The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War
Published by EH.Net (April 2023). Alexander J. Field. The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 472 pp. $45 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-0300251029. Reviewed for EH.Net by Jari Eloranta, University of Helsinki. Alexander Field’s new book is a broad analysis of several important themes pertaining to […]
The Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies: From Farmers’ Fields to Rulers’ Realms
Published by EH.Net (February 2023). Masson, Marilyn A., David A. Freidel, and Arthur A. Demarest, eds. The Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies: From Farmers’ Fields to Rulers’ Realms. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020. xviii + 634 pp. $125 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0813066295. Reviewed for EH.Net by Moramay López Alonso, Rice University. The history […]
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)
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. […]
Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order
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 […]
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
Published by EH.Net (December 2022). J. Bradford DeLong. Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books, 2022. 605 pp. $35 (hardback), ISBN 978-0465019595. Reviewed for EH.Net by Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University. The twentieth century was like no other. That statement, of course, is true for any century, but […]
From Old Regime to Industrial State: A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I
Published by EH.Net (September 2022). Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis. From Old Regime to Industrial State: A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 327 pp. $75 (cloth), ISBN 978-0226725437. Reviewed for EH.Net by Simone A. Wegge, Department of Economics, College of Staten […]
Reversals of Fortune: Why the Hierarchy of Nations So Often Turns Topsy-Turvy
Published by EH.Net (September 2022). Ashok Sanjay Guha. Reversals of Fortune: Why the Hierarchy of Nations So Often Turns Topsy-Turvy, New Delhi: Routledge, 2020, 109 pp. £42.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0367466046. Reviewed for EH.Net by Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics and Political Science. A central question in economic history is how regions and countries […]
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy
Published by EH.Net (September 2022). Adam Tooze. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy. New York: Viking, 2021. 368 pp. $28 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0593297551. Reviewed for EH.Net by Robert Peckham, Department of History, University of Hong Kong. The title of Adam Tooze’s latest book, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy, is in some […]
Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States
Published by EH.Net (August 2022). Jonathan Levy. Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States. New York: Penguin Random House, 2021. xxviii + 908 pp. $40 (hardback), ISBN 978-0812995015. Reviewed for EH.Net by Stephen W. Campbell, Department of History, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. In this highly ambitious work, historian Jonathan Levy […]
The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells us about the Making of European Commercial Society
Published by EH.Net (July 2022). Francesca Trivellato. The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells us about the Making of European Commercial Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xiv + 405 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0691217383. Reviewed for EH.Net by Arthur Wilson, Finance Department, School of Business, George […]