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Forthcoming Book Reviews in Economic HistoryUpdated August 1, 2008Coming 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 |