Archiv für Dezember 2012

America’s Economic Way of War: War and the U.S. Economy from the Spanish-American War to the Persian Gulf War . By Hugh Rockoff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, Pp. v, 357. $72.10, cloth; $24.63, paper.

Book Reviews Taylor Jaworski, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1108-1109Abstract

The Creative Society –And the Price Americans Paid for It . By Louis Galambos. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. ix, 310. $90.00, cloth; $27.99, paper.

Book Reviews Carola Frydman, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1106-1108Abstract

The Reinterpretation of Italian Economic History: From Unification to the Great War . By Stefano Fenoaltea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xxi, 296. (First published in Italian as L’economia italiana dall’Unità alla Grande Guerra, 2006.) $85.00, hardcover.

Book Reviews Brian A’Hearn, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1104-1106Abstract

Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland Before 1850 . By Mark Freeman, Robin Pearson, and James Taylor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xiv, 389. $65.00, hardcover.

Book Reviews Ron Harris, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1102-1104Abstract

A History of Trust in Ancient Greece . By Steven Johnstone. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xii, 242. $45.00, cloth.

Book Reviews Noah Kaye, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1100-1102Abstract

The Politics of Fiscal Privilege in Provence, 1530s–1830s . By Rafe Blaufarb. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2012. Pp. xiv, 299. $69.95, hardcover.

Book Reviews William Beik, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1096-1098Abstract

Rules of Exchange: French Capitalism in Comparative Perspective, Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries . By Alessandro Stanziani. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. ix, 313. $ 90.00, hardcover.

Book Reviews Guido Alfani, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1094-1096Abstract

“I Am Not Master of Events:” The Speculations of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles . By Larry Neal. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. 232. $50.00, cloth.

Book Reviews Antoin E. Murphy, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1092-1094Abstract

Odd Couple: International Trade and Labor Standards in History . By Michael Huberman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. xii, 237. $65.00, cloth.

Book Reviews Joshua L. Rosenbloom, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1091-1092Abstract

Editors‘ Notes

Editorial The Journal of Economic History, Volume 72 Issue 04, pp 1088-1090Abstract