Book Reviews: By subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change

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)
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 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)
Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact
by Vaclav Smil
reviewed by Joel Mokyr on December 30, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
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)
The Dynamic Society: Exploring the Sources of Global Change
by Graeme Donald Snooks
reviewed by Gregory Clark on March 16, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Economic Future in Historical Perspective
by Paul A. David and Mark P. Thomas (editors)
reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on June 25, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • 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), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Long-term Economic Growth
by Richard G. Lipsey, Kenneth I. Carlaw and Clifford T. Bekar
reviewed by Joel Mokyr on August 28, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Economics of QWERTY: History, Theory, and Policy -- Essays by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis
by Peter Lewin (editor)
reviewed by Richard J. Sullivan on March 28, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
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)
Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production
by Vaclav Smil
reviewed by D. Gale Johnson on November 28, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
European Economists of the Early Twentieth Century, Volume 2. Studies on Neglected Continental Thinkers of Germany and Italy
by Warren J. Samuels (editor)
reviewed by Nicola Giocoli on December 12, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and Its European Rivals, 1688-1815
by Leandro Prados de la Escosura (editor)
reviewed by Gregory Clark on October 7, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism
by William J. Baumol
reviewed by Joel Mokyr on July 26, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
From Edison to Enron: The Business of Power and What It Means for the Future of Electricity
by Richard Munson
reviewed by David B. Sicilia on January 20, 2008
  • 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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
by Joel Mokyr
reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on January 24, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • 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 Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
by Joel Mokyr
reviewed by William F. Shughart II on March 15, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s
by Ken Fones-Wolf
reviewed by Janet Irons on October 12, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The Global Economy in the 1990s: A Long-Run Perspective
by Paul W. Rhode and Gianni Toniolo (editors)
reviewed by Christopher Hanes on July 13, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4), 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), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Income and Wealth (Q)
The Golden Age: Essays in British Social and Economic History, 1850-1870
by Ian Inkster, Colin Griffin, Jeff Hill and Judith Rowbotham (editors)
reviewed by Giorgio Riello on February 18, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Governance, Growth and Global Leadership: The Role of the State in Technological Progress, 1750-2000
by Espen Moe
reviewed by Peter T. Leeson on July 25, 2007
  • Geographic area: 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: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer
by Jon Agar
reviewed by Roger Middleton on September 10, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • 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)
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
reviewed by Joel Mokyr on May 28, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937
by Christopher A. Reed
reviewed by Elisabeth Köll on December 7, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume Three: Economic Structure and Performance
by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
reviewed by Joseph H. Davis on July 23, 2006
  • 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: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
History Matters: Essays on Economic Growth, Technology, and Demographic Change
by Timothy Guinnane, William Sundstrom and Warren Whatley (editors)
reviewed by Lance Davis on April 12, 2004
  • Geographic area: 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: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
A History of Mechanical Invention
by Abbott Payson Usher
reviewed by George Grantham on December 11, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
How America Got On-Line: Politics, Markets, and the Revolution in Telecommunications
by Alan Stone
reviewed by Aristotle Tympas on September 28, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
How the Republicans Caused the Stock Market Crash of 1929: GPT's, Failed Transitions, and Commercial Policy
by Bernard C. Beaudreau
reviewed by Carlos D. Ramirez on August 24, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906
by Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman and Karen Gleiter
reviewed by Donald G. Paterson on August 18, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820-1920
by William H. Thiesen
reviewed by Richard Sicotte on November 3, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Military and War (O), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981
by Amy Sue Bix
reviewed by Robert H. Zieger on September 21, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
by Angela Lakwete
reviewed by William H. Phillips on April 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries
by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
reviewed by Kenneth Lipartito on January 8, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Is War Necessary for Economic Growth? Military Procurement and Technology Development
by Vernon W. Ruttan
reviewed by Robert Higgs on June 21, 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 Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Military and War (O)
Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer before and after the Bayh-Dole Act
by David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, Bhaven N. Sampat and Arvids A. Ziedonis
reviewed by Roberto Mazzoleni on November 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800): London’s Leading Scientific Instrument Maker
by Anita McConnell
reviewed by Christine MacLeod on August 7, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
JSTOR: A History
by Roger C. Schonfield
reviewed by Royce Kurtz on October 24, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions
by Johann Peter Murmann
reviewed by Brent Goldfarb on September 17, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
L'électricité en réseaux: Networks of Power
by Thomas Hughes
reviewed by John Neufeld on June 22, 2005
  • 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: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Laces of Ipswich: The Art and Economics of an Early American Industry, 1750-1840
by Marta Cotterell Raffel
reviewed by Marla R. Miller on July 16, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries
by Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff and Peter Temin
reviewed by Henry A. Gemery on February 15, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution
by A. D. Morrison-Low
reviewed by Christine MacLeod on December 27, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution
by Steven King and Geoffrey Timmins
reviewed by Katrina Honeyman on September 21, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970
by Christophe Lecuyer
reviewed by Glenn Bugos on February 5, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Man behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
by Leslie Berlin
reviewed by Rasigan Maharajh on December 6, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China
by Madeleine Zelin
reviewed by Carol H. Shiue on September 5, 2006
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
NASA and the Space Industry
by Joan Lisa Bromberg
reviewed by Roger Handberg on February 20, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
NASA and the Space Industry
by Joan Lisa Bromberg
reviewed by Glenn Bugos on April 26, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America
by David R. Meyer
reviewed by Ross Thomson on June 18, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
New Frontiers in the Economics of Innovation and New Technology: Essays in Honour of Paul A. David
by Cristiano Antonelli, Dominique Foray, Bronwyn H. Hall and W. Edward Steinmueller (editors)
reviewed by James Bessen on February 22, 2007
  • Geographic area:
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Nylon: The Story of a Fashion Revolution
by Susannah Handley
reviewed by Michael Palairet on November 9, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden
by Douglas Cazaux Sackman
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)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
by Joel Mokyr (editor)
reviewed by Robert Whaples on April 20, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Profiting the Crown: Canada's Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990
by Matthew J. Bellamy
reviewed by Heather Nelson on February 19, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960
by Hugh R. Slotten
reviewed by Carole E. Scott on March 8, 2002
  • 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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry
by Hugh S. Gorman
reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on August 17, 2003
  • 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 Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920
by Steven W. Usselman
reviewed by Jeff Schramm on September 14, 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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Schumpeter and the Endogeneity of Technology: Some American Perspectives
by Nathan Rosenberg
reviewed by Avi J. Cohen on August 11, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Schumpeter on the Economics of Innovation and the Development of Capitalism
by Arnold Heertje
reviewed by Mark W. Frank on August 23, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Second Information Revolution
by Gerald W. Brock
reviewed by David Gabel on August 9, 2004
  • 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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Sources of Industrial Leadership: Studies of Seven Industries
by David C. Mowery and Richard R. Nelson (editors)
reviewed by Paul L. Robertson on January 16, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940
by Arwen Mohun
reviewed by Jeffrey M. Hornstein on November 14, 2000
  • 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), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century
by JoAnne Yates
reviewed by Thomas Haigh on May 9, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Technological Change and the Evolution of Corporate Innovation: The Structure of Patenting, 1890-1990
by Birgitte Andersen
reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on July 6, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
by Carlota Perez
reviewed by Bertrand M. Roehner on January 22, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Technology Matters: Questions to Live With
by David E. Nye
reviewed by Rick Szostak on June 23, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology and Geography, 1850-1950
by Gregory J. Downey
reviewed by Tomas Nonnenmacher on November 4, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Labor and Employment History (T)
Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power
by Doron S. Ben-Atar
reviewed by David Jeremy on October 15, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations and Their Consequences
by Vaclav Smil
reviewed by Joel Mokyr on December 30, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present
by David S. Landes
reviewed by Paul M. Hohenberg on April 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Werner von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur
by Wilfried Feldenkirchen
reviewed by Wilfried Feldenkirchen on November 29, 1994
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Winners, Losers and Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology
by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis
reviewed by Bill Goffe on July 24, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)