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

グローバルな市場におけるブラジルの作物－1950年以降の世界の農業関連産業輸出国としてのブラジルの出現－
Klein, Herbert S. / Luna, Francisco Vidal, Brazilian Crops in the Global Market: The Emergence of Brazil as a World Agribusiness Exporter Since 1950. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 468 pp. 2023:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <708-268>
ISBN 978-3-031-38588-9 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book comprehensively examines the development of Brazilian agriculture by focusing on the crops which evolved from national products to international commodities on a massive scale. It traces the transformation of Brazil from a country with low-yield levels in 1950 to its current position as a leading world producer. The first section of the book examines the modernization of Brazilian agriculture through a government programme which transformed traditional agriculture through subsidized credit, guaranteed prices, stock purchases, land utilization laws, modern research, new technology and major support for exports. It also explores the changing structures of agricultural production and farm ownership over time, analysing national censuses from 1920 to 2017 to illustrate the increasing efficiency of Brazil's agricultural workers. The book then discusses the history and evolution of the major Brazilian crops in detail, starting with the newer export crops such as soybeans, maize and cotton, before focusing on the traditional sugar and coffee industries. The final section of the book examines two other major areas of agroindustry: forestry and the evolution of the pastoral industries, as well as the growth of a meat exporting sector. The authors also explore questions of sustainability in the context of today's climate challenges, and the role of Brazilian agriculture in the world market going forward. This wide-ranging study will be of interest to a range of academics, including those working in agricultural economics, economic history, the history of Latin America and the history of agriculture more broadly.

Cardoso de Matos, Ana / Fernandez, Alexandre et al. (eds.), The Gas Sector in Latin Europe's Industrial History: Lighting and Heating the World. (Frontiers in Economic History) 152 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <708-302>
ISBN 978-3-031-36673-4 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

Ni, Pengfei / Kamiya, Marco / Guo, Jing / Xu, Haidong, The World: 300 Years of Urbanization Expansion: Global Urban Competitiveness Report (2019-2020). 490 pp. 2023:8 (Springer, GW) <708-314>
ISBN 978-981-9935-52-9 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book was jointly launched by the National Academy of Economic Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and UN-HABITAT. It uses the indicator system and objective data to evaluate the competitiveness of 1006 cities in the world and measures the overall development pattern of global punishment and competitiveness. The important theoretical and practical issues in the development of global cities are discussed. The book looks at the world from the perspective of cities and believes that the world will be fully urbanized in the 300 years from 1750 to 2050. The book points out the challenges faced by global municipal financing and systematically summarizes the experience and methods of municipal financing and concludes that the average competitiveness of global cities declined slightly due to the decline of the average competitiveness of cities in China, the USA and Europe. In addition, this book also launched the new global urban classification standard of the Institute of Finance and Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme for the first time and rated 1006 cities in the world.

イタリアとフランスにおけるコカ・コーラ、マクドナルド、アメリカのグローバル企業への反応　1886～2015年
Crisanti, Giulia, Europeans Are Lovin' It? Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Responses to American Global Businesses in Italy and France, 1886-2015. (European Perspectives on the United States 8) 360 pp. 2023:10 (Brill, NE) <708-388>
ISBN 978-90-04-67883-5 hard ¥34,603.- (税込) EUR 147.00 *

From the French origin of Coca-Cola to McDonald's sponsorship of the 2015 Milan Expo, the book presents the first comparative history of these multinational corporations in two Western European countries, addressing some compelling questions: to what extent our increasingly globalized world is persistently shaped by forms of American hegemony, and what are some of the forces that have been most effective at challenging the relationship between Americanization and globalization? Through the local history of global companies, the book tells a new story about not only the influence of American businesses in Europe but also the influence of European governments and societies on those American businesses and their adaptability.

商品の歴史ハンドブック
Curry-Machado, Jonathan / Stubbs, Jean et al. (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Commodity History. (Oxford Handbooks) 720 pp. 2024:1 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <708-389>
ISBN 978-0-19-750267-9 hard ¥38,376.- (税込) US$ 178.00 *

Commodities provide a lens through which local and global histories can be understood and written. The study of commodity history follows these goods as they make their way from land and water through processing and trade to eventual consumption. It is a fast-developing field with collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary research, and with new information technologies becoming increasingly important. Although many individual researchers continue to focus on particular commodities and regions, they often do so in partnership with others working on different areas and employing a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, placing commodities history at the forefront of local and global historical analysis. This Oxford Handbook features contributions from scholars involved in these developments across a range of countries and linguistic regions. They discuss the state of the art in their fields, draw on their own work, and signal lacunae for future research. Each of the volume's thirty-one chapters focuses on an important thematic area within commodities history: essential approaches, global histories, modes of production, people and land, environmental impact, consumption, and new methodologies. The Oxford Handbook of Commodity History offers insight into the directions in which commodity history is heading, and the multiple ways in which it can contribute to a better understanding of the world.

冷戦期の経済史家　1945～89年
Dolezalova, Antonie / Albrecht, Catherine (eds.), Behind the Iron Curtain: Economic Historians During the Cold War, 1945-1989. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 257 pp. 2023:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <708-390>
ISBN 978-3-031-31577-0 hard ¥37,660.- (税込) EUR 159.99 *

This edited volume offers a systematic exploration of the relations between Western and Eastern scientists during the Cold War from the Eastern European perspective using the example of economic history. Introducing famous as well as almost forgotten scholars who attempted to eliminate the Iron Curtain and strove to break through the obstacles against the transfer of scientific ideas, the book challenges the narrative of the non-cooperative nature of scientific work during the Cold War due to socialist scientists' incapability and disinclination to engage openly in international discussions. The book contributes to a deeper collective understanding of the multiple contemporary ideological and political circumstances that influenced scientific work and individual scientists' careers and explores the options scientists in socialist countries had - and utilized - to develop their research in collaboration with their Western colleagues.

Ito, Marie D'Aguanno, Orsanmichele: A Medieval Grain Market and Confraternity. (Medieval Mediterranean 131) 640 pp. 2023:11 (Brill, NE) <708-392>
ISBN 978-90-04-45009-7 hard ¥40,724.- (税込) EUR 173.00 *

This work provides a new narrative for Orsanmichele in the era before the Renaissance. It examines Orsanmichele from the mid-thirteenth century, as the piazza transformed into the city's grain market. It considers the market's tandem confraternity, with its stunning Madonnas over three successive loggias. It examines the grain market and confraternity from a social, economic, political, and artistic perspective. It provides extensive data on the Florentine grain trade, sales at the market, and the nexus between traders, political leaders, and the confraternity. The work suggests that developments at Orsanmichele during the medieval period formed the basis for the Renaissance structure.

Grinberg, Nicolas, Transformations in the Brazilian and Korean Processes of Capitalist Development between the early 1950s and the mid-2010s: From Global Capital Accumulation to Late Industrialisation. (Historical Materialism Book Series 297) 536 pp. 2023:11 (Brill, NE) <708-253>
ISBN 978-90-04-67905-4 hard ¥42,372.- (税込) EUR 180.00

Challenging mainstream nation-centred theories of economic development, Nicolas Grinberg examines the specificities of capitalist development in Brazil and South Korea by starting from their modes of participation in the international division of labour and hence in the production of surplus value on a global scale. Contrary to those theories, he does not consider these as resulting simply from the economic policies of nation states and their associated political institutions; nor from local class-struggle dynamics or geopolitical developments. Rather, drawing on key insights from Marx's critique of political economy, his analysis begins by recognising that the process of capitalist development is global in terms of its economic dynamics and historical trends, and national only in its political and institutional forms of realisation. State-mediated patterns of economic development and institutional change in Brazil and Korea, as well as the intra- and inter-state political processes through which these have come about, are then considered mediations in the conformation and reproduction of the nationally differentiated, uneven process of capital's valorisation on a global scale.