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

Skambraks, Tanja / Lutz, Martin (eds.), Reassessing the Moral Economy: Religion and Economic Ethics from Ancient Greece to the 20th Century. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 269 pp. 2023:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <704-152>
ISBN 978-3-031-29833-2 hard ¥37,660.- (税込) EUR 159.99 *

This book examines the concept of moral economy originally established by E.P. Thompson, focusing on the impact of religious norms on economic practice. With each chapter discussing a different empirical case study, the interrelations of the economy and religion are explored from antiquity through to the 20th century. The long-term trajectory and comparative perspective allows for moral economy to be seen in relation to ancient Greek commerce, medieval pawn-broking, Christian and Jewish economic ethics, urban social politics during the Plague, the Jesuit mission in Paraguay, the Ottoman Empire, religion in modern American capitalism, and Catholic attitudes toward taxation.This book aims to provide insight into how moral thinking about the economy and economic practicehas evolved from a long historic perspective. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in economic history and cultural economics.

農業史ハンドブック
Whayne, Jeannie (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History. (Oxford Handbooks) 672 pp. 2023:12 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <704-228>
ISBN 978-0-19-092416-4 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *

Agricultural history has enjoyed a rebirth in recent years, in part because the agricultural enterprise promotes economic and cultural connections in an era that has become ever more globally focused, but also because of agriculture's potential to lead to conflicts over precious resources. History is replete with stories of armies standing or falling as a result of their supply of agriculturally produced commodities. Civilizations have likewise succumbed because of famine or crop-related pestilence, highlighting the critical nature of agriculture to both regional and global society. The importance and fragility of agricultural systems will come into much greater focus because of climate change in the twenty-first century, something farmers the world over have begun to reckon with. As its implications are manifested in droughts and floods that hamper crop production, urban people will become ever more conscious of their own reliance upon agriculture. The contemporary critical evaluation of agriculture reflects a transition from a framework that celebrated the positive aspects of the evolution of agriculture to one that also explores its negative implications, such as the emergence of intensive and extractive agriculture that has worked to the detriment of indigenous peoples and disrupted traditional political economies. The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History reflects this rebirth and examines the wide-reaching implications of agricultural issues, bringing together the many historiographical traditions within geographic regions across the world that intersect either directly or indirectly in terms of agricultural history. Contributors to this volume include historians from around the world and specialists in European, American, African, Middle East, Russian, and Asian history. Essays touch on the green revolution, the development of the Atlantic slave plantation, the agricultural impact of the American Civil War, the rise of scientific and corporate agriculture, and modern exploitation of agricultural labor. The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History is an essential volume for those interested in the myriad ways that agricultural systems affect our world.

Abbott, Malcolm / Cohen, Bruce, Monopoly Control: Government Ownership and Control of Network Utility Industries in Australia from 1788 to 1988. 376 pp. 2023:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <704-286>
ISBN 978-981-9927-25-8 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book traces the historical development of the network utilities sector in Australia (communications, rail, gas, electricity, water supply, and sewerage services). It looks across industries, time periods and the state and federal jurisdictions, to identify what motivated the various governments to establish these enterprises and what issues arose. The book is therefore informed by the relationship between politics and society on the one hand and economic history on the other; as well as the efforts of governments in Australia to promote economic growth and the wealth of Australians. The main focus of the book is to identify and analyse the following two main questions: (i) What were the main drivers and motivations for governments establishing government-owned business in the network utilities sector? (ii) To what degree were these government-owned businesses successful at achieving the aims of these governments? In doing so the inherent characteristics of these industries are identified, in terms of their need for rights of way, network effects, the monopoly characteristics, and the potential for stimulating growth.

Acikgoez, Bernur (ed.), Black Swan: Economic Crises. Volume II. (Accounting, Finance, Sustainability, Governance & Fraud: Theory and Application) 158 pp. 2023:10 (Springer, GW) <704-287>
ISBN 978-981-9923-17-5 hard ¥37,660.- (税込) EUR 159.99

仏独の金融関係と経済通貨同盟　1969～92年
Coen, Alain, Les relations monetaires franco-allemandes et l'UEM (1969-1992): des ambitions aux realites. 414 pp. 2023:5 (P. Lang, SZ) <704-288>
ISBN 978-2-87574-751-8 paper ¥16,230.- (税込) SFR 65.00 *

Du sommet de La Haye (decembre 1969) a la signature du Traite de Maastricht (fevrier 1992), la dynamique des relations monetaires franco-allemandes a joue un role primordial dans la longue genese de l’Union economique et monetaire (UEM). En s’appuyant sur le croisement des sources historiques francaises, allemandes et europeennes, l’etude se propose d’en analyser les ressorts et les points d’inflexion. Dans un contexte economique en mutation, les relations monetaires franco-allemandes affichent deux objectifs majeurs : la stabilite economique et monetaire et la promotion d’une entite europeenne forte. Le pouvoir politique francais a comme veritable interlocuteur le pouvoir economique allemand, represente par la Bundesbank. Le ≪ couple ≫ franco-allemand est un mythe politique francais que brise la liberalisation economique mondiale. Engrenage economique, ou la politique cede le pas a l’economie, l’UEM parvient a la stabilite monetaire, mais en refusant l’Union politique europeenne, proposee par l’Allemagne, la France laisse s’eloigner le reve d’une Europe puissance et etablit les bases une Europe allemande.

ヴァイキング時代のスカンジナビアにおける町と商業
Kalmring, Sven, Towns and Commerce in Viking-Age Scandinavia. 2024:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <704-289>
ISBN 978-1-00-929805-6 hard ¥19,943.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00 *
ISBN 978-1-00-929809-4 paper ¥6,549.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99 *

The Viking Age, from c.750 to 1050 CE, was an era of major social change in Scandinavia. By the end of this period of sweeping transformation, Scandinavia, once a pagan periphery, had been firmly integrated into occidental Europe. Archaeological remains offer evidence of this process, which included and intertwined with Christianisation, state formation, and the dawn of urbanisation in Scandinavia. In this volume, Sven Kalmring offers an interdisciplinary and geographically wide-ranging approach to understanding the emergence of towns and commerce in Viking-age Scandinavia and their eventual demise by the end of the period. Using the towns of Hedeby, Birka, Kaupang, and Ribe as case studies, he also tracks the diverging characteristics of these urban communities against the background of traditional social structures in the Viking world. Instead of tracing the results of Viking Age urbanisation, or mapping that process by establishing economic networks, Kalmring focusses on the very reasons behind the emergence of towns, and their eventual decline.

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Poeck, Dietrich W., Die Herren der Hanse: Delegierte und Netzwerke. 768 pp. 2023:5 (P. Lang, SZ) <704-290>
ISBN 978-3-631-90330-8 hard ¥35,207.- (税込) SFR 141.00 *

Was war die Hanse? Ein Staedtebund? Diese Untersuchungen betrachten die ≪Staedtehanse≫ unter einem neuen Aspekt und kommen zu einer anderen Antwort auf diese seit hundert Jahren strittige Frage. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Ratsherren, die als Delegierte Staedte auf dem Hansetag vertraten und die hansische Politik bestimmten. Es zeigt sich, dass diese Herren nicht an erster Stelle auf die Interessen einer Stadt verpflichtet waren. Sie waren verwandtschaftlich und geschaeftlich mit fuehrenden Kaufleuten und Ratsherren in anderen Staedten verbunden. Auf Hansetagen trafen sie enge Geschaeftspartner und Verwandte wie Cousins, Schwaeger, Onkel oder sogar Brueder, die als Delegierte anderer Staedte auftraten. Die (handelspolitischen) Interessen dieser staedteuebergreifenden Netze vertraten die Delegierten auf den Versammlungen. Auf Hansetagen wurden die unterschiedlichen Netze immer wieder zum Netzwerk Hanse verbunden.