Book Reviews: By subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

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)
Agricultural Development in Jiangnan, 1620-1850
by Li Bozhong
reviewed by Kenneth Pomeranz on July 7, 2003
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 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), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
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)
Art, luxe et industrie: Bianchini Férier, un siècle de soieries lyonnaises
by Pierre Vernus
reviewed by George J. Sheridan Jr. on February 23, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Artisans in Eighteenth-Century Eastern India: A History of Survival
by Vipul Singh
reviewed by Ian C. Wendt on April 16, 2007
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800
by Paola Lanaro (editor)
reviewed by on July 23, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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)
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)
Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
by Richard W. Unger
reviewed by Erik Aerts on January 11, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
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)
Bristol Historical Resource CD
by Peter Wardley (editor)
reviewed by Lisa Bud-Frierman on March 12, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Geography (K), Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), 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)
Burgundy to Champagne: The Wine Trade in Early Modern France
by Thomas Brennan
reviewed by Jean-Laurent Rosenthal on October 30, 1998
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Business and Politics in Europe. 1900-1970: Essays in Honour of Alice Teichova
by Terry Gourvish (editor)
reviewed by Maurice Kirby on October 8, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History
by Frederick H. Smith
reviewed by Russell R. Menard on June 2, 2006
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Catching up Twice: The Nature of Dutch Industrial Growth during the Twentieth Century in a Comparative Perspective
by Herman J. de Jong
reviewed by Hein A.M. Klemann on May 27, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Chimneys in the Desert: Industrialization in Argentina during the Export Boom Years, 1870-1930
by Fernando Rocchi
reviewed by Joel Horowitz on June 12, 2006
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
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)
An Economic History of the Silk Industry, 1830-1930
by Giovanni Federico
reviewed by Philip Scranton on December 5, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Economies beyond Agriculture in the Classical World
by David J. Mattingly and John Salmon (editors)
reviewed by Darel Engen on February 4, 2003
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Effects of Competition: Cartel Policy and the Evolution of Strategy and Structure in British Industry
by George Symeonidis
reviewed by Margaret C. Levenstein on July 9, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Estadísticas históricas de España: Siglos XIX - XX
by Albert Carreras and Xavier Tafunell (editors)
reviewed by Mauricio Drelichman on August 16, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), 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), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution
by Robert C. Allen
reviewed by R. W. Davies on June 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • 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), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
Female Labour Power: Women Workers' Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780-1860
by Janet Greenlees
reviewed by Pamela J. Nickless on June 28, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City
by Sara E. Wermiel
reviewed by James B. McSwain on November 13, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Firms, Networks and Business Values: The British and American Cotton Industries since 1750
by Mary B. Rose
reviewed by David Higgins on May 11, 2001
  • 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: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
The First Industrial Region: North-West England, c. 1700-60
by Jon Stobart
reviewed by Steve King on October 26, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution
by John Bezis-Selfa
reviewed by Michael V. Kennedy on May 25, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's _My Years with General Motors_
by John McDonald
reviewed by David L. Mason on August 9, 2002
  • 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)
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 Chemical Industry in the Age of the Petrochemical Revolution
by Louis Galambos, Takashi Hikino and Vera Zamagni (editors)
reviewed by Alessandro Nuvolari on August 17, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Global Cigarette: Origins and Evolution of British American Tobacco, 1880-1945
by Howard Cox
reviewed by Geoffrey Tweedale on March 1, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
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 Four: Economic Sectors
by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
reviewed by Lee J. Alston on June 26, 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Immigrants and the Industries of London, 1500-1700
by Lien Bich Luu
reviewed by Patrick Wallis on December 27, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns
by Dario Gaggio
reviewed by Hugo Ceron-Anaya on October 6, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
Industrial Constructions: The Sources of German Industrial Power
by Gary Herrigel
reviewed by Ronald A. Shearer on January 29, 1998
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Industrial Revolution: Milestones in Business History
by Jeff Horn
reviewed by Joyce Burnette on January 21, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984
by Steven High
reviewed by Robert M. Schwab on September 25, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
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)
Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850
by Robin Pearson
reviewed by Mark Tebeau on February 3, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Iron Shipbuilding on the Thames, 1832-1915: An Economic and Business History
by A. J. Arnold
reviewed by Jon Sumida on January 28, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949
by Kaoru Sugihara (editor)
reviewed by Ming-Hsuan Lee on December 17, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Japanese Industrial History: Technology, Urbanization, and Economic Growth
by Carl Mosk
reviewed by Mark Metzler on January 22, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Geography (K), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Kill and Chill: Restructuring Canada's Beef Commodity Chain
by Ian MacLachlan
reviewed by Daniel V. Gordon on May 24, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
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)
Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class and Revolution, 1830-1890
by Andrew Dawson
reviewed by Ken Fones-Wolf on August 24, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Master Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850
by Donna J. Rilling
reviewed by James B. McSwain on July 17, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry
by Lawrence A. Peskin
reviewed by David R. Meyer on July 7, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
Mills in the Medieval Economy: England, 1300-1540
by John Langdon
reviewed by Karine van der Beek on January 8, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Money, Land and Trade: An Economic History of the Muslim Mediterranean
by Nelly Hanna (editor)
reviewed by Metin Cosgel on August 8, 2003
  • Geographic area: Middle East (6)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution
by Marla R. Miller
reviewed by Gloria L. Main on May 11, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
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)
Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism
by Charles Perrow
reviewed by Vicki Howard on August 3, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France: Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805
by Leonard N. Rosenband
reviewed by Michael Huberman on July 19, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization and in the Age of Revolution
by Jeff Horn
reviewed by Noel D. Johnson on May 16, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia
by Chad Morgan
reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams on July 22, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Military and War (O), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860
by Tom Downey
reviewed by Lawrence A. Peskin on January 25, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, c. 1350-1650
by Carla M. Sinopoli
reviewed by Prasannan Parthasarathi on October 27, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry: Labour, Capital, and Technology in Britain and America, 1860-1914
by Gary Bryan Magee
reviewed by Andrew C. Godley on February 17, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
Public Enterprise Revisited: A Closer Look at the 1954-79 UK Labour Productivity Record
by Chrisafis H. Iordanoglou
reviewed by Stephen N. Broadberry on May 3, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China
by Kai-wing Chow
reviewed by Nathan Sivin on October 29, 2004
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Pushing the Envelope: The American Aircraft Industry
by Donald M. Pattillo
reviewed by Virginia P. Dawson on March 19, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940
by Andrew Wender Cohen
reviewed by Louis P. Cain on July 25, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900-1930
by Amy E. Slaton
reviewed by James B. McSwain on October 5, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Roots of American Industrialization
by David R. Meyer
reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on November 13, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Shoemakers of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1850-1880: The Family during the Transition from Hand to Machine Labor
by William H. Mulligan, Jr.
reviewed by Christiane Diehl Taylor on August 17, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice
by Luca Molà
reviewed by Giovanni Federico on September 25, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development
by David L. Carlton and Peter A. Coclanis
reviewed by William H. Phillips on November 4, 2003
  • 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), 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)
The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin and Community in Autotown, U.S.A.
by Lisa M. Fine
reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd Jr. on August 12, 2006
  • 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), 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)
Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India
by Tirthankar Roy
reviewed by Susan Wolcott on February 20, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
by Marshall C. Eakin
reviewed by Gail D. Triner on August 23, 2002
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • 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), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The U.S. Brewing Industry: Data and Economic Analysis
by Victor J. Tremblay and Carol Horton Tremblay
reviewed by Jon P. Nelson on May 31, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania
by Adrienne D. Hood
reviewed by Kris Inwood on July 1, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955
by S. Jonathan Wiesen
reviewed by L. M. Stallbaumer-Beishline on June 24, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)