Forthcoming Book Reviews in Economic History

Updated August 1, 2008


Coming This Month:

Author: Robert E. Wright
Title: One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Reviewer: Donald R. Stabile, St. Mary's College of Maryland

Author: Peter Razzell
Title: Population and Disease: Transforming English Society, 1550-1850
Publisher: Caliban Books
Reviewer: Andrew Hinde, University of Southampton

Author: Paul Dutton
Title: Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Reviewer: John Murray, University of Toledo

Authors: Margaret Atkins and Robin Osborne, editors
Title: Poverty in the Roman World
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Reviewer: Willem M. Jongman, University of Groningen

Author: Paul Paskoff
Title: Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821-1860
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Reviewer: Michael Allen, University of Washington, Tacoma

Author: Peter D. Norton
Title: Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
Publisher: MIT Press
Reviewer: Werner Troesken, University of Pittsburgh

Author: Anita McConnell
Title: Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800): London’s Leading Scientific Instrument Maker
Publisher: Ashgate
Reviewer: Christine MacLeod, University of Bristol

Author: Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Title: Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Reviewer: Perry Patterson, Wake Forest University

Author: Stan Hoig
Title: The Chouteaus: First Family of the Fur Trade
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Reviewer: Ann Harper Fender, Gettysburg College

Authors: Joseph Melling and Alan Booth, editors
Title: Managing the Modern Workplace: Productivity, Politics and Workplace Culture in Postwar Britain
Publisher: Ashgate
Reviewer: Mike Richardson, University of the West of England

Author: James Vernon
Title: Hunger: A Modern History
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Reviewer: Timothy Cuff, Westminster College

Authors: Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O’Rourke
Title: Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Reviewer: Şevket Pamuk, LSE and Bogaziçi-Bosphorus University

Author: Marcelo Bucheli
Title: Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000
Publisher: New York University Press
Reviewer: Alan Dye, Barnard College

Author: Amity Shlaes
Title: The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
Publisher: AEI Press
Reviewer: Michael Namorato, University of Mississippi

Author: Tomoko Shiroyama
Title: China during the Great Depression: Market, State and the World Economy, 1929-1937
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Reviewer: Niv Horesh, University of New South Wales

Author: E.P. Hennock
Title: The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914: Social Policies Compared
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Reviewer: Bernard Harris, University of Southampton

Author: Robert E. Degen
Title: The Triumph of Capitalism
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Reviewer: Joseph Santos, South Dakota State University

Author: Alvin Rabushka
Title: Taxation in Colonial America
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Reviewer: Roger Hewett, Drake University

Coming Later:

Authors: Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson and Thomas E. Flanagan, editors
Title: Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans
Publisher: Stanford University Press

Authors: Lawrin Armstrong, Ivana Elbl and Martin M. Elbl, editors
Title: Money, Markets and Trade in Late Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of John H.A. Munro
Publisher: Brill

Author: Peter E. Austin
Title: Baring Brothers and the Birth of Global Finance
Publisher: Pickering and Chatto

Authors: Steven A. Bank, Kirk J. Stark, and Joseph J. Thorndike
Title: War and Taxes
Publisher: Urban Institute Press

Author: Jeremy Black, editor
Title: The Atlantic Slave Trade
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: Sheila Blackburn
Title: A Fair Day’s Wage for a Fair Day’s Work? Sweated Labour and the Origins of Minimum Wage Legislation in Britain
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: John Booker
Title: Maritime Quarantine: The British Experience, c. 1650-1900
Publisher: Ashgate

Authors: Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll
Title: Castles, Battles and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Authors: Robert F. Bruner and Sean D. Carr
Title: The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm
Publisher: Wiley

Author: Bruce M.S. Campbell
Title: The Medieval Antecedents of English Agricultural Progress
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: Paul Ceruzzi
Title: Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005
Publisher: MIT Press

Author: Martin Chick
Title: Electricity and Energy Policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945
Publisher: Edward Elgar

Author: Sally Clarke
Title: Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Authors: Philip Cottrell, Gabriel Tortella and Gerassimos Notaras, editors
Title: From Athenian Tetradrachm to the Euro: Studies in European Monetary Integration
Publisher: Ashgate

Authors: Philip L. Cottrell, Even Lange, and Ulf Olsson, editors
Title: Centres and Peripheries in Banking: The Historical Development of Financial Markets
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: Christopher J. Coyne
Title: After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy
Publisher: Stanford University Press

Author: G. Daudin
Title: Commerce et prospérité: la France du XVIIIe siècle
Publisher: Presses de l'Université de Paris Sorbonne

Author: Stewart Davenport
Title: Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815-1860
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Author: Sterling Evans
Title: Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Author: Alison Fleig Frank
Title: Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Authors: Patrick Fridenson and Bénédicte Reynaud, editors
Title: La France et le temps de travail, 1814-2004
Publisher: Odile Jacob

Author: Gerald Friedman
Title: Reigniting the Labor Movement: Restoring Means to Ends in a Democratic Labor Movement
Publisher: Routledge

Author: Vincent Gaddis
Title: Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere: A Conceptual History, 1919-1933
Publisher: University Press of America

Author: Wendy Gamber
Title: The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Author: Erica Gould
Title: Money Talks: The International Monetary Fund, Conditionality, and Supplementary Financiers
Publisher: Stanford University Pres

Author: Oliver Grant
Title: Migration and Inequality in Germany, 1870-1913
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Authors: Mauro F. Guillen and Adrian Tschoegl
Title: Building a Global Bank: The Transformation of Banco Santander
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Author: Barbara A. Hanawalt
Title: The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author: Clyde A. Haulman
Title: Virginia and the Panic of 1819: The First Great Depression and the Commonwealth
Publisher: Pickering and Chatto

Author: Katrina Honeyman
Title: Child Workers in England, 1780-1820: Parish Apprentices and the Making of the Early Industrial Labour Force
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: Istvan Hont
Title: Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Author: Daniel Walker Howe
Title: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author: Chris Howell
Title: Trade Unions and the State: The Construction of Industrial Relations Institutions in Britain, 1890-2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Author: Harold James
Title: The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Authors: Paul Janssens and Bartolome Yun-Casalilla, editors
Title: European Aristocracies and Colonial Elites: Patrimonial Management Strategies and Economic Development, 15th-18th Centuries
Publisher: Ashgate

Authors: Angeliki E. Laiou and Cécile Morrisson
Title: The Byzantine Economy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Authors: Naomi Lamoreaux and Kenneth Sokoloff, editors
Title: Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to the Present
Publisher: MIT Press

Author: Stephan H. Lindner
Title: Inside IG Farben: Hoechst during the Third Reich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Authors: John S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain and Samuel H. Williamson, editors
Title: Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution: Conversations with Economic Historians
Publisher: Routledge

Author: Christine MacLeod
Title: Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750–1914
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Author: Randall K. Morck, editor
Title: A History of Corporate Governance around the World: Family Business Groups to Professional Managers
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Authors: Bert De Munck, Steven L. Kaplan and Hugo Soly, editors
Title: Learning on the Shop Floor: Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeships
Publisher: Berghahn

Author: Arvind Panagariya
Title: India: The Emerging Giant
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author: G.C. Peden
Title: Arms, Economics and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Author: Mary Poovey
Title: Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Author: Roger Ransom
Title: The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been
Publisher: W.W. Norton

Author: Armando Razo
Title: Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship: Networks and Private Protection during Mexico’s Early Industrialization
Publisher: Stanford University Press

Author: Lawrence Richards
Title: Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Author: Dani Rodrik
Title: One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Author: Joshua L. Rosenbloom, editor
Title: Quantitative Economic History: The Good of Counting
Publisher: Routledge

Author: Peter Scott
Title: Triumph of the South: Regional Development in the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: Jay Sexton
Title: Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837-1873
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author: Maya Shatzmiller
Title: Her Day in Court: Women's Property Rights in Fifteenth Century Granada
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Author: Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Title: Land, Politics and Trade in South Asia, 18th to 20th Centuries
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author: Faruk Tabak
Title: The Waning of the Mediterranean, 1550-1870: A Geohistorical Approach
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Author: Frank Trentmann
Title: Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption, and Civil Society in Modern Britain
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author: David Turnock
Title: Aspects of Independent Romania’s Economic History with Particular Reference to Transition for EU Accession
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: Gert Van Goethem
Title: The Amsterdam International: The World of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: Casey Walsh
Title: Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Author: James Wiley
Title: The Banana: Empires, Trade Wars, and Globalization
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press