Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India
Published by EH.NET (February 2001) Tirthankar Roy, Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xi + 252 pp. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-65012-7. Reviewed for EH.NET by Susan Wolcott, Department of Economics, University of Mississippi. This new book by Tirthankar Roy of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Bombay […]
Turning Trees into Dollars: The British Columbia Coastal Lumber Industry, 1858-1913
Published by EH.NET (November 2000) Gordon Hak, Turning Trees into Dollars: The British Columbia Coastal Lumber Industry, 1858-1913. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. ix + 239 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8020-4745-9; $22.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-8020-8305-6. Reviewed for EH.NET by William Marr, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University. Whenever we turn our attention to the […]
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. New York: Harper & Row, 1942, 381 pp.; Third edition, 1950, 431 pp. Review Essay by Thomas K. McCraw, Harvard Business School. The Creative Destroyer: Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy Does Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy rank with the most important works of economic history of the […]
Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860
Published by EH.NET (July 1, 2000) Robert A. Margo, Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xii + 200 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-226-50507-3. Reviewed for EH.NET by Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Department of Economics, University of Kansas. The antebellum period in the United States has sometimes been […]
The Rise of Capitalism on the Pampas: The Estancias of Buenos Aires, 1785-1870
Published by EH.NET (June 1, 2000) Samuel Amaral, The Rise of Capitalism on the Pampas: The Estancias of Buenos Aires, 1785-1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xviii + 290 pp. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-57248-7. Reviewed for EH.NET by Edward Beatty, Department of History, Duquesne University. The large rural estates of Latin America have long attracted […]
Economic Change in China, c. 1800-1950
Published by EH.NET (June 1, 2000) Philip Richardson, Economic Change in China, c. 1800-1950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii + 111 pp. $39.95 (hardback), $12.95 (paper), ISBN 0-521-58396-9 (hardback), 0-521-63571-3 (paper). Reviewed for EH.NET by Debin Ma, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan and Department of Economics, University of Missouri, St. Louis. […]
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
Published by EH.NET (February 1999) David Hackett Fischer, The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xvi + 536. $35 (hardcover), ISBN: 019505377X. $16.95 (paperback), ISBN: 019512121X. Reviewed for EH.NET by John H. Munro, Department of Economics, University of Toronto. Let me begin on a […]
State-Making and Labor Movements: France and the Unite dStates, 1876-1914
Published by EH.NET (January 2000) Gerald Friedman, State-Making and Labor Movements: France and the United States, 1876-1914. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. xiv + 317 pp. $55 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8014-2325-2. Reviewed for EH.NET by Melvyn Dubofsky, Departments of History and Sociology, Binghamton University, SUNY.< dubof@mailbox.cc.binghamton.edu> Gerald Friedman, an associate professor of economics at the […]
The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities
EH-NET BOOK REVIEW Published by EH.NET (October 1998) Anne Booth, The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities. Basingstoke: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. xvi + 377 pp. Includes bibliographical references and index. $19.95 (paperback), ISBN 0-333-55310-1 (Macmillan). $79.95 (hardcover), ISBN 0-333-55309-8 (Macmillan) and 0-312-17749-6 (St. […]
The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century
Published by EH.NET (September 1998) Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White, editors, The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century. An NBER Project Report. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvi + 474 pp. $60.00 (cloth). ISBN: 0-226-06589-8 (cloth), 0-226-06589-8 (paper). Reviewed for EH.NET by […]