Published by EH.Net (January 2023). Jennifer L. Morgan. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. xvi + 296 pp. $27.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1478014140. Reviewed for EH.Net by Matthew David Mitchell, The University of the South. As Jennifer L. Morgan notes in her introduction […]
Published by EH.Net (January 2023). Carmen Sarasúa, ed. Salarios que la ciudad paga al campo: Las nodrizas de las inclusas en los siglos XVIII y XIX. (Wages That the City Pays to the Countryside: The Wet-Nurses of the Foundling Hospitals in the 18th and 19th Centuries.) Alicante, Spain: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante, 2021. […]
Published by EH.Net (January 2023). Debin Ma and Richard Von Glahn, eds. The Cambridge Economic History of China: Volume II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 845 pp. $155 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1108425537. Reviewed by Jamin Andreas Hübner, LCC International University and University of the People. The second volume of The Cambridge Economic History of China […]
Published by EH.Net (January 2023). Béla Tomka. Austerities and Aspirations: A Comparative History of Growth, Consumption, and Quality of Life in East Central Europe since 1945. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2020. xii + 445 pp. $105 (cloth), ISBN 978-963-386-351-0. Reviewed for EH.Net by Marcin Piatkowski, Kozminski University in Warsaw. Béla Tomka’s […]
Published by EH.Net (January 2023). Katherine L. French. Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. xvii + 314 pp. $65 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0812253054. Reviewed for EH.Net by Anne E.C. McCants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Black Death (1348-51) is a […]
Published by EH.Net (December 2022). Caley Horan. Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. 251 pp. $40 (cloth), ISBN 978-0226784380. Reviewed for EH.Net by Melissa Thomasson, Department of Economics, Miami University. In this book Caley Horan explores the marketing, investment, and underwriting practices […]
Published by EH.Net (December 2022). Michael Pye. Europe’s Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp’s Golden Age. New York and London: Pegasus Books, 2021. xii + 273 pp. $28.95 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-64313-777-3. Reviewed for EH.Net by Raingard Esser, University of Groningen. The title chosen by the US publisher of the present book (as compared […]
Published by EH.Net (December 2022). J. C. Sharman. Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. xiv + 216 pp. $17.95 (paperback), ISBN 976-0-691-21007-0. Reviewed for EH.Net by Andrew Lambert, King’s College London. This book offers a sparkling critique […]
Published by EH.Net (December 2022). Michele Alacevich. Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. xvi + 332 pp. $26 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0231199834. Reviewed for EH.Net by Adrian Darnell, retired Professor of Economics, Durham University. Albert Otto Hirschman was a complex man whose early years were difficult, to say the […]
Published by EH.Net (December 2022). Avner Offer. Understanding the Private-Public Divide: Markets, Governments, and Time Horizons. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xiv + 227 pp. £19.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1108791663. Reviewed for EH.Net by Martin Chick, University of Edinburgh. This book has its origins in the Ellen MacArthur Lectures which Avner Offer gave in Cambridge […]
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