The Economic Consequences of World War II
A review of The Warring Forties: The Economic Consequences of World War II by Taylor Jaworski. The economic history that matters for this review started...
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A Review of Making East Asian Consumers: Market Formation and Evolution of Demand in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China, by Solee Irene Shin. Over...
View ArticleLabor Migrants in the European Union: The Finnish Case
A review of Making it Abroad: Experiences of Highly Skilled Finns in the European Union Labour Markets, by Saara Koikkalainen. Saara Koikkalainen grasps the topical...
View ArticleJapanese Influence on Chinese Industrial Development
A review of Where Imperialism Could Not Reach: Chinese Industrial Policy and Japan, 1900-40, by Joyman Lee. This dissertation examines the influence of Japan in...
View ArticleMigrant Factory Women in China’s Hinterland
A review of When Migrant Factory Women Return Home: Their Life Experiences in Fast Growing China’s Hinterland, by Yuchen Han. Yuchen Han’s timely and insightful...
View ArticleChinese Aid and Development in Africa During the 1960s
A review of Old Comrades and New Brothers: A Historical Re-Examination of the Sino-Zanzibari and Sino-Tanzanian Bilateral Relationships in the 1960s, by Alicia N. Altorfer-Ong....
View ArticleLuxury Goods and the Malthusian Trap
A review of If Not Malthusian, Then Why?, by Lemin Wu. For many thousands of years prior to the Industrial Revolution, people around the world...
View ArticleMoney, Values and Change in Post-Socialist Romania
A review of Chary Opportunists: Money, Values, and Change in Postsocialist Romania, by Narcis Sorin Marius Tulbure. “Make the reduction of the fiscal burden...
View ArticleChemistry in Imperial and Weimar Germany
A review of Citizens of the Chemical Complex: Industrial Expertise and Science Philanthropy in Imperial and Weimar Germany, by Juan-Andres Leon. The German chemical industry...
View ArticleMexico’s Black Market, 1692-1903
A review of Black Market City: The Baratillo Marketplace and the Challenge of Governance in Mexico City, 1692-1903, by Andrew Philip Konove. Any visitor to...
View ArticlePostfeminism and Digital Media
A review of Postfeminist Technologies: Digital Media and the Culture Industries of Choice, by Jonathan Alan Cohn. From cosmetics to fine art, films to romantic...
View ArticleCommercial Dispute Resolution in Qing Chongqing
A review of Complicated Matters: Commercial Dispute Resolution in Qing Chongqing from 1750 to 1911 by Maura D. Dykstra. Chinese legal history is experiencing somewhat...
View ArticleThe “Watson Way” at IBM in Endicott, NY
A review of Factory Town in Transition: A Community’s Reaction to Change, by Kristina Wilcox. In 2011, the undisputed winner in a three-night Jeopardy standoff...
View ArticleMoney and Monetary Policy in the Soviet Union, 1945-1964
A review of The Value of a Ruble: A Social History of Money in Postwar Soviet Russia, 1945-1964, by Kristy Ironside. Money talked in the...
View ArticleCapitalism, Liberalism, and the British Empire
A review of Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism: Locke, Burke, Wakefield and the British Empire, by Onur Ulas Ince. Onur Ulas Ince’s dissertation...
View ArticleMoney and Trade in Qing China
A review of Money and Trade, Hinterland and Coast, Empire and Nation-State: An Unusual History of Shanxi Piaohao, 1820-1930, by Luman Wang. Shanxi piaohao distinguish...
View ArticleCredit Ratings, Regulatory Reasoning, and Legal Change in the 20th and 21st...
A review of Calculating and Governing Risk in Times of Crisis: The Role of Credit Ratings in Regulatory Reasoning and Legal Change (1930s-2010s), by Pierre...
View ArticlePrivate Equity Investing in New York City
A review of Songs of Profit, Song of Loss: Private Equity Investing in New York City, by Daniel Souleles Daniel Souleles’ ethnographic study of American...
View ArticleCoffee, Migration, and Development in Mexico, 1867-1920
A review of Exporting from Eden: Coffee, Migration, and the Development of the Soconusco, Mexico, 1867-1920, by Casey Marina Lurtz. In Exporting from Eden: Coffee,...
View ArticleA History of Money in Palestine
A Review of A History of Money in Palestine: From the 1900s to the Present, by Sreemati Mitter. Sreemati Mitter’s groundbreaking dissertation treating the economic...
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