Published by EH.Net (April 2019) Şevket Pamuk, Uneven Centuries: Economic Development of Turkey since 1820. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2018. xiii + 352 pp. $35 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-691-16637-7. Reviewed for EH.Net by Jeffrey G. Williamson, Department of Economics, Harvard University. Uneven Centuries is an extraordinary economic history text, and for many reasons. Its author, […]
Published by EH.NET (June 2007) Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. xi + 471 pp. $50 (cloth), ISBN: 0-262-08342-6. Reviewed for EH.NET by Drew Keeling, Department of History, University of Zurich. For decades, scholars of modern cross-border […]
Published by EH.NET (August 2000) Geoffrey Jones, Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. x +404 pp. ISBN 0-19-829450-6. Reviewed for EH.NET by Mira Wilkins, Department of Economics, Florida International University, Miami, Florida. Geoffrey Jones’s book is on British merchant houses in the nineteenth and […]
Published by EH.Net (October 2025). Christopher M. Meissner. One From the Many: The Global Economy Since 1850. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. xv + 330 pp. $34.99 (paperback), ISBN 978- 0197759318. Reviewed for EH.Net by Mihai Paraschiv, State University of New York at Oswego. Christopher M. Meissner’s book is an authoritative and meticulously […]
Published by EH.Net (May 2024). Stephen Mullen. The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775-1838. London: University of London Press, 2022. 340 pp. $120 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1909646773. Reviewed for EH.Net by William A Wardle, former Principal of York St John University and James Watt College of Further and Higher Education. This is a […]
Published by EH.Net (April 2023). Thomas Piketty. A Brief History of Equality. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022. x + 288 pp. $27.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0674273559. Reviewed for EH.Net by Michele Alacevich, Alma Mater Studiorum—University of Bologna. Thomas Piketty’s A Brief History of Equality is at once a response to […]
Published by EH.Net (June 2022). (Editor’s note: Because this review covers two books, Global Economic History and The Industrial Revolution, we have posted it twice, with one posting for each title, for the sake of easier searches.) Robert C. Allen. Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xiv + 170pp. […]
Published by EH.Net (June 2022). (Editor’s note: Because this review covers two books, Global Economic History and The Industrial Revolution, we have posted it twice, with one posting for each title, for the sake of easier searches.) Robert C. Allen. Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xiv + 170pp. […]
Published by EH.Net (August 2020) Kirsten Madden and Robert W. Dimand, editors, The Routledge Handbook of the History of Women’s Economic Thought. New York: Routledge, 2019. xiv + 465 pp. $196 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-1388-5234-1. Reviewed for EH.Net by Evelyn L Forget, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba. “By design this Routledge handbook […]
Published by EH.Net (October 2018) Vincent Barnett, editor, Routledge Handbook of the History of Global Economic Thought. London: Routledge, 2015. ix + 348 pp. $255 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-415-50849-0. Reviewed by Charles R. McCann, Jr., Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh. This volume, viewed by the editor as a Cosmoconomy or Economographia, is but a “modest […]
