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New Series: Economic History
We are thrilled to announce the launch of “Economic History Dissertation Reviews,” which will bring you friendly, non-critical overviews of recently defended, unpublished dissertations on various...
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Political Archive of the German Foreign Office
A review of the Political Archive of the German Foreign Office (Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amtes), Berlin, Germany. In July 2013 I spent three weeks at the archives of the German Foreign Office...
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History of Advertising Trust Archives UK
A review of the History of Advertising Trust Archives, Raveningham, Norfolk, United Kingdom. In March 2013, I spent a couple of days looking at books and marketing material relating to everyday...
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Ottoman Mediterranean Cities
A review of Les Sabbatéens saloniciens (1845-1912): des individus pluriels dans une société urbaine en transition (Salonican Sabbatians (1845-1912): plural individuals in an urban society in...
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Debt & Credit in Post-Revolutionary France
A review of In the Red and in the Black: Bankruptcy, Debt Imprisonment, and the Culture of Credit in Post-Revolutionary France, by Erika Vause. Erika Vause brings the world of post-Revolutionary France...
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China & the Semiconductor in the Global Electronic Age
A review of Rapid Advance: High Technology in the Global Electronic Age, by Susan K. Mays. How is a semiconductor like a steam engine? Though reminiscent of a riddle the Mad Hatter might pose over a...
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Industrial Labor Force in Colonial Bombay
A review of Creating a Healthy and ‘Decent’ Industrial Labor Force: Health, Sanitation and Welfare in Colonial Bombay, 1896-1945, by Priyanka Srivastava. Priyanka Srivastava’s dissertation makes a...
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Panama As Crossroads of Empire & Crime
A review of Illicit Nation: State, Empire, and Illegality on the Isthmus of Panama, by Matthew Scalena. “When you hit a rock with an egg, the egg breaks. Or when you hit an egg with a rock, the egg...
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Late 19th-C. Ottoman Economic Thought
A review of The Political Economy of Ottoman Modernity: Ottoman Economic Thought During the Reign of Abdülhamid II (1876-1909), by Deniz T. Kılınçoğlu. Deniz T. Kılınçoğlu’s dissertation aims to...
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Politics & Epistemology of Economic Numbers in Britain
A review of Calculated Values: The Politics and Epistemology of Economic Numbers in Britain, 1688-1738, by William Peter Deringer. Over the past decade, interest in “political arithmetic” has surged....
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Jute in the Bengal Delta 1850s-1950s
A Review of The Envelope of Global Trade: The Political Economy and Intellectual History of Jute in the Bengal Delta, 1850s to 1950s, by Tariq Omar Ali. Tariq Omar Ali’s dissertation synthesizes...
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Colonial Finance & Korean Banks 1870s-1950s
A review of Colonial Finance: Daiichi Bank and the Bank of Chōsen in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Korea, Japan, and Manchuria, by Howard Hae Kahm. Howard Kahm has written a fascinating...
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Dutch East India Company Archives
A review of The Archives of the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) (Dutch East India Company) kept at the National Archives (The Hague, The Netherlands) Many countries, particularly in Asia, are...
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Formation of the Korean Chinese Migrant Class
A review of Mobile Ethnicity: The Formation of the Korean Chinese Transnational Migrant Class, by June Hee Kwon. Mr. Moon was born in 1933 to an ethnic Korean farm family in Japanese-occupied...
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Janissaries as Economic & Social Actors in 17th-C. Istanbul
A review of The Economic and Social Roles of Janissaries in a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman City: The Case of Istanbul, by Gülay Yılmaz. Janissaries and their socio-political roles in the later Ottoman...
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A review of Trading in Liberty: The Politics of the American China Trade, c. 1784-1862, by Dael A. Norwood. In the twenty-first century, government officials...
View ArticleThe Politics of Oil in the USSR
A review of Baku at All Costs: The Politics of Oil in the New Soviet State, by Sara G. Brinegar. Industrial civilization needs fossil fuels...
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A Review of Citizen Coke: An Environmental and Political History of the Coca-Cola Company, by Bartow Elmore Historian Bartow Elmore’s Citizen Coke takes aim at...
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A review of From Cocoa Slavery to Chocolate City: Chocolate as a Racial Signifier in the Constructions of Blackness, by Silke Hackenesch. What if someone...
View ArticlePolitical Economy and the Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
A review of Taxing Empire: Political Economy and the Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, 1747-1776 by Justin duRivage. Justin duRivage’s dissertation offers a new...
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