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

Murray, Sarah C., Long-Distance Exchange and Inter-Regional Economies. (Elements in the Aegean Bronze Age) 75 pp. 2024:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <711-444>
ISBN 978-1-00-947859-5 hard ¥14,241.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-00-931917-1 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

An undulating flow of multi-scalar exchanges pulsed across the surface of Aegean from the beginnings of the Bronze Age in the third millennium to the transition into the Iron Age nearly two thousand years later. Such exchanges were variable in nature. Most probably occurred within a rather circumscribed environment, involving neighboring communities operating across the many real but traversable geographical boundaries that characterize the Aegean landscape - ridges separating mountain plateaus, rocky coastal stretches between bays, or narrow straits amidst archipelagos. This Element is focused on the less-frequent but important long-distance exchanges that connected people in the Aegean with the wider Mediterranean and European world, especially focusing on interactions that may be classified as 'economic'. After reviewing basic definitions and discussing some methods and materials available for studying long-distance exchange, this Element presents a diachronic assessment of the geospatial, scalar, and structural characteristics of long-distance exchange and inter-regional economies.

中世後期欧州における修道女と世俗の経済　1200～1500年
Mueller, Annalena, Monastic Women and Secular Economy in Later Medieval Europe, ca. 1200 to 1500. 208 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <711-445>
ISBN 978-1-03-229070-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book aims to rewrite the narrative of women and power in medieval society. Based on a rich corpus of sources - systematically collected for the first time - it reveals female monasteries as central and economically able agents in feudal society.With a chronological focus on the late Middle Ages, this book focuses on four powerful convents located in modern-day France, Germany, and Switzerland. Three of these institutions were aristocratic convents founded in the early Middle Ages. They were endowed with far-ranging feudal prerogatives that were largely, but not exclusively, derived from landed possessions. The fourth convent originated in the thirteenth century and disposed of a primarily monetary economy.Observed from a longue-duree perspective, Monastic Women and Secular Economy in Later Medieval Europe reveals strategies of adaptations that allowed these different institutions to weather the significant economic changes of the late Middle Ages. Within the context of medieval feudal society, these abbesses and prioresses were authoritative figures. They ruled over territories, dispensed justice, appointed priests, and even sent soldiers to war. Late medieval convents acted as urban landlords and gave credits - they were thus major economic players in the rising cities. These observations of this monograph will force medievalists to reconsider the traditional image of both the "male" feudal Middle Ages and medieval monetary economy.

Safronova, Anna, Histoire des cooperatives russes et sovietiques (1860-1930): moderniser le peuple. (Bibliotheque de l'economiste 56) 553 p. 2023 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <711-446>
ISBN 978-2-406-14736-7 hard ¥22,833.- (税込) EUR 97.00
ISBN 978-2-406-14735-0 paper ¥11,299.- (税込) EUR 48.00 *

中国の人口史　1368～1953年
Shuji, Cao, The Population History of China (1368-1953). (Global Economic History Series 20 / The Quantitative Economic History of China 7) 460 pp. 2024:2 (Brill, NE) <711-447>
ISBN 978-90-04-68265-8 hard ¥38,605.- (税込) EUR 164.00 *

From 1368 to 1953, China's administrative divisions were mainly composed of counties, prefectures, and provinces. This book shows the population figures, density, and changes in the provincial population in China during this period and population figures of each major city and town and its proportion in terms of the provincial population during this period-the urbanization rate. Data in this book is drawn partly from historical sources and partly from statistical-model-based calculations. The book also includes provincial population maps in 1393, and their original statistical models, population databases, and metadata.

フランスの植民地における飢饉の歴史
Slobodkin, Yan, The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies. 312 pp. 2023:11 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <711-448>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7235-1 hard ¥10,769.- (税込) US$ 49.95 *

The Starving Empire traces the history of famine in the modern French Empire, showing that hunger is intensely local and sweepingly global, shaped by regional contexts and the transnational interplay of ideas and policies all at once. By integrating food crises in Algeria, West and Equatorial Africa, and Vietnam into a broader story of imperial and transnational care, Yan Slobodkin reveals how the French colonial state and an emerging international community took increasing responsibility for subsistence, but ultimately failed to fulfill this responsibility. Europeans once dismissed colonial famines as acts of god, misfortunes of nature, and the inevitable consequences of backward races living in harsh environments. But as Slobodkin recounts, drawing on archival research from four continents, the twentieth century saw transformations in nutrition, scientific racism, and international humanitarianism that profoundly altered ideas of what colonialism could accomplish. A new confidence in the ability to mitigate hunger, coupled with new norms of moral responsibility, marked a turning point in the French Empire's relationship to colonial subjects-and to nature itself. Increasingly sophisticated understandings of famine as a technical problem subject to state control saddled France with untenable obligations. The Starving Empire not only illustrates how the painful history of colonial famine remains with us in our current understandings of public health, state sovereignty, and international aid, but also seeks to return food-this most basic of human needs-to its central place in the formation of modern political obligation and humanitarian ethics.

欧州における都市と経済－中世から現在までの周辺での市場と交易
Szende, Katalin / Szivos, Erika / Weisz, Boglarka (eds.), Cities and Economy in Europe: Markets and Trade on the Margins from the Middle Ages to the Present. 376 pp. 2024:2 (Routledge, UK) <711-449>
ISBN 978-1-032-04771-3 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-04773-7 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Exploring new perspectives concerning regions traditionally considered "on the margins" of Europe, this book fills a gap in current historiography through its analysis of cities, space, and economy from the High Middle Ages to the present.Markets, trade, and economy in general have formed the backbone of urban life ever since the emergence of cities and towns, but classical theorists have largely focused on developments in Western Europe. Urban research in the last few decades has advanced in many ways to supersede and correct this still influential image and to include other parts of Europe into the analytical framework. Building on these emerging methodologies, this volume pays close attention to the fringes of Europe in the East, North, West, and South. The essays discuss the development of various spaces as nodal points for the exchange and production of commodities that took place in cities and towns. The scope of this work allows for a point of comparison to frequently studied examples in Europe, encouraging readers to identify larger patterns beyond individual examples.Cities and Economy in Europe: Markets and Trade on the Margins from the Middle Ages to the Present is the perfect resource for students and researchers of economic and urban history.

Van Regenmortel, Charlotte, Soldiers, Wages, and the Hellenistic Economies. 300 pp. 2024:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <711-450>
ISBN 978-1-00-940898-1 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

This book explains the military and economic developments that engulfed the ancient Mediterranean in the late Classical and early Hellenistic periods from the perspective of labour history. It examines the changing nature of military service in the vast armies of Philip and Alexander, the Successors, and the early Hellenistic kingdoms and argues that the paid soldiers who staffed them were not just 'mercenaries', but rather the Greek world's first large-scale instance of wage labour. Using a wide range of sources, Charlotte Van Regenmortel not only offers a detailed social history of military service in these armies but also provides a novel explanation for the economic transformation of the Hellenistic age, positioning military wage-labourers as the driving force behind the period's nascent market economies. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

B.ファイン著　政治経済学の批判的再構築　第3巻
Fine, Ben, Cliometrics as Economics Imperialism: Across the Watershed: Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy. Volume 3. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 273) 343 pp. 2023:12 (Brill, NE) <711-315>
ISBN 978-90-04-68926-8 hard ¥36,722.- (税込) EUR 156.00

In Cliometrics as Economics Imperialism, Ben Fine traces the cliometric revolution, from before its emergence through three phases of the new, the newer and the newest economic history. These phases are shown to correspond to those of "economics imperialism", the colonisation of topics and fields by mainstream economics, moving successively through as if there were perfectly working markets, as if imperfectly working markets, and these combined plus arbitrary inclusion of other variables. The text draws upon case studies, for example of the putative eighteenth-century consumer revolution, Douglass North, path dependence, and the British coal industry, and through exposing the reduction of economic theory and economic history deployed within them and giving rise to a corresponding reduction in the presence of the social, the historical and political economy.

欧州と北米におけるエネルギー移行の歴史
Gross, Stephen G. / Needham, Andrerw (eds.), New Energies: A History of Energy Transitions in Europe and North America. 348 pp. 2023:2 (U. Pittsburgh Pr., US) <711-386>
ISBN 978-0-8229-4776-9 hard ¥12,936.- (税込) US$ 60.00 *

Over the past 250 years, energy transitions have occurred repeatedly-the rise of coal in the nineteenth century, the explosion of oil in the twentieth century, the nuclear utopianism of the 1950s and 1960s. These transitions have been as revolutionary as any political or economic upheaval, and they required changes in infrastructure and behaviour. Yet new energies never wholly replace old ones. This volume historicizes energy production and consumption while demonstrating how energy use has reshaped everything from social life and economic organization to political governance. It foregrounds the importance of energy for big historical questions about capitalism, democracy, inequality, the environment, and identity, and it argues that energy systems themselves merit attention as key agents of historical change. Given the urgency of climate change, and the central position that energy plays in causing and potentially solving global warming, this volume engages history as a discipline in the debate over what may be most monumental energy transition of all time: the shift away from fossil fuels.

いかに世界の飢饉問題が解決されていないか
Gerlach, Christian, How the World Hunger Problem Was not Solved. (Routledge Studies in Modern History) 256 pp. 2024:1 (Routledge, UK) <711-395>
ISBN 978-1-03-258492-8 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

The world food crisis (1972-1975) gave rise to new development concepts. To eradicate world hunger, small peasants were supposed to use 'modern' inputs like high-yielding seeds, fertilizer, pesticides and irrigation. This would turn subsistence producers into business owners, transform rural areas, invigorate national economies and the crisis-stricken world economy and thus stabilize capitalism.Together with an in-depth account of the world food crisis, this book analyses how this global scheme largely failed. It shows its diverse initiators, their reasoning and motives, its political breakthrough, the degrees to which it was implemented globally and nationally in the following decades and its socioeconomic effects in rural areas. Despite internationally coordinated policies and coercive means, the scheme failed on all levels: situation analysis, design, policies, incapable institutions (including big business), implementation and peasants' responses. Selective realization in certain regions and for certain crops and the appropriation of funds by local elites often aggravated inequality and hunger. Case studies are about Bangladesh, Indonesia, Tanzania and Mali. The book shows limits to global social engineering, imperialism and state control.It is aimed at students, scholars, activists and non-specialists interested in development and the world food problem.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

ローマ時代のパルミラにおける交易と再利用
Andrade, Nathanael / Raja, Rubina (eds.), Exchange and Reuse in Roman Palmyra: Examining Economy and Circularity. (Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History 8) 132 pp. 2023:5 (Brepols, BE) <711-435>
ISBN 978-2-503-60342-1 paper ¥17,655.- (税込) EUR 75.00

Cheung, Sui-Wai, Copper Coins and the Emperor's Wallet: The Role of Currency in Ming China. (Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective 9) 187 pp. 2024:1 (Brill, NE) <711-436>
ISBN 978-90-04-68752-3 hard ¥23,304.- (税込) EUR 99.00 *

Sui-Wai Cheung's study of the institutional history of copper coins in the Ming dynasty reveals how emperors and statesmen perceived and used the copper coins at their disposal. In this process, he uncovers the reality of the Sons of Heaven, showing that although Ming emperors seemed to have unlimited power, they could not afford the upkeep on their palace. In this revealing history of Ming China, Cheung argues that especially after the breakdown of the household registration system, the aim of the Ming coinage system was to create a new source of income in order to maintain the emperor's domain in Beijing.

Coco, Orazio, Sino-Italian Political and Economic Relations: From the Treaty of Friendship to the Second World War. 256 pp. 2024:2 (Routledge, UK) <711-437>
ISBN 978-0-367-68736-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book presents a comprehensive narrative and historical analysis of the political and economic relations between China and Italy from the Treaty of Friendship and Commerce signed in October 1866 to the Second World War.Utilizing primary sources found in public and private archives, the volume acknowledges the relevance of eminent figures and their roles and contributions in developing the relations between Italy and China. It provides an extensive presentation of the close relations between the Chinese nationalist and Italian fascist regimes and their interaction in the interwar period. The Italian and Chinese governments had a prolonged political and economic dialogue, which lasted for almost a decade and involved the active mediation of politicians, economists, academics, and professionals at different levels and in diverse fields. International historiography mostly neglects the relevance of this period in broader historical contexts. This work overcomes the unjustified oversight and examines, with reliable primary sources, the relevance of this extraordinary season of international relations.With a valuable exploration of a wealth of sources, this book provides a new opportunity of reflection for scholars and students interested in Sino-European relations and international history.

日本の生命保険の初期の歴史におけるコミュニティ、希望、危機
Moran, Ryan, Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance. 276 pp. 2024:1 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <711-442>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7329-7 hard ¥12,493.- (税込) US$ 57.95 *

In Selling the Future, Ryan Moran explains how the life insurance industry in Japan exploited its association with mutuality and community to commodify and govern lives. Covering the years from the start of the industry in 1881 through the end of World War II, Moran describes insurance companies and government officials working together to create a picture of the future as precarious and dangerous. Since it was impossible for individual consumers to deal with every contingency on their own, insurance industry administrators argued that their usage of statistical data enabled them to chart the predictable future for the aggregate. Through insurance, companies and the state thus offered consumers a means to a perfectible future in an era filled with repeated crises. Life insurance functioned as an important modernist technology within Japan and its colonies to instantiate expectations for responsibility, to reconfigure meanings of mutuality, and to normalize new social formations (such as the nuclear family) as essential to life. Life insurance thus offers an important vehicle for examining the confluence of modes of mobilizing and organizing bodies, the expropriation of financial resources, and the action of disciplining workers into a capitalist system.

村上博美著　戦前・戦時期日本における弾力性と自律－産業の内部統治　1925～45年
Murakami, Hiromi, Resilience and Autonomy in Prewar and Wartime Japan: The Internal Governance of Industries (1925-1945). 338 pp. 2023:12 (Lexington Books, US) <711-443>
ISBN 978-1-79364-930-0 hard ¥25,872.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *

Resilience and Autonomy in Prewar and Wartime Japan: The Internal Governance of Industries (1925-1945) illuminates the processes by which industrial manufacturing organizations in Japan conducted collective actions, and how and under what conditions industries interacted with each other and responded to government interference. Surprisingly, the nature of the struggle between the authorities and the private sector in Japan remains the same today as it did during the prewar period. The private sector had been frustrated with impractical state policies and responded vigorously because its survival was at stake. This book specifically delves into the manufacturing industries and explores the extent to which industry groups collectively responded to crisis situations and interacted with the authorities. It highlights the remarkable resilience, leadership, and initiative displayed by the industry sector in self-governance and assertion of power over authorities, even when government controls were nominally in effect.

Lanero, Daniel / Martiin, Carin / Prieto, L. et al. (eds.), From Breeding & Feeding to Medicalization: Animal Farming, Veterinarization and Consumers in the 20th c. Western Europe. (Rural History in Europe 17) 338 pp. 2023:7 (Brepols, BE) <711-107>
ISBN 978-2-503-58915-2 paper ¥24,481.- (税込) EUR 104.00