Archiv für Dezember 2012

Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us . By James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio Jr., and Ross Levine. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012. Pp. xiv, 280. $27.95, hardcover.

Book Reviews Larry Neal, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1124-1126Abstract

Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt . By Alan Mikhail. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 380. $99.00, hardcover.

Book Reviews Eric Chaney, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1123-1124Abstract

Foreign Investment in the Ottoman Empire: International Trade and Relations, 1854–1914 . By Necla Geyikdağı. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2011. $92.00, hardcover.

Book Reviews Ali Yaycioglu, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1121-1122Abstract

The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States . By Mark Fiege. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. Pp. xii, 584. $34.95, hardcover.

Book Reviews Richard Hornbeck, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1120-1121Abstract

Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom . By Robert Gudmestad. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii, 270. $42.50, hardcover.

Book Reviews Alex Roland, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1118-1119Abstract

Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South . By James Giesen. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xvi, 221. $25.00, hardcover.

Book Reviews Katherine Eriksson, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1116-1118Abstract

Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress: Diseases and Economic Development . By Robert A. McGuire and Philip R. P. Coelho. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Pp. viii, 343. $30.00, hardcover.

Book Reviews Alan Barreca, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1115-1116Abstract

Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America . Edited by Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. viii, 358. $90.00, cloth; $30.00, paper.

Book Reviews Richard R. John, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1113-1115Abstract

Making Catfish Bait Out of Government Boys . By Claire Strom. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2010. $44.95, cloth; $24.95, paper.

Book Reviews Alan L. Olmstead, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1111-1112Abstract

Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s . By Douglas A. Irwin. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012. Pp. 195. $25.00, cloth.

Book Reviews Olivier Accominotti, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1109-1111Abstract