franch, John

Reviewer:

Whaples, Robert

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 1, 2009

William Crookes (1832-1919) and the Commercialization of Science

Author:

Brock, William H.

Reviewer:

Stewart, Larry

Subject:

History of Technology, including Technological Change

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 30, 2009

Men and Menswear: Sartorial Consumption in Britain, 1880-1939

Author:

Ugolini, Laura

Reviewer:

Rose, Clare

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 25, 2009

Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce

Author:

Stein, Sarah Abrevaya

Reviewer:

Godley, Andrew

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 22, 2009

The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed over Industry

Author:

Mitchell, Lawrence E.

Reviewer:

Ferderer, J. Peter

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 4, 2009

From Redstone to Ludlow: John Cleveland Osgood’s Struggle against the United Mine Workers of America

Author:

Munsell, F. Darrell

Reviewer:

Doetsch, Ethan

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 3, 2009

Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor

Author:

Witwer, David

Reviewer:

Richards, Lawrence

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 2, 2009

Labor’s Canvas: American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s

Author:

Hapke, Laura

Reviewer:

Weber, Cameron M.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 12, 2009

Entertainment Industrialised: The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890-1940

Author:

Bakker, Gerben

Reviewer:

Pokorny, Michael

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 27, 2009

Migration and Inequality in Germany, 1870-1913

Author:

Grant, Oliver

Reviewer:

Wegge, Simone A.

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Apr 20, 2009

Poor Relief and Welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I

Author:

Frohman, Larry

Reviewer:

Murray, John E.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Apr 15, 2009

Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914

Author:

MacLeod, Christine

Reviewer:

Khan, B. Zorina

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 23, 2009

Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller

Author:

Weinberg, Steve

Reviewer:

McCannon, Bryan C.

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 19, 2009

The Silver of the Sierra Madre: John Robinson, Boss Shepherd, and the People of the Canyons

Author:

Hart, John Mason

Reviewer:

Beatty, Edward

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Jan 8, 2009

Inside IG Farben: Hoechst during the Third Reich

Author:

Lindner, Stephan H.

Reviewer:

Scherner, Jonas

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 6, 2009

Mellon: An American Life

Author:

Cannadine, David

Reviewer:

Whaples, Robert

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 28, 2008

East Meets West: Banking, Commerce and Investment in the Ottoman Empire

Author:

Cottrell, Philip L.

Fraser, Monica Pohle

Fraser, Iain L.

Reviewer:

Cosgel, Metin

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Middle East

Post date: Dec 18, 2008

Guns and Rubles: The Defense Industry in the Stalinist State

Author:

Harrison, Mark

Reviewer:

Nafziger, Steven

Subject:

Military and War

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 14, 2008

The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870-1920

Author:

Klein, Maury

Reviewer:

Nonnenmacher, Tomas

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 11, 2008

Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain

Author:

Trentmann, Frank

Reviewer:

Cain, Peter J.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Oct 16, 2008

Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life

Author:

Francis, Mark

Reviewer:

Peart, Sandra J.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Oct 12, 2008

The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm

Author:

Bruner, Robert F.

Carr, Sean D.

Reviewer:

Moen, Jon R.

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 2, 2008

Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship: Networks and Private Protection during Mexico's Early Industrialization

Author:

Razo, Armando

Reviewer:

Galvarriato, Aurora Gómez G

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Sep 29, 2008

Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere: A Conceptual History, 1919-1933

Author:

Gaddis, Vincent

Reviewer:

Reagan, Patrick D.

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 1, 2008

The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914: Social Policies Compared

Author:

Hennock, E. P.

Reviewer:

Harris, Bernard

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 24, 2008

Keynes and His Battles

Author:

Dostaler, Gilles

Reviewer:

Hayes, M. G.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 22, 2008

China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937

Author:

Shiroyama, Tomoko

Reviewer:

Horesh, Niv

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Aug 21, 2008

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

Author:

Shlaes, Amity

Reviewer:

Namorato, Michael V.

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 20, 2008

Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City

Author:

Norton, Peter D.

Reviewer:

Troesken, Werner

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 4, 2008

This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America and the New Deal

Author:

Phillips, Sarah

Reviewer:

Fox, Jon

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 2, 2008

Art, luxe et industrie: Bianchini Férier, un siècle de soieries lyonnaises

Author:

Vernus, Pierre

Reviewer:

Sheridan Jr., George J.

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Feb 22, 2008

Household Accounts: Working Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States

Author:

Benson, Susan Porter

Reviewer:

Ward, Marianne

Subject:

Household, Family and Consumer History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 17, 2008

From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes

Author:

Smethurst, Richard J.

Reviewer:

Schiltz, Michael

Subject:

Military and War

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Feb 6, 2008

Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds

Author:

Murray, John E.

Reviewer:

Thomasson, Melissa A.

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 3, 2008

Thomas F. Walsh: Progressive Businessman and Colorado Mining Tycoon

Author:

Stewart, John C.

Reviewer:

Hall, Joshua C.

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 16, 2007

Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole and Rehabilitation

Author:

Fearon, Peter

Reviewer:

Sorensen, Todd

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 4, 2007

The Economics of the Great Depression: A Twenty-First Century Look Back at the Economics of the Interwar Era

Author:

Parker, Randall E.

Reviewer:

Wheelock, David C.

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 2, 2007

A Good Day's Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression

Author:

Hoover, Dwight W.

Reviewer:

Bogue, Alan G.

Subject:

Household, Family and Consumer History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 23, 2007

Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s

Author:

Fones-Wolf, Ken

Reviewer:

Irons, Janet

Subject:

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 11, 2007

The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War over the American Dollar

Author:

Brands, H.W.

Reviewer:

Cowen, David J.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 2, 2007

The Elgar Companion to Alfred Marshall

Author:

Raffaelli, Tiziano

Becattini, Giacomo

Dardi, Marco

Reviewer:

Andrews, David

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Sep 27, 2007

Finance Capitalism and Germany's Rise to Industrial Power

Author:

Fohlin, Caroline

Reviewer:

Burhop, Carsten

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Sep 13, 2007

How the Republicans Caused the Stock Market Crash of 1929: GPT's, Failed Transitions, and Commercial Policy

Author:

Beaudreau, Bernard C.

Reviewer:

Ramirez, Carlos D.

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 23, 2007

Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime: The Creation of Private Property in Russia, 1906-1915

Author:

Williams, Stephen F.

Reviewer:

Nafziger, Steven

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jul 26, 2007

Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956

Author:

Smith, Jason Scott

Reviewer:

Fishback, Price V.

Subject:

Military and War

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 15, 2007

A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business

Author:

Olegario, Rowena

Reviewer:

Dupont, Brandon

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 14, 2007

The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster

Author:

Troesken, Werner

Reviewer:

Margo, Robert A.

Subject:

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 26, 2007

Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950

Author:

Williamson, Jeffrey G.

Reviewer:

Pamuk, Sevket

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Jun 24, 2007

Europe's Third World: The European Periphery in the Interwar Years

Author:

Aldcroft, Derek H.

Reviewer:

Wolf, Nikolaus

Subject:

Historical Geography

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 13, 2007

When Washington Shut down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy

Author:

Silber, William L.

Reviewer:

Moen, Jon

Subject:

Military and War

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 11, 2007

Capital Intentions: Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850-1920

Author:

Sparks, Edith

Reviewer:

Nickless, Pamela J.

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 27, 2007

Economics in Russia: Studies in Intellectual History.

Author:

Barnett, Vincent

Zweynert, Joachim

Reviewer:

Samuels, Warren J.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Feb 4, 2007

India and the World Economy, 1850-1950

Author:

Balachandran, G.

Reviewer:

Clingingsmith, David

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Jan 31, 2007

Financing the First World War

Author:

Strachan, Hew

Reviewer:

Voth, Hans-Joachim

Subject:

Military and War

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 22, 2007

Stalin's Terror Revisited

Author:

Ilic, Melanie

Reviewer:

Barnett, Vincent

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 3, 2007

A Deus ex Machina Revisited: Atlantic Colonial Trade and European Economic Development

Author:

Emmer, P.C.

Pétré-Grenouilleau, O.

Roitman, J.V.

Reviewer:

Engerman, Stanley L.

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 2, 2007

Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan

Author:

Metzler, Mark

Reviewer:

White, Eugene N.

Subject:

Military and War

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Jan 1, 2007

Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal

Author:

Volanto, Keith J.

Reviewer:

Johnson, Ryan

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 21, 2006

The Development of Mexico's Tourism Industry: Pyramids by Day, Martinis by Night

Author:

Berger, Dina

Reviewer:

Crites, Byron

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Dec 19, 2006

Walrasian Economics

Author:

Walker, Donald A.

Reviewer:

Backhouse, Roger E.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 17, 2006

California Dreaming: Ideology, Society, and Technology in the Citrus Industry of Palestine, 1890-1939

Author:

Karlinsky, Nahum

Reviewer:

Rhode, Paul

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 13, 2006

Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden

Author:

Sackman, Douglas Cazaux

Reviewer:

Rhode, Paul

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 13, 2006

Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820-1920

Author:

Thiesen, William H.

Reviewer:

Sicotte, Richard

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 2, 2006

Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction

Author:

Zimmerman, David

Reviewer:

Dalrymple, Scott

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 25, 2006

Korea Under Siege, 1876-1945: Capital Formation and Economic Transformation

Author:

Chung, Young-Iob

Reviewer:

Cha, Myung Soo

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Oct 19, 2006

Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars

Author:

Leidenberger, Georg

Reviewer:

Clair, David J. St.

Subject:

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 16, 2006

Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715-1919

Author:

Zipf, Karin L.

Reviewer:

Whitman, T. Stephen

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 29, 2006

Economists in Parliament in the Liberal Age (1848-1920)

Author:

Augello, Massimo M.

Guidi, Marco E.L.

Reviewer:

Barnett, Vincent

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Sep 28, 2006

Horses in Society: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920

Author:

Derry, Margaret E.

Reviewer:

Blackford, Mansel G.

Subject:

Military and War

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 19, 2006

The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China

Author:

Zelin, Madeleine

Reviewer:

Shiue, Carol H.

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Sep 4, 2006

The Great Debate on Banking Reform: Nelson Aldrich and the Origins of the Fed

Author:

Wicker, Elmus

Reviewer:

Tallman, Ellis W.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 10, 2006

The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860-1914: Commercial, Extractive and Industrial Enterprise

Author:

Whitten, David O.

Whitten, Bessie E.

Reviewer:

Mason, David L.

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 2, 2006

The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920

Author:

Khan, B. Zorina

Reviewer:

Margo, Robert A.

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 29, 2006

Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery

Author:

Rosen, Eliot A.

Reviewer:

Wicker, Elmus

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 18, 2006

Alanson B. Houghton: Ambassador of the New Era

Author:

Matthews, Jeffrey J.

Houghton, Alanson B.

Reviewer:

Westerman, Thomas D.

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 13, 2006

Chimneys in the Desert: Industrialization in Argentina during the Export Boom Years, 1870-1930

Author:

Rocchi, Fernando

Reviewer:

Horowitz, Joel

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Jun 11, 2006

Widows and Orphans First: The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880-1939

Author:

Kleinberg, S. J.

Reviewer:

Moehling, Carolyn M.

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 6, 2006

The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800-1930

Author:

Smith, Michael Stephen

Reviewer:

Hautcoeur, Pierre-Cyrille

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: May 7, 2006

City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919

Author:

Garb, Margaret

Reviewer:

Smith, Fred H.

Subject:

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 30, 2006

Business and Industry in Nazi Germany

Author:

Kobrak, Christopher

Hansen, Per H.

Nicosia, Francis R.

Huener, Jonathan

Reviewer:

Ferguson, Thomas

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Apr 2, 2006

European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945

Author:

Kobrak, Christopher

Hansen, Per H.

Nicosia, Francis R.

Huener, Jonathan

Reviewer:

Ferguson, Thomas

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Apr 2, 2006

Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold Innis

Author:

Watson, Alexander John

Reviewer:

Neill, Robin

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 14, 2006

Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1920

Author:

Hanley, Anne G.

Reviewer:

Triner, Gail D.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Mar 8, 2006

The Irony of State Intervention: American Industrial Relations Policy in Comparative Perspective, 1914-1939

Author:

Gerber, Larry G.

Reviewer:

Friedman, Gerald

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 16, 2006

The Economics of World War I

Author:

Broadberry, Stephen

Harrison, Mark

Reviewer:

Engerman, Stanley L.

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 1, 2006

Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949

Author:

Sugihara, Kaoru

Reviewer:

Lee, Ming-Hsuan

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Dec 16, 2005

Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937

Author:

Reed, Christopher A.

Reviewer:

Köll, Elisabeth K

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Dec 6, 2005

City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870-1920

Author:

Bjelopera, Jerome P.

Reviewer:

Mandell, Nikki

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 4, 2005

Centuries of Child Labour: European Experiences from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

Author:

Rahikainen, Marjatta

Reviewer:

Tuttle, Carolyn

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Nov 10, 2005

Forerunners of Modern Financial Economics: A Random Walk in the History of Economic Thought, 1900-1950

Author:

Stabile, Donald R.

Reviewer:

Poitras, Geoffrey

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Nov 1, 2005

Banksters, Bosses, and Smart Money: A Social History of the Great Toledo Bank Crash of 1931

Author:

Messer-Kruse, Timothy

Reviewer:

Doti, Lynne Pierson

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 27, 2005

Norwegian Catch-Up: Development and Globalization before World War II

Author:

Moses, Jonathon W.

Reviewer:

Grytten, Ola Honningdal

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Oct 13, 2005

Peddling Panaceas: Popular Economists in the New Deal Era

Author:

Best, Gary Dean

Reviewer:

Dighe, Ranjit S.

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 9, 2005

The Accounts of the British Empire: Capital Flows from 1799 to 1914

Author:

Tiberi, Mario

Reviewer:

Brezis, Elise S.

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Sep 5, 2005

Industrializing the Rockies: Growth, Competition, and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868-1914

Author:

Wolff, David A.

Reviewer:

Ronning, Gerald

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 16, 2005

Order against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913

Author:

Summerhill, William

Reviewer:

Fishlow, Albert

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Aug 2, 2005

The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America

Author:

Kinney, Thomas A.

Reviewer:

Dicke, Tom

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 31, 2005

Britain's Economic Blockade of Germany, 1914-1919

Author:

Osborne, Eric W.

Reviewer:

Eloranta, Jari

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jul 21, 2005

Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business

Author:

Satre, Lowell J.

Reviewer:

Southall, Roger

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Africa

Post date: Jun 20, 2005

Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945

Author:

Coble, Parks M.

Reviewer:

McElderry, Andrea

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Jun 5, 2005

Water, Race, and Disease

Author:

Troesken, Werner

Reviewer:

Brown, John C.

Subject:

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 31, 2005

Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West

Author:

Krainz, Thomas A.

Reviewer:

Saunders, Dawn

Subject:

Household, Family and Consumer History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 11, 2005

The Origins of National Financial Systems: Alexander Gerschenkron Reconsidered

Author:

Forsyth, Douglas J.

Verdier, Daniel

Reviewer:

Sylla, Richard

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Mar 24, 2005

United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism

Author:

DeVault, Ileen A.

Reviewer:

Jacoby, Daniel

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 7, 2005

The Origins of the British Welfare State: Social Welfare in England and Wales, 1800-1945

Author:

Harris, Bernard

Reviewer:

MacKinnon, Mary

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Feb 15, 2005

The Resurgence of East Asia, 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives

Author:

Arrighi, Giovanni

Hamashita, Takeshi

Selden, Mark

Reviewer:

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Feb 14, 2005

The Making of Global Finance, 1880-1913

Author:

Flandreau, Marc

Zumer, Frederic

Reviewer:

Rockoff, Hugh

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Jan 31, 2005

To Provide for the General Welfare: A History of the Federal Spending Power

Author:

Sky, Theodore

Reviewer:

Adamson, Michael R.

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 13, 2005

The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier

Author:

Anderson, Terry L.

Hill, Peter J.

Reviewer:

Lewis, Frank D.

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 5, 2005

The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush

Author:

Morse, Kathryn

Reviewer:

Kanazawa, Mark

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 29, 2004

The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933

Author:

Wheatcroft, R. W. Davies and Stephen G.

Reviewer:

Tauger, Mark B.

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Nov 15, 2004

Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology and Geography, 1850-1950

Author:

Downey, Gregory J.

Reviewer:

Nonnenmacher, Tomas

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 3, 2004

The Strictures of Inheritance: The Dutch Economy in the Nineteenth Century

Author:

Zanden, Jan Luiten van

Riel, Arthur van

Reviewer:

Broadberry, Stephen

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Sep 30, 2004

Contract and Property in Early Modern China

Author:

Zelin, Madeleine

Ocko, Jonathan K.

Gardella, Robert

Reviewer:

Shiue, Carol H.

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Sep 29, 2004

The Economics of Alfred Marshall: Revisiting Marshall's Legacy

Author:

Arena, Richard

Quéré, Michel

Reviewer:

Caldari, Katia

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Sep 15, 2004

Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920

Author:

Usselman, Steven W.

Reviewer:

Schramm, Jeff

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 13, 2004

The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications

Author:

Starr, Paul

Reviewer:

Galbi, Douglas

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 8, 2004

Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary

Author:

Lomax, Michael E

Reviewer:

Haupert, Michael

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 8, 2004

China Maritime Customs and China's Trade Statistics, 1859-1948

Author:

Lyons, Thomas P.

Reviewer:

Wright, Tim

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Jul 29, 2004

The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940

Author:

Cohen, Andrew Wender

Reviewer:

Cain, Louis P.

Subject:

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 24, 2004

Understanding Economic Recovery in the 1930s: Endogenous Propagation in the Great Depression

Author:

Steindl, Frank G.

Reviewer:

Wheelock, David C.

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 8, 2004

Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800-1950

Author:

Tebeau, Mark

Reviewer:

Baranoff, Dalit

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 16, 2004

Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia, 1917-1929

Author:

Heinzen, James W.

Reviewer:

Wheatcroft, Stephen

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 16, 2004

The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law

Author:

Witt, John

Reviewer:

Aldrich, Mark

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 10, 2004

After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona: Decline in Western Resource Towns

Author:

Clements, Eric L.

Reviewer:

Kaiser, Brooks A.

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 10, 2004

Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution

Author:

Allen, Robert C.

Reviewer:

Davies, R. W.

Subject:

Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jun 8, 2004

Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer

Author:

Donohue, Kathleen G.

Reviewer:

Gerber, Larry G.

Subject:

Household, Family and Consumer History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 7, 2004

The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876-1929

Author:

Haber, Stephen

Razo, Armando

Maurer, Noel

Reviewer:

Libecap, Gary

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: May 20, 2004

Global Monetary Regime and National Central Banking: The Case of Hungary, 1921-1929

Author:

Peteri, Gyorgy

Reviewer:

Wicker, Elmus

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Apr 20, 2004

The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740-1914

Author:

Finn, Margot C.

Reviewer:

Ugolini, Laura

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Apr 6, 2004

FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

Author:

Powell, Jim

Reviewer:

Hawley, Ellis W.

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 29, 2004

The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump

Author:

Balderston, Theo

Reviewer:

Parker, Randall E.

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Mar 22, 2004

For the Common Good? American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity

Author:

Kaufman, Jason

Reviewer:

Beito, David T.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 17, 2004

South Carolina and the New Deal

Author:

Hayes Jr., Jack Irby

Reviewer:

Couch, Jim

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 27, 2004

Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889-1909

Author:

Singer, Jonathan W.

Reviewer:

Troesken, Werner

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 8, 2004

Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past

Author:

Costa, Dora L.

Reviewer:

Murray, John E.

Subject:

Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 4, 2004

Coerced and Free Migrations: Global Perspectives

Author:

Eltis, David

Reviewer:

Cohn, Raymond L.

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Dec 30, 2003

Coping with Crisis: International Financial Institutions in the Interwar Period

Author:

Kasuya, Makoto

Reviewer:

Mitchener, Kris James

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Dec 17, 2003

Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897-1937

Author:

Cheng, Linsun

Reviewer:

Kwan, Man Bun

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Dec 15, 2003

European Economists of the Early Twentieth Century, Volume 2. Studies on Neglected Continental Thinkers of Germany and Italy

Author:

Samuels, Warren J.

Reviewer:

Giocoli, Nicola

Subject:

History of Technology, including Technological Change

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 11, 2003

Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937

Author:

Sterett, Susan M.

Reviewer:

Short, Joanna

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 8, 2003

Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks, and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin

Author:

Sheehan, Brett

Reviewer:

McElderry, Andrea

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Dec 3, 2003

The Price of Progress: Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 to 1929

Author:

Higgens-Evenson, R. Rudy

Reviewer:

Brownlee, W. Elliot

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 19, 2003

Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935

Author:

Pisani, Donald J.

Reviewer:

Hill, Peter J.

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 19, 2003

A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States

Author:

Clark, Robert L.

Craig, Lee A.

Wilson, Jack W.

Reviewer:

Fishback, Price

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 9, 2003

Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism

Author:

Faue, Elizabeth

Reviewer:

Friedman, Gerald

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 1, 2003

The Power and the Money: The Mexican Financial System, 1876-1932

Author:

Maurer, Noel

Reviewer:

Cárdenas, Enrique C

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Sep 10, 2003

Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880-1930

Author:

Charlip, Julie A.

Reviewer:

Lindo-Fuentes, Héctor L

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Sep 7, 2003

The Farm on the North Talbot Road

Author:

Bogue, Allan G.

Reviewer:

Ankli, Robert

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 28, 2003

Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers

Author:

Harwood Jr., Herbert H.

Reviewer:

Smith, Fred H.

Subject:

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 4, 2003

Child Labor: An American History

Author:

Hindman, Hugh D.

Reviewer:

Tuttle, Carolyn

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 28, 2003

The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama

Author:

Salmond, John A.

Reviewer:

Daniel, Clete

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 24, 2003

Weathering the Storm: The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression

Author:

Boomgaard, Peter

Brown, Ian

Reviewer:

Drabble, John

Subject:

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Jul 23, 2003

Railroads and American Law

Author:

Ely Jr., James W.

Reviewer:

Hudspeth, Harvey G.

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 15, 2003

Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture

Author:

Fitzgerald, Deborah

Reviewer:

Gardner, Bruce

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 19, 2003

Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry

Author:

Linden, F. Robert van der

Reviewer:

Dunn-Haley, Karen

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 27, 2003

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court Packing Crisis of 1937

Author:

McKenna, Marian C.

Reviewer:

Hudspeth, Harvey G.

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 15, 2003

A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing

Author:

Benson, John

Ugolini, Laura

Reviewer:

Alexander, Nicholas

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: May 13, 2003

An Economic History of London, 1800-1914

Author:

Ball, Michael

Sunderland, David

Reviewer:

Green, David R.

Subject:

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Apr 7, 2003

Statistics and the German State, 1900-1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge

Author:

Tooze, J. Adam

Reviewer:

Perlman, Mark

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Apr 6, 2003

Reflections on the Great Depression

Author:

Parker, Randall E.

Reviewer:

Smiley, Gene

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 31, 2003

A History of Household Government in America

Author:

Shammas, Carole

Reviewer:

Main, Gloria L.

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 25, 2003

Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic

Author:

Balderston, Theo

Reviewer:

Spoerer, Mark

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Mar 23, 2003

The English Poor Laws, 1700-1930

Author:

Brundage, Anthony

Reviewer:

King, Steve

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Mar 20, 2003

The Mexican Economy, 1870-1930: Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth

Author:

Bortz, Jeffrey L.

Haber, Stephen

Reviewer:

Keefer, Philip

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Mar 14, 2003

Deutschlands Krise und Konjunktur, 1924-1934: Binnenkonjuktur, Auslandsverschuldung und Reparationsproblem zwischen Dawes-Plan und Transfersperre

Author:

Ritschl, Albrecht

Reviewer:

Voth, Hans-Joachim

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Mar 9, 2003

Rethinking the Great Depression

Author:

Smiley, Gene

Reviewer:

Wheelock, David C.

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 4, 2003

The Soul's Economy: Market and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920

Author:

Sklansky, Jeffrey

Reviewer:

Frey, Donald

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 30, 2003

The Gold Standard Illusion: France, the Bank of France, and the International Gold Standard, 1914-1939

Author:

Moure, Kenneth

Reviewer:

Sicsic, Pierre

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 20, 2003

The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory

Author:

Dighe, Ranjit S.

Reviewer:

Sullivan, Timothy E.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 19, 2003

Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia

Author:

Harris, Douglas C.

Reviewer:

Johnsen, D. Bruce

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 14, 2003

Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany

Author:

Widdig, Bernd

Reviewer:

Voth, Hans-Joachim

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Dec 2, 2002

Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets during Industrialization

Author:

Rosenbloom, Joshua L.

Reviewer:

Whatley, Warren C.

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 17, 2002

HISCO: Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations

Author:

Leeuwen, Marco H.D. van

Maas, Ineke

Miles, Andrew

Reviewer:

James, Hamish

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 29, 2002

Farm Production in England 1700-1914

Author:

Turner, M. E.

Beckett, J. V.

Afton, B.

Reviewer:

Verdon, Nicola

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 18, 2002

Advocate for American Enterprise: William Buck Dana and the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 1865-1910

Author:

Steeples, Douglas

Reviewer:

Perkins, Edwin J.

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 17, 2002

Cameroon's Tycoon: Max Esser's Expedition and Its Consequences

Author:

Röschenthale, Ute

Chilver, E.M.

Reviewer:

Austen, Ralph A.

Subject:

Servitude and Slavery

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Africa

Post date: Aug 13, 2002

The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914

Author:

Davis, Tracy C.

Reviewer:

Pilbeam, Pam

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jul 24, 2002

The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume VII, 1850-1914

Author:

Collins, E.J.T.

Reviewer:

Burnette, Joyce

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jul 23, 2002

Technology, Industrial Conflict and the Development of Technical Education in Nineteenth-Century England

Author:

Cronin, Bernard

Reviewer:

Sanderson, Michael

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jul 18, 2002

New Deal Fat Cats: Business, Labor, and Campaign Finance in the 1936 Presidential Election

Author:

Webber, Michael J.

Reviewer:

Couch, Jim F.

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 4, 2002

Women's Work? American Schoolteachers, 1650-1920

Author:

Perlmann, Joel

Margo, Robert A.

Reviewer:

Carter, Susan B.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 30, 2002

The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo Leon, 1848-1910

Author:

Mora-Torres, Juan

Reviewer:

Baskes, Jeremy

Subject:

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Jun 24, 2002

The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930

Author:

Mandell, Nikki

Reviewer:

Stanger, Howard R.

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 19, 2002

Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years

Author:

Novkov, Julie

Reviewer:

Bernstein, David

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 10, 2002

Institutions and Investment: The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico before 1911

Author:

Beatty, Edward

Reviewer:

Sokoloff, Kenneth L.

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Jun 6, 2002

Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in New York and London, 1880-1914: Enterprise and Culture

Author:

Godley, Andrew

Reviewer:

Chiswick, Carmel U.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 2, 2002

Extremes in the Archipelago: Trade and Economic Development in the Outer Islands of Indonesia, 1900-1942

Author:

Touwen, Jeroen

Reviewer:

Booth, Anne

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: May 28, 2002

Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930

Author:

Peck, Gunther

Reviewer:

Rosenbloom, Joshua L.

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 22, 2002

Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows: Britain, the Americas, and Australia, 1865-1914

Author:

Davis, Lance E.

Gallman, Robert E.

Reviewer:

Taylor, Alan M.

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: May 6, 2002

Straining at the Anchor: The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880-1935

Author:

Paolera, Gerardo della

Taylor, Alan M.

Reviewer:

Temin, Peter

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: May 1, 2002

Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South

Author:

Irons, Janet

Reviewer:

Friedman, Gerald

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 29, 2002

Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation

Author:

Harris, J. William

Reviewer:

Virts, Nancy

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 17, 2002

The Economic History of India 1857-1947

Author:

Roy, Tirthankar

Reviewer:

Hejeebu, Santhi

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Mar 17, 2002

The New South's New Frontier: A Social History of Economic Development in Southwestern North Carolina

Author:

Taylor, Stephen Wallace

Reviewer:

Phillips, William H.

Subject:

Urban and Regional History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 12, 2002

Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929

Author:

Klein, Maury

Reviewer:

Zevin, Robert

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 7, 2002

And a Time for Hope: Americans in the Great Depression

Author:

McGovern, James R.

Reviewer:

Dighe, Ranjit S.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 31, 2002

Iron Shipbuilding on the Thames, 1832-1915: An Economic and Business History

Author:

Arnold, A. J.

Reviewer:

Sumida, Jon

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 27, 2002

Battles for the Standard: Bimetallism and the Spread of the Gold Standard in the Nineteenth Century

Author:

Wilson, Ted

Reviewer:

Meissner, Christopher M.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Jan 24, 2002

Veblen in Perspective: His Life and Thought

Author:

Edgell, Stephen

Reviewer:

Stabile, Donald

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 23, 2002

Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe

Author:

Penslar, Derek J.

Reviewer:

Godley, Andrew C.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 22, 2002

Japanese Industrial History: Technology, Urbanization, and Economic Growth

Author:

Mosk, Carl

Reviewer:

Metzler, Mark

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Jan 21, 2002

Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal

Author:

Robertson, David Brian

Reviewer:

Sundstrom, William A.

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 7, 2002

The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression

Author:

James, Harold

Reviewer:

Hatton, Tim

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Jan 3, 2002

Western Capitalism in China: A History of the Shanghai Stock Exchange

Author:

Thomas, W. A.

Reviewer:

McElderry, Andrea

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Dec 11, 2001

Boys in the Pits: Child Labour in Coal Mines

Author:

McIntosh, Robert

Reviewer:

Tuttle, Carolyn

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 10, 2001

Swallows and Settlers: The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria

Author:

Gottschang, Thomas R.

Lary, Diana

Reviewer:

Wright, Tim

Subject:

Historical Demography, including Migration

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Nov 29, 2001

Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900-1930

Author:

Slaton, Amy E.

Reviewer:

McSwain, James B.

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 4, 2001

British Economic Growth, 1688-1959: Trends and Structure

Author:

Deane, Phyllis

Cole, W. A.

Reviewer:

Harley, Knick

Subject:

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Sep 17, 2001

The Mediterranean Response to Globalization before 1950

Author:

Pamuk, Sevket

Williamson, Jeffrey G.

Reviewer:

Simpson, James

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Middle East

Post date: Aug 21, 2001

Finance from Kaiser to Führer: Budget Politics in Germany, 1912-1934

Author:

Clingan, C. Edmund

Reviewer:

Hughes, Michael

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Aug 8, 2001

Banking and Economic Development: Brazil, 1889-1930

Author:

Triner, Gail D.

Reviewer:

Musacchio, Aldo

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Jul 15, 2001

Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933

Author:

Bogue, Margaret Beattie

Reviewer:

Laurent, Jerome K.

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 11, 2001

The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America

Author:

Hoffman, Beatrix

Reviewer:

Thomasson, Melissa A.

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 9, 2001

In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919

Author:

Zeiger, Susan

Reviewer:

Nickless, Pamela

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 3, 2001

The First World War and the International Economy

Author:

Wrigley, Chris

Reviewer:

Greasley, David

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: May 30, 2001

American Commercial Banks in Corporate Finance, 1929-1941: A Study in Banking Concentration

Author:

Go, Tian Kang

Reviewer:

Trescott, Paul B.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 24, 2001

Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920

Author:

Vaught, David

Reviewer:

Odell, Kerry

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 19, 2001

The Great Depression in Europe, 1929-1939

Author:

Clavin, Patricia

Reviewer:

Ferderer, Pete

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Apr 16, 2001

It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States

Author:

Lipset, Seymour Martin

Marks, Gary

Reviewer:

Rauchway, Eric

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 12, 2001

Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal

Author:

Bernstein, David E.

Reviewer:

Vedder, Richard K.

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 10, 2001

Banking Panics of the Gilded Age

Author:

Wicker, Elmus

Reviewer:

Steindl, Frank

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 7, 2001

Designing a New America: the Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890-1943

Author:

Reagan, Patrick D.

Reviewer:

Tomlinson, Jim

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 20, 2001

Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India

Author:

Roy, Tirthankar

Reviewer:

Wolcott, Susan

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Feb 19, 2001

Making Connections: The Long-distance Bus Industry in the USA

Author:

Walsh, Margaret

Reviewer:

Singleton, John

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 15, 2001

A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation

Author:

Fishback, Price

Kantor, Shawn

Reviewer:

Aldrich, Mark

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 5, 2001

Railways in Britain and the United States 1830-1940

Author:

Channon, Geoffrey

Reviewer:

Churella, Albert J.

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 9, 2001

Turning Trees into Dollars: The British Columbia Coastal Lumber Industry, 1858-1913

Author:

Hak, Gordon

Reviewer:

Marr, William

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 28, 2000

The European Macroeconomy: Growth, Integration and Cycles 1500-1913

Author:

Craig, Lee A.

Fisher, Douglas

Reviewer:

Broadberry, Stephen N.

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Oct 30, 2000

Charting Twentieth-Century Monetary Policy: Herbert Hoover and Benjamin Strong, 1917-1927

Author:

Wueschner, Silvano A.

Reviewer:

Toma, Mark

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 24, 2000

Monetary Standards in the Periphery: Paper, Silver and Gold, 1854-1933

Author:

Acena, Pablo Martin

Reis, Jaime

Reviewer:

Redish, Angela

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Sep 17, 2000

Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade, and the Railways, 1917-1924

Author:

Heywood, Anthony

Reviewer:

Hayward, Oliver

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Sep 14, 2000

American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean 1898-1934

Author:

Ayala, César A

Reviewer:

Dye, Alan

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Sep 2, 2000

The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman

Author:

Klein, Maury

Reviewer:

Churella, Albert J.

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 28, 2000

Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy

Author:

O'Rourke, Kevin H.

Williamson, Jeffrey G.

Reviewer:

McInnis, Marvin

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Aug 3, 2000

Growth, Inequality and Globalization: Theory, History and Policy

Author:

Aghion, Philippe

Williamson, Jeffrey C.

Reviewer:

Hanson, John R.

Subject:

Income and Wealth

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Jun 30, 2000

Essays on the Great Depression

Author:

Bernanke, Ben S.

Reviewer:

Margo, Robert A.

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 30, 2000

Fabricating the Keynesian Revolution: Studies of the Inter-war Literature on Money, the Cycle, and Unemployment

Author:

Laidler, David

Reviewer:

Hammond, J. Daniel

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Africa

Post date: May 31, 2000

Economic Change in China, c. 1800-1950

Author:

Richardson, Philip

Reviewer:

Ma, Debin

Subject:

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: May 31, 2000

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

The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

Author:

Polanyi, Karl

Reviewer:

Mayhew, Anne

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: May 31, 2000

Making Peasants Backward: Managing Populations in Russian Agricultural Cooperatives, 1861-1914

Author:

Kotsonis, Yanni

Reviewer:

Hayward, Oliver

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: May 11, 2000

The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700-1948

Author:

Lees, Lynn Hollen

Reviewer:

Boyer, George R.

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Apr 30, 2000

Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917

Author:

Sanders, Elizabeth

Reviewer:

Friedman, Gerald

Subject:

Markets and Institutions

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 5, 2000

The New Deal and Public Policy

Author:

Daynes, Byron D.

Pederson, William D.

Riccards, Michael P.

Reviewer:

Namorato, Michael V.

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Apr 4, 2000

The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920

Author:

Duus, Masayo Umezawa

Reviewer:

Beechert, Edward D.

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Asia

Post date: Feb 20, 2000

Economics in the Long Run: New Deal Theorists and Their Legacies, 1933-1993

Author:

Rosenof, Theodore

Reviewer:

Perelman, Michael

Subject:

History of Economic Thought; Methodology

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 16, 2000

Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit

Author:

Calder, Lendol

Reviewer:

Taylor, Christiane Diehl

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 2, 2000

The Federal Landscape: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century West

Author:

Nash, Gerald D.

Reviewer:

Hill, Peter J.

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 20, 2000

A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960

Author:

Friedman, Milton

Schwartz, Anna Jacobson

Reviewer:

Rockoff, Hugh

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 31, 1999

The Global Export of Capital from Great Britain, 1865-1914: A Statistical Survey

Author:

Stone, Irving

Reviewer:

Edelstein, Michael

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Nov 3, 1999

One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928

Author:

Mancini, Matthew J.

Reviewer:

Brinkley, Garland

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Oct 28, 1999

Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation

Author:

Levenstein, Margaret

Reviewer:

Miranti, Paul

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 27, 1999

Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899-1929

Author:

Dye, Alan B.

Reviewer:

Salvucci, Richard

Subject:

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Post date: Sep 5, 1999

The Political Economy of the New Deal

Author:

Couch, Jim

II, William F. Shughart

Reviewer:

Fishback, Price V.

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 20, 1999

The International Origins of the Federal Reserve System

Author:

Broz, J. Lawrence

Reviewer:

Wheelock, David C.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 2, 1999

The Economics of the Great Depression

Author:

Wheeler, Mark

Reviewer:

Wicker, Elmus

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: May 26, 1999

State-Making and Labor Movements: France and the Unite dStates, 1876-1914

Author:

Friedman, Gerald

Reviewer:

Dubofsky, Melvyn

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Feb 19, 1999

Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry: Labour, Capital, and Technology in Britain and America, 1860-1914

Author:

Magee, Gary Bryan

Reviewer:

Godley, Andrew C.

Subject:

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Feb 16, 1999

From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry

Author:

Churella, Albert J.

Reviewer:

Scranton, Philip

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jan 6, 1999

The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990

Author:

Costa, Dora L.

Reviewer:

Gratton, Brian

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 14, 1998

Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing

Author:

Laird, Pamela Walker

Reviewer:

Silva, Jonathan

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

General, International, or Comparative

Post date: Dec 2, 1998

The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century

Author:

Bordo, Michael D.

Goldin, Claudia

White, Eugene N.

Reviewer:

Cain, Louis P.

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 22, 1998

The Great Depression: An International Disaster of Perverse Economic Policies

Author:

Hall, Thomas E.

Ferguson, David J.

Reviewer:

Wicker, Elmus

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 19, 1998

A Living Wage

Author:

Glickman, Lawrence B.

Reviewer:

Schneirov, Richard

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 2, 1998

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

Author:

Chernow, Ron

Reviewer:

Goldin, Milton

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jun 23, 1998

Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms: Buying and Selling Securities in Canada 1870-1940

Author:

Armstrong, Christopher

Reviewer:

Michie, Ranald C.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 19, 1998

A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco

Author:

Selvin, David F.

Reviewer:

Boyd, Lawrence W.

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 17, 1998

State and Party in America's New Deal

Author:

Finegold, Kenneth

Skocpol, Theda

Reviewer:

Young, Garry

Subject:

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 17, 1998

Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science

Author:

Sellers, Christopher

Reviewer:

Aldrich, Mark

Subject:

Labor and Employment History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 11, 1998

Mass Production, the Stock Market Crash, and the Great Depression: The Macroeconomics of Electrification

Author:

Beaudreau, Bernard C.

Reviewer:

Hausman, William J.

Subject:

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 27, 1998

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

America's Communal Utopias

Author:

Pitzer, Donald E.

Reviewer:

Murray, John E.

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Feb 2, 1998

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

Merchants and Markets in Revolutionary Russia, 1917-1930

Author:

Banerji, Arup

Reviewer:

Ball, Alan

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

Europe

Post date: Jan 4, 1998

If I Were Boss, The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis

Author:

Lewis, Sinclair

Reviewer:

Baida, Peter

Subject:

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Dec 6, 1997

The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency

Author:

Kanigel, Robert

Reviewer:

Schachter, Hindy Lauer

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Nov 9, 1997

Store Wars: Shopkeepers and the Culture of Mass Marketing, 1890-1939

Author:

Monod, David

Reviewer:

Horowitz, David A.

Subject:

Business History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Sep 7, 1997

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

Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism

Author:

Heinrich, Thomas R.

Reviewer:

Brown, John K.

Subject:

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Aug 11, 1997

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

Designs Within Disorder: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Economists, and the Shaping of American Economic Policy, 1933-1945

Author:

Barber, William J.

Reviewer:

Namorato, Michael V.

Subject:

Economic Planning and Policy

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Jul 5, 1997

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

The Banking Panics of the Great Depression

Author:

Wicker, Elmus

Reviewer:

Wood, John H.

Subject:

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: May 27, 1997

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

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Author:

Kaplan, Edward S.

Ryley, Thomas W.

Reviewer:

Aaronson, Susan Ariel

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 19, 1997

Prelude to Trade Wars: American Tariff Policy, 1890-1922

Author:

Kaplan, Edward S.

Ryley, Thomas W.

Reviewer:

Aaronson, Susan Ariel

Subject:

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Time Period:

20th Century: Pre WWII

Geographic Area:

North America

Post date: Mar 19, 1997

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