Published by EH.NET (March 2004) Martin Daunton, Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiii + 438 pp. ?40 or $60 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-521-80372-1 and Martin Daunton, Just Taxes: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1914-1979. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 406 pp. ?45 or $70 […]
Published by EH.NET (March 2004) William Kauffman Scarborough, Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. xviii + 521 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8071-2882-1. Reviewed for EH.NET by Robert Gudmestad, Department of History, Southwest Baptist University. William K. Scarborough’s book, Masters of the Big House: […]
Published by EH.NET (March 2004) Jocelyn Elise Crowley, The Politics of Child Support in America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii + 217 pp. $65 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-82460-5; $23 (paperback), ISBN: 0-521-53511-5. Reviewed for EH.NET by Stephen T. Ziliak, School of Policy Studies, Roosevelt University. In The Rhetoric of Reaction (1991) Albert O. Hirschman […]
Published by EH.NET (March 2004) ? Theo Balderston, editor, The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xii + 226 pp. $75 (hardback), ISBN: 0-333-73864-0. Reviewed for EH.NET by Randall E. Parker, Department of Economics, East Carolina University Theo Balderston and the line up of international scholars contained […]
Published by EH.NET (March 2004) ? James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, editors, Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xix + 445 pp. $25 (paperback), ISBN: 0-521-016445-2. Reviewed for EH.NET by Bertrand M. Roehner, University of Paris 7. “The editors of this book have assembled an all-star cast of comparative-historical […]
Published by EH.NET (March 2004) Gloria Vivenza, Adam Smith and the Classics: The Classical Heritage in Adam Smith’s Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. x + 240 pp. $85 (hardback), ISBN: 0-19-829666-5. Reviewed for EH.NET by Leonidas Montes, School of Business, Universidad Adolfo Ib??ez, Santiago, Chile. Henry Mackenzie, author, amongst others, of the once famous […]
Published by EH.NET (March 2004) ? Paul Mizen, editor, Monetary History, Exchange Rates and Financial Markets: Essays in Honour of Charles Goodhart, Volume Two. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2003. xi + 281 pp. $95 (cloth), ISBN: 1-84376-086-X. Reviewed for EH.NET by Lars Jonung, DG ECFIN, European Commission. In November 2001 the Bank of England arranged […]
Published by EH.NET (March 2004) Kyle S. Sinisi, Sacred Debts: State Civil War Claims and American Federalism, 1861-1880. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. xvi + 208 pp. $50 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-8232-2259-4. Reviewed for EH.NET by Robert W. Burg, Department of History, Purdue University. Kyle S. Sinisi’s Sacred Debts is a cross between traditional administrative […]
Published by EH.NET (March 2004) Charles H. Feinstein and Mark Thomas, Making History Count: A Primer in Quantitative Methods for Historians. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxi + 547 pp. $85 (hardback), ISBN: 0-521-80663-1; $30 (paperback), ISBN: 0-521-00137-4. Reviewed for EH.NET by Walter D. Kamphoefner, Department of History, Texas A&M University. Assume a Data Set […]
Published by EH.NET (March 2004) ? Marc Flandreau, Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, and Harold James, editors, International Financial History in the Twentieth Century: System and Anarchy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. x + 278 pp. $60 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-81995-4. Reviewed for EH.NET by Joseph R. Mason, Department of Finance, Drexel University. This book, while not always fun […]
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