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

Payne, Brian, Eating the Ocean: Seafood and Consumer Culture in Canada. (La collection Louis J. Robichaud / The Louis J. Robichaud Series) 296 pp. 2022:12 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <681-264>
ISBN 978-0-228-01449-2 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-0-228-01598-7 paper ¥8,963.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

During the first half of the twentieth century, Canadian fisheries regularly produced more fish than markets could absorb, driving down profits and wages. To address this, both industry and government sought to stimulate domestic consumption via increased advertising. In Eating the Ocean Brian Payne explores how government-funded marketing called upon Canadian housewives to prepare more seafood meals to improve family health and aid an industry central to Canadian identity and heritage. The goal was first to make seafood a central element of a "wholesome" diet as a solution to a perceived nutritional crisis, and, second, to aid industry recovery and growth while decreasing Canadian fisheries' dependency on foreign markets. But fishery managers and policymakers fundamentally miscalculated consumer demand, wrongly assuming that Canadians could and would eat more seafood. Fisheries continued to extract more fish than the environment and the market could sustain, and the collapse of the nation's fisheries that we are now seeing has as much to do with failed assessments of market demand as it does with faulty extraction practices. Using internal communications between industry leaders and Ottawa bureaucrats, as well as advertising and promotional material published in the nation's leading magazines, national and local newspapers, and radio programming, Eating the Ocean traces the flawed understanding of not only supply but demand, a misguided gamble that caused fisheries to become the most mismanaged resource economy in early-twentieth-century Canada.

北欧における小規模商業の邂逅と実際　1820～1960年
Ahlbeck, Jutta / Oestman, Ann-Catrin / Stark, Eija (eds.), Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820-1960: Forgotten Livelihoods. 353 pp. 2022:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <681-303>
ISBN 978-3-030-98079-5 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99 *
ISBN 978-3-030-98082-5 paper ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820-1960. It investigates how traders and customers interacted in different spaces and approaches ambulatory trade as an arena of encounters by looking at everyday social practices. Petty traders often belonged to subjugated social groups, like ethnic minorities and migrants, whereas their customers belonged to the resident population. How were these mobile traders perceived and described? What goods did they peddle? How did these commodities enable and shape trading encounters? What kind of narratives can be found, and whose? These questions pertaining to daily practices on a grass-root level have not been addressed in previous research. Encounters and Practices embarks on hidden histories of survival, vulnerability, and conflict, but also discloses reciprocal relations, even friendships.

銅のグローバルヒストリー　1830～1980年
Declercq, Robrecht / Money, Duncan / Froland, H. O. (eds.), Born with a Copper Spoon: A Global History of Copper, 1830-1980. 328 pp. 2022:11 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) * paper 2023:11 <681-304>
ISBN 978-0-7748-6485-5 hard ¥20,183.- (税込) US$ 89.95 *
ISBN 978-0-7748-6486-2 paper ¥8,963.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

Over the past two centuries, industrial societies have demanded ever-increasing quantities of copper - essential for light, power, and communication. Born with a Copper Spoon examines how the metal has been produced and distributed around the globe. Large-scale production has affected ecologies, states, and companies, while creating and even destroying local communities dependent on volatile commodity markets. Kenneth Kaunda once remarked that Zambians were "born with a copper spoon in our mouths," but few societies managed to profit from copper's abundance. From copper cartels to the consequences of resource nationalism, Born with a Copper Spoon delivers a global perspective on one of the world's most important metals.

Fourie, Johan, Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom: Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History. 290 pp. 2022:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <681-305>
ISBN 978-1-00-922846-6 hard ¥15,847.- (税込) GB￡ 54.99 *
ISBN 978-1-00-922848-0 paper ¥5,472.- (税込) GB￡ 18.99 *

Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom is an entertaining and engaging guide to global economic history told for the first time from an African perspective. In thirty-five short chapters Johan Fourie tells the story of 100,000 years of human history spanning humankind's migration out of Africa to the Covid-19 pandemic. His unique account reveals just how much we can learn by asking unexpected questions such as 'How could a movie embarrass Stalin?', 'Why do the Japanese play rugby?' and 'What do an Indonesian volcano, Frankenstein and Shaka Zulu have in common?'. The book sheds new light on urgent debates about the roots and reasons for prosperity, the march of opportunity versus the crushing boot of exploitation, and why it is the builders of society - rather than the burglars -who ultimately win out.

中世欧州における公的課税ハンドブック
Menjot, Denis / Caesar, Mathieu / Garnier, F. et al. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Public Taxation in Medieval Europe. (Routledge History Handbooks) 512 pp. 2023 (Routledge, UK) <681-307>
ISBN 978-0-367-90336-7 hard ¥56,199.- (税込) GB￡ 195.00 *

Beginning in the twelfth century, taxation increasingly became an essential component of medieval society in most parts of Europe. The state-building process and relations between princes and their subject cities or between citizens and their rulers were deeply shaped by fiscal practices. Although medieval taxation has produced many publications over the past decades there remains no synthesis of this important subject. This volume provides a comprehensive overview on a European scale and suggests new paths of inquiry. It examines the fiscal systems and practices of medieval Europe, including essential themes such as medieval fiscal theory and the power to tax; royal and urban taxation; and Church taxation. It goes on to survey the entire European continent, as well as including comparative chapters on the non-European medieval world, exploring questions on how taxation developed and functioned; what kinds of problems authorities encountered assessing their fiscal power; and the circulation of fiscal cultures and practices across cities and kingdoms. The book also provides a glossary of the most important types of medieval taxes, giving an essential definition of key terms cited in the chapters. The Routledge Handbook of Public Taxation in Medieval Europe will appeal to a large audience, from seasoned scholars who need a comprehensive synthesis, to students and younger scholars in search of an overview of this critical subject.

貨幣と帝国－C.P.キンドルバーガーとドル制度
Mehrling, Perry, Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System. (Studies in New Economic Thinking) 225 pp. 2022:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <681-252>
ISBN 978-1-00-915857-2 hard ¥8,642.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99 *

Charles Kindleberger ranks as one of the twentieth century's best known and most influential international economists. This book traces the evolution of his thinking in the context of a 'key-currency' approach to the rise of the dollar system, here revealed as the indispensable framework for global economic development since World War II. Unlike most of his colleagues, Kindleberger was deeply interested in history, and his economics brimmed with real people and institutional details. His research at the New York Fed and BIS during the Great Depression, his wartime intelligence work, and his role in administering the Marshall Plan gave him deep insight into how the international financial system really operated. A biography of both the dollar and a man, this book is also the story of the development of ideas about how money works. It throws revealing light on the underlying economic forces and political obstacles shaping our globalized world.