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

Horne, Tom, A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain: Trade Networks and the Importation of a Southern Scandinavian Silver Bullion Economy. (Routledge Archaeologies of the Viking World) 274 pp. 2022 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <667-575>
ISBN 978-0-367-35784-9 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-219733-3 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

Viking-Age trade, network theory, silver economies, kingdom formation, and the Scandinavian raiding and settlement of Ireland and Britain are all popular subjects. However, few have looked for possible connections between these phenomena, something this book suggests were closely related.By allying Blomkvist's network-kingdoms with Sindbaek's nodal market-networks, it is argued that the political and economic character of Viking-Age Britain and Ireland - my 'Insular Scandinavia' - is best understood if Dublin and Jorvik are seen as being established as nodes of a market-based network-kingdom. Based on a dataset relating to the then developing bullion economies of the central and eastern Scandinavian worlds and southern Scandinavia in particular, it is argued that war-band leaders from, or familiar with, 'Danish' markets like Hedeby and Kaupang transposed to Insular Scandinavia the concept of polities based on establishment of markets and the protection of routeways between them. Using this book, readers can think of interlinked Dublin and Great Army elites creating an Insular version of a Danish-style nodal market kingdom based on commerce and silver currencies.A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain will help specialist researchers and students of Viking archaeology make connections between southern Scandinavia and the market economy of the Ui Imair ('descendants of Ivarr') operating out of the twin nodes of Dublin and Jorvik via the initial establishment of Hiberno-Scandinavian longphuirt and the related winter-camps of the Viking Great Army.

茶の歴史
Krieger, Martin, Geschichte des Tees: Anbau, Handel und globale Genusskulturen. 336 S. 2021 (Boehlau, GW) <667-576>
ISBN 978-3-412-52204-9 hard ¥8,508.- (税込) EUR 35.00 *

In der Teetasse spiegeln sich zwei Jahrtausende Weltgeschichte wider. Schon frueh ein Getraenk am chinesischen Kaiserhof und in buddhistischen Kloestern, eroberte der Tee seit dem 17. Jahrhundert Europa. Die Mediziner versprachen sich von ihm Gesundheit und ein langes Leben, am gepflegten Teetisch wurde er wiederum zum Inbegriff hoechster Genussfreude. Auch die Deutschen lernten ihn kennen und schaetzen. Nicht nur in Ostfriesland, sondern ebenso in Hamburg, Berlin, Weimar und Baden Baden verspricht der Tee bis heute Genuss und Lebensfreude. Das Buch schildert in lebendiger Sprache Anbau, Handel und Konsum eines einzigartigen Getraenks. Ebenso hinterfragt es die sich immer noch um den Tee rankenden Legenden. Es liefert einen umfassenden Ueberblick von den fruehesten Anfaengen in Asien bis in die Gegenwart und beleuchtet ausfuehrlich die Entwicklung des Teegenusses in Deutschland.

Lee, Robert / McNamara, Paul (eds.), Port-Cities and their Hinterlands: Migration, Trade and Cultural Exchange from the Early Seventeenth Century to 1939. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 360 pp. 2022:3 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <667-577>
ISBN 978-1-03-213978-4 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-213979-1 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This interdisciplinary book brings together eleven original contributions by scholars in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, America and Japan which represent innovative and important research on the relationship between cities and their hinterlands. They discuss the factors which determined the changing nature of port-hinterland relations in particular, and highlight the ways in which port-cities have interacted and intersected with their different hinterlands as a result of both in- and out-migration, cultural exchange and the wider flow of goods, services and information. Historically, maritime commerce was a powerful driving force behind urbanisation and by 1850 seaports accounted for a significant proportion of the world's great cities. Ports acted as nodal points for the flow of population and the dissemination of goods and services, but their role as growth poles also affected the economic transformation of both their hinterlands and forelands. In fact, most ports, irrespective of their size, had a series of overlapping hinterlands whose shifting importance reflected changes in trading relations (political frameworks), migration patterns, family networks and cultural exchange. Urban historians have been criticised for being concerned primarily with self-contained processes which operate within the boundaries of individual towns and cities and as a result, the key relationships between cities and their hinterlands have often been neglected. The chapters in this work focus primarily on the determinants of port-hinterland linkages and analyse these as distinct, but interrelated, fields of interaction. Marking a significant contribution to the literature in this field, Port-Cities and their Hinterlands provides essential reading for students and scholars of the history of economics.

Lucas, Isabelle, Un imperialisme electrique: un siecle de relations economiques helvetico-argentines (1890-1979). (Histoire et societes contemporaines) 490 p. 2021:10 (Antipodes, SZ) <667-578>
ISBN 978-2-88901-186-5 paper ¥8,265.- (税込) EUR 34.00

McCarthy, Pat, A History of the Irish Pharmaceutical Industry: Making Medicines for the World. 256 pp. 2021:5 (Four Courts Pr., IE) <667-579>
ISBN 978-1-84682-979-6 hard ¥8,646.- (税込) GB￡ 30.00

国連SDGs以前の歴史
Gutmann, Martin / Gorman, Daniel (eds.), Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Historical Companion. 560 pp. 2022:2 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <667-390>
ISBN 978-0-19-284875-8 hard ¥34,584.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00 *

Chapter 14 from this book is published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Scholarship Online, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/ Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals enables professionals, scholars, and students engaged with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to develop a richer understanding of the legacies and historical complexities of the policy fields behind each goal. Each of the seventeen chapters tells the decades- or centuries-old backstory of one SDG and reveals the global human connections, governance tools and frameworks, and the actors involved in past efforts to address sustainable development challenges. Collectively, the seventeen chapters build a historical latticework that reveals the multiple and often interwoven sources that have shaped the challenges later encompassed in the SDGs. Engaging and insightfully written, the book's chapters are authored by international experts from multiple disciplines. The book is an indispensable resource and a vital foundation for understanding the past's indelible footprint on our contemporary sustainable development challenges.