Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South
Published by EH.Net (March 2012) Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie, editors, Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2005.? x + 240 pp.? $30 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8262-1583-3. Reviewed for EH.Net by Leonard A. Carlson, Department of Economics, Emory University. This volume is a part of the Southern […]
Human Capital and Institutions: A Long Run View
Published by EH.NET (February 2010) David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, editors, Human Capital and Institutions: A Long Run View. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ix + 342 pp. $85 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-521-76958-7. Reviewed for EH.NET by David Mitch, Department of Economics, University of Maryland ? Baltimore County. The Cliometric movement […]
Slavery and American Economic Development
Published by EH.NET (May 2007) Gavin Wright, Slavery and American Economic Development. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. x + 162 pp. $25 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8071-3183-0. Reviewed for EH.NET by Jeremy Atack, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University. My mother always told me that “good things come in small packages.” This slender volume, which […]
Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South
Published by EH.NET (September 2006) Jonathan D. Martin, Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 237 pp. $45 (cloth), ISBN: 0-674-01149-X. Reviewed for EH.NET by Jonathan B. Pritchett, Department of Economics, Tulane University. For an economist, the owners’ attempts to master or control their slaves are examples of […]
The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective
Published by EH.NET (February 2006) Robert William Fogel, The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. ix + 106 pp. $23 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8071-2881-3. Reviewed for EH.NET by Leonard Carlson, Department of Economics, Emory University. This short book by Nobel Prize winner Robert Fogel gives a survey of the historical […]
The Final Victims: Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810
Published by EH.NET (August 2005) James A. McMillin, The Final Victims: Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. xi + 207 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN: 1-57003-546-6. Reviewed for EH.NET by Philip Misevich, History Department, Emory University. Since the publication of Philip Curtin’s Census, we have moved steadily […]
Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2: Further Evidence
Published by EH.NET (June 2004) Peter H. Lindert, Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2: Further Evidence. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. v + 230 pp. $70 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-82175-4. Reviewed for EH.NET by Robert A. Margo, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University. Earlier this year I reviewed Volume […]
Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume I: The Story
Published by EH.NET (April 2004) Peter H. Lindert, Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume I: The Story. New York: Cambridge University Press 2004. ix + 377 pp. $65 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-521-82174-6; $24 (paperback), ISBN: 0-521-52916-6. Reviewed for EH.NET by Robert A. Margo, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University. Peter Lindert […]
Sexual Revolutions: Gender and Labor at the Dawn of Agriculture
Published by EH.NET (June 2003) Jane Peterson, Sexual Revolutions: Gender and Labor at the Dawn of Agriculture. New York: Altamira Press, 2002. xii +177 pp. $70 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-7591-0256-2; $26.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-7591-0257-0. Reviewed for EH.NET by Richard H. Steckel, Departments of Economics and Anthropology, Ohio State University. Generations of economic historians have examined the […]
Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth
Published by EH.NET (August 1998) Marc Egnal, Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996. xi + 300 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-19-510906. Reviewed for EH.NET by Leonard Carlson, Department of Economics, Emory Univers ity. This book is provocative, informative, and fun-to-read. In the preface, Marc […]