How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
Published by EH.NET (May 2009) Carl Abbott, How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. x + 347 pp. $35 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-8263-3312-4. Reviewed for EH.NET by Fred H. Smith, Department of Economics, Davidson College. ?The West? is a term that evokes […]
Power and Plenty: Trade, War and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
Published by EH.NET (August 2008) Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O?Rourke, Power and Plenty: Trade, War and the World Economy in the Second Millennium. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xxvi + 619 pp. $39.50 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-691-11854-3. Reviewed for EH.NET by ?evket Pamuk, London School of Economics and Bogazi?i-Bosphorus University. Ronald Findlay of Columbia University […]
Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Financial Markets
Published by EH.NET (July 2007) Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Financial Markets. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. viii + 263 pp. $28 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-674-02469-4. Reviewed for EH.NET by Howard Bodenhorn, Department of Economics, Lafayette College. Those of us […]
Russia’s Foreign Trade and Economic Expansion in the Seventeenth Century: Windows on the World
Published by EH.NET (April 2006) J.T. Kotilaine, Russia’s Foreign Trade and Economic Expansion in the Seventeenth Century: Windows on the World. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. xvii + 611 pp. $198 (hardback), ISBN: 90-04-13896-X. Reviewed for EH.NET by Val?ry Lazarev, School of Business, University of Houston, Clear Lake. This book by Jarmo Kotilaine offers a […]
An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire
Published by EH.NET (December 2005) Gwyn Campbell, An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvii + 413 pp. $90 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-83935-8. Reviewed for EH.NET by Nigel Worden, Department of History, University of Cape Town. Over the past twenty years Gwyn Campbell’s […]
Schumpeter’s Market: Enterprise and Evolution
Published by EH.NET (September 2005) David Reisman, Schumpeter’s Market: Enterprise and Evolution. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2004. vii + 294 pp. $120 (hardcover), ISBN: 1-84376-164-5. Reviewed for EH.NET by Frederic Sautet, Mercatus Center, George Mason University. Over the last two decades, Joseph Schumpeter’s work has experienced a resurgence of interest. Not only are Schumpeterian models […]
Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier
Published for EH.NET (March 2005) Jeffrey A. Lockwood, Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier. New York: Basic Books, 2004. xxiii + 294 pp. $25 (cloth), ISBN: 0-7382-0894-9. Reviewed for EH.NET by Anthony J. Amato, Center for Rural and Regional Studies, Southwest Minnesota State University. In Locust: […]
Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium
Published by EH.NET (April 2004) Dirk Hoerder, Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. xxii + 779 pp. $100 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8223-2834-8. Reviewed for EH.NET by Raymond L. Cohn, Department of Economics, Illinois State University. Dirk Hoerder, Professor of History at the University of Bremen, is a […]
The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump
Published by EH.NET (March 2004) ? Theo Balderston, editor, The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xii + 226 pp. $75 (hardback), ISBN: 0-333-73864-0. Reviewed for EH.NET by Randall E. Parker, Department of Economics, East Carolina University Theo Balderston and the line up of international scholars contained […]
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR from 1945
Published by EH.NET (October 2003) Philip Hanson, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR from 1945. Pearson Education, 2003. xii + 279 pp. $32.00 (paper), ISBN: 0-582-29958-6. Reviewed for EH.NET by Vladimir Kontorovich, Department of Economics, Haverford College. In half a century, the Soviet economy went from being […]