Archiv für Februar 2016

Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Upper Canada. By Douglas McCalla. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. Pp. xv, 296. $100.00, cloth; $34.95, paper.

Book Reviews Livio Di Matteo, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 254-256Abstract

Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina. By Shepherd W. McKinley. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. Pp. xii, 230. $69.95, cloth.

Book Reviews Ian Beamish, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 253-254Abstract

Current Federal Reserve Policy Under the Lens of Economic History. By Owen F. Humpage editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xxi, 386. $110.00, cloth.

Book Reviews Timothy S. Fuerst, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 272-273Abstract

For Peace and Money: French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars. By Jennifer Siegel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xv, 306. $45.00, hardcover.

Book Reviews Amanda Gregg, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 247-249Abstract

Money Pits: British Mining Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s. By John Woodland. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014. Pp. xiii, 282. $102.17, hardcover.

Book Reviews Glenda Oskar, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 246-247Abstract

Investing in Japan: Foreign Capital, Monetary Standards, and Economic Development, 1859–2011. By Simon James Bytheway. Harvard East Asian Monographs 370. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv, 286. $39.95, cloth.

Book Reviews Tom Nicholas, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 277-279Abstract

Henry Ford’s Plan for the American Suburb: Dearborn and Detroit. By Heather B. Barrow. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2015. Pp. xii, 216. $38, cloth.

Book Reviews Thomas N. Maloney, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 274-275Abstract

Carriers of Growth?: International Trade and Economic Development in the Austrian Netherlands. By Ann Coenen. The Netherlands: Brill, 2014. Pp. 318. $117.23, hardcover.

Book Reviews Corey Tazzara, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 298-300Abstract

Strained Relations: US Foreign-Exchange Operations and Monetary Policy in the Twentieth Century By Michael D. Bordo, Owen F. Humpage, and Anna J. Schwartz. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. x, 442, $97.50, cloth.

Book Reviews Robert L. Hetzel, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 275-277Abstract

Tradition and Innovation in English Retailing, 1700 to 1850 Narratives of Consumption . By Ian Mitchell. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. Xv, 223. $124.95

Book Reviews Anne Ruderman, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 76 Issue 01, pp 234-235Abstract