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

Saller, Richard P., Pliny's Roman Economy: Natural History, Innovation, and Growth. (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) 216 pp. 2022:3 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <670-727>
ISBN 978-0-691-22954-6 hard ¥8,408.- (税込) US$ 39.00 *

The first comprehensive study of Pliny the Elder's economic thought-and its implications for understanding the Roman Empire's constrained innovation and economic growthThe elder Pliny's Natural History (77 CE), an astonishing compilation of 20,000 "things worth knowing," was avowedly intended to be a repository of ancient Mediterranean knowledge for the use of craftsmen and farmers, but this 37-book, 400,000-word work was too expensive, unwieldy, and impractically organized to be of utilitarian value. Yet, as Richard Saller shows, the Natural History offers more insights into Roman ideas about economic growth than any other ancient source. Pliny's Roman Economy is the first comprehensive study of Pliny's economic thought and its implications for understanding the economy of the Roman Empire.As Saller reveals, Pliny sometimes anticipates modern economic theory, while at other times his ideas suggest why Rome produced very few major inventions that resulted in sustained economic growth. On one hand, Pliny believed that new knowledge came by accident or divine intervention, not by human initiative; research and development was a foreign concept. When he lists 136 great inventions, they are mostly prehistoric and don't include a single one from Rome-offering a commentary on Roman innovation and displaying a reverence for the past that contrasts with the attitudes of the eighteenth-century encyclopedists credited with contributing to the Industrial Revolution. On the other hand, Pliny shrewdly recognized that Rome's lack of competition from other states suppressed incentives for innovation. Pliny's understanding should be noted because, as Saller shows, recent efforts to use scientific evidence about the ancient climate to measure the Roman economy are flawed.By exploring Pliny's ideas about discovery, innovation, and growth, Pliny's Roman Economy makes an important new contribution to the ongoing debate about economic growth in ancient Rome.

Silver, Morris, The Purpled World: Marketing Haute Couture in the Aegean Bronze Age. (Hellenic Studies 92 / Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustes for Harvard University) 426 pp. 2022:4 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <670-728>
ISBN 978-0-674-27256-9 paper ¥7,438.- (税込) US$ 34.50 *

Sless, Henry, Merchant Princes and Charlatans or Makers of Money?: Decoding Icons of Nineteenth Century British and International Finance. 338 pp. 2022:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <670-729>
ISBN 978-3-030-86603-7 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99 *

This book provides a critical analysis of visual images of British and international finance during the nineteenth century. Its focus is on the financiers themselves, contrasting the depiction of the respectable Merchant Princes with the less than perfect charlatans (white-collar criminals) who defrauded investors of millions. The breakdown of trust between financiers and investors that evolved during this period is represented visually in depictions of the emotional response of investors to the uncertain financial climate.Throughout the book a PEARL methodology has been used to critique the images reflecting the impact of any Publisher's political bias, the Editorial and Artistic techniques used to convey the messages in the images, and the Legal context (especially a concern in countries such as France and Germany where censorship was strict).The book concludes that white-collar criminals were invariably secretly admired in Britain, and rarely severely satirised. Similarly, Merchant Princes were depicted favourably in Britain as members of the ruling elite during the latter half of the century. This is contrasted with the more extreme anti-monopolistic images in the US and the extreme anti-Semitic treatment of Jewish financiers in France and Germany.

長い19世紀における飢餓と飢饉　第1巻
Turley Houston, Gail (ed.), Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century. Volume 1. 396 pp. 2022:5 (Routledge, UK) <670-731>
ISBN 978-0-367-18751-4 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

Capturing Dorothy Hartley's point that there was "a dislocation of the food supply" during the Industrial Revolution, which occurred through the enclosure movement, the poor laws, the game and corn laws (qtd. in Consuming Fictions 8), this section would begin with the date of Thomas Malthus's "Principle of Population" (1798) to capture voices invoked during the lead up to the Reform Bill of 1832.

長い19世紀における飢餓と飢饉　第3巻
Turley Houston, Gail (ed.), Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century. Volume 3. 418 pp. 2022:5 (Routledge, UK) <670-732>
ISBN 978-0-367-18753-8 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

This volume examines the sub-topics on the use of the metaphor of hunger to describe the condition of women as well as to a sub-topic on invisible poverty and hunger after Chartism failed. As Disraeli noted, there were still two Englands "fed by a different food."

長い19世紀における飢餓と飢饉　第4巻
Turley Houston, Gail (ed.), Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century. Volume 4. 384 pp. 2022:5 (Routledge, UK) <670-733>
ISBN 978-0-367-18754-5 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

This volume examines the rhetorics used around race and famine in the colonies vis-a-vis the persistence of hunger and poverty in the island nation/empire. As William Booth reminded the British in his aptly titled In Darkest England (1890), one need not look further than London's underbelly to find intractable hunger.

長い19世紀における飢餓と飢饉　第2巻
Turley Houston, Gail (ed.), Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century Britain. Volume 2. 399 pp. 2022:5 (Routledge, UK) <670-734>
ISBN 978-0-367-18752-1 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

The Hungry Forties and the Great Famine, with their horrifying monikers, deserve a section just for the many voices engaged in political, humanitarian, and social venues in juxtaposition to the voices of the starving. This volume shows how rhetoric itself experiences a crisis of representation in the face of such dramatic, tragic events: how does a culture deal with its own chosen guilty and irrational psychological motives for casting a blind eye to famine within its own borders?

Zhou, Jianbo, Westernization Movement and Early Thought of Modernization in China: Pragmatism and Changes in Society, 1860s-1900s. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 386 pp. 2022:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <670-735>
ISBN 978-3-030-86984-7 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book examines the Westernization Movement in modern Chinese History, in the latter 19th century and the economic impact on manufacturing and enterprise evolution. It examines the rise, development, and performance of this movement on both the micro and macro-levels. This book reveals achievements in technology transfer without political changes, which set the limits for the westernization movement. It evaluates the link between the Westernization Movement and China's economic reforms after 1978, and the factors that may have constrained the development of economic thought in China. The book provides valuable insights into how Chinese economic thought transitioned, and is a valuable contribution to the debate on how the early Westernization Movement in China caused a change in consumer thought. It will be of interest to academics in economic history and those interested in the development of modern China and the emergence of manufacturing and entrepreneurship in China.

Oezcelik, Emre / Oezdemir, Yonca (eds.), Political Economy of Development in Turkey: 1838 -Present. (The Political Economy of the Middle East) 327 pp. 2022:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <670-736>
ISBN 978-981-16-7317-7 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

Adopting a political-economy perspective, this book is an original collection of research chapters that focus on Turkey's economic-development experience from the nineteenth century to the present. It provides a systematic and chronological examination of Turkey's major historical dynamics in the economic and socio-political spheres. The chapters are organized according to the consecutive phases of Turkey's political-economic development. Each chapter not only reflects on the country-specific aspects of those development phases, but also clarifies the dependence of domestic-policy orientations on the dynamics of the world economy. As such, the book provides a historically-conscious, political-economic account of Turkey's dependent-development experience. The book serves as a quality reference on the political economy of modern Turkey, bringing together fourteen prominent experts as contributing authors who have devoted their intellectual lives to the understanding and explanation of political-economic dynamics in both Turkey and the world. All contributors write on a historical period of the Turkish economy in which they are most specialized. This aspect of the book is a momentous advantage in the field of Turkey's political economy, enabling the highest degree of academic expertise to concentrate in each chapter.

P.-Y.ドンゼ著　メドテック－グローバル産業の構築と成長　1960～2020年
Donze, Pierre-Yves, Medtech: The Formation and Growth of a Global Industry, 1960-2020. 228 pp. 2022:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <670-678>
ISBN 978-981-16-7173-9 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99 *

This book offers an analysis of the dynamics of the global medical device (medtech) industry from the 1960s until the present, using the approaches of business history and industry studies. While most of the publications in the corresponding field have focused on particular countries/regions or actors, this research is unique in its scope. First, it explores the formation and development of medtech business both globally and in the major countries engaged in this industry (the United States, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, France, and China). Second, it tackles a broad range of actors and organizations, from individual entrepreneurs, medical doctors, and engineers to small family firms, start-ups, and large multinationals, as well as universities and research centers. Hence, for the first time, this book both provides a general understanding of the formation and transformation of the medtech industry throughout the world and sheds light on the main features of a fast-growing business in the twenty-first century. This book will be of value to historians, industry professionals, and analysts.

Garcia Marsilla, Juan Vicente, Food Consumption in Medieval Iberia: A Socio-economic Analysis, 13th-15th Centuries. (Studies in Medieval History and Culture) 368 pp. 2022:5 (Routledge, UK) <670-719>
ISBN 978-0-367-36408-3 hard ¥42,735.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00 *

From the banquets of kings and nobles to the daily struggle for the subsistence of the poor, food was already much more than a biological necessity in the Middle Ages: it was a social phenomenon full of meaning. In this book all the implications and meanings that food had on the Iberian Peninsula between the 13th and 15th centuries are analyzed. Historical assessment of the region is particularly rewarding because of the quantity and variety of historical sources, and because of the coexistence in medieval Iberia of the three great monotheistic religions: Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Taking both economic and sociological perspectives, every aspect of food is analyzed, from the commercialization of food production to its consumption, and from the evolution of culinary techniques to table manners.

邉英治他著　銀行監督の形式化－19～20世紀
Hotori, Eiji / Wendschlag, Mikael / Giddey, Thibaud, Formalization of Banking Supervision: 19th-20th Centuries. 161 pp. 2022:1 (Springer, GW) <670-720>
ISBN 978-981-16-6782-4 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-981-16-6785-5 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99 *

This open access book is the first attempt to elaborate the formalization phase of banking supervision in eight developed countries-USA, Japan, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France, and UK. This innovative study in the field of banking supervision history identifies why national histories of banking supervision share similarities, but also remain different and are heavily path dependent. This book will be of great interest not only to financial/economic historians but also to general readers interested in banking supervision, i.e., students, bankers, supervisors, and international officials.

Huang, Yingwei, Work Point System in Rural China. (Global Economic History Series 19 / The Quantitative Economic History of China 6) 345 pp. 2022:5 (Brill, NE) <670-721>
ISBN 978-90-04-34676-5 hard ¥41,430.- (税込) EUR 176.00 *

The Chinese work point system was a series of labor organization rules and regulations used for the calculation of the amount and quality of labor and for determining the form of labor organization. The history of the work point system is thus the history of China's agricultural collectivization. In this book we analyse how these work points were allotted, how they provided, or impaired, labor incentives, and if they leave open the possibility for income mobility.

Koyama, Mark / Rubin, Jared, How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth. 240 pp. 2022:3 (Polity Pr., UK) <670-722>
ISBN 978-1-5095-4022-8 hard ¥15,081.- (税込) US$ 69.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-4023-5 paper ¥5,379.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich? Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin dive into the many theories of why modern economic growth happened when and where it did. They discuss recently advanced theories rooted in geography, politics, culture, demography, and colonialism. Pieces of each of these theories help explain key events on the path to modern riches. Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in 18th-century Britain? Why did some European countries, the US, and Japan catch up in the 19th century? Why did it take until the late 20th and 21st centuries for other countries? Why have some still not caught up? Koyama and Rubin show that the past can provide a guide for how countries can escape poverty. There are certain prerequisites that all successful economies seem to have. But there is also no panacea. A society's past and its institutions and culture play a key role in shaping how it may - or may not - develop.Also available as an audiobook.

Malanima, Paolo, The Economy of Renaissance Italy. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 240 pp. 2022:5 (Routledge, UK) <670-723>
ISBN 978-0-367-67774-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Drawing on a wide range of literature and adopting a macroeconomic approach, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the Italian economy during the Renaissance, focusing on the period between 1348, the year of the Black Death, and 1630.The Italian Renaissance played a crucial role in the formation of the modern world, with developments in culture, art, politics, philosophy, and science sitting alongside, and overlapping with, significant changes in production, forms of organization, trades, finance, agriculture, and population. Yet, it is usually argued that splendour in culture coexisted with economic depression and that the modernity of Renaissance culture coincided with an epoch of epidemics, famines, economic crisis, poverty, and destitution. This book examines both faces of the Italian economy during the Renaissance, showing that capital per worker was plentiful and productive capacity and incomes were relatively high. The endemic presence of the plague, curbing population growth, played an important role in this. It is also shown that the organization of production in industry and finance, consumerism, human capital, and mercantile rationality were the forerunners of modern-day capitalism.This book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of the Renaissance and Italian economic history.

Martin, Jamie, The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance. 304 pp. 2022:6 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <670-724>
ISBN 978-0-674-97654-2 hard ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

A pioneering history traces the origins of global economic governance-and the political conflicts it generates-to the aftermath of World War I.International economic institutions like the IMF and World Bank exert incredible influence over the domestic policies of many states. These institutions date from the end of World War II and amassed power during the neoliberal era of the late twentieth century. But as Jamie Martin shows, if we want to understand their deeper origins and the ideas and dynamics that shaped their controversial powers, we must turn back to the explosive political struggles that attended the birth of global economic governance in the early twentieth century.The Meddlers tells the story of the first international institutions to govern the world economy, including the League of Nations and Bank for International Settlements, created after World War I. These institutions endowed civil servants, bankers, and colonial authorities from Europe and the United States with extraordinary powers: to enforce austerity, coordinate the policies of independent central banks, oversee development programs, and regulate commodity prices. In a highly unequal world, they faced a new political challenge: was it possible to reach into sovereign states and empires to intervene in domestic economic policies without generating a backlash?Martin follows the intense political conflicts provoked by the earliest international efforts to govern capitalism-from Weimar Germany to the Balkans, Nationalist China to colonial Malaya, and the Chilean desert to Wall Street. The Meddlers shows how the fraught problems of sovereignty and democracy posed by institutions like the IMF are not unique to late twentieth-century globalization, but instead first emerged during an earlier period of imperial competition, world war, and economic crisis.

T.ロイ著　モンスーン経済－変化する気候におけるインドの歴史
Roy, Tirthankar, Monsoon Economies: India's History in a Changing Climate. (History for a Sustainable Future) 152 pp. 2022:4 (MIT Pr., US) <670-726>
ISBN 978-0-262-54358-3 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

欧州における人的資本と地域開発－長期的・比較的視点
Diebolt, Claude / Hippe, Ralph, Human Capital and Regional Development in Europe: A Long-Run Comparative View. (Frontiers in Economic History) 141 pp. 2022:1 (Springer, GW) <670-630>
ISBN 978-3-030-90857-7 hard ¥21,182.- (税込) EUR 89.99 *

Human capital is of utmost importance for the future of our knowledge economies and societies. However, it is unequally distributed in Europe, contributing to marked spatial patterns of economic prosperity within and across countries. In many cases, these patterns have a long history. To understand them better, it requires to go back in time, when mass schooling was starting to become a reality across Europe. Taking a long-run perspective over more than 150 years, this book shows the development and the distribution of human capital in the regions of Europe and its connections with the economy. It provides insights into recent research findings in this area, including theoretical advances and the use of new empirical data.

Neugebauer, Christian, Economic Liberalization and Authoritarianism: A Comparative Political Economy of Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, and Morocco, 1950-2011. (Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens) 653 pp. 2021:12 (Springer VS, GW) <670-542>
ISBN 978-3-658-35638-5 paper ¥23,536.- (税込) EUR 99.99

Contrary to other world regions, political regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remain largely authoritarian. While the search for explanations is still ongoing, Christian Neugebauer draws attention to a hitherto underresearched factor: economic liberalization. Being part of a global shift from state-led development towards structural adjustment in the economy, these policies also deeply affected the countries of the MENA region. This makes the resilience of authoritarianism in the region all the more puzzling, as a large part of the scientific community expected economic liberalization to undermine authoritarian regimes. Neugebauer strives to solve the puzzle with a comparative case study that covers four countries (Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, and Morocco) and their political regimes, from independence in the 1950s to the Arab Spring in 2011. He shows that two specific policies of economic liberalization might in fact have been relevant for regime stability: consumer-price liberalization and privatization.

Colin, Jean-Paul, Dictionnaire de la vie a la campagne: et des activites paysannes et agricoles d'hier et ajourd'hui. (Champion les dictionnaires 24) 424 p. 2021:8 (Champion, FR) <670-2>
ISBN 978-2-38096-028-0 paper ¥4,919.- (税込) EUR 20.90

長い19世紀における飢餓と飢饉　全4巻
Turley Houston, Gail (ed.), Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century. 4 vols. 1597 pp. 2022:5 (Routledge, UK) <100-5826>
ISBN 978-0-367-18750-7 hard ¥112,820.- (税込) GB￡ 396.00

In the age of empire, Victorians and Romantics over the long 19th century faced issues of governance that no other society had faced on such a massive level, causing socio-political questions that had to be addressed based on sheer necessity but little governmental experience. In an age in which there was a decade referred to as "the Hungry Forties," and in which the Great Famine in Ireland occurs as well, there are high rates of poverty across the whole century in Britain and its colonies. At the same time that hunger and famine were intractible issues, irresolvable across nineteenth-century Britain, socio-political entities had little stomach for solving the problem and few technocrats had economic answers based on real world experience. This four-volume collection of primary sources examine hunger and famine in Britain and its empire across the long nineteenth century.