Book Reviews: By geographic area: North America

1896: The Presidential Campaign: Cartoons and Commentary
by Rebecca Edwards and Sarah DeFeo
reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on February 13, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime Policy
by Andrew Gibson and Arthur Donovan
reviewed by Gordon Boyce on September 11, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Abolition of Antitrust
by Gary Hull (editor)
reviewed by John Howard Brown on October 17, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law
by John Witt
reviewed by Mark Aldrich on June 11, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation
by Margaret Levenstein
reviewed by Paul Miranti on September 28, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology
by Duncan K. Foley
reviewed by A. M. C. Waterman on November 21, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives
by E. Wayne Carp (editor)
reviewed by John Murray on June 8, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Advertising to the American Woman, 1900-1999
by Daniel Delis Hill
reviewed by Bryan Wuthrich on August 8, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Advocate for American Enterprise: William Buck Dana and the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 1865-1910
by Douglas Steeples
reviewed by John Paul Rossi on September 16, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Advocate for American Enterprise: William Buck Dana and the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 1865-1910
by Douglas Steeples
reviewed by Edwin J. Perkins on August 18, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development
by Joseph E. Inikori
reviewed by Kevin H. O'Rourke on October 7, 2003
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation
by Charles T. Clotfelter
reviewed by Martha J. Bailey on October 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)
After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona: Decline in Western Resource Towns
by Eric L. Clements
reviewed by Brooks A. Kaiser on June 11, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
by Alan Greenspan
reviewed by Alexander J. Field on December 3, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Airline Executives and Federal Regulation: Case Studies in American Enterprise from the Airmail Era to the Dawn of the Jet Age
by David W. Lewis
reviewed by Scott E. Tarry on October 26, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry
by F. Robert van der Linden
reviewed by Karen Dunn-Haley on May 28, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Alanson B. Houghton: Ambassador of the New Era
by Jeffrey J. Matthews
reviewed by Thomas D. Westerman on June 14, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow
reviewed by Robert E. Wright on May 3, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
America's Communal Utopias
by Donald E. Pitzer
reviewed by John E. Murray on February 3, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
America's First Veterans and the Revolutionary War Pensions
by Emily J. Teipe
reviewed by Joanna Short on December 13, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980
by Jon Lauck
reviewed by Saker Woeste on July 5, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980
by Jon Lauck
reviewed by Bruce Gardner on June 12, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost
by Bruce L. Gardner
reviewed by Julian M. Alston on June 27, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
American Business Leaders
by Neil A. Hamilton
reviewed by K. Austin Kerr on July 14, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
American Business, 1920-2000: How It Worked
by Thomas K. McCraw
reviewed by Larry Schweikart on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
American Capitalism, 1945-2000: Continuity and Change from Mass Production to the Information Society
by Wyatt Wells
reviewed by Richard Vedder on December 2, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century
by Nelson Lichtenstein (editor)
reviewed by J. David Hoeveler on August 30, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
American Commercial Banks in Corporate Finance, 1929-1941: A Study in Banking Concentration
by Tian Kang Go
reviewed by Paul B. Trescott on April 25, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
American Economic Development Since 1945: Growth, Decline and Rejuvenation
by Samuel Rosenberg
reviewed by Gene Smiley on October 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
American Economic Development since 1945: Growth, Decline and Rejuvenation
by Samuel Rosenberg
reviewed by Louis P. Cain on April 11, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
American Economic Policy in the 1990s
by Jeffrey A. Frankel and Peter R. Orszag (editors)
reviewed by William F. Shughart II on August 16, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States
by Jonathan A. Glickstein
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on December 20, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
American Foundations: An Investigative History
by Mark Dowie
reviewed by Donald E. Frey on July 23, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Income and Wealth (Q), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante-bellum Economy
by Albert Fishlow
reviewed by John Majewski on September 25, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The American State Constitutional Tradition
by John J. Dinan
reviewed by John J. Wallis on May 9, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Markets and Institutions (W)
American Taxation, American Slavery
by Robin Einhorn
reviewed by Jenny Wahl on August 9, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Servitude and Slavery (N)
American Trade Policy, 1923-1995
by Edward S. Kaplan
reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on March 20, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
American Vanguard: The United Autoworkers during the Reuther Years, 1935-1970
by John Barnard
reviewed by Daniel Jacoby on August 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
The American Way: A Geographical History of Crisis and Recovery
by Carville Earle
reviewed by Sukkoo Kim on September 12, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Geography (K)
American Work Values: Their Origin and Development
by Paul Bernstein
reviewed by Donald Frey on February 10, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Americanization of the European Economy: A Compact Survey of American Economic Influence in Europe since the 1880s
by Harm G. Schröter
reviewed by Graham Brownlow on January 27, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
And a Time for Hope: Americans in the Great Depression
by James R. McGovern
reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on February 1, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society, 1920 to the 1990s
by Elliott Barkan
reviewed by Masao Suzuki on August 6, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Anglo-American Shipbuilding in World War II: A Geographical Perspective
by Michael Lindberg and Daniel Todd
reviewed by Christopher Tassava on November 7, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Geography (K), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865
by Charles W. McCurdy
reviewed by John Joseph Wallis on September 4, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930-2004
by Tony A. Freyer
reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on October 10, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution on the Road to War
by Jonathan Kirshner
reviewed by Richard C.K. Burdekin on April 27, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O)
Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940-1945
by Paul A.C. Koistinen
reviewed by Christopher Tassava on January 7, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
by Carol Sheriff
reviewed by Jerome K. Laurent on July 14, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Asbestos and Fire: Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk
by Rachel Maines
reviewed by Mark Aldrich on August 31, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Asia-Pacific Dynamism, 1550-2000
by A.J.H. Latham and Heita Kawakatsu (editors)
reviewed by Peter Perdue on March 29, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Atlantic Economy: Britain, the US and Ireland
by Denis O'Hearn
reviewed by Jane Gray on February 24, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Atlantic Slave Trade
by Johannes Postma
reviewed by Rachel Chernos Lin on August 24, 2004
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century
by April Lee Hatfield
reviewed by Lorena S. Walsh on September 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971
by Dimitry Anastakis
reviewed by Thomas W. Zeiler on March 17, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere
by Richard H. Steckel and Jerome C. Rose (editors)
reviewed by William J. Collins on May 13, 2003
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), Prehistoric (1), Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915
by John Brown
reviewed by Albert J. Churella on April 23, 1996
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Bank of the United States and the American Economy
by Edward S. Kaplan
reviewed by Clair E. Morris on September 20, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Banking on Alaska: The Story of the National Bank of Alaska
by Terrence Cole and Elmer E. Rasmuson
reviewed by Richard H. Keehn on July 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Banking on Global Markets: Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the Present
by Christopher Kobrak
reviewed by Richard Tilly on April 30, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Banking Panics of the Gilded Age
by Elmus Wicker
reviewed by Frank Steindl on March 8, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Banking Panics of the Great Depression
by Elmus Wicker
reviewed by John H. Wood on May 28, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Banksters, Bosses, and Smart Money: A Social History of the Great Toledo Bank Crash of 1931
by Timothy Messer-Kruse
reviewed by Lynne Pierson Doti on October 28, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Best of Intentions: The Triumph and Failure of the Great Society Under Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon
by Irwin Unger
reviewed by Stephen Ziliak on October 27, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century
by Mark H. Rose, Bruce E. Seely and Paul F. Barrett
reviewed by William R. Childs on May 25, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Beyond Broker State: Federal Policies Toward Small Business, 1936-1961
by Jonathan J. Bean
reviewed by Colin Gordon on January 9, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California
by Steven P. Erie
reviewed by Gary D. Libecap on December 23, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Beyond Labor's Veil
by Robert E. Weir
reviewed by Gerald Friedman on December 6, 1996
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
BFGoodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870-1995
by K. Austin Kerr and Mansel G. Blackford
reviewed by Kenneth L. Simons on December 16, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration
by Jonathan J. Bean
reviewed by William M. McClenahan on April 16, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001
by Kenneth Warren
reviewed by Malcolm Russell on November 22, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America
by Walter A. Friedman
reviewed by Scott J. Vitell on September 23, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860-1914: Commercial, Extractive and Industrial Enterprise
by David O. Whitten and Bessie E. Whitten
reviewed by David L. Mason on July 3, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Birth Quake: The Baby Boom and Its Aftershocks
by Diane J. Macunovich
reviewed by Randall J. Olsen on May 23, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Labor and Employment History (T)
Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History
by Paul A. Moreno
reviewed by Vernon M. Briggs Jr. on May 14, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary
by Michael E Lomax
reviewed by Michael Haupert on September 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925-1985
by Robert J. Jr. Weems
reviewed by Brian Adkins on December 17, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Black Diamonds! Black Gold!: The Saga of Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company
by Don Woodard
reviewed by Jason Manning on January 5, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
by Judith A. Carney
reviewed by Russell R. Menard on May 14, 2002
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940
by Howell John Harris
reviewed by Daniel Jacoby on October 12, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms: Buying and Selling Securities in Canada 1870-1940
by Christopher Armstrong
reviewed by Ranald C. Michie on March 20, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Blues: A History of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield System
by Robert Cunningham III and Robert M. Jr. Cunningham
reviewed by Colin Gordon on June 22, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)
Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age
by John Lauritz Larson
reviewed by Albert J. Churella on June 14, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
by Scott A. Sandage
reviewed by Susan Nance on October 6, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Boss: Management Tips for Today from a Nineteenth Century Cattle Drive
by Tim Frazier and Dana Frazier
reviewed by Howard R. Stanger on June 1, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
Boys in the Pits: Child Labour in Coal Mines
by Robert McIntosh
reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on December 11, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Brides Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition
by Vicki Howard
reviewed by Janice M. Traflet on February 1, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets: How to Fix America's Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry
by Barry B. LePatner
reviewed by Richard Vedder on September 3, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889-1909
by Jonathan W. Singer
reviewed by Werner Troesken on January 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Bronze Age Economics: The First Political Economies
by Timothy Earle
reviewed by Michael W. Graves on June 5, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), Prehistoric (1), 16th Century (4), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Builders: Herman and George R. Brown
by Joseph A. Pratt and Christopher J. Castaneda
reviewed by Paul Carlson on March 30, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956
by Jason Scott Smith
reviewed by Price V. Fishback on July 16, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison
by Michael P. Gray
reviewed by Pamela Nickless on June 13, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865
by Mark R. Wilson
reviewed by Roger Ransom on October 1, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Military and War (O)
Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War
by James L. Huston
reviewed by Jenny B. Wahl on March 23, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
California Dreaming: Ideology, Society, and Technology in the Citrus Industry of Palestine, 1890-1939
by Nahum Karlinsky
reviewed by Paul Rhode on November 14, 2006
  • Geographic area: Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier
by Anne Kelly Knowles
reviewed by Metin Cosgel on March 27, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume III: The Twentieth Century
by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman (editors)
reviewed by Gary Libecap on March 28, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Capital Intentions: Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850-1920
by Edith Sparks
reviewed by Pamela J. Nickless on March 28, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)
Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal
by David Brian Robertson
reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on January 8, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
Capitalist Development in the Twentieth Century: An Evolutionary-Keynesian Approach
by John Cornwall and Wendy Cornwall
reviewed by Richard K. Vedder on August 5, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780-2005
by Youssef Cassis
reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk on October 22, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America
by Thomas A. Kinney
reviewed by Tom Dicke on August 1, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America
by Carl A. Zimring
reviewed by Scott A. Beaulier on April 29, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Chairman of the Fed: William McChesney Martin Jr. and the Creation of the American Financial System
by Robert P. Bremner
reviewed by Mark Toma on October 3, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950
by Avner Offer
reviewed by John F. Helliwell on January 18, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
Charting Twentieth-Century Monetary Policy: Herbert Hoover and Benjamin Strong, 1917-1927
by Silvano A. Wueschner
reviewed by Mark Toma on October 25, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars
by Georg Leidenberger
reviewed by David J. St. Clair on October 17, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Child Labor: An American History
by Hugh D. Hindman
reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on July 29, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run
by Angus Maddison
reviewed by Thomas R. Gottschang on July 3, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Cigarette Wars, The Triumph of the Little White Slaver
by Cassandra Tate
reviewed by Kay Kiefer on October 4, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Cities of Heat and Light: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America
by Mark Rose
reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on August 21, 1995
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919
by Margaret Garb
reviewed by Fred H. Smith on May 1, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Urban and Regional History (Z)
City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870-1920
by Jerome P. Bjelopera
reviewed by Nikki Mandell on December 5, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization
by William H. Roberts
reviewed by David Surdam on September 2, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
by Dylan C. Penningroth
reviewed by James R. Irwin on April 21, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
by Robert J. Steinfeld
reviewed by Gillian Hamilton on March 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
Collective Action under the Articles of Confederation
by Keith L. Dougherty
reviewed by Robert A. McGuire on April 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida
by Jane G. Landers (editor)
reviewed by Russell R. Menard on March 19, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-century France and England
by Mary Sponberg Pedley
reviewed by Susan Danforth on November 16, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest
by Linda Carlson
reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd on September 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Historical Geography (K), Labor and Employment History (T)
The Competition Solution: The Bipartisan Secret behind American Prosperity
by Paul A. London
reviewed by Richard K. Vedder on September 21, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War
by Harold S. Wilson
reviewed by David Surdam on September 20, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Conflict Potentials in Monetary Unions
by Lars Jonung and Jürgen Nautz (editors)
reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on April 30, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll-Call Voting
by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal
reviewed by Jac Heckelman on August 20, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
by Thomas Frank
reviewed by David Cochran on February 11, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years
by Julie Novkov
reviewed by David Bernstein on June 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Consuls, Corsairs and Commerce: The Swedish Consular Service and Long-Distance Shipping, 1720-1815
by Leos Müller
reviewed by Yrjö Kaukiainen on February 25, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies
by David E. Nye
reviewed by Martin V. Melosi on August 5, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883
by Joel Best
reviewed by Robin L. E. Hemenway on July 26, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s
by Charles K. Hyde
reviewed by Roger Burt on August 11, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930
by Nikki Mandell
reviewed by Howard R. Stanger on June 20, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History
by Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin (editors)
reviewed by Louis P. Cain on August 2, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law and the Market Economy in Colonial New York
by Deborah A. Rosen
reviewed by Anne M. Boylan on April 7, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Creating a National Home: Building the Veterans' Welfare State 1860-1900
by Patrick J. Kelly
reviewed by Dora L. Costa on January 21, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Creating Better Futures: Scenario Planning as a Tool for a Better Tomorrow
by James A. Ogilvy
reviewed by Allen L. Bures on August 21, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business
by Roland Marchand
reviewed by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf on January 20, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications
by Paul Starr
reviewed by Douglas Galbi on September 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
by Virginia DeJohn Anderson
reviewed by Russell R. Menard on April 12, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Crusading Liberal: Paul H. Douglas of Illinois
by Roger Biles
reviewed by Alice O'Connor on June 16, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920
by David Vaught
reviewed by Kerry Odell on April 20, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business
by Rowena Olegario
reviewed by Brandon Dupont on July 15, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States
by Clete Daniel
reviewed by Lawrence Richards on June 21, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Debating American Immigration, 1882 - Present
by Roger Daniels and Otis L. Graham
reviewed by Barry R. Chiswick on October 31, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South
by Mark M. Smith
reviewed by James R. Irwin on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America
by David A. Skeel
reviewed by Bradley A. Hansen on April 17, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837-1873
by Jay Sexton
reviewed by Marc D. Weidenmier on March 27, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation
by J. William Harris
reviewed by Nancy Virts on April 18, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century
by Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin and Eugene N. White
reviewed by Louis P. Cain on September 23, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West
by Thomas A. Krainz
reviewed by Dawn Saunders on April 12, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893
by Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten
reviewed by Anthony P. O'Brien on June 29, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920
by B. Zorina Khan
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on June 30, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Markets and Institutions (W)
Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy
by Robert Higgs
reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on July 1, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890 - 1943
by Patrick D. Reagan
reviewed by Robert Cuff on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
Designing a New America: the Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890-1943
by Patrick D. Reagan
reviewed by Jim Tomlinson on February 21, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Designing US Economic Policy: An Analytical Biography of Leon H. Keyserling
by W. Robert Brazelton
reviewed by Craufurd Goodwin on November 23, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Designs Within Disorder: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Economists, and the Shaping of American Economic Policy, 1933-1945
by William J. Barber
reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on July 6, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920
by Andrew C. Isenberg
reviewed by Richard DePolt on June 4, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Disaster in Dearborn: The Story of the Edsel
by Thomas E. Bonsall
reviewed by Thomas R. Winpenny on September 23, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Discriminating Risk: The U.S. Mortgage Lending Industry in the Twentieth Century
by Guy Stuart
reviewed by William J. Collins on June 21, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth
by Marc Egnal
reviewed by Leonard Carlson on August 18, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South
by Jonathan D. Martin
reviewed by Jonathan B. Pritchett on September 6, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Markets and Institutions (W)
Domestic Goods: The Material, the Moral, and the Economic in the Postwar Years
by Joy Parr
reviewed by Pippa Brush on February 11, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Down and Out on the Family Farm: Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929-1945
by Michael Johnson Grant
reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on February 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses
by David S. Landes
reviewed by Peter Temin on February 28, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
E.W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers
by Gerald J. Baldasty
reviewed by Barbara Straus Reed on August 25, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
East-West Trade and the Cold War
by Jari Eloranta and Jari Ojala (editors)
reviewed by Martin C. Spechler on November 4, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800-1950
by Mark Tebeau
reviewed by Dalit Baranoff on June 17, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Economic Engagements with Art
by Neil De Marchi and Craufurd D.W. Goodwin (editors)
reviewed by Manuel Santos-Redondo on January 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Economics and Ideology of Free Trade: A Historical Review
by Leonard Gomes
reviewed by Lawrence Officer on August 14, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics
by Kenneth R. Hoover
reviewed by Steven Horwitz on April 12, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Economics in the Long Run: New Deal Theorists and Their Legacies, 1933-1993
by Theodore Rosenof
reviewed by Michael Perelman on February 17, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Economics of the Great Depression: A Twenty-First Century Look Back at the Economics of the Interwar Era
by Randall E. Parker
reviewed by David C. Wheelock on November 3, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
The Economics of World War I
by Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison (editors)
reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman on January 2, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Economics, Competition and Academia: An Intellectual History of Sophism versus Virtue
by Donald R. Stabile
reviewed by Donald E. Frey on February 15, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives and New Directions
by Cathy Matson (editor)
reviewed by David B. Ryden on January 24, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age
by Gijs Mom
reviewed by Staffan Hultén on March 28, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Encyclopedia of Native American Economic History
by Bruce E. Johansen
reviewed by David M. Wishart on July 19, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Encyclopedia of Tariffs and Trade in U.S. History
by Cynthia Clark Northrup and Elaine C. Prange Turney (editors)
reviewed by Stephen Meardon on January 6, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925
by Philip Scranton
reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on June 24, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)