Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800
Published by EH.Net (March 2011) Richard S. Grossman, Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. xx +384 pp. $39.50 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-691-13905-0. Reviewed for EH.Net by Eugene White, Department of Economics, Rutgers University. Another history of banking?? Isn?t the shelf crowded enough? Not quite. […]
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can?t Explain the Modern World
Published by EH.Net (February 2011) Deirdre N. McCloskey, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can?t Explain the Modern World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. xvi + 571 pp. $35 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-226-55665-9. Reviewed for EH.Net by Jared Rubin, Department of Economics, California State University, Fullerton. Bourgeois Dignity, the second part of Deirdre McCloskey?s (University of Illinois, […]
On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa
Published by EH.NET (February 2011) Ghislaine Lydon, On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxviii + 468 pp. $95 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-521-88724-3. Reviewed for EH.Net by Yacine Daddi Addoun, Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, York […]
Doing Well and Doing Good: Ross & Glendining ? Scottish Enterprise in New Zealand
Published by EH.NET (October 2010) Stephen R.H. Jones, Doing Well and Doing Good: Ross & Glendining ? Scottish Enterprise in New Zealand. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 2010. 422 pp. $50NZD (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-877372-74-2. Reviewed for EH.Net by Evan Roberts, Department of History, University of Minnesota. Stephen Jones — now a research fellow at […]
The World of Private Banking
Published by EH.NET (June 2010) Youssef Cassis and Philip Cottrell, editors, The World of Private Banking. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2009.? xxv + 302 pp.? $115 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-85928-432-2. Reviewed for EH.NET by Peter Austin, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, St. Edward?s University. ? Occasionally, one has the chance to look simultaneously at something historical and […]
Capital Ideas: The IMF and the Rise of Financial Liberalization
Published by EH.NET (June 2010) Jeffrey M. Chwieroth, Capital Ideas: The IMF and the Rise of Financial Liberalization. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.? xvii + 311 pp. $30 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-691-14232-6. Reviewed for EH.NET by Joseph M. Santos, Department of Economics, South Dakota State University. ? In Capital Ideas, Jeffrey M. Chwieroth, a senior […]
The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times
Published by EH.NET (May 2010) David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr and William J. Baumol , editors, The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. xv + 566 pp. $49.50 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-691-14370-5. Reviewed for EH.NET by Mansel G. Blackford, Department of History, Ohio State University. ? The […]
Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada
Published by EH.NET (January 2010) B?atrice Craig, Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. ix + 349 pp. $75 (cloth), ISBN: 974-0-8020-9317-2. Reviewed for EH.NET by Marilyn Gerriets, Department of Economics, St. Francis Xavier University. Backwoods Consumers is an excellent contribution to […]
Across the Borders: Financing the World’s Railways in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Published by EH.NET (September 2009) Ralf Roth and Gunter Dinhobl, editors, Across the Borders: Financing the World’s Railways in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008. xxxviii+ 323 pp. ?65 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-7546-6029-3. Reviewed for EH.NET by Dan Bogart, Department of Economics, University of California ? Irvine. Railways were one of the key […]
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Published by EH.NET (July 2009) Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. New York: Penguin, 2008. v + 441 pp. $30 (hardcover), ISBN: 1594201929. Reviewed for EH.NET by Niv Horesh, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales. Harvard?s Niall Ferguson is perhaps best known for his […]