The Peasants of Languedoc
Project 2001: Significant Works in Economic History Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, The Peasants of Languedoc. Review Essay by Anne E.C. McCants, Department of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There and Back Again: The Great Agrarian Cycle Revisited It has been thirty-six years since the original publication of Le Roy Ladurie’s now classic Les Paysans de […]
Peasants and Their Fields: The Rationale of Open-field Agriculture, 700-1800
Published by EH.Net (May 2019) Christopher Dyer, Erik Thoen and Tom Williamson, editors, Peasants and Their Fields: The Rationale of Open-field Agriculture, 700-1800. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2018. x + 275 pp. $105 (paperback), ISBN: 978-2-503-57600-8. Reviewed for EH.Net by David Hall. The book consists of ten essays beginning with the open fields of […]
From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers
Published by EH.NET (August 2002) Allan Kulikoff, From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiii + 484 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8078-2569-7; $22.50 (paper), ISBN: 0-8078-4882-4. Reviewed for EH.NET by Winifred B. Rothenberg, Department of Economics, Tufts University. “Men make their own history but they do […]
Making Peasants Backward: Managing Populations in Russian Agricultural Cooperatives, 1861-1914
Published by EH.NET (May 2000) Yanni Kotsonis, Making Peasants Backward: Managing Populations in Russian Agricultural Cooperatives, 1861-1914. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. x + 245 pp. $65 (cloth), ISBN: 0-312-22099-5. Reviewed for EH.NET by Oliver Hayward, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Parkside. This study presents succinctly (188 pages of text) the clearest and most […]
Peasants, Merchants, and Markets: Inland Trade in Medieval England, 1150-1350
EH.NET BOOK REVIEW Published by EH.NET (April 1998) James Masschaele, Peasants, Merchants, and Markets: Inland Trade in Medieval England, 1150-1350. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1997. xii + 275 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-312-16035-6. Reviewed for EH.Net by Gregory Clark, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis. Medieval Commerce: Too Much of a Good Thing […]
The Economic History of Mexico
The Economic History of Mexico Richard Salvucci, Trinity University Preface[1] This article is a brief interpretive survey of some of the major features of the economic history of Mexico from pre-conquest to the present. I begin with the pre-capitalist economy of Mesoamerica. The colonial period is divided into the Habsburg and Bourbon regimes, although […]
Project 2000/2001
Project 2000 Each month during 2000, EH.NET published a review essay on a significant work in twentieth-century economic history. The purpose of these essays was to survey the works that have had the most influence on the field of economic history and to highlight the intellectual accomplishments of twentieth-century economic historians. Each review essay outlines […]
The Economic Impact of the Black Death
David Routt, University of Richmond The Black Death was the largest demographic disaster in European history. From its arrival in Italy in late 1347 through its clockwise movement across the continent to its petering out in the Russian hinterlands in 1353, the magna pestilencia (great pestilence) killed between seventeen and twenty—eight million people. Its gruesome […]
The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo Leon, 1848-1910
Published by EH.NET (June 2002) Juan Mora-Torres, The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo Leon, 1848-1910. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. 384 pp. $50 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-292-75252-0; $23.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-292-75255-5. Reviewed for EH.NET by Jeremy Baskes, Department of History, Ohio Wesleyan University. Historians have long noted that […]
Stefano Fenoaltea
In Memoriam ECONOMICS HISTORY ASSOCIATION REMEMBERS STEFANO FENOALTEA IN MEMORIAM Deirdre McCloskey, Richard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo contributed information and personal recollections to this In Memoriam. Christopher Hanes wrote it and bears responsibility for errors. McCloskey’s own obituary of Fenoaltea has been published in the PSL Quarterly Review (2020). Journal articles and books by Stefano […]