Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

グローバル経済危機の一世紀
Vinhas de Souza, Lucio, A Century of Global Economic Crises: Monetary Policy in Search of An Anchor. 193 pp. 2024:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-311>
ISBN 978-3-031-53459-1 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores the end of the era of low inflation and stable price increases, known as "The Great Moderation", and the impact this will have on monetary policy. The macroeconomic trends and economic policy issues observed within developed countries over the last 70 years are linked with the economic theory debates of the time to highlight how the current economic challenges came about. The limitations of past economic policies are highlighted to help create a new policy framework for an era defined by high inflation, low economic growth, large budget deficits, and increased private sector debt.This book presents a new understanding of monetary policy that engages with the changing behaviour of economic agents. It will be relevant to researchers and policymakers interested in monetary policy and the political economy.

パンのモラル・エコノミー及び市場経済－ウィーンにおける規制と改革　1775～1885年
Albrecht, Jonas, The Moral and Market Economies of Bread: Regulation and Reform in Vienna, 1775-1885. (Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations) 280 pp. 2024:7 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-372>
ISBN 978-1-350-39847-4 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

From the 1770s the Vienna bread market was rocked by a series of politico-economic and technological changes that questioned the way this everyday foodstuff was sold and produced. In this book, Jonas Albrecht explores how this reconfiguration of the bread market had wide-reaching and significant consequences for a society who relied on this foodstuff to live. Before 1860 the production and selling of bread was embedded into a moral economy with distinct regulations. But as the grain market expanded and new cereal varieties arrived from the empire's peripheries reformers sought to create a 'free' market through liberalizing reforms. The Moral and Market Economies of Bread shows that while terminating market regulation did mobilize and diversify Vienna's bread market in spatial terms, it intensified inequality among consumers. As opaque prices, non-transparent market procedures and diverging power relations between producers and consumers led to unrest, city officials and bakers struggled to meet the shortcomings of the free market from within. This book brings economic, social and urban histories together and employs a spatial approach and GIS methods to explore the relationship between market and society, and capitalism at large.

Del Prete, Rossella, The Neapolitan Creative Economy: The Growth of the Music Market and Creative Sector in Naples, 17th-19th Centuries. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 328 pp. 2024:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-373>
ISBN 978-3-031-55902-0 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book analyses the emergence and growth of the creative sector in Naples between the early modern and modern eras, focusing particularly on the development of music markets in the city. From the seventeenth century, Naples became one of the most culturally enriched regions in the Italian peninsula, with internationally known music schools, theatres and opera venues attracting visitors from across Europe in a burgeoning tourist market. This book sheds light on the driving economic factors and political contexts behind this key case study for the early growth of the opera and music sector in Europe. Starting with a discussion of the value of economic history to understanding cultural industries, the chapters approach this analysis through multiple lenses: the formation of human capital as the result of Naples' institutional urban welfare system; the role of cultural consumption as it evolved from a primarily religious activity to growing popular demand; and the rolethat central city authorities played in encouraging cultural activity through private investment and public policy. The book also draws on fascinating archival research to examine the contribution of Naples' music conservatories in the local creative economy. This book is a valuable resource to a broad range of readers, including those working in economic history, tourism history, the history of music and theatre, Italian social history and more.

ギリシア・ローマ経済への現代的アプローチを評価する
Murray, Sarah C. / Bernard, Seth (eds.), Models, Methods, and Morality: Assessing Modern Approaches to the Greco-Roman Economy. (Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies) 374 pp. 2024:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-375>
ISBN 978-3-031-58209-7 hard ¥48,616.- (税込) EUR 199.99

This edited volume presents a multi-perspectival inquiry into the models that have shaped the study of ancient economies in past decades. The contributions collected here respond to the prevailing tendency to measure ancient Mediterranean economies using methods and techniques designed for assessing the performance of modern economies, considering a range of approaches that might generate a more socially and morally attuned history of the ancient Mediterranean. The volume explores the challenges of quantification and critically examines the ideological assumptions implicit within the models usually applied to the study of ancient economic performance. The chapters advocate for more inclusive alternatives to traditional ideas of 'growth' that take factors such as social inequality, fairness, wellbeing and the relationship between humans and the natural environment into consideration. The book examines through a series of different questions the importance of querying the appropriateness of economic methods from an ethical or socially aware position. Rather than condemning older models, methods, and points of view for their inadequacies, this book focuses on leveraging the benefits from existing methods in economics and suggesting new frameworks to reach toward historical approaches that are both methodologically sophisticated and attuned to the moral, ethical, and political concerns of the twenty-first century. This book will be a valuable resource for interdisciplinary researchers in economics, economic history, ancient history and archaeology.

L.ニール著　ルイジアナ購入の忘れられた金融家－欧州の銀行家、米国、国際金融の台頭
Neal, Larry, The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase: European Bankers, the US, and the Rise of International Finance. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance) 251 pp. 2024:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-376>
ISBN 978-3-031-56276-1 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book provides a comprehensive account of how the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was financed. Where existing research has focused predominantly on the political and diplomatic significance of the Purchase, this book demonstrates the importance of the Purchase to global financial history. The book provides context and background for the Louisiana Purchase and examines the role of key actors and companies, focusing particularly on the 'forgotten financiers' of the Purchase - individuals from the US, France and the UK including Alexander Baring, Albert Gallatin, Pierre Cesar Labouchere and Francois Barbe-Marbois. Based on extensive, original archival research, the chapters will illuminate the role played by these individuals in bringing about financial innovation and facilitating a major transaction that doubled the size of the original United States and helped set the country on a path to global power. The book will be a valuable resource for historians of Europe and America, particularly those with interests in economic and financial history, as well as banking and finance scholars who are interested in the emergence of large-scale international finance in the 19th century.

計量経済史ハンドブック　第3版　全3巻
Diebolt, Claude / Haupert, Michael (eds.), Handbook of Cliometrics. 3rd ed. 3 vols. 2826 pp. 2024:6 (Springer, GW) <726-276>
ISBN 978-3-031-35582-0 hard ¥243,096.- (税込) EUR 999.99

This handbook is a milestone in the field of historical economics and econometric history through its emphasis on the concrete contribution of cliometrics to our knowledge in economics and history. The articles in the handbook authored by the leading scholars in the fields, stress the usefulness of cliometrics for economists, historians and social scientists in general. The handbook offers a comprehensive coverage of topics with each article providing an overview of the contributions of cliometrics to a particular topic. The handbook has set a new standard of quality in the field by offering a world-wide forum of discussion in cliometrics. This updated and extended third edition of the handbook of cliometrics offers a substantially enlarged collection of articles and thus stresses its unique position as authoritative reference work in this field.

Russ, Daniela / Turnbull, Thomas (eds.), Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon. 232 pp. 2025:2 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-225>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4086-3 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4150-1 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth's energies as its object of inquiry. This interdisciplinary field documents and analyzes how humans thought about, harnessed, stored, and exploited stocks and flows of energy. In recent decades, in response to evidence of the effect of fossil fuel use in our climatic system and coinciding with an energy turn across the humanities, a new urgency and purpose has been ascribed to such work. Energy's History challenges abstract and universalizing conceptions of energy's history-making capacities. This collection contains twelve chapters that present, analyze, and contextualize a primary source. The contributors focus on ideas, events, and statements that recorded and critiqued the distinct historical paths of energy, thereby broadening the scope of where and what constitutes energy history. As energy's world-making has enmeshed ever more of the planet into a dangerous compact with fossil fuels, energy histories must be revised within this new energy-historical reality. This volume both presents persuasive visions of energy-driven development beyond the Western capitalist model and provides an expansive and critical account of the ways in which energy histories have shaped the past and impact the present.

伝染をコントロールする－黒死病からCovidまでの伝染病と制度
Ogilvie, Sheilagh, Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid. 480 pp. 2025:2 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <725-290>
ISBN 978-0-691-25556-9 hard ¥10,098.- (税込) US$ 45.00

How human institutions-markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families-have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.How do societies tackle epidemic disease? In Controlling Contagion, Sheilagh Ogilvie answers this question by exploring seven centuries of pandemics, from the Black Death to Covid-19. For most of history, infectious diseases have killed many more people than famine or war, and in 2019 they still caused one death in four. Today, we deal with epidemics more successfully than our ancestors managed plague, smallpox, cholera or influenza. But we use many of the same approaches. Long before scientific medicine, human societies coordinated and innovated in response to biological shocks-sometimes well, sometimes badly.Ogilvie uses historical epidemics to analyze how human societies deal with "externalities"-situations where my action creates costs or benefits for others beyond those that I myself incur. Social institutions-markets, states, communities, religions, guilds, and families-help us manage the negative externalities of contagion and the positive externalities of social distancing, sanitation, and immunization. Ogilvie shows how each institution enables us to coordinate, innovate and inspire each other to limit contagion. But each institution also has weaknesses that can make things worse. Markets shut down voluntarily during every epidemic in history-but they also brought people together, spreading contagion. States mandated quarantines, sanitation, and immunization-but they also waged war and censored information, exacerbating epidemics. Religions admonished us to avoid infecting our neighbours-but they also preached against science and medical innovations. What decided the outcome, Ogilvie argues, was a temperate state, an adaptable market, and a strong civil society where a diversity of institutions played to their own strengths and checked each other's flaws.

Chronakis, Paris Papamichos, The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule. (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) 384 pp. 2024:10 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-307>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3966-9 hard ¥15,708.- (税込) US$ 70.00

The Business of Transition examines how the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie of the Eastern Mediterranean navigated the transition from empire to nation-state in the early twentieth century. In this social and cultural history, Paris Papamichos Chronakis shows how the Jewish and Greek merchants of Salonica (present-day Thessaloniki) skillfully managed the tumultuous shift from Ottoman to Greek rule amidst revolution and war, rising ethnic tensions, and heightened class conflict. Bringing their once powerful voices back into the historical narrative, he traces their entangled trajectories as businessmen, community members, and civic leaders to illustrate how the self-reinvention of a Jewish-led bourgeoisie made a city Greek. Papamichos Chronakis draws on previously untapped local archival material to weave a rich narrative of individual portraits, introducing us to revered philanthropists and committed patriots as well as vilified profiteers and victimized Salonicans. Offering a kaleidoscopic view of a city in transition, this book reveals how the collapse of empire shook all the constitutive elements of Jewish and Greek identities, and how Jews and Greeks reinvented themselves amidst these larger political and economic disruptions.

M.エザメル著　古代エジプト経済－国家、行政、制度
Ezzamel, Mahmoud, The Economy of Ancient Egypt: State, Administration, Institutions. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 496 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <725-308>
ISBN 978-1-03-255087-9 hard ¥43,230.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00

The aim of this book is to theorise the state, administration and economy of ancient Egypt taking ancient records as the starting point for the analysis. The Egyptian state is theorised as an administrative field of material and symbolic powers with emphasis upon the latter because it has received scant attention in Egyptology. Maat (truth, fairness, connective justice) is theorised as symbolic power discursively authored, disseminated and monitored by senior administrators who discursively redefined its meaning to suit changes in the socio-political contexts.The book examines the classification schemes of the Egyptian population devised by the administrative field of power and how they were used to differentiate, hierarchise and fix specific individuals within clearly demarcated social and economic categories that aimed to fix the subjectivity of those assigned to each category. Ancient Egyptian had a significant state economic sector and a private sector. A multiplicity of sources of state economic resources are examined: taxation/impost, war booty and tributes, and gifts exchanged between the Egyptian kings and foreign kings. A nuanced understanding of Polanyi's work on redistribution is used to theorise the cycle of levying, collecting, storing and redistributing tax revenues. Gifts exchanges between Egyptian kings and kings from Asia Minor are theorised as occurring on as stage of institutional drama, war booty as an 'economy of force' and tribute as an economy of restitution. Private exchange is theorised by developing the concept of 'sociable markets' and drawing on Maat in its various meanings as truth, fairness and connective justice.This book will be of interest to readers in economic history, ancient Egypt and ancient history more broadly.

Kaika, Maria / Ruggiero, Luca, Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization. (IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change) 264 pp. 2024:12 (U. California Pr., US) <725-309>
ISBN 978-0-520-41007-7 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-41008-4 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Class Meets Land reveals something seemingly counterintuitive: that nineteenth-century class struggles over land are deeply implicated in twenty-first-century financial capitalism. Narrating the closely knit stories of Milan's working class, industrial elites, and industrial land, Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero foreground the tenacious role of class struggle over land in choreographing capitalist transitions. They assert that land assetization and financialization are not recent phenomena but rather historical practices sculpted into the present configuration through long-term rituals and struggles, rooted in the everyday lives and histories of both capital and labor. Exploring land assetization from the outset of capitalism's early history, Kaika and Ruggiero offer a novel understanding of land financialization as a "lived" process: the outcome of a relentless and socially embodied historical unfolding, within which land performs a multiplicity of ever-changing symbolic and material roles for both capital and labor as it becomes enrolled simultaneously in local class struggle cycles and the circuits of global (financial) capital.

欧州エネルギー産業の経済史　19～21世紀
Martinez-Lopez, Alberte / Miras Araujo, Jesus et al., Economic History of the European Energy Industry: Lighting up Western Europe, 19th to 21st centuries. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 256 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <725-310>
ISBN 978-1-03-255034-3 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Global climate change and the war in Ukraine have put energy back on the agenda for Europe in a way that has not been seen since the oil crisis of the 1970s. But the economics and business of supplying energy to Europe has a long and rich history going back to the 19th century. This book explores changes in energy markets, strategies, firms and investments during the 19th and 20th centuries. The primary focus is on manufactured gas - the gas that was initially produced from coal distillation until new ways of manufacturing gas emerged after World War II.The expert contributors to this volume draw on their extensive research and utilise primary sources to explore a wide range of issues including technological adaptation, market regulation, energy investments (particularly the role of foreign capital), gas consumption and supply issues. The case studies are particularly drawn from Spain, France and Italy but the authors provide a comparative and global perspective to consider the wider context. The volume closes with an epilogue which brings the story into the present day to consider current issues affecting gas markets in the EU including war, geostrategy and pipelines.This book will be of interest to readers in economic history, business history, energy history, the history of public utilities and modern European history more broadly.

北朝鮮における経済管理の歴史
Park, Phillip, History of Economic Management in North Korea: From Planned Economy to Socialist Enterprise System. (Perspectives in Economic and Social History) 272 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-312>
ISBN 978-1-03-277056-7 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book seeks to understand how the economic construction of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) evolved, shaped by the formulation and execution of various economic management systems spanning the years 1949 to 2023, in response to numerous challenges faced by the country.Split into four chapters, Park charts the developmental phases of the DPRK economy under Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and current leader Kim Jung Un. He carefully cross-examines sources from within the DPRK, including the Complete Works of King Il Sung, Selected Works of Kim Jong Il, the Rodong Shinmun and the Chosun Central Yearbook. Where related literature relies on testimonies and interviews of defectors, this book offers a novel and comprehensive analysis of sources taken from North Korea, furnishing readers with new insights into the DPRK's economic management and construction policies.With its novel approach, this book will be of interest to researchers and advanced undergraduates of Korean history, Korean studies, and economic history.

二つの世界大戦の民間人の犠牲者
O Grada, Cormac, The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars. (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) 520 pp. 2024:9 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <725-314>
ISBN 978-0-691-25875-1 hard ¥13,464.- (税込) US$ 60.00

A staggering new account of the civilian death toll of the world wars-and what it reveals about the true nature and cost of modern warSoldiers have never been the only casualties of wars. But the armies that fought World Wars I and II killed far more civilians than soldiers as they countenanced or deliberately inflicted civilian deaths on a mass scale. By one reputable estimate, 9.7 million civilians and 9 million combatants died in World War I, while World War II killed 25.5 million civilians and 15 million combatants. But in The Hidden Victims, Cormac O Grada argues that even these shocking numbers are almost certainly too low. Carefully evaluating all the evidence available, he estimates that the wars cost not 35 million but some 65 million civilian lives-nearly two-thirds of the 100 million total killed. Indeed, he shows that war-induced famines alone may have killed 30 million people, making them the single largest cause of death.The Hidden Victims is the first book to attempt to measure and describe the full scale of civilian deaths during the world wars, from all causes, including genocide, starvation, aerial bombardment, and disease. While nations went to great lengths to record military casualties, they often didn't count or deliberately obscured civilian deaths. Getting the numbers right is important. It reveals much about the true human costs of the wars, the nature of modern warfare, and the failure of efforts to stop civilian casualties. It also makes it possible to argue with those who try to deny, minimize, or exaggerate wartime savagery.

19世紀の女性実業家
Le Chapelain, Charlotte (ed.), Nineteenth Century Businesswomen: A Retrospective Glance at Women Entrepreneurship. (Frontiers in Economic History) 267 pp. 2024:7 (Springer, GW) <724-284>
ISBN 978-3-031-56410-9 hard ¥38,892.- (税込) EUR 159.99

The book examines female entrepreneurship in the nineteenth century. Economic history has long accorded women entrepreneurs a very minor place, relegating them to the status of historical anecdotes. The hypothesis of women's withdrawal from the business sphere after the eighteenth century has long dominated. However, this view has recently been subject to a fundamental questioning. Women did in fact actively contribute to economic development by occupying key positions in the business sphere as independent workers, investors and entrepreneurs. Businesswomen were no exception in the nineteenth century. They ran businesses of all sizes and in a wide range of industrial sectors. This book helps to bring nineteenth-century women entrepreneurs out of invisibility, by examining their entrepreneurial practices and shedding light on the role of the legal framework in which they operated. This interdisciplinary book will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers of economic history, business history, history of law, and economics and management sciences in general, interested in a better understanding of female entrepreneurship in the nineteenth century.

中世ヨーロッパにおけるユダヤ人とワインの交易
Soloveitchik, Haym, Jews and the Wine Trade in Medieval Europe: Principles and Pressures. 312 pp. 2024:7 (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, UK) <724-285>
ISBN 978-1-904113-24-9 hard ¥8,630.- (税込) GB￡ 29.95 *

Although Jews were at the centre of commercial activity in medieval Europe, a talmudic ban on any wine touched by a Gentile prevented them from engaging in the lucrative wine trade. Wine was consumed in vast quantities in the Middle Ages, and the banks of the Rhineland hosted some of the finest vineyards in northern Europe. German Jews were, until the thirteenth century, a merchant class. How could they abstain from trading in one of the region's major commodities? In time, they ruled that it was permissible to accept wine in payment of debt, but forbade trading in it, and they maintained that ban throughout the Middle Ages. Further study in the twelfth century, however, led Talmudists to discover that Jews were only forbidden to profit from trading in Gentile wine if they dealt with idolaters, but that trade with Christians and Muslims was permitted. Nevertheless, the German community refused to take advantage of this clear licence. Using Jewish and Gentile sources, this study probes the sources of this powerful taboo. In describing the complex ways in which deeply held cultural values affect Jews' engagement in the economy of the surrounding society, this book also illustrates the law of unintended consequences-how the ban on Gentile wine led both to a major Jewish contribution to German viticulture and to the involvement of Jews in moneylending, with all its tragic consequences.

比較的視点における協同組合企業
Spicer, Jason, Co-operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective: Exceptionally Un-American? 288 pp. 2024:5 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <724-286>
ISBN 978-0-19-766507-7 hard ¥20,196.- (税込) US$ 90.00

Co-operative enterprises, which are democratically owned and governed by their workers, customers, or suppliers, have long captured the imagination of activists and social scientists alike. In centering economic democracy and a collectivist-democratic logic, and in embodying a "third way" alternative to profit-maximizing corporations and state-owned enterprises, co-operatives offer the promise of a more sustainable and equitable economy. Despite extensive study of cooperatives' real and imagined benefits, we know little about the conditions under which they achieve the lasting scale needed to be a viable alternative and transform the economy. Under what conditions can co-operatives achieve such scale? And are such conditions present in the US, where, despite repeated organizing efforts, co-operatives remain exceptionally rare at scale? A rigorous comparative-historical analysis of how co-operative enterprises in different national contexts, this book seeks to answer these questions. Deploying two different variants of the new institutionalism, Spicer treats the US as a central case of comparative failure, as contrasted to three rich democracies where the co-operative business model has been more successful: Finland, France, and New Zealand. Through an institutional approach, the cause of co-operatives' comparative weakness in the US is identified as reflecting the joint effect of economic liberalism and structural racism. Only in the US did the co-operative face, in its initial development, two well-entrenched incumbents operating with competing ownership models: the investor-owned firm and the race-based chattel slavery system of ownership of people. Proponents of these two models acted to deprive the co-operative movement of resources, and undermined the solidarity at the models' heart, splintering the American co-operative movement in the process. In subsequent waves of co-operative organizing, advocates have never fully succeeded in overcoming these initial obstacles. In contrast, in the successful cases, advocates were better able to leverage resources to animate a national solidarity and procure the necessary political and economic resources to achieve scale.

哲学と貨幣ハンドブック　第1巻：古代・中世思想
Tinguely, Joseph J. (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Money. Volume 1: Ancient and Medieval Thought. 883 pp. 2024:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-35>
ISBN 978-3-031-54135-3 hard ¥48,616.- (税込) EUR 199.99

The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Money surveys the role of money in the history of ideas. Volume 1: Ancient and Medieval Thought explores the worldviews of societies in the process of monetization. The volume is divided into sections on early Civilizations, classical Greece, the Roman era, and Medieval and Renaissance thought.

哲学と貨幣ハンドブック　第2巻：近現代思想
Tinguely, Joseph J. (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Money. Volume 2: Modern Thought. 887 pp. 2024:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-36>
ISBN 978-3-031-54139-1 hard ¥48,616.- (税込) EUR 199.99

The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy surveys the role of money in the history of ideas. Volume 2: Modern Thought examines the treatment of money in the writings of philosophers from the emergence of capitalism through the 20th century. The volume is divided into sections on Early Modernity, Late Modernity, and the Twentieth Century. Volume 2 presents an alternative history of modern philosophy in which monetary relations are both an explicit theme and an implicit condition of philosophical reflection.

石油、企業の力、世界市場の形成
Hanieh, Adam, Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market. 336 pp. 2024:9 (Verso, UK) <724-229>
ISBN 978-1-83976-342-7 hard ¥6,340.- (税込) GB￡ 22.00

This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis. Beyond simplistic narratives that frame oil as 'prize' or 'curse', Crude Capitalism uncovers the surprising ways that oil is woven into the fabric of our modern world: the rise of an American-centered global order; the breakdown of Empire and anti-colonial rebellion; contemporary finance and US dollar hegemony; debt and militarism; and the emergence of new forms of synthetic consumption. Much more than an energy source or transport fuel, oil has a foundational place in all aspects of contemporary life - no challenge to the fossil fuel industry can be effective without taking this fact seriously. Crude Capitalism maps the varied geographies of oil, including the rise of OPEC, the importance of revolutionary and Post-Soviet Russia, the crucial role of African upstream reserves, and the new petrochemical circuits that link the Middle East, China, and East Asia. The book provides an original and fine-grained empirical analysis of corporate ownership and control, including refining and petrochemicals. By exposing these structures of power and placing oil in capitalism, the book makes an essential contribution to debates around oil-dependency and the struggle for climate justice.

Hartmann, Heinrich / Tischler, Julia (eds.), Planting Seeds of Knowledge: Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century. (Environment in History: International Perspectives 24) 366 pp. 2023:6 (Berghahn, US) <723-261>
ISBN 978-1-80539-010-7 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, agricultural practices and rural livelihoods were challenged by changes such as commercialization, intensified global trade, and rapid urbanization. Planting Seeds of Knowledge studies the relationship between these agricultural changes and knowledge-making through a transnational lens. Spanning exchanges between different parts of Europe, North and South America, the Indian subcontinent, and Africa, the wide-reaching contributions to this volume reform current historiography to show how local experiences redefined global practice.

アイルランドの海洋漁業　1400～1600年－経済学、環境、エコロジー
Hayes, Patrick W, Ireland's Sea Fisheries, 1400-1600: Economics, Environment and Ecology. (Irish Historical Monographs) 330 pp. 2023:12 (Boydell, UK) <723-262>
ISBN 978-1-78327-706-3 hard ¥25,938.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

This book examines the environmental, political, and economic history of Ireland's marine fisheries from 1400 to 1600. It combines a wide range of historical sources with innovative digital research methods to provide a comprehensive and systematic overview. Government letters and court documents highlight the diverse range of fishing fleets from across Europe that visited Irish waters in the early sixteenth century, bringing wealth and cultural influence to the native Irish, who developed complex systems to protect and tax the visitors. Furthermore, trade records illustrate that fish was Ireland's premier export in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. However, a range of factors led to the industry's collapse by the end of the sixteenth century: the Tudor conquest which disrupted fishing operations and fundamentally altered who controlled fishing resources; the destabilization of Irish waters resulting from the terrestrial conflict, which allowed pirates to thrive; an influx of cheap cod from the newly exploited fisheries in Newfoundland which changed consumption patterns in Ireland and across Europe; and shifting climatic conditions and decades of over-exploitation which meant fewer fish and poorer catches. Overall, the book reveals that fisheries form a vital part of the broader environmental, political, and economic history of Ireland.

Kouli, Yaman / Mueller, Uwe (eds.), The Middle-Income Trap in Central and Eastern Europe: Causes, Consequences and Strategies in Post-Communist Countries. (New Perspectives on Central and Eastern European Studies 4) 322 pp. 2023:11 (Berghahn, US) <723-263>
ISBN 978-1-80539-181-4 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Since the 1990s, the economic development of Central and Eastern Europe has maintained high economic growth rates, seemingly leading to an era of prosperity. This very positive vision of future economic success, linked to current political backlash and a long history of economic adversity, is a thin veil of the economic "way west" for so-called transition countries. The Middle-Income Trap in Central and Eastern Europe examines the reality of the diminishing marginal utility of further international investments alongside the pitfalls of higher government spending to cultivate innovation which ultimately makes foreign capital less attractive. In this volume authors from diverse disciplinary perspectives reflect on current debates surrounding the developmental bottlenecks in East-Central Europe. Their common goal is to analyze the manner of socio-economic transformation, question of the relevance and impact of the "middle-income trap" and identify possible ways to escape it.

McLeod, Jane, Print, Politics and Trade in the French Atlantic: The Labottiere Family as Eighteenth-Century Cultural Brokers. (Knowledge and Communication in the Enlightenment World) 352 pp. 2024:7 (Boydell, UK) <723-264>
ISBN 978-1-83765-086-6 hard ¥27,379.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

The Labottieres were the largest printing and bookselling dynasty in eighteenth-century Bordeaux. From the 1680s to the sale of their business in 1794 three generations of this family acted as major cultural brokers in this booming Atlantic port, serving the rapidly expanding commercial and legal sectors with books, pamphlets, and newspapers. The lives and businesses of this family are heavily entwined with the histories of the Enlightenment, French colonialism in the West Indies, and the French Revolution. We find the final generation, welcoming the Revolution, printing a pro-revolutionary newspaper that framed the revolts in Haiti and Martinique in pro-revolutionary terms. They would come to establish their shop as a Jacobin centre and, along with their workers and journalists, navigated the forces of popular censorship and state control. However, despite these activities, the Labottiere printing and bookselling enterprise would, eventually, be destroyed by the very Revolution it had supported. Through this lively microhistory of the Labottieres, Jane McLeod presents the important role played by the flourishing Atlantic port economy in supporting the expansion of printing and bookselling. Furthermore, from McLeod's extensive archival research into over thirty members of the Labottiere family, emerges a new understanding of the role played by printers and booksellers in the spreading of the ideas and concerns that underpinned some of the landmark social, cultural and political changes of the eighteenth century.

ブリストルと大西洋経済の誕生　1500～1700年
Stone, Richard, Bristol and the Birth of the Atlantic Economy, 1500-1700. 268 pp. 2024:6 (Boydell, UK) <723-265>
ISBN 978-1-83765-053-8 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Analyses data from the Bristol Port Books to rewrite the history of trade in Bristol, including the city's early involvement with the slave trade. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a transformative period for global commerce, with the principal focus of England's trade shifting away from trade with Europe, primarily in woollen cloth, to a new Atlantic system, with trade in a diverse range of commodities. Based on the fantastically detailed Bristol Port Books, previously thought impenetrable, and using new computer technology to analyse the vast amount of data, this book provides the first long duration history of a major Atlantic port in this period. It rewrites the history of Bristol's trade, overturning much established thinking, for example showing that trade flourished in the late Tudor and early Stuart period, demonstrating that Bristol was involved in the slave trade much earlier than was previously thought and charting the growth of commerce with North America and the Caribbean from nothing to three quarters of Bristol's imports in the short period from the 1630s to the 1650s. Overall, the book represents a major contribution to understanding how the Atlantic economy worked and how it developed in this crucial period.

Waldenstroem, Daniel, Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West. 256 pp. 2024:6 (Polity Pr., UK) <723-267>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5778-3 hard ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Once there were princes and peasants and very few between. The extremes of wealth and poverty are still with us, but that shouldn't blind us to the fact our societies have been utterly transformed for the better over the past century. As Daniel Waldenstroem makes clear in this authoritative account of wealth accumulation and inequality in the modern west, we are today both significantly richer and more equal. Using cutting-edge research and new, sometimes surprising, data, Waldenstroem shows that what stands out since the late 1800s is a massive rise in the size of the middle class and its share of society's total wealth. Unfettered capitalism, it seems, doesn't have to lead to boundless inequality. The key to progress was political and institutional change that enabled citizens to become educated, better paid, and to amass wealth through housing and pension savings. Waldenstroem asks how we can consolidate these gains while encouraging the creation of new capital. The answer, he argues, is to pursue tax and social policies that raise the wealth of people in the bottom and middle rather than cutting wealth of entrepreneurs at the top. Richer and More Equal is a benchmark account of one of the most profound and encouraging social changes in human history and a blueprint for continued progress.

Curry, Helen Anne / Lorek, Timothy W. (eds.), Agricultural Science as International Development: Historical Perspectives on the CGIAR Era. 324 pp. 2024:10 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <723-173>
ISBN 978-1-00-943466-9 hard ¥23,052.- (税込) GB￡ 79.99

For more than fifty years, international aid for agricultural research has been shaped by an unusual partnership: an ad-hoc consortium of national governments, foreign aid agencies, philanthropies, United Nations agencies, and international financial institutions, known as CGIAR. Formed in 1971 following the initial celebration of the so-called Green Revolution, CGIAR was tasked with extending that apparent transformation in production to new countries and crops. In this volume, leading historians and sociologists explore the influence of CGIAR and its affiliated international research centres. Traversing five continents and five decades of scientific research, agricultural aid, and political transformation, it examines whether and how science-led development has changed the practices of farmers, researchers, and policymakers. Although its language, funding mechanisms, and decision-making have changed over time, CGIAR and its network of research centres remain powerful in shaping international development and global agriculture. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Velasco, Christian, Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa) 192 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-182>
ISBN 978-1-03-265860-5 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right through from their origins, to their role during the colonial period, the process of adaptation following independence, and up to their responses to new challenges and economic policies in the twenty-first century. The British colonisation of East Africa required the development of diverse political, social and economic institutions to advance and exercise control over the territories and their populations. Multinational commercial banks were among the first institutions, with the National Bank of India, Standard Bank of South Africa and Barclays Bank DCO all setting up business in Kenya, whilst continuing to maintain close relationships with the UK and other colonial actors. This book assesses the impact of commercial banks during the last years of colonial domination and the tools they used to adapt in the first decades of independence. The book concludes by considering how the colonial banking system has influenced the development of modern financial institutions in Kenya in the twenty-first century. This book argues that commercial banks are fundamental to understanding African colonies, and the foundations over which the financial system of contemporary Africa was constructed. It will be of interest to researchers of banking, economic history, the colonial period, and African studies.

アイルランドの長期的好景気－1986～2007年のケルトの虎の経済
O'Malley, Eoin, Ireland's Long Economic Boom: The Celtic Tiger Economy, 1986-2007. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 264 pp. 2024:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <722-192>
ISBN 978-3-031-53069-2 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-53072-2 paper ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This Open Access book examines the long economic boom experienced in Ireland between the late 1980s and 2007, analysing why this boom occurred. The book situates Ireland as a relative latecomer to economic development, with specific challenges and advantages inherent to this position. It discusses the risks involved in remaining reliant on foreign companies, exploring how in Ireland's case the rapidly growing economy required active, interventionist and imaginative policy measures rather than relying primarily on free market forces. The book also offers an estimation of the value of the net foreign earnings associated with different categories of exports after deducting the profit outflows and payments for imported inputs, revealing a number of findings about the importance of Irish indigenous companies and services during this time. It shows that Irish indigenous companies, assisted by industrial policy measures, played a significant part, as did the services sector,alongside the more visible and widely recognised role of foreign multinationals in high-tech manufacturing. Offering fresh insights and analyses more than 15 years after the long boom ended at the precipice of the global financial crisis, this book will be a useful resource for economic historians, scholars of political economy and macroeconomic policy, as well as those interested in modern Irish history more broadly.

中国の労働市場　1950～2050年
Du, Jane, China's Labour Market, 1950-2050: The Role of Family Planning in Demographic and Income Transitions. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 163 pp. 2024:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <722-202>
ISBN 978-3-031-53137-8 hard ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book presents an in-depth examination of China's population control policies from their establishment to the present and explores the developing implications of these policies on the Chinese labour market. The book connects original research on contemporary Chinese demographics with a historical analysis of China's labour market structure. Using data from the most recent population census, chapters explore the economic impact of the demographic transition that has taken place over recent decades, from the strict implementation of family planning policies to the current easing of these policies. The book examines income growth and economic development in China after the Second World War with comparative perspectives from other Asian countries including Japan and South Korea. It also devotes a chapter to regional variations in the effectiveness of population control policies, exploring differences in rural and urban areas, and surveys the future challenges for the Chinese government in addressing population and growth-related concerns. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in economic history, labour economics, and demography, as well as those interested in Chinese economic and societal development.

Dainoff, Charles A. / Farley, Robert M. / Williams, G. F., Waging War With Gold: National Security and the Finance Domain Across the Ages. 249 pp. 2023:8 (Lynne Rienner, US) <722-225>
ISBN 978-1-68585-945-9 hard ¥23,562.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

Cleaver, Laura / Magnusson, D. / Morcos, H. et al. (eds.), The Pre-Modern Manuscript Trade and its Consequences, ca. 1890-1945. (Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities) 467 pp. 2024:5 (Arc Humanities Pr., UK) <722-287>
ISBN 978-1-80270-137-1 hard ¥41,789.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

1580年から現在までのオランダ製紙産業
Ehrich, Martha Emilie, The Dutch Paper Industry from 1580 to the Present: The Survival of a Long-Established Industry. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 149 pp. 2024:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <722-290>
ISBN 978-3-031-54323-4 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99 *

This open access book is the first to provide an analysis of the Dutch paper industry over a period encompassing six centuries. Responding to a trend of renewed scholarly interest in paper industries and production, the book seeks to illuminate the factors behind this relatively small national industry's centuries-long survival. Previous historical research has shown that sets of colonial, trade, merchant and family networks, tightly interwoven through a dense web of capital, were crucial for paper production and trade in early modern Europe. This book situates the Dutch paper industry within these overlapping contexts and their shifting dynamics over time, and historicizes the challenges and obstacles it had to overcome through four phases of capitalism: the rise of Dutch capitalism (1580-1815), Dutch monarchic liberalism (1815-1914), Fordism (1914-1980), and post-Fordism (1980 until now). Each chapter covers not only technological advancements in the industry, but its development alongside further determining dimensions, such as state-industry relations (industry policies), labour-capital relations (unions) and competition and cooperation, overall painting a picture of how the industry adapted to and endured changes in national and global networks surrounding the industry. This book will be of broad interest to scholars of economic and business history, as well as industrial history, political economy, and management studies. "This publication was supported by funds from the Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs of the Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany."

南アフリカにおける金、金融、帝国主義　1887～1902年－株式取引からの視点
Lukasiewicz, Mariusz, Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887-1902: A View from the Stock Exchange. (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies) 242 pp. 2024:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <722-292>
ISBN 978-3-031-51946-8 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book provides a unique account of the financial and political history of the South African War by analysing the organisation and operations of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the oldest existing stock exchange in the African continent. Identifying the JSE as the nexus between international finance, South African gold mining and British imperialism, the book exposes the financial and political connections between Johannesburg, Pretoria, London, and Paris during the final stage of the imperial 'scramble for southern Africa.' Gold mining presented the South African Republic (ZAR) and the whole southern African regional economy with a long-term economic future and new prospects of industrialisation. However, this socio-economic transformation was dependent on extensive capital investments and the institutionalisation of a coercive labour regime based on racial discrimination. This monograph provides the first empirical examination of how international finance, imperial politics, and racialised industrial relations became entrenched in a key financial intermediary in colonial South Africa - first in Kimberley in the Cape Colony, and then in Johannesburg in the ZAR. By studying the Johannesburg capital market's social microstructures, the author demonstrates how colonial and international financial intermediaries underwrote and financed the largest wave of mining investments in Africa prior to the First World War. Filling an important gap in literature on nineteenth-century British imperialism and Anglo-African-Afrikaner relations, this insightful book uses the JSE as a lens to carefully expose the structures and agency of global finance in the outbreak of the South African War, and the making of South Africa as a unified colonial state.

T.ロイ他著　1956年から現在までのケーララ
Roy, Tirthankar / Raman, K. Ravi, Kerala, 1956 to the Present: India's Miracle State. (Economic Histories of Indian States) 180 pp. 2024:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <722-294>
ISBN 978-1-00-952163-5 hard ¥20,174.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00
ISBN 978-1-00-952165-9 paper ¥6,625.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99

Kerala is different, but not in the way we think.' Economic change in this southern state has fascinated economists. Most studies focused on the state's unusual human development, asked how a poor and economically stagnant state could achieve high levels of education and healthcare and pointed to politics and government policy to answer the question. Little of that scholarship took history seriously. History, this book says, shows that the foundations of human development were laid before the formation of the state and were owed to many factors besides politics. The striking thing about the state is its unusual income growth, which has been faster than most states since the 1990s. The question the authors ask is, 'How could an income-poor state break out of stagnation so dramatically?' The answers consider past globalisation, labour mobility, a legacy of welfare spending, and the positive ways these features interacted since India's economic reforms.

東インド会社の富への対立する主張　1600～50年
Schleck, Julia, Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600-1650: Reading Debates over Risk and Reward. (Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World) 236 pp. 2024:2 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <722-295>
ISBN 978-94-6372-719-8 hard ¥32,566.- (税込) GB￡ 113.00 *

Centered on moral critiques of wealth and the unequal distribution of risks and rewards in the lengthy voyages required by the East Indies trade, this book examines the debates surrounding England's earliest global trading ventures. Arguments over the staggering loss of lives and national resources and struggles over control of the new trade in luxuries reveal the forging of rationales justifying the new capitalist inequalities. Yet Company servants traveling abroad to conduct the risky trade resisted this newly coalescing social formation through strategic disobedience to their masters' will, controlling information and promoting ignorance when it served their financial and sexual purposes. Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600-1650 interrogates the forces that shaped England's earliest forays into capitalist imperialism by tracing the battles over corporate control of men's finances, marriages, and bare survival at the dawn of its global trade.

スウェーデンの君主制と銅貿易　1600～40年
Stryker, Lawrence, The Swedish Monarchy and the Copper Trade: The Copper Company, the Deposit System, and the Amsterdam Market, 1600-1640. (Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World) 302 pp. 2024:5 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <722-296>
ISBN 978-90-485-6081-3 hard ¥33,719.- (税込) GB￡ 117.00

In 1611, the seventeen-year-old Gustav Adolf ascended the throne of Sweden. Before the new king could sit on his throne, however, he faced a disastrous war against Denmark, another conflict in Russia, and a rebellious nobility at home. Plus, Sweden itself had an arctic climate and a short growing season. Clearly Gustav II Adolf faced great difficulties even to survive. Yet by the end of the next decade, Gustav II Adolf's Sweden was a leading military power in continental Europe. In 1630 the king invaded the Holy Roman Empire and joined the Thirty Years War to defend the Protestant cause. How was this possible? Sweden had one major asset, the Stora Kopparberg, the largest copper mine in Europe. The king exploited the mine and used the revenue to finance his political and military ambitions. This is the story of Gustav II Adolf's efforts to improve efficiencies at the mine and control the marketing of its bounty.

スペイン王国とハンザ都市　1570～1700年
Weller, Thomas, Ungleiche Partner: Die spanische Monarchie und die Hansestaedte, ca. 1570-1700. (Veroeffentlichungen des Instituts fuer Europaeische Geschichte Mainz 270) 670 S. 2023:11 (Vandenhoeck, GW) <722-297>
ISBN 978-3-525-30246-0 hard ¥20,663.- (税込) EUR 85.00 *

Die spanische Monarchie und die Hansestaedte waren gleich in mehrfacher Hinsicht ≫ungleiche Partner≪. Trotz kultureller Unterschiede und Gegensaetze kam es zwischen der katholischen Weltmacht Spanien und den mehrheitlich protestantischen Hansestaedten seit dem letzten Drittel des 16. Jahrhunderts zu einer wirtschaftlichen und politischen Annaeherung, von der beide Seiten profitierten. Diesen von der Forschung lange vernachlaessigten Vorgang zeichnet die Studie erstmals auf breiter Quellengrundlage nach und eroeffnet damit zugleich einen neuen Blick auf die Geschichte fruehneuzeitlicher Aussenbeziehungen. Neben Gesandten und politischen Funktionstraegern treten Akteure in den Vordergrund, die sich unterhalb der Ebene der Hoefe und der ≫offiziellen≪ Diplomatie bewegten und als kulturelle Mittler fungierten. Die Studie zeigt, wie es ihnen gelang, kulturelle Differenzen zu ueberbruecken.

鎮目雅人他編　世界中の貨幣博士－歴史的視点
Alvarez, Andres / Bignon, V. / Oegren, A. / Shizume, Masato (eds.), Money Doctors Around the Globe: A Historical Perspective. (Studies in Economic History) 398 pp. 2024:5 (Springer, GW) <722-298>
ISBN 978-981-9701-33-9 hard ¥43,754.- (税込) EUR 179.99 *

This book focuses on worldwide historical experiences of monetary reforms and the reformist minds behind them: the money doctors. The process of doctoring is the process of listening to many pieces of information and sorting them in order to correctly diagnose the causes of the problem and derive the appropriate cure, if it exists. A money doctor is "a person who, helped by theoretical and practical knowledge, advises and/or proposes to act on how to build a stable monetary and financial system or to repair ongoing monetary turbulences." Economists and policy makers are money doctors when their involvement includes the observation and diagnostic of the monetary and financial troubles and the proposition for a cure. Each contribution highlights the theoretical underpinning of the doctors, and the key factors for the success or failures of the reform they have promoted. We collect cases from Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania from the 16th to the 20th century anddiscuss their aims, strategies, and consequences to draw implications for today.

インフレの復活－歴史と政策提言からの教訓
Heine, Michael / Herr, Hansjoerg, The Resurgence of Inflation: Lessons from History and Policy Recommendations. (Financial and Monetary Policy Studies 57) 188 pp. 2024:2 (Springer, GW) <722-165>
ISBN 978-3-031-52739-5 hard ¥19,444.- (税込) EUR 79.99 *

In light of the resurgence of inflation in developed industrialised countries following a period of inordinately low inflation, this book analyses the causes and devastating effects of inflation by drawing lessons from the past. Focusing on the German hyperinflation of the 1920s and the inflationary waves of the 1970s, it examines the resulting economic crises and their influence on the subsequent periods of social and political turmoil, namely the fascism of the 1930s and the neoliberal revolution of the 1980s. Featuring five detailed case studies on inflationary waves in various countries in the 1970s, the book identifies economic policy errors of the past, seeking to prevent their recurrence. Offering empirical and theoretical insights alike, the authors present strategies for effectively combating inflation and deflation. In turn, the book assesses the complex ties between wage increases, income distribution, and price changes, ultimately providing valuable recommendations on how wage policy can be used to stabilise price level increases at a low level in a world characterised by diverse and extreme economic shocks."The Resurgence of Inflation" fosters a vital discourse on wage and price dynamics, economic development and the role of trade unions, making it an essential read for policymakers, economists, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of today's economic challenges.

資本主義の変容の歴史－リベラルな資本主義改革批判
Conte, Giampaolo, A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms. (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy) 144 pp. 2024:7 (Routledge, UK) <721-216>
ISBN 978-1-03-257963-4 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms highlights how, since the recent financial crises, the expression 'liberal reform' has entered common parlance as an evocative image of austerity and economic malaise, especially for the working classes and a segment of the middle class. But what exactly does 'liberal reform' refer to? The research analyses the historical origins of liberal-capitalist reformism using a critical approach, starting with the origins of the Industrial Revolution.The book demonstrates that the chief purpose of such reforms was to integrate semi-peripheral states into the capitalist world-economy by imposing, both directly and indirectly, the adoption of rules, institutions, attitudes, and procedures amenable to economic and political interests of capitalist elites and hegemonic states - Britain first, the United States later - between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. As such, the reforms became an active tool used to promote social-economical-financial institutions, norms, and lifestyles typical of a liberal-capitalist economic order, which locates some of its founding values in capital accumulation, profit-seeking, and social transformation.This book will be of significant interest to readers on capitalism, political economy, the history of the global economy and British history.

地中海における自由貿易と自由港
Delogu, Giulia / Stapelbroek, Koen / Trampus, A. (eds.), Free Trade and Free Ports in the Mediterranean. (Political Economies of Capitalism, 1600-1850) 360 pp. 2024:7 (Routledge, UK) <721-217>
ISBN 978-1-03-206928-9 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

How did free trade emerge in early modern times? How did the Mediterranean as a specific region - with its own historical characteristics - produce a culture in which the free port appeared? What was the relation between the type of free trade created in early modern Italy and the development of global trade and commercial competition between states for hegemony in the eighteenth century? And how did the position of the free port, originally a Mediterranean 'invention', develop over the course of time? The contributions to this volume address these questions and explain the institutional genealogy of the free port.Free Trade and Free Ports in the Mediterranean analyses the atypical history and conditions of the Mediterranean region in contradistinction with other regions as an explanation for how and why free ports arose there. This volume engages with the diffusion of free ports from a Mediterranean to a global phenomenon, whilst staying focused on how this diffusion was experienced in the Mediterranean itself. The contributions to this volume bring together the traditional issues of religious openness and tolerance in physically separated areas and the role of consuls and governors, via fiscal techniques, architectural and administrative aspects, with questions about geopolitical balance and primacy.The book will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of historical sub-disciplines (early modern, Mediterranean, global economic, political, institutional, just to mention a few) and to students wishing to perfect their knowledge of the Mediterranean and its global interconnections, and of the origins of free trade.

Humair, Cedric, La Suisse et les empires: affirmation d'une puissance economique (1857-1914). (Collection Focus) 171 p. 2024:2 (Livreo-Alphil, SZ) <721-218>
ISBN 978-2-88950-247-9 paper ¥3,403.- (税込) EUR 14.00

Otero-Cleves, Ana Maria, Plebeian Consumers: Global Connections, Local Trade, and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth-Century Colombia. (Cambridge Latin American Studies) 261 pp. 2024:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <721-219>
ISBN 978-1-00-943559-8 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Plebeian Consumers is both a global and local study. It tells the story of how peasants, day workers, formerly enslaved people, and small landholders became the largest consumers of foreign commodities in nineteenth-century Colombia, and dynamic participants of an increasingly interconnected world. By studying how plebeian consumers altered global processes from below, Ana Maria Otero-Cleves challenges ongoing stereotypes about Latin America's peripheral role in the world economy through the nineteenth century, and its undisputed dependency on the Global North. By exploring Colombians' everyday practices of consumption, Otero-Cleves also invites historians to pay close attention to the intimate relationship between the political world and the economic world in nineteenth-century Latin America. She also sheds light on new methodologies and approaches for studying the material world of men and women who left little record of their own experiences.

ローマの商人の評判
Sancinito, Jane, The Reputation of the Roman Merchant. (Law and Society in the Ancient World) 272 pp. 2024:1 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <721-220>
ISBN 978-0-472-13348-2 hard ¥16,830.- (税込) US$ 75.00 *

Roman merchants, artisans, and service providers faced substantial prejudice. Contemporary authors labeled them greedy, while the man on the street accused merchants of lying and cheating. Legally and socially, merchants were kept at arm's length from respectable society. Yet merchants were common figures in daily life, populating densely packed cities and traveling around the Mediterranean. The Reputation of the Roman Merchant focuses on the strategies retailers, craftsmen, and many other workers used to succeed, examining how they developed good reputations despite the stigma associated with their work. In a novel approach, blending social and economic history, The Reputation of the Roman Merchant considers how reputation worked as an informal institution, establishing and reinforcing traditional Roman norms while lowering the cost of doing business for individual workers. From histories and novels to inscriptions and art, this volume identifies common reputation strategies, explores how points of pride and personal accomplishments were shared with others, and explains responses to merchant activities on the small-scale. The book concludes that merchants invested heavily in their reputations as a way to set themselves apart from common, negative stereotypes without admitting that there was anything shameful about the work they did.

Wang, Haibo, China's Economic System Reform (1978-2018). (Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China's Development Path) 147 pp. 2024:1 (Springer, GW) <720-158>
ISBN 978-981-9992-66-9 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book analyzes and summarizes the process and achievements of China's economic restructuring from 1978 to 2018, including the objectives of China's economic restructuring, the initial stage of market-oriented reform (1979-1984), the comprehensive development stage of market-oriented reform (1985-1992), and the initial establishment stage of market-oriented reform system (1993-2000). The book illustrates the achievements and significance of China's economic system reform during the stage of system improvement (2001-2011) and the stage of comprehensive deepening reform focusing on market-oriented reform (2012-2018). It has great international significance to summarize the experiences of China's economic restructuring, and it is conducive to continuing the reform and achieving the final victory of the reform.

ネルー時代の経済史・思想、及びその持続する影響
Panagariya, Arvind, The Nehru-Era Economic History and Thought & Their Lasting Impact. 368 pp. 2024:8 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <720-163>
ISBN 978-0-19-777461-8 hard ¥11,207.- (税込) US$ 49.95

1970年代のグローバルな経済ショックと冷戦の終焉
De Groot, Michael, Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War. 324 pp. 2024:3 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <720-246>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7411-9 hard ¥12,105.- (税込) US$ 53.95 *

In Disruption, Michael De Groot argues that the global economic upheaval of the 1970s was decisive in ending the Cold War. Both the West and the Soviet bloc struggled with the slowdown of economic growth; chaos in the international monetary system; inflation; shocks in the commodities markets; and the emergence of offshore financial markets. The superpowers had previously disseminated resources to their allies to enhance their own national security, but the disappearance of postwar conditions during the 1970s forced Washington and Moscow to choose between promoting their own economic interests and supporting their partners in Europe and Asia. De Groot shows that new unexpected macroeconomic imbalances in global capitalism sustained the West during the following decade. Rather than a creditor nation and net exporter, as it had been during the postwar period, the United States became a net importer of capital and goods during the 1980s that helped fund public spending, stimulated economic activity, and lubricated the private sector. The United States could now live beyond its means and continue waging the Cold War, and its allies benefited from access to the booming US market and the strengthened US military umbrella. As Disruption demonstrates, a new symbiotic economic architecture powered the West, but the Eastern European regimes increasingly became a burden to the Soviet Union. They were drowning in debt, and the Kremlin no longer had the resources to rescue them.

ビザンツ－経済、社会、制度　600～1100年
Howard-Johnston, James, Byzantium: Economy, Society, Institutions 600-1100. 336 pp. 2024:8 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <720-247>
ISBN 978-0-19-889788-0 hard ¥25,938.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

Byzantium was a strange entity--a relic of classical antiquity which survived deep into the Middle Ages. Drawing on a lifetime's work in the field of Byzantine studies, James Howard-Johnston aims to explain Byzantium's longevity, first as a state geared to fighting a two-centuries long guerrilla war of defence, then as an increasingly confident regional power. It is only by analysing its economic, social, and institutional structures that this strange medieval afterlife of the rump of the Roman empire can be understood. This collection of linked essays outlines the fundamental features of Byzantium, with a focus on the seventh to eleventh centuries. The essays delve below the agitated surface of political, religious, and intellectual history to home in on (1) alterations in economic conditions; and (2) structural change in the social order and apparatus of government. The economic foundations of society and state are examined over the long term, with emphasis placed on mercantile enterprise throughout. Howard-Johnston identifies warfare as the prime driver of social and institutional change in a first phase (seventh to eighth centuries), when the peasant villager rose to a dominant position in the collective mindset and the administration was centralised and militarised as never before. A second phase of change is then highlighted, after the mid-ninth century when Byzantium's security was assured. Military and administrative arrangements were adapted as the empire expanded. The service aristocracy which had developed in the dark centuries began to assert itself to the detriment of the peasantry, but was, Howard-Johnston argues, countered reasonably effectively by new legislation. There was a renaissance in cultural life, most marked in the intellectual sphere in the eleventh century. Finally, the sharp decline in Byzantium's military fortunes from the mid-eleventh century is attributed to external factors rather than internal weakness.

Merlo, Elisabetta / Paris, Ivan, The Italian Fashion System: The Role of Institutions and Institutional Change, 1940s-1980s. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 153 pp. 2024:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <720-248>
ISBN 978-3-031-52374-8 hard ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

Fashion is a research topic of increasing interest to economic and business historians as it points towards new understandings of economic growth and decline. This book explores the role of institutions and institutional change in the Italian fashion system from the 1940s to the 1980s. Starting from the premise that institutions play a central role in explaining the peculiarity and development of the Italian fashion system, this book analyses the diverse institutional entities involved in supporting and promoting Italian fashion. The objective is twofold: to highlight, with a comparative approach, the distinctly polycentric nature of Italian fashion and to explain the emergence of the stylist as the outcome of a lengthy process of institutional change. The book explores the role that institutions and institutional actors have played in making Italian fashion a key player into the world economy, enriching the existing interpretative framework through unique interdisciplinary analysis. This book will be of interest to researchers and students working in economic and business history, the history of fashion, and cultural studies.