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

Blanton, Thomas R., IV / Choi, Agnes / Liu, Jinyu (eds.), Taxation, Economy, and Revolt in Ancient Rome, Galilee, and Egypt. (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies) 224 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-671>
ISBN 978-0-367-47220-7 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This volume introduces new perspectives on taxation policies in the Roman Empire, the Galilee, and Egypt, with unique insights into the economic effects of imperial pacification on local and regional microlevel economies in the Galilee both before and after the First Jewish Revolt against Rome.Through examining tax documents and other ancient texts in detail, this book offers innovative perspectives on the mechanisms, ideological justifications, and politically hierarchizing functions of taxation and tribute, particularly in the Roman Empire. Moreover, leading archaeologists present important information about the economic effects of the First Jewish Revolt on local economies in the Galilee, based on findings from recent archaeological excavations.Taxation, Economy, and Revolt in Ancient Rome, Galilee, and Egypt is of interest to students and scholars in Classical, Biblical, and Jewish Studies, as well as economic history and Mediterranean archaeology.

Coppolaro, Lucia / Kavvadia, Helen (eds.), Deciphering the European Investment Bank: History, Politics and Economics. (Routledge Studies in Modern European History) 336 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-672>
ISBN 978-1-03-213876-3 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Deciphering the European Investment Bank: History, Politics and Economics examines the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union's financial institution and the largest lender and borrower among the International Financial Institutions.Since its establishment in 1958, the EIB has developed without becoming front-page news and has remained highly invisible. By putting together 14 chapters that analyze topical and meaningful moments and aspects of the bank, this edited book offers the first comprehensive analysis of its origins and its evolution in terms of its mandate, governance, structures, policy activity, and performance. Written by acknowledged experts from various disciplines, the chapters weave together history, economics, law, and political science to provide a multidisciplinary examination and capture the complexity of the EIB. The book is a timely initiative for understanding the EIB, whose role has been ever increasing for contributing to the recent global economic challenges, including the economic and financial crisis, climate change, and COVID-19 pandemic.The chapters are written at a level which will be comprehensible to undergraduates in economics, history, and international political economy. It will also be a valuable source of reference for academics, policy makers, bankers, and other practitioners interested in regional development banks and their role in the global economy.

Gipouloux, Francois, Elusive Capital: Merchant Networks, Economic Institutions and Business Practices in Late Imperial China. 336 pp. 2022:6 (E. Elgar, UK) <671-673>
ISBN 978-1-80088-989-7 hard ¥29,972.- (税込) GB￡ 104.00 *

Offering a fresh analysis of late imperial China, this cutting-edge book revisits the roles played by merchant networks, economic institutions, and business practices in the divergence between Europe and China during the trade revolution.Focusing on the operating modes of three major regional trading networks active in Fujian, Huizhou, and Shanxi from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, Francois Gipouloux assesses the driving forces behind their dynamism, the role they played in Chinese economic development, and the constraints in which they were embedded. Examining merchants' business practices, partnerships,and investment strategies, chapters portray the three central figures of China's economy - the financier, the middleman, and the business entrepreneur - and their complex relationships with the imperial bureaucracy. By analysing the divergent trajectory of seemingly identical institutions in China and Europe, Elusive Capital takes a comparative approach to shed light on the factors that inhibited the transformation of commercial development into an industrial revolution, ultimately discovering why capital accumulation proved so elusive in late imperial China.Revealing novel insights from primary documentation including trial accounts, Elusive Capital will prove an invigorating read for students and scholars of economic history, business studies, and Asian urban and regional studies

Goldberg, Joerg, Ein neuer Kapitalismus?: Grundlagen historischer Kapitalismusanalyse. (Neue Kleine Bibliothek 307) 200 S. 2021:7 (PapyRossa, GW) <671-674>
ISBN 978-3-89438-767-9 paper ¥3,621.- (税込) EUR 14.90 *

Der 2020 durch Massnahmen gegen die Corona-Pandemie ausgeloeste weltweite Wirtschaftseinbruch hat die in der Finanzkrise 2008 aufgebrochenen Widersprueche erneut zugespitzt. Das explosive Wachstum der Finanzmaerkte, die Konzentration von Vermoegen bei wenigen Superreichen und die Verschaerfung hegemonialer Konflikte zwischen den USA und China gefaehrden die Weltwirtschaft. Zudem erzwingt die bedrohlicher werdende Klimakrise eine Anpassung ueberkommener oekonomischer Strukturen. Der Versuch, die Wirtschaft durch Flutung mit billigem Zentralbankgeld anzukurbeln, ist ins Gegenteil umgeschlagen. Im Ergebnis wurde die Geldpolitik zur Geisel der Finanzmaerkte. Die Krisen von 2008 und 2020 verbinden sich so zur Krise des neoliberalen Kapitalismus. Ausgehend von der Analyse historischer ≫grosser≪ Krisen des Kapitalismus geht das Buch der Frage nach, ob die Krisenperiode 2008/2020 die Dominanz des Neoliberalismus beendet. Es diskutiert, inwieweit Dekarbonisierung und Digitalisierung einerseits und die Abloesung der US-Hegemonie durch eine plurilaterale Welt(un)ordnung andererseits Konturen eines neuen Kapitalismustyps beinhalten.

Kumar, Amit, Precious Threads and Precarious Lives: Histories of Shawl and Silk Industries of Kashmir, 1846-1950. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-675>
ISBN 978-0-367-63504-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book studies the hitherto unexplored history of the shawl and silk industries of the himalyan state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It focuses on the three processes - production, circulation, and consumption - of the textile industry of the region to highlight its socio-economic and political importance in 19th- and 20th-century Kashmir. Using the micro-history approach, it studies the sites of production - the home looms or the small karkhana - efficiency of labour, and innovations by weavers in their techniques to suit the demands of the market. It also locates the impact colonialism had on transforming the labour economy in the Kashmir textile industry. Further, it compares these karkhanas with the Scottish factories or home looms to illuminate many sites of difference and comparison between the working styles and technologies.Mapping a history as complex as the weave on the finest Kashmiri shawl, this book brings to life the interface between culture, commodity, and colonial networks. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian history, colonial and imperial history, cultural studies, and economic and labour history.

Offer, Avner, Understanding the Private-Public Divide: Markets, Governments, and Time Horizons. 2022:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <671-678>
ISBN 978-1-108-49620-9 hard ¥21,615.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-1-108-79166-3 paper ¥6,913.- (税込) GB￡ 23.99 *

Markets are taken as the norm in economics and in much of political and media discourse. But if markets are superior why does the public sector remain so large? Avner Offer provides a distinctive new account of the effective temporal limits on private, public, and social activity. Understanding the Private-Public Divide accounts for the division of labour between business and the public sector, how it changes over time, where the boundaries ought to run, and the harm that follows if they are violated. He explains how finance forces markets to focus on short-term objectives and why business requires special privileges in return for long-term commitment. He shows how a private sector policy bias leads to inequality, insecurity, and corruption. Integrity used to be the norm and it can be achieved again. Only governments can manage uncertainty in the long-term interests of society, as shown by the challenge of climate change.

Pellicciari, Igor, Re-Framing Foreign Aid History and Politics: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the COVID-19 Outbreak. (Innovations in International Affairs) 168 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-679>
ISBN 978-0-367-64170-2 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book presents an integrated analysis, at once conceptual, historical, and political, of the growing impact of State Funded Aid on international relations, particularly after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the end of the bipolar system.In order to observe Aid as an emerging instrument of foreign policy, the book develops an original approach which puts Donors and Recipients on the same level and examines the political dynamics of their relationship. The focus shifts from looking at the needs covered by Aid interventions to the political motivations of Donors and Recipients. Aid is reconceptualized to include any transaction on favourable terms between these two parties, regardless of the object of that Aid. This framework of analysis is applied to several historical cases, from the post-conflict transition in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the post-Soviet one in Russia in the 1990s to the medical Aid to Italy and Russian vaccine diplomacy to the Republic of San Marino during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the end, the book identifies ten major trends that have shaped the dynamics of the relationship between Donors and Recipients over the past few decades, and on a more general level, traces the impact that State Funded Aid has had on the international system.By arguing that, on the whole, Donors have had greater political interests than Recipients, the book takes a fresh and original look at Aid as instrument of Power Politics. It will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of Foreign Aid and foreign policy, and to all those interested in analysing how they have been affected by the global pandemic.

Pompeian, Edward P., Sustaining Empire: Venezuela's Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797-1828. (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia) 344 pp. 2022:4 (Johns Hopkins U. Pr., US) <671-680>
ISBN 978-1-4214-4338-6 hard ¥14,573.- (税込) US$ 64.95 *

Why did trade with the United States prolong Spanish colonial rule during the Venezuelan independence struggles?From 1790 to 1815, much of the Atlantic World was roiled by European imperial wars. While the citizens of the United States profited from the waste of blood and treasure, Spanish American colonists struggled to preserve their prosperity on an imperial periphery. Along the Caribbean coast of South America, colonial elites and officials fought to secure Venezuela from threats of foreign invasion, slave rebellion, and revolution. For these elites, trading with the United States and other neutral nations was not a way to subvert colonial rule but to safeguard the prosperity and happiness of loyal subjects of the Spanish Crown. Food insecurity, deprivation, and political uncertainty left Venezuela vulnerable to revolution, however.In Sustaining Empire, Edward P. Pompeian lets readers see liberal free trade just as colonial Venezuelans did. From the vantage point of the slave-holding elite to which revolutionary figures like Simon Bolivar belonged, neutral commerce was a valuable and effectual way to conserve the colonial status quo. But after Spain's crisis of sovereignty in 1808, it proved an impediment to Venezuelan independence. Analyzing the diplomatic and economic linkages between the new US republic and revolutionary Latin American governments, Pompeian reminds us that the United States did not, and does not, exist in a vacuum, and that the historic relationships between nations mattered then and matters now.Examining an overlooked region, Pompeian offers a novel interpretation of early United States relations with Latin America, showing how US merchants executed government contracts and established flour, tobacco, and slave trading monopolies that facilitated the maintenance of colonial rule and the Spanish Empire. Trading with the United States, Pompeian argues, kept both colony and empire under a tenuous hold despite revolutionary circumstances. A fascinating revisionist history, Sustaining Empire challenges long-standing assertions that this commerce served primarily as a vector for the one-way transmission of revolutionary, liberal ideas from the North to South Atlantic.

Pompermaier, Matteo, L'economie du mouchoir: credit et microcredit a Venise au XVIIIe siecle. (Collection de l'Ecole francaise de Rome) 399 p. 2022:1 (Ecole francaise de Rome, IT) <671-681>
ISBN 978-2-7283-1501-7 paper ¥7,049.- (税込) EUR 29.00

Ray, Indrajit, The Decline of British Industrial Hegemony: Bengal Industries 1914-46. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 424 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-682>
ISBN 978-1-03-221200-5 hard ¥43,230.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00 *

Through two World Wars and the Great Depression, this book explores the turbulent history of colonial Indian industry in the period immediately prior to independence. Focusing on five major industries in Bengal - coal mining, iron-smelting, jute manufacturing, paper making and tea plantation - the book looks at the impact of the war efforts on production, employment and capital: some industries experienced rapid growth due to additional investment, others suffered due to the dislocation of markets. Moreover, by drawing lessons from the war economy (especially the dearth of various essential commodities including war materials), the colonial government took up various measures in the inter-war period to promote India's domestic industries for the first time. Additionally, the book also argues that many of the expatriate firms in India became financially weak because of the Depression which paved the way for the 'Indianisation' of corporate houses. These elements were significant factors in the decline of British industrial hegemony in India and aided the de-colonisation process which followed. This book will be of interest to scholars of Indian economic history as well as those with wider interests in decolonisation, industrial history and the first half of the twentieth century.

Rigo, Mate, Capitalism in Chaos: How the Business Elites of Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War. 378 pp. 2022:8 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <671-683>
ISBN 978-1-5017-6465-3 hard ¥10,759.- (税込) US$ 47.95 *

Capitalism in Chaos explores an often-overlooked consequence and paradox of the First World War-the prosperity of business elites and bankers in service of the war effort during the destruction of capital and wealth by belligerent armies. This study of business life amid war and massive geopolitical changes follows industrialists and policymakers in Central Europe as the region became crucially important for German and subsequently French plans of economic and geopolitical expansion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Based on extensive research in sixteen archives, five languages, and four states, Mate Rigo demonstrates that wartime destruction and the birth of "war millionaires" were two sides of the same coin. Despite the recent centenaries of the Great War and the Versailles peace treaties, knowledge of the overall impact of war and border changes on business life remains sporadic, based on scant statistics and misleading national foci. Consequently, most histories remain wedded to the viewpoint of national governments and commercial connections across national borders. Capitalism in Chaos changes the static historical perspective by presenting Europe's East as the economic engine of the continent. Rigo accomplishes this paradigm shift by focusing on both supranational regions-including East-Central and Western Europe-as well as the eastern and western peripheries of Central Europe, Alsace-Lorraine and Transylvania, from the 1870s until the 1920s. As a result, Capitalism in Chaos offers a concrete, lively history of economics during major world crises, with a contemporary consciousness toward inequality and disparity during a time of collapse.

Roessner, Philipp Robinson, Managing the Wealth of Nations: Political Economies of Change in Preindustrial Europe. 296 pp. 2022:12 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <671-684>
ISBN 978-1-5292-1122-1 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Commerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government,' wrote Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations, 'and with them, the liberty and security of individuals.' However, Philipp Robinson Roessner shows how, when looked at in the face of history, it has usually been the other way around. This book follows the development of capitalism from the Middle Ages through the industrial revolution to the modern day, casting new light on the areas where premodern political economies of growth and development made a difference. It shows how order and governance provided the foundation for prosperity, growth and the wealth of nations. Written for scholars and students of economic history, this is a pioneering new study that debunks the neoliberal origin myth of how capitalism came into the world.

サン・ジョルジョ銀行とその遺産　1446～1720年
Taviani, Carlo, The Making of the Modern Corporation: The Casa di San Giorgio and its Legacy (1446-1720). 312 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-685>
ISBN 978-1-03-219892-7 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book traces the origins of a financial institution, the modern corporation, in Genoa and reconstructs its diffusion in England, the Netherlands, and France. At its inception, the Casa di San Giorgio (1407-1805) was entrusted with managing the public debt in Genoa. Over time, it took on powers we now ascribe to banks and states, accruing financial characteristics and fiscal, political, and territorial powers. As one of the earliest central banks, it ruled territories and local populations for almost a century. It controlled strategic Genoese possessions near and far, including the island of Corsica, the city of Famagusta (in Cyprus), and trading posts in Crimea, the Black Sea, the Lunigiana in northern Tuscany, and various towns in Liguria. In the early sixteenth century, in his Florentine Histories (Book VIII, Chapter 29), Niccolo Machiavelli was the first to analyze the relationship between the Casa di San Giorgio's financial and territorial powers, declaring its possession of territories as the basis of its ascendancy. Later, the founders of some of the earliest corporations, including the Dutch East India Company (1602), the Bank of England (1694), and John Law's Mississippi Company (1720) in France, referenced the model of the Casa di San Giorgio.

開発の歴史ハンドブック
Unger, Corinna R. / Borowy, Iris / Pernet, C. A. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook on the History of Development. 392 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-686>
ISBN 978-0-367-36600-1 hard ¥61,963.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

This bold and ambitious handbook is the first systematic overview of the history of development ideas, themes, and actors in the twentieth century. Taking stock of the field, the book reflects on blind spots, points out avenues for future research, and brings together a greater plurality of regions, actors, and approaches than other publications on the subject. The book offers a critical reassessment of how historical experiences have shaped contemporary understandings of development, demonstrating that the seemingly self-evident concept of development has been contingent on a combination of material conditions, power structures, and policy choices at different times and in different places. Using a world history approach, the handbook highlights similarities in development challenges across time and space, and it pays attention to the meanings of ideological, cultural, and economic divides in shaping different understandings and practices of development. Taking a thematic approach, the book shows how different actors - governments, non-governmental organizations, individuals, corporations, and international organizations - have responded to concerns regarding the conditions in their own or other societies, such as the provision of education, health, or food; approaches to infrastructure development and industrialization; the adjustment of social conditions; population policies and migration; and the maintenance of stability and security. Bringing together a range of voices from across the globe, this book will be perfect for advanced students and researchers of international development history.

Black, Brian C., To Have and Have Not: Energy in World History. (Exploring World History) 320 pp. 2022:5 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <671-670>
ISBN 978-1-5381-0503-0 hard ¥8,078.- (税込) US$ 36.00 *

This important book tells the sweeping story of energy, tracing patterns of energy use in human history. Contextualizing global history through the lens of the Anthropocene, Brian Black traces the eras of industrialization, concluding with our current transition within the reality of climate change. Written by a leading scholar, this book is an essential contribution to environmental history and the rapidly emerging field of energy history.

Lloyd, Christopher / Hannikainen, Matti (eds.), Social Cohesion and Welfare States: From Fragmentation to Social Peace. (Perspectives in Economic and Social History) 296 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-598>
ISBN 978-1-138-58754-0 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Aiming to go beyond reiterating the stereotypical narrative of the rise of welfare states, this interdisciplinary book examines the long-run historical processes of the development of the welfare state. It focuses on the complex political, social, economic and institutional transformations which give rise to these peaceful and cohesive societies.Welfare is crucial to the story of peaceful social integration and this book explores and explains this vital connection, taking a non-linear view of the history of moving from fragmentation to peace with comprehensive welfare institutions. Chapters collectively focus on three central areas: (a) types of socio-political fragmentation, (b) the interconnection of social, political, and economic forces that led to the institutionalisation of integrationist processes and policies (including re-distributional welfare systems), and (c) how this new institutional development helped achieve, or failed to achieve, social peace and welfare. The international panel of expert contributors provide case studies from a rich variety of country contexts, including Germany, South Africa, the Netherlands, Austria, and the Nordic Countries.This thought-provoking collection of essays is well suited for advanced students and researchers in social history, economic history, political economy and social policy.Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Li, Anding, Decoding China's Car Industry: 40 Years. Tr. by C. R. Lanzit et al. 392 pp. 2021:12 (World Scientific, SI) <671-375>
ISBN 978-981-12-4110-9 hard ¥13,015.- (税込) US$ 58.00 *

This book is an authentic multidimensional history of the car industry in China. 40 years, attempts were made to change the status quo, such as breaking the 220% tariff barrier and setting limits when opening up to international car companies. It was not until the beginning of the 21st century that ordinary people in China started to own cars. This led to rapid growth of the Chinese car industry since the 21st century. However, the industry is facing its biggest challenge due to conflict between China's economic and social values. The author, as a media person chronicling cars in China, has witnessed, experienced, and even participated in the development process of the industry. Weaving in juicy tales, interesting details, and rare pictures, the readers are taken on an exhilarating ride through the story of cars in China.