Archiv für März 2015

Burma’s Economy in the Twentieth Century . By Ian Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pp. xiv, 229. $29.99, paperback.

Book Reviews Anand V. Swamy, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 01, pp 299-300Abstract

Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia . By Jessica Choppin Roney. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2014. Pp. xii, 252. $59.95, cloth; $59.95, ebook.

Book Reviews Robert E. Wright, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 01, pp 297-299Abstract

Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply . By David Soll. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2013. Pp. vii, 275. $29.95, hardcover.

Book Reviews Werner Troesken, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 01, pp 292-293Abstract

Masters, Slaves, and Exchange: Power’s Purchase in the Old South . By Kathleen M. Hilliard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2014. Pp. xii, 217. $27.99, paper

Book Reviews Jonathan B. Pritchett, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 01, pp 290-291Abstract

Sunshine Was Never Enough: Los Angeles Workers, 1880–2010. . By John Laslett. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2012. Pp. 460. $39.95 cloth; $29.95 paper.

Book Reviews Arthur C. Verge, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 01, pp 287-288Abstract

Walter Lippmann: Public Economist . By Craufurd D. Goodwin. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2014. Pp. viii, 414. $35.00, cloth.

Book Reviews Lee A. Craig, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 01, pp 294-295Abstract

Ingenious Machinists: Two Inventive Lives from the American Industrial Revolution . By Anthony J. Connors. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2014. Pp. xii, 282. $75.00, cloth; $24.95, paper

Book Reviews David R. Meyer, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 01, pp 288-290Abstract

Deliberating American Monetary Policy: A Textual Analysis . By Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey. Cambridge: The MIT Press. 2013. Pp. ix, 525. $50.00, hardcover; $35.00 ebook

Book Reviews Joshua R. Hendrickson, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 01, pp 283-285Abstract

The Contractor State and its Implications, 1659–1815. . Edited by Richard Harding and Sergio Solbes Ferri. Gran Canaria: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. 2012. Pp 334. €19.47 paper

Book Reviews David Parrott, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 01, pp 279-281Abstract

Corporation Nation . By Robert E. Wright. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2014. Pp. 328. $69.95, hardcover.

Book Reviews Harwell Wells, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 01, pp 285-286Abstract