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Japanese Industrial History: Technology, Urbanization, and Economic Growth Author(s) Mosk, Carl    Reviewer(s) Metzler, Mark    Subject(s) Industry: Manufacturing and Construction Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations Author(s) Peter Bernholz, Peter   Vaubel, Roland    Reviewer(s) Engerman, Stanley L.    Subject(s) Historical Geography Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) General or Comparative

Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937 Author(s) Reed, Christopher A.    Reviewer(s) Köll, Elisabeth K    Subject(s) Industry: Manufacturing and Construction Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks, and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin Author(s) Sheehan, Brett    Reviewer(s) McElderry, Andrea    Subject(s) Markets and Institutions Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia Author(s) Boomgaard, Peter   Henley, David   Osseweijer, Manon    Reviewer(s) Nawiyanto, S.    Subject(s) Markets and Institutions Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Contract and Property in Early Modern China Author(s) Zelin, Madeleine   Ocko, Jonathan K.   Gardella, Robert    Reviewer(s) Shiue, Carol H.    Subject(s) Markets and Institutions Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

Funding Loyalty: The Economics of the Communist Party Author(s) Belova, Eugenia   Lazarev, Valery    Reviewer(s) Ericson, Richard E.    Subject(s) Economic Planning and Policy Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia Author(s) Boomgaard, Peter   Henley, David    Reviewer(s) Huijzendveld, Frans D.    Subject(s) Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) General or Comparative

A Monetary History of China Author(s) Peng, Xinwei    Reviewer(s) Schuler, Kurt    Subject(s) Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) General or Comparative

Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China Author(s) Kahn, Matthew E.    Zheng, Siqi     Reviewer(s) Curtis, E. Mark     Subject(s) Economic Planning and Policy Urban and Regional History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan Author(s) Gramlich-Oka, Bettina   Smits, Gregory    Reviewer(s) Hellyer, Robert    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History History of Economic Thought; Methodology Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 16th Century 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century

The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, c. 1350-1650 Author(s) Sinopoli, Carla M.    Reviewer(s) Parthasarathi, Prasannan    Subject(s) Industry: Manufacturing and Construction Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) Medieval

Burma’s Economy in the Twentieth Century Author(s) Brown, Ian     Reviewer(s) Tarling, Nicholas     Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism Author(s) Fichter, James R.    Reviewer(s) Cox, Thomas H.    Subject(s) International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) Asia Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands Europe North America Time Periods(s) 18th Century 19th Century

Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences Reviewer(s) Nafziger,, Steven     Subject(s) Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Time Periods(s) 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1859 Author(s) Hayami, Akira   Saito, Osamu   Toby, Ronald P.    Reviewer(s) Mosk, Carl    Subject(s) Markets and Institutions Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 19th Century

Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860-1920 Author(s) Wu, Shellen Xiao     Reviewer(s) Jia, Ruixue     Subject(s) Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Russian Economy: A Very Short Introduction Author(s) Connolly, Richard     Reviewer(s) Voskoboynikov, Ilya     Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Time Periods(s) 16th Century 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Land Reform in Developing Countries: Property Rights and Property Wrongs Author(s) Lipton, Michael    Reviewer(s) Otsuka, Keijiro    Subject(s) Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries Geographic Area(s) Africa Asia Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870-1919 Author(s) Moazzin, Ghassan    Reviewer(s) Bonin, Hubert    Subject(s) Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Time Periods(s) 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII

Mixed Fortunes: An Economic History of China, Russia, and the West Author(s) Popov, Vladimir     Reviewer(s) Sng, Tuan-Hwee     Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) General, International, or Comparative Asia Europe Time Periods(s) General or Comparative 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Bullion for Goods: European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean Trade, 1500-1800 Author(s) Prakash, Om    Reviewer(s) Subramanian, Lakshmi    Subject(s) International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 18th Century

The Birth of Modern Europe: Culture and Economy, 1400-1800: Essays in Honor of Jan de Vries Author(s) Cruz, Laura   Mokyr, Joel    Reviewer(s) Hohenberg, Paul M.    Subject(s) Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History Historical Demography, including Migration Household, Family and Consumer History Industry: Manufacturing and Construction International and Domestic Trade and Relations Labor and Employment History Markets and Institutions Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe North America Time Periods(s) Medieval 16th Century 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century

European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India Author(s) Prakash, Om    Reviewer(s) Adams, John    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) General or Comparative

The International Order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s Author(s) Akita, Shigeru   White, Nicholas J.    Reviewer(s) Wright, Tim    Subject(s) Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Ethical Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi and Business Leadership in Global Perspective Reviewer(s) Mosk, Carl     Subject(s) Business History Economic Planning and Policy Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII

Imperialism, Nationalism and the Making of the Author(s) Mukherjee, Aditya    Reviewer(s) Roy, Tirthankar    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Studies in the Economic History of the Pacific Rim Author(s) Miller, Sally M.   Latham, A.J.H.   Flynn, Dennis O.    Reviewer(s) Croix, Sumner La    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) General or Comparative

Weathering the Storm: The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression Author(s) Boomgaard, Peter   Brown, Ian    Reviewer(s) Drabble, John    Subject(s) Urban and Regional History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

Nationalism and Economic Development in Modern Eurasia Author(s) Mosk, Carl    Reviewer(s) Mokyr, Joel    Subject(s) Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Time Periods(s) 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

On the Border of Economic Theory and History Author(s) Bhaduri, Amit    Reviewer(s) Frost, Marcia J.    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) General or Comparative

Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897-1937 Author(s) Cheng, Linsun    Reviewer(s) Kwan, Man Bun    Subject(s) Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000 Author(s) Dick, Howard W.    Reviewer(s) Sutherland, Heather    Subject(s) Urban and Regional History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

An East Asian Challenge to Western Neoliberalism: Critical Perspectives on the ‘China Model.’ Author(s) Horesh, Niv    Lim, Kean Fan     Reviewer(s) Rawski, Thomas G.     Subject(s) Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Economic Planning and Policy Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) General or Comparative 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire Author(s) Dalrymple, William     Reviewer(s) Tabarrok, Alex     Subject(s) Business History Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Military and War Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century

Making Health Work: Human Growth in Modern Japan Author(s) Mosk, Carl    Reviewer(s) Kimura, Mitsuhiko    Subject(s) Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) General or Comparative

Network Origins of the Global Economy: East vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective Author(s) Root, Hilton L.     Reviewer(s) Yang, Clair Z.    Subject(s) Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Time Periods(s) General or Comparative

The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World Author(s) Campbell, Bruce     Reviewer(s) Jones, Eric     Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Historical Geography Geographic Area(s) General, International, or Comparative Asia Europe Time Periods(s) Medieval

The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations Author(s) Morris, Ian    Reviewer(s) Jones, Eric    Subject(s) Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Middle East Time Periods(s) General or Comparative

Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700 Author(s) Harris, Ron     Reviewer(s) Artunç, Cihan     Subject(s) Business History International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Time Periods(s) Medieval 16th Century 17th Century

Law and Long-Term Economic Change: A Eurasian Perspective Author(s) Ma, Debin   van Zanden, Jan Luiten    Reviewer(s) Sng, Tuan-Hwee    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Time Periods(s) Medieval 16th Century 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII

Swallows and Settlers: The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria Author(s) Gottschang, Thomas R.   Lary, Diana    Reviewer(s) Wright, Tim    Subject(s) Historical Demography, including Migration Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture Author(s) Hanley, Susan B.    Reviewer(s) Honda, Gail    Subject(s) Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 19th Century

Catch Up: Developing Countries in the World Economy Author(s) Nayyar, Deepak     Reviewer(s) Ward-Peradoza, Marianne     Subject(s) Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Geographic Area(s) General, International, or Comparative Africa Asia Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean Time Periods(s) 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Banking, the State and Industrial Promotion in Developing Japan, 1900-73 Author(s) Ogura, Shinji    Reviewer(s) Mak, James    Subject(s) Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Western Capitalism in China: A History of the Shanghai Stock Exchange Author(s) Thomas, W. A.    Reviewer(s) McElderry, Andrea    Subject(s) Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

Symbols of Trade: Roman and Pseudo-Roman Objects Found in India Author(s) Suresh, S.    Reviewer(s) Ray, Himanshu Prabha    Subject(s) International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) Ancient

The Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Economy, 1920 to 1938: A National Accounts Study Author(s) Salgado, M.R.P.    Reviewer(s) van der Eng, Pierre    Subject(s) Income and Wealth Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Shah's Silk for Europe's Silver: The Eurasian Trade of the Julfa Armenians in Safavid Iran and India (1530-1750) Author(s) McCabe, Ina Baghdiantz    Reviewer(s) Floor, Willem    Subject(s) International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 18th Century

Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China Author(s) Chow, Kai-wing    Reviewer(s) Sivin, Nathan    Subject(s) Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) Medieval

Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s Author(s) Li, Lillian M.    Reviewer(s) Will, Pierre-Étienne W   , Pierre-Ét    Subject(s) Urban and Regional History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

India and the World Economy, 1850-1950 Author(s) Balachandran, G.    Reviewer(s) Clingingsmith, David    Subject(s) Macroeconomics and Fluctuations Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

Shanghai's Bund and Beyond: British Banks, Banknote Issuance, and Monetary Policy in China, 1842-1937 Author(s) Horesh, Niv    Reviewer(s) Burdekin, Richard C. K.    Subject(s) Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

World War II and Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation Author(s) Huff, Gregg     Reviewer(s) Dick, Howard     Subject(s) Military and War Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

A History of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China's Finance Capitalism Author(s) Ji, Zhaojin    Reviewer(s) Schenk, Catherine    Subject(s) Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

India: The Emerging Giant Author(s) Panagariya, Arvind    Reviewer(s) Jayadev, Arjun    Subject(s) Macroeconomics and Fluctuations Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Commerce and Culture: Nineteenth-Century Business Elites Author(s) Lee, Robert    Reviewer(s) Pearson, Robin    Subject(s) Business History Geographic Area(s) Asia Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands Europe North America Time Periods(s) 18th Century 19th Century

Law and the Economy in Colonial India Author(s) Roy, Tirthankar    Swamy, Anand V.     Reviewer(s) Hejeebu, Santhi     Subject(s) Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII

Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind Author(s) Williamson, Jeffrey G.    Reviewer(s) Roy, Tirthankar    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) General, International, or Comparative Asia Europe Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean Middle East Time Periods(s) 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII

Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit Author(s) Calomiris, Charles W.    Haber, Stephen H.     Reviewer(s) Rockoff, Hugh    Subject(s) Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean North America Time Periods(s) 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities Author(s) Booth, Anne    Reviewer(s) Touwen, Jeroen    Subject(s) Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) General or Comparative

British Imperialism and the Making of Colonial Currency Systems Author(s) Narsey, Wadan     Reviewer(s) Schuler, Kurt     Subject(s) Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History Geographic Area(s) General, International, or Comparative Africa Asia Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands Europe Time Periods(s) 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy Author(s) Pomeranz, Kenneth    Reviewer(s) Lal, Deepak    Subject(s) Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) General or Comparative

Indonesian Exports, Peasant Agriculture and the World Economy, 1850-2000: Economic Structures in a Southeast Asian State Author(s) Kano, Hiroyoshi    Reviewer(s) Eng, Pierre van der    Subject(s) International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

An Economic History of Early Modern India Author(s) Roy, Tirthankar     Reviewer(s) Chaudhary, Latika     Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 18th Century 19th Century

Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia Author(s) Lindert, Peter H.    Reviewer(s) Johnson, D. Gale    Subject(s) Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan Author(s) Metzler, Mark    Reviewer(s) White, Eugene N.    Subject(s) Military and War Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

Ecology, Colonialism, and Cattle: Central India in the Nineteenth Century Author(s) Satya, Laxman D.    Reviewer(s) Gilmartin, David    Subject(s) Markets and Institutions Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 19th Century

The Reception of David Ricardo in Continental Europe and Japan Reviewer(s) Peach, Terry     Subject(s) History of Economic Thought; Methodology Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Time Periods(s) 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe Author(s) Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent   Wong, R. Bin    Reviewer(s) Ma, Debin    Subject(s) Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Time Periods(s) Medieval 16th Century 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century

The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change Author(s) Bian, Morris L.    Reviewer(s) Wright, Tim    Subject(s) Military and War Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India’s Modernity Author(s) Arnold, David     Reviewer(s) Manish, G.P.     Subject(s) History of Technology, including Technological Change Household, Family and Consumer History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Chinese Market Economy, 1000-1500 Author(s) Liu, William Guanglin     Reviewer(s) Pomeranz, Kenneth     Subject(s) Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) Medieval 16th Century 17th Century

A Local History of Global Capital: Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta Author(s) Ali, Tariq Omar     Reviewer(s) Gupta, Bishnupriya     Subject(s) Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII

India, Modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.) Author(s) Yazdani, Kaveh     Reviewer(s) Wolcott, Susan     Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century

The Artisans in Eighteenth-Century Eastern India: A History of Survival Author(s) Singh, Vipul    Reviewer(s) Wendt, Ian C.    Subject(s) Industry: Manufacturing and Construction Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 18th Century

The Evolving Structure of the East Asian Economic System since 1700: A Comparative Analysis Author(s) Latham, A.J.H.   Kawakatsu, Heita    Reviewer(s) Grove, Linda    Subject(s) Industry: Manufacturing and Construction Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China Author(s) Zelin, Madeleine    Reviewer(s) Shiue, Carol H.    Subject(s) Markets and Institutions Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660-1760 Author(s) Chaudhuri, K. N.    Reviewer(s) Hejeebu, Santhi    Subject(s) International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 18th Century

Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene: Perspectives on Asia and Africa Reviewer(s) Jones, Eric     Subject(s) Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Geographic Area(s) Africa Asia Time Periods(s) 16th Century 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World Author(s) Riello, Giorgio     Reviewer(s) Jones, Eric     Subject(s) Industry: Manufacturing and Construction International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) General, International, or Comparative Asia Europe Time Periods(s) Medieval 16th Century 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Bengal Industries and the British Industrial Revolution, 1757-1857 Author(s) Ray, Indrajit    Reviewer(s) Tomlinson, B. R.    Subject(s) Industry: Manufacturing and Construction Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 18th Century 19th Century

Economic Change in China, c. 1800-1950 Author(s) Richardson, Philip    Reviewer(s) Ma, Debin    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Roman Bazaar: A Comparative Study of Trade and Markets in a Tributary Empire Author(s) Bang, Peter Fibinger    Reviewer(s) Malmendier, Ulrike    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Markets and Institutions Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Time Periods(s) Ancient 16th Century 17th Century

Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India Author(s) Roy, Tirthankar    Reviewer(s) Wolcott, Susan    Subject(s) Industry: Manufacturing and Construction Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

Comparing Post-War Japanese and Finnish Economies and Societies: Longitudinal Perspectives Reviewer(s) Heikkinen, Sakari     Subject(s) Economic Planning and Policy Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History International and Domestic Trade and Relations Labor and Employment History Macroeconomics and Fluctuations Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services Geographic Area(s) General, International, or Comparative Asia Europe Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Agriculture in the Age of Fascism: Authoritarian Technocracy and Rural Modernization, 1922-1945 Reviewer(s) Iriarte-Goñi, Iñaki     Subject(s) Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

Honorable Merchants: Commerce and Self-Cultivation in Late Imperial China Author(s) Lufrano, Richard John    Reviewer(s) Bun, Kwan Man    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) General or Comparative

Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850 Author(s) Parthasarathi, Prasannan    Reviewer(s) Mokyr, Joel    Subject(s) Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Economic Planning and Policy Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Industry: Manufacturing and Construction Markets and Institutions Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Time Periods(s) 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century

Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy Author(s) Roy, Tirthankar    Swamy, Anand V.     Reviewer(s) Iyer, Lakshmi    Subject(s) Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Economic Planning and Policy Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

After the Galleons: Foreign Trade, Economic Change and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines Author(s) Legarda, Benito J.    Reviewer(s) Giraldez, Arturo    Subject(s) International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 19th Century

Irrigation Development and Agrarian Change: A Study of Sindh, Pakistan Author(s) Perera, Jayantha    Reviewer(s) Naseem, Anwar    Subject(s) Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes Author(s) Smethurst, Richard J.    Reviewer(s) Schiltz, Michael    Subject(s) Military and War Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

Kimono in the Boardroom: the Invisible Evolution of Japanese Women Managers Author(s) Renshaw, Jean R.    Reviewer(s) Hinz, Christienne L.    Subject(s) Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Monsoon Traders: Ships, Skippers and Commodities in Eighteenth-century Makassar Author(s) Knaap, Gerrit   Sutherland, Heather    Reviewer(s) Prakash, Om    Subject(s) Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 18th Century

Asian Merchants and Businessmen in the Indian Ocean and the China Sea Author(s) Lombard, Denys   Aubin, Jean    Reviewer(s) Giraldez, Arturo    Subject(s) Business History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) General or Comparative

France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840-1930: Maritime Competition and Imperial Power Author(s) Becker, Bert    Reviewer(s) Bonin, Hubert    Subject(s) Business History Military and War International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Time Periods(s) 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII

Capital as Will and Imagination: Schumpeter?s Guide to the Postwar Japanese Miracle Author(s) Metzler, Mark    Reviewer(s) Mosk, Carl    Subject(s) Economic Planning and Policy Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History Author(s) Andrade, Tonio     Reviewer(s) Eloranta, Jari     Subject(s) Military and War Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Time Periods(s) Medieval 16th Century 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862 Author(s) Isett, Christopher Mills    Reviewer(s) Vries, Peer    Subject(s) Markets and Institutions Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 19th Century

Response to Tirthankar Roy’s review of Ashok Sanjay Guha, Reversals of Fortune: Why the Hierarchy Of Nations So Often Turns Topsy-Turvy Author(s) Guha, Ashok Sanjay    Reviewer(s) Guha, Ashok Sanjay    Subject(s) Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) General, International, or Comparative Asia Time Periods(s) General or Comparative

The Resurgence of East Asia, 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives Author(s) Arrighi, Giovanni   Hamashita, Takeshi   Selden, Mark    Subject(s) Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

Extremes in the Archipelago: Trade and Economic Development in the Outer Islands of Indonesia, 1900-1942 Author(s) Touwen, Jeroen    Reviewer(s) Booth, Anne    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937 Author(s) Shiroyama, Tomoko    Reviewer(s) Horesh, Niv    Subject(s) Macroeconomics and Fluctuations Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China Author(s) Brook, Timothy    Reviewer(s) Lufrano, Richard    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) Medieval

China Maritime Customs and China's Trade Statistics, 1859-1948 Author(s) Lyons, Thomas P.    Reviewer(s) Wright, Tim    Subject(s) International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

Knowledge Works: Managing Intellectual Capital at Toshiba Author(s) Fruin, W. Mark    Reviewer(s) Robertson, Andrew    Subject(s) Business History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Cambridge Economic History of China: Volume II Author(s) Ma, Debin    Von Glahn, Richard    Reviewer(s) Hübner, Jamin Andreas    Subject(s) Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Economic Planning and Policy Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Military and War Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Korea Under Siege, 1876-1945: Capital Formation and Economic Transformation Author(s) Chung, Young-Iob    Reviewer(s) Cha, Myung Soo    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

Chinese Capitalism, 1522-1840 Author(s) Dixin, Xu   Chengming, Wu    Reviewer(s) Pomeranz, Kenneth    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 19th Century

A 500 años del hallazgo del Pacífico: La presencia novohispana en el Mar del Sur Reviewer(s) Duggan, Marie Christine     Subject(s) International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean Time Periods(s) 16th Century 17th Century 18th Century

Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 Author(s) Coble, Parks M.    Reviewer(s) McElderry, Andrea    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia: The Zheng Family and the Shaping of the Modern World, c. 1620-1720 Author(s) Hang, Xing     Reviewer(s) Gipouloux, François     Subject(s) International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 17th Century 18th Century

Sacred Economies: Buddhist Monasticism and Territoriality in Medieval China Author(s) Walsh, Michael J.    Reviewer(s) Tollison, Robert D.    Subject(s) Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) Medieval

An Agrarian History of South Asia Author(s) Ludden, David    Reviewer(s) Frost, Marcia J.    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) General or Comparative

The Oxford History of Indian Business Author(s) Tripathi, Dwijendra    Reviewer(s) Jones, Geoffrey    Subject(s) Business History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970 Author(s) Gilbert, Erik    Reviewer(s) Sheriff, Abdul    Subject(s) Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The English East India Company’s Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1750-1850: Economy, Empire and Business Author(s) Hutkova, Karolina     Reviewer(s) Ray, Indrajit     Subject(s) Business History Industry: Manufacturing and Construction International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Time Periods(s) 18th Century 19th Century

Averting a Great Divergence: State and Economy in Japan, 1868-1937 Author(s) Vries, Peer     Reviewer(s) Koyama, Mark     Subject(s) Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan Author(s) Smith, Thomas C.    Reviewer(s) Saito, Osamu    Subject(s) Markets and Institutions Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 19th Century

The Economic History of China: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century Author(s) von Glahn, Richard     Reviewer(s) Deng, Kent G.     Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) Ancient Medieval 16th Century 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century

A Theory of Imperialism Author(s) Patnaik, Utsa    Patnaik, Prabhat     Reviewer(s) Wolcott, Susan     Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) General, International, or Comparative Asia Time Periods(s) General or Comparative

Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korea, 1960-1990 Author(s) Kim, Eum Mee    Reviewer(s) Ferrarini, Tawni Hunt    Subject(s) Markets and Institutions Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Economic Growth and Development in Singapore: Past and Future Author(s) Peebles, Gavin   Wilson, Peter    Reviewer(s) Booth, Anne    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Agricultural Development in Jiangnan, 1620-1850 Author(s) Bozhong, Li    Reviewer(s) Pomeranz, Kenneth    Subject(s) Industry: Manufacturing and Construction Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) Medieval

Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949 Author(s) Sugihara, Kaoru    Reviewer(s) Lee, Ming-Hsuan    Subject(s) International and Domestic Trade and Relations Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Economic History of India 1857-1947 Author(s) Roy, Tirthankar    Reviewer(s) Hejeebu, Santhi    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity Author(s) Scheidel, Walter     Reviewer(s) Temin, Peter     Subject(s) Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Europe Middle East Time Periods(s) Ancient

The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 Author(s) Duus, Masayo Umezawa    Reviewer(s) Beechert, Edward D.    Subject(s) Labor and Employment History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Cambridge Economic History of China: Volume I Reviewer(s) Hübner, Jamin Andreas    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) Ancient Medieval 16th Century 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century

The Japanese Consumer: An Alternative Economic History of Modern Japan Author(s) Francks, Penelope    Reviewer(s) Mosk, Carl    Subject(s) Markets and Institutions Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Economic Change in Modern Indonesia: Colonial and Post-colonial Comparisons Author(s) Booth, Anne     Reviewer(s) Fakih, Farabi     Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Small Firms in the Japanese Economy Author(s) Whittaker, D. H.    Reviewer(s) Blackford, Mansel G.    Subject(s) Business History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Japanese Economic System and Its Historical Origins Author(s) Okazaki, Tetsuji   Okuno-Fujiwara, Masahiro    Reviewer(s) Frankl, Jennifer    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

An Economic History of Malaysia, c.1800-1990: The Transition to Modern Economic Growth Author(s) Drabble, John H.    Reviewer(s) Hirschman, Charles    Subject(s) Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Geographic Area(s) Asia Time Periods(s) 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII