Archiv für Februar 2016

The Long Process of Development: Building Markets and States in Pre-industrial England, Spain, and Their Colonies . By Jerry F. Hough and Robin Grier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. x, 448. $110.00, cloth; $39.99, paper.

Book Reviews Stanley L. Engerman, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 241-242Abstract

The Cambridge Economic History of Australia. By Simon Ville and Glenn Withers, editors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xxi, 668. £120.00, hardcover.

Book Reviews Stanley Engerman, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 283-284Abstract

Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution. By Rebecca L. Spang. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. viii + 350 pp. $39.95, hardcover.

Book Reviews Eugene N. White, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 244-246Abstract

Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet. By Amy Bentley. Oakland: University of California Press, 2014. Pp. ix, 223. $29.95, paper.

Book Reviews Emily E. Hopkins, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 268-270Abstract

States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic. By Yanni Kotsonis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. Pp. xix, 483. $80.00, cloth.

Book Reviews Amanda Gregg, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 281-282Abstract

Writing, Publishing, and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial China, 1100–1700. By Joseph R. Dennis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. Pp. 406. $49.95, hardcover.

Book Reviews Timothy Brook, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 279-280Abstract

Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective. By Eugene N. White, Kenneth Snowden and Price Fishback, editors. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. vii, 397. $110.00, cloth.

Book Reviews Andrew J. Jalil, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 266-268Abstract

Arresting Contagion: Science, Policy and Conflicts of Animal Disease Control. By Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. x, 455. $49.95, cloth.

Book Reviews Ann Norton Greene, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 296-298Abstract

Merchants of Independence: International Trade on the Santa Fe Trail, 1827–1860 By William Patrick O’Brien. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2014. Pp. xi, 211. $34.95, paper; $27.99, eBook.

Book Reviews Rebekah M.K. Mergenthal, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 261-263Abstract

The Cambridge History of Capitalism. By Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson, editors. 2 vols. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. Vol. I, xii, 616; Vol. II, Pp. x, 567. $230.00, hardcover.

Book Reviews Peter A. Coclanis, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 286-290Abstract