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

世界史を通じた大豆－持続可能な農業食品制度のための教訓
Baraibar, Matilda / Deutsch, Lisa, The Soybean Through World History: Lessons for Sustainable Agrofood Systems. (Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment) 280 pp. 2023:8 (Routledge, UK) <695-519>
ISBN 978-0-367-40631-8 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization.The book uses a historical lens to analyze the processes and features that brought us to the current global configuration of the soybean commodity chain. From its origins as a peasant food in ancient China, today the protein-rich soybean is by far the most cultivated biotech crop on Earth; used to make a huge variety of food and industrial products, including animal feed, tofu, cooking oil, soy sauce, biodiesel and soap. While there is a burgeoning amount of literature on how the contemporary global soy web affects large tracts of our planet's social-ecological systems, little attention has been given to the questions of how we got here and what alternative roles the soybean has played in the past. This book fills this gap and demonstrates that it is impossible to properly comprehend the contemporary global soybean chain, or the wider agrofood system of which it is a part, without looking at both their long and short historical development. However, a history of the soybean and its changing roles within equally changing agrofood systems is inexorably a history about globalization. Not only does this book map out where soybeans are produced, but also who governs, wields power and accumulates capital in the entire commodity chain from inputs in production to consumption, as well as identifying the institutional context the global commodity chain operates within. The book concludes with a discussion of the main challenges and contradictions of the current soy regime that could trigger its rupture and end.This book is essential reading for students, practitioners and scholars interested in agriculture and food systems, global commodity chains, globalization, environmental history, economic history and social-ecological systems.

20世紀東欧・ロシアにおける消費と広告
Eriksroed-Burger, Magdalena / Hein-Kircher, H. et al. (eds.), Consumption and Advertising in Eastern Europe and Russia in the Twentieth Century. 259 pp. 2023:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <695-623>
ISBN 978-3-031-20203-2 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This book explores Eastern European consumer cultures in the twentieth century, taking a comparative perspective and conceptualizing the peculiarities of consumption in the region. Contributions cover lifestyles and marketing strategies in imperial contexts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; urban consumer cultures in the Interwar Period; and consumer and advertising cultures in the Soviet Union and its satellite republics. It traces the development of marketing throughout the century, and the changes in society brought about by democratization and the 'Americanization' of consumption. Taken together, the essays gathered here make a valuable contribution to our understanding of consumption and advertising in the region.

グローバルな経済危機の時代　1929～2022年
Mates-Barco, Juan Manuel / Vazquez-Farinas, Maria (eds.), The Age of Global Economic Crises: (1929-2022). (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 248 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-625>
ISBN 978-1-03-248251-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

The frequency and repetition of economic crises over the last hundred years demands an analysis that allows us to discover the root causes of these situations and the problems they have generated in the world economy. This book investigates these cycles throughout the 20th and the early 21st century. Economic crises can be the result of political or military conflict, but they have also been the consequence of bad practices, unbridled speculation, excessive greed, or poor management by the rulers and leaders of nations. The contributors to this volume analyse the causes and consequences of economic crises from the Great Depression to the present day, incorporating post-World War II reconstruction, the oil crisis of the 1970s and the "lost" Latin American decade of the 1980s, among others. This longer-term view allows the book to provide insights into understanding economic cycles in the long run, not just at a specific moment in time, and the ways in which they have spread internationally. This historical analysis also helps to shed new light on the current Covid-impacted situation, as it provides another reading of the main crises of recent centuries and their causes and consequences, as well as the measures and policies adopted to overcome the difficulties. This book will be of significant interest to readers in economic history, business history, politics, and economics and history more broadly.

Rico, Christian, Hispania negotia: essai sur le commerce au long cours de l'Hispanie romaine (IIe s. av. J.-C.-IIe s. apr. J.-C.). (Archeologies mediterraneennes) 2022:11 (Pr. U. de Provence, FR) <695-626>
ISBN 979-10-320-0418-0 paper ¥6,120.- (税込) EUR 26.00

島田竜登他編　インド洋世界における商人と港湾
Seshan, Radhika / Shimada, Ryuto (eds.), Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land. 144 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-627>
ISBN 978-1-03-224827-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-250045-4 paper ¥10,822.- (税込) GB￡ 37.99 *

The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space. This book and its companion, Connecting the Indian Ocean World explore these connections around the wider Indian Ocean world.The book looks at the extensive range of maritime networks that criss-crossed pre-modern Asia and the Indian Ocean region connecting ports, peoples and cultures. It explores the connected histories of these regions and the movement of merchants, commodities and money which created the multi-cultural and cosmopolitan port cities like Surat and Nagasaki. With contributions from Indian and Japanese scholars, the volume analyses travellers' accounts and trade routes between Japan and India, offering insights into how maritime movement shaped culture, politics and the social life of people in the most populated and productive regions of the world in the early modern period.Rich in archival material, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of Indian Ocean history, maritime history, economic and commercial history, Asian and South Asian history and social anthropology.

イベリア帝国における持続可能性の起源－造船と林業　14～19世紀
Trapaga-Monchet, Koldo / Aragon-Ruano, Alvaro et al. (eds.), Roots of Sustainability in the Iberian Empires: Shipbuilding and Forestry, 14th - 19th Centuries. (Routledge Research in Early Modern History) 312 pp. 2023 (Routledge, UK) <695-629>
ISBN 978-1-032-31337-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book sheds light on the roots of sustainability in the Iberian Peninsula that lie in the interrelations between shipbuilding and forestry from the 14th to the 19th centuries, combining various geographical scales (local, regional and national) and different timespans (short-term and long-term studies).Three main themes are discussed in depth here: firstly, the roots of current conservationism in the Iberian Peninsula; the evolution of the forest policies set in motion at local, regional and national levels to meet the demand for wood and timber; and the long-standing impact of naval empirical forestry on the conservation and transformation of the forest landscape. Therefore, the book attempts, on the one hand, to unravel the forest policies and empirical forestry implemented in the Iberian Peninsula as the roots or origins of what we refer to nowadays as "sustainability", and to assess the contribution of imperial forestry to landscape planning and the conservation of forest resources, on the other, and, finally, to break away from the prevailing theological narrative that shipbuilding was the main agent of forest destruction in the early modern Iberian Peninsula, for which both quantitative and qualitative analyses will be conducted.This book will be of key interest to environmental and social historians and researchers, and to anyone devoted to conducting research on the emergence and evolution of the concept of "sustainability" with respect to the governance and the historical transformation of woodlands around the world.

Vassiliou, Marius S. / Mir-Babayev, Mir-Yusif, US and Azerbaijani Oil in the Nineteenth Century: The Two Titans. 182 pp. 2022:11 (Lexington Books, US) <695-630>
ISBN 978-1-79362-952-4 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *

The nineteenth century was an exciting and dynamic era of rapid progress in industry and technology. One of the most vigorous of the new industries was petroleum. It first transformed the way people lit their houses, displacing whale oil and other substitutes, and then revolutionized the entire field of energy and helped create the modern world. During the nineteenth century, oil was overwhelmingly dominated by the United States and the Russian Empire, together responsible for 97% of the world's production; and over the course of the century, nearly all the Russian Empire's oil came from the territory that is now the independent state of Azerbaijan. Many people don't know that the world's first industrial oil well was drilled in Azerbaijan in 1846, thirteen years before Drake's celebrated well in Pennsylvania. This book covers oil in the United States and Azerbaijan, in all its dynamism, from its earliest beginnings to the turn of the twentieth century. It treats both business and technology, from the early wildcatters to Standard Oil and the Nobel Brothers (yes, that remarkable family created more than a famous prize!). The book echoes into the present day; for good or ill, oil still moves the world.

共産主義計画対合理性－数理経済学と東欧及び中国における中央計画
Kovacs, Janos Matyas (ed.), Communist Planning versus Rationality: Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China. (Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political Thought in Historical Perspective) 424 pp. 2022:5 (Lexington Books, US) <695-273>
ISBN 978-1-79363-177-0 hard ¥28,459.- (税込) US$ 132.00 *

This volume examines concepts of central planning, a cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies. It revolves around the theory of "optimal planning" which promised a profound modernization of Stalinist-style verbal planning. Encouraged by cybernetic dreams in the 1950s and supporting the strategic goals of communist leaders in the Cold War, optimal planners offered the ruling elites a panacea for the recurrent crises of the planned economy. Simultaneously, their planning projects conveyed the pride of rational management and scientific superiority over the West. The authors trace the rise and fall of the research program in the communist era in eight countries of Eastern Europe, including the Soviet Union, and China, describing why the mission of optimization was doomed to fail and why the failure was nevertheless very slow. The theorists of optimal planning contributed to the rehabilitation of mathematical culture in economic research in the communist countries, and thus, to a neoclassical turn in economics all over the ex-communist world). However, because they have not rejected optimal planning as "computopia," there is a large space left behind for future generations to experiment with Big Optimal Plans anew-based, at this time, on artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Tazzara, Corey, Filippo Sassetti on Trade, Institutions and Empire. (Political Economies of Capitalism, 1600-1850) 240 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-277>
ISBN 978-1-03-231674-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

The Florentine traveler, merchant, and academician Filippo Sassetti was one of the premier economic thinkers of the late Renaissance. Well known for his ethnographic observations, Sassetti was also a commercial writer of the highest caliber-at once an original thinker and a remarkable witness to how Europeans even at the margins of empire were beginning to reconceptualize power and wealth.Unique among commercial theorists of the period, Sassetti offers a first-hand perspective on commerce in both the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. This volume translates (for the first time) the Discourse on Mediterranean Trade and a selection of the principal Indian Letters, with extensive historical notes. These are preceded by a lengthy essay positioning Sassetti as a figure in late Renaissance political economy. It makes the case that Sassetti was an early theorist of what might be termed the pragmatic tradition of free trade-in his case, a project linked to his analysis of commercial institutions in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Provoking an invaluable overview of trade in the Indian Ocean in the late sixteenth century, this volume is an excellent specialist text for postgraduate students and professional historians.