Archiv für Juni 2015

Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind . By Jeffrey G. Williamson. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2011. Pp. 320. $37.00, hardcover; $24.00, paper; 17.00, ebook.

Book Reviews Ann Harrison, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 02, pp 617-619Abstract

Global Markets Transformed: 1870–1945 . By Steven C. Topik and Allen Wells. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. v, 330. $19.95, paper.

Book Reviews Gisela Rua, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 02, pp 615-617Abstract

Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c. 1585–1800. (Variorum Collected Studies Series) By George Bryan Souza. Farnham, U.K. and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. 346, $165.00, hardcover.

Book Reviews Jessica Hanser, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 02, pp 612-613Abstract

The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt . By Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv, 446. $65.00, cloth.

Book Reviews Gladys Frantz-Murphy, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 02, pp 610-611Abstract

Reimagining Business History . By Philip Scranton and Patrick Fridenson. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. x, 260. $50.00, hardcover; $24.95, paper.

Book Reviews Steven W. Usselman, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 02, pp 613-615Abstract

Sod Busting: How Families Made Farms on the 19th-Century Plains . By David B. Danbom. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. $44.95, hardcover; $19.95 paper.

Book Reviews Mary Eschelbach Hansen, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 02, pp 606-608Abstract

Transforming the South: Federal Development in the Tennessee Valley 1915–1960 . By Matthew L. Downs. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014. Pp. 331. $47.50, cloth.

Book Reviews Carl T. Kitchens, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 02, pp 603-604Abstract

American Labor and Economic Citizenship: New Capitalism from World War I to the Great Depression . By Mark Hendrickson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xi, 306. $99.00, cloth.

Book Reviews Debbie A. Evercloud, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 02, pp 599-601Abstract

The Glass City: Toledo and the Industry That Built It . By Barbara L. Floyd. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. Pp. 272. $50.00, hardcover.

Book Reviews Timothy Messer-Kruse, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 02, pp 608-609Abstract

Progressive Inequality: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890–1920 . By David Huyssen. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv, 378. $39.95, cloth.

Book Reviews Sukkoo Kim, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 75 Issue 02, pp 604-606Abstract