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

スペインの奇跡の政治経済－国家、労働、資本　1931～73年
Ayala, Diego C., Political Economy of the Spanish Miracle: State, Labor and Capital, 1931-1973. (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy) 232 pp. 2024 (Routledge, UK) <709-315>
ISBN 978-1-03-258038-8 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

In the 1950s and 1960s, Spain underwent one of the most rapid processes of economic development the world had ever seen. Most existing analyses of this process explain the "Spanish Miracle" as a product of the unleashing of market forces and of changes in economic policy made by the Franco regime in the 1950s. Political Economy of the Spanish Miracle provides an alternative explanation of Spanish economic development, analyzing the Miracle from an interdisciplinary political economy perspective that treats capitalist growth as a complex and dynamic interaction between capitalists, workers and the state. The Spanish Miracle is linked to changes in Spanish society produced by the Spanish Civil War, to the class structure of the regime brought to power by that Civil War and to the interaction between domestic social struggles under the Franco regime and Spain's insertion into the international political economy of the Cold War capitalist world. Ambitious in scope, Political Economy of the Spanish Miracle both revises conventional understandings of Spanish economic growth and situates Spain within comparative discussions of development in the twentieth century. This book will be of great interest to readers in political economy, economic sociology, historical sociology and Spanish and European history more broadly.

帝国主義のコンテクストにおける植民地の産業　18世紀末～20世紀
Boulat, Regis / Heyberger, Laurent (dir.), Industries coloniales en contexte imperial (fin XVIIIe-XXe siecles). (Sciences humaines et technologie) 222 p. 2023:7 (Univ. de technologie Belfort-Montbeliard, FR) <709-317>
ISBN 979-10-91901-62-8 paper ¥4,472.- (税込) EUR 19.00

近現代日本における有名ブランド、広告、消費
Culver, Annika A., Democratizing Luxury: Name Brands, Advertising, and Consumption in Modern Japan. 277 pp. 2023:12 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <709-318>
ISBN 978-0-8248-9516-7 hard ¥14,660.- (税込) US$ 68.00 *

Democratizing Luxury explores the interplay between advertising and consumption in modern Japan by investigating how Japanese companies at key historical moments assigned value, or "luxury," to mass-produced products as an important business model. Japanese name-brand luxury evolved alongside a consumer society emerging in the late nineteenth century, with iconic companies whose names became associated with quality and style. At the same time, Western ideas of modernity merged with earlier artisanal ideals to create Japanese connotations of luxury for readily accessible products. Businesses manufactured items at all price points to increase consumer attainability, while starkly curtailing production for limited editions to augment desirability.Between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, control over family disposable income transformed Japanese middle-class women into an important market. Growth of purchasing power among women corresponded with Japanese goods diffusing throughout the empire, and globally after the Asia-Pacific war (1931-1945). This book offers case studies that examine affordable luxury consumer items often advertised to women, including drinks, beauty products, fashion, and timepieces. Japanese companies have capitalized on affordable luxury since a flourishing domestic mercantile economy began in the Tokugawa period (1603-1868), showcasing brand-name shops, renowned artisans, and mass-produced woodblock prints by famous artists. In the late nineteenth century, personalized service expanded within department stores like Mitsukoshi, Shiseido cosmetic counters, and designer boutiques. Shiseido now globally markets invented traditions of omotenashi, Japanese "values" of hospitality expressed in purchasing and consuming its products.In postwar times, when a thriving democracy and middle-class were tied to greater disposable income and consumerism, companies rebuilt a growing consumer base among cautious shoppers: democratizing luxury at reasonable prices and maintaining business patterns of accessibility, high quality, and exemplary service. Nationalism amid economic success soon blended with myths of unique Japanese identity in a mass consumer society, suffused by commodity fetishism with widely available brand names. As the first comprehensive history of iconic Japanese name brands and their unique connotations of luxury and accessibility in modern Japan and elsewhere, Democratizing Luxury explores company histories and reveals strategies that lead customers to consume these alluring commodities.

Jarzombek, Mark, The Long Millennium: Affluence, Architecture and Its Dark Matter Economy. (Global Histories Before Globalisation) 360 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <709-319>
ISBN 978-1-03-224414-3 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-224416-7 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This book argues that long-distance trade in luxury items - such as diamonds, gold, cinnamon, scented woods, ivory and pearls, all of which require little overhead in their acquisition and were relatively easy to transport - played a foundational role in the creation of what we would call "global trade" in the first millennium CE. The book coins the term "dark matter economy" to better describe this complex - though mostly invisible - relationship to normative realities.The first full integration of dark matter economy with the emerging global flows took place in South India and Sri Lanka at the beginning of the millennium. The book then moves to other places in the world - "sweet spots" - where a particular type of affluence was generated through the trade in luxury goods. This upstream affluence manifested itself in the creation of shrines, palaces, temples and engineering works that all thickened the landscape of memory, control and extraction and also served as a defense mechanism against intrusions from afar. The book also explains the collapse of dark matter economy as a result of the cumulative energies of colonialism, modernization and nationalism that make it hard for us today to come to terms with this history.The Long Millennium will appeal to students and scholars alike studying the trade networks and economics of the early Middle Ages as well as anyone interested in the effect of trade on medieval society in the first millennium CE.

アムステルダム銀行の貨幣史
Quinn, Stephen / Roberds, William, How a Ledger Became a Central Bank: A Monetary History of the Bank of Amsterdam. (Studies in Macroeconomic History) 400 pp. 2024:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <709-320>
ISBN 978-1-108-48427-5 hard ¥22,792.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-108-70615-5 paper ¥7,404.- (税込) GB￡ 25.99 *

Before the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, the Bank of Amsterdam ('Bank') was a dominant central bank with a global impact on money and credit. How a Ledger Became a Central Bank draws on extensive archival data and rich secondary literature, to offer a new and detailed portrait of this historically significant institution. It describes how the Bank struggled to manage its money before hitting a modern solution: fiat money in combination with a repurchase facility and discretionary open market operations. It describes techniques the Bank used to monitor and stabilize money stock, and how foreign sovereigns could exploit the liquidity of the Bank for state finance. Closing with a discussion of commonalities of the Bank of Amsterdam with later central banks, including the Federal Reserve, this book has generated a great deal of excitement among scholars of central banking and the role of money in the macroeconomy.

〔英訳〕石炭と鋼鉄を超えて－好景気後の西欧の社会史
Raphael, Lutz, Beyond Coal and Steel: A Social History of Western Europe after the Boom. Tr. by K. Tranter. 404 pp. 2023:11 (Polity Pr., UK) <709-321>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5437-9 hard ¥15,081.- (税込) US$ 69.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-5438-6 paper ¥6,241.- (税込) US$ 28.95 *

In the 1970s, the economic and social foundations of Western Europe underwent an unprecedented transformation. Old industries like coal and steel disappeared, millions of people lost their jobs and formerly flourishing towns and cities went into decline. Traditional political agendas gave way to new social problems and concerns. What happened to industrial citizens - their workplaces, their careers and their homes? How did social rights and political participation of workers change when markets became global, management lean and financial capital dominant? How did companies change and how were personal skills and work tasks reinvented under the impact of new technologies? How did workers - men and women - live through these decades of uncertainty and upheaval? Lutz Raphael reconstructs the highly variegated story of deindustrialization in Western Europe with a particular focus on Britain, France and West Germany. Extending over three decades, this transformation was accompanied by significant rises in productivity and consumerism, but it also came at a heavy cost, ushering in many low-income jobs, growing inequality and a crisis of democratic representation. Its legacy is everywhere around us today - it is the transformation that has shaped our world.

Walthall, D. Alex, Sicily and the Hellenistic Mediterranean World: Economy and Administration during the Reign of Hieron II. 350 pp. 2023:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <709-322>
ISBN 978-1-316-51105-3 hard ¥28,490.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00 *

In Sicily and the Hellenistic Mediterranean World, D. Alex Walthall investigates the royal administration of Hieron II (r. 269-215 BCE), the Syracusan monarch who leveraged Sicily's agricultural resources to build a flourishing kingdom that, at one time, played an outsized role in the political and cultural affairs of the Western Mediterranean. Walthall's study combines an historical overview with the rich archaeological evidence that traditionally has not been considered in studies of Hellenistic kingdoms. Exploring the Hieronian system of agricultural taxation, he recasts the traditional narrative of the island's role as a Roman imperial 'grain basket' via analysis of monumental granaries, patterns of rural land-use, standardized grain measures, and the circulation of bronze coinage- the material elements of an agricultural administration that have emerged from recent excavations and intensive landscape survey on the island. Combining material and documentary evidence, Walthall's multi-disciplinary approach offers a new model for the writing of economic and social history of ancient societies.

Baaquie, Belal Ehsan, Paradigms Powering China's Rise: A Historical Perspective. 220 pp. 2023:11 (World Scientific, SI) <709-203>
ISBN 978-981-12-7713-9 hard ¥16,816.- (税込) US$ 78.00 *

The primary aim of this book is to understand the ground-breaking paradigms and policies that have powered China's remarkable rise: from an agricultural society to an industrial powerhouse and a leading nation - and that too in a span of merely forty years from 1979 to 2019. The book covers the rise of China up to 2019 and is divided into five parts. The first part takes a strategic view of China's rise, the second part provides a quantitative assessment of China's rise using macroeconomic indicators; the third part provides a historical background of modern China, starting from the unification of China in 221 BC to the rise to power of the Communist Party of China, leading to the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. The fourth part analyses China's governance as well as its economic system and lastly, part five summarizes China's rise and the paradigms that powered this rise.