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

Campopiano, Michele / Schenk, Gerrit Jasper (eds.), Conflicts over Water Management and Water Rights from the End of Antiquity to Industrialisation. (Vierteljahrschrift fuer Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Beihefte) 276 S. 2024:8 (F. Steiner, GW) <733-399>
ISBN 978-3-515-13724-9 hard ¥14,124.- (税込) EUR 60.00

Few natural resources can be more important than water. And this is precisely why few resources can be the subject of greater conflict than water itself. This volume, edited by two internationally renowned specialists on the topic of water management research, brings together eleven experts from all over the world to propose as many innovative studies as possible that fully understand the scope of this issue for historical research but also for environmental science. The contributors break with a tradition of Eurocentric research on these times by bringing together research that covers not only Western, Central and Southern Europe but also India, China and Sri Lanka. The thematic coherence together with the geographical but also chronological range (5th?18th centuries) make it an essential starting point for all future studies on the subject.

Chatziioannou, Maria Christina / Laiou, Sophia (eds.), Wealth Accumulation and Entrepreneurship in the Ottoman Empire, 18th to 20th Centuries. (Routledge Studies in Modern History) 286 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <733-400>
ISBN 978-1-03-280664-8 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book provides a significant contribution to our understanding of the Ottoman Empire's economic history, particularly through its exploration of local entrepreneurship, which brings new perspectives to the economic dynamics of the region.This focus adds a valuable dimension to the broader narrative of Mediterranean social and economic developments from the 18th to the 20th century. By emphasizing the role of both Muslim and non-Muslim agents, the work challenges more Eurocentric narratives that have often influenced the historiography of economic activities in this region. The inclusion of Ottoman, Turkish, and Greek sources underlines the importance of accessing voices and records that have been underutilized in previous studies. The fact that this project is a result of Greek-Turkish academic cooperation is particularly noteworthy, as it promotes a more nuanced and comprehensive view toward shared histories in order to shed light on complex historical phenomena.This work will be of interest to scholars of Ottoman and Mediterranean History seeking to explore the nuances of economic and social change from within the Ottoman Empire. It will also appeal to a wider audience interested in the history of early entrepreneurial activities, and the complex interplay between cultural and economic dynamics in historical contexts.

Clay, Catherine B., A History of Beekeeping and the Honeybee in Contested Eastern European Landscapes: Empires of the Bee. 380 pp. 2024:11 (Lexington Books, US) <733-401>
ISBN 978-1-66693-062-7 hard ¥28,028.- (税込) US$ 130.00

A History of Beekeeping and the Honeybee in Contested Eastern European Landscapes: Empires of the Bee traces the material-cultural dynamics of the honeybee and beekeeping from prehistory to the present, through Kievan Rus, the Novgorod Republic, Muscovy, Imperial Russia the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. Interweaving environmental, social, economic, and cultural history, this book explores the meaning and experience of beekeeping in the longue duree, to its public history in Russian museums today. Although eclipsed by momentous events and developments in Russia's history, the humble honeybee is fundamental to the history and culture of this region.

Henderson, Julian / Morgan, Stephen L. / Salonia, M. (eds.), Reimagining the Silk Roads: Interactions and Perceptions Across Eurasia. 432 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <733-402>
ISBN 978-1-03-239131-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book brings together scholars from many disciplines to shed light on the long history of the silk roads, to redefine it, and to demonstrate its vitality and importance.Reimagining the Silk Roads illuminates economic, spiritual, and political networks, bridging different chronologies and geographies. Richly illustrated, it explores fascinating topics, including archaeological discoveries, oceanic explorations, the movement, and impact of ideas, and the ways in which the silk roads, broadly defined, contributed to processes of globalization. Reconciling the study of land and sea routes, and paying attention to themes such as material culture, environment, trade, and the role of religious faiths, the authors offer complex yet accessible studies of the history of interactions and perceptions across Eurasia over the last 3,000 years. The editors critically respond to the recent politicisation of the silk roads and reflect on their polycentric character.The book challenges and revives silk roads studies, and it will be relevant not only to researchers in archaeology, history, heritage and related fields, but also to the general reader.

資本主義－歴史
Ingram, Robert G. / Vaughn, James M. (eds.), Capitalism: Histories. (People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History) 320 pp. 2025:1 (Boydell, UK) <733-403>
ISBN 978-1-83765-198-6 paper ¥7,689.- (税込) GB￡ 26.99

Charts the emergence and development of capitalism across the world from a variety of perspectives, providing a deep understanding of how capitalism came to be the dominant economic force. This book re-examines the historical emergence and evolution of capitalism. Why did a radically new way of organizing economic life emerge in regions of the early modern world? Why did it eventually encompass the globe, tying the peoples of the world together in a common economic fate? These questions have been at the heart of historical and social-scientific inquiry since the nineteenth century. They are explored and answered anew by the scholars gathered together in this geographically and theoretically capacious volume. The chapters explore the emergence and development of capitalism in Africa, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, South Asia, East Asia, North America, and the Atlantic world, and they engage with many of the major intellectual approaches for understanding capitalism, from the New Institutional Economics to world-systems theory. The authors share a common commitment, but not a common approach, to understanding the historical development of capitalism. They believe that the emergence and evolution of capitalism must be understood by examining the concrete conditions of socioeconomic life in a particular country, empire, or region, and that such empirically and archivally driven historical analysis must be combined with theoretical discussion of the concepts and categories used to make sense of capitalism and its dynamics. This work offers different accounts of capitalist development across and within major regions of the world. It is a histories of, rather than a history of, capitalism. As such, it introduces readers to new historical research on capitalist development in different regional and national contexts and to several significant intellectual approaches for understanding what Max Weber called "the most fateful force of our modern life." ROBERT G. INGRAM is Professor of Humanities at the University of Florida. JAMES M. VAUGHN is Assistant Instructional Professor in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. Contributors: Gareth Austin, Ralph Austen, Peter Coclanis, Tracy Dennison, C. Alexander Evans, Emma Griffin, Robert G. Ingram, Anirban Karak, John Majewski, Mark Metzler, Kenneth Pomeranz, J. Mark Ramseyer, Tirthankar Roy and Horus T'an

Martinez, Julia T. / Lowrie, Claire / Benton, Gregor et al., Chinese Colonial Entanglements: Commodities and Traders in the Southern Asia Pacific, 1880-1950. (Asia Pacific Flows) 277 pp. 2024:7 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <733-404>
ISBN 978-0-8248-9760-4 hard ¥14,660.- (税込) US$ 68.00

Chinese Colonial Entanglements takes a new geographical approach to understanding the Chinese diaspora, shining a light on Chinese engagement in labor, trade, and industry in the British colonies of the southern Asia Pacific. Starting from the 1880s, a decade when British colonization was rapidly expanding and establishing new industries and townships, this volume covers the period up to 1950, including the 1930s when economic competition saw new racialized immigration restrictions, and the 1940s when Chinese traders found new opportunities. The editors, Julia T. Martinez, Claire Lowrie, and Gregor Benton, bring together nine historians of Chinese diaspora in an effort to break down the boundaries of traditional area studies. Collectively, the chapters offer fresh comparative and transnational perspectives on economic entanglements across a region bounded by the Malay archipelago, Australia, New Zealand, and the islands of the western Pacific. Histories of white settler colonies such as Australia have tended to view Chinese diasporic experiences through the lens of exclusionary politics and closed borders. This book challenges such interpretations, bringing to the fore Chinese economic endeavors that connected Australia with Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The volume begins with an introduction that makes the case for a regional approach to Chinese diaspora history. This is followed by chapters on colonial commodity production where Chinese traders and workers were central to the development of colonial banana, phosphate, and furniture industries. These industries reflect the diversity of Chinese roles, from small business owners to indentured workers for British colonial enterprise. The book then explores the economic activities of Chinese business elite from revenue farming to intercolonial trading and rural retail. It points to colonial restrictions on business development and explains how Chinese enterprises sought to overcome restrictions through relationships with colonial leaders and by mobilizing Chinese family and transnational business networks in case studies from British North Borneo, Australia, and Samoa. Relying on diverse sources, including archival correspondence, Chinese-language newspapers, personal letters and oral histories, the authors reveal the importance of social, familial, and political connections in shaping the relationships between the colonial authorities and Chinese workers and traders.

Saerkkae, Timo, Mining and Financial Imperialism: The Central African Copper Bonanza, c. 1890-1970. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 288 pp. 2025:1 (Routledge, UK) <733-406>
ISBN 978-1-03-216176-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Mining finance houses were substantial public corporations with access to money markets in the City of London, the world's leading capital market for mining. These institutions became dominant at the inception of colonial rule and, in varying forms, remained so throughout the twentieth century.Drawing on a rich corpus of primary sources, this book analyses the Western colonial origins of the mining industry and its post-colonial legacies in the Central African Copperbelt. It provides insights into the operations of the global business of mining: in particular, how these processes took place, why they were considered desirable by various interest groups, and the impact that these processes continue to have on physical and human environments in parts of the world where they took place. It also turns its gaze to the City of London looking at who the financiers were and the nature of the power which they wielded. A long-term perspective on mining finance reveals that thus far the colonial governments have been the main focus in the history of imperialism in Central Africa, with little focus in many instances on the mining finance houses which have outlived them.The book is a significant contribution to the economic, financial and business history of mining and extractive industries, Central Africa, the City of London and early forms of financial capitalism.

Schmelzer, Matthias, Freedom for Capital, Not People: The Mont Pelerin Society and the Origins of the Neoliberal Monetary Order. Tr. by J. Rahtz. 240 pp. 2025:6 (Verso, UK) <733-407>
ISBN 978-1-80429-374-4 paper ¥5,694.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99

Both a rigorous intellectual history of neoliberalism and an innovative account of the economic transformations that shook the post-war period, Freedom for Capital Not People charts the theoretical developments responsible for reshaping today's world economy, unleashing capital against democracy. Based on new archival sources, it shows a neoliberal camp marked by ideological divisions as well as consensus, as the Mont Pelerin Society charted its course from fervent support for the gold standard to an embrace of free-floating exchange rates. The resulting debates were not merely of academic interest. By the turn of the 1970s, this controversy found expression at the highest levels of international monetary policy, with world-historical consequences. This is the definitive account of the interests, priorities, and political imperatives driving the intellectual figures whose influence has dominated the past half-century of global capitalism. The excavation of their recent past illuminates and politicizes contemporary debates on currency.

英国大西洋世界における知識、情報、経営教育　1620～1760年
Talbott, Siobhan, Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620-1760. 304 pp. 2025:5 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <733-409>
ISBN 978-0-19-892679-5 hard ¥28,205.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00

Accurate information is essential to successful business activity. The early modern period saw an increase in printed commercial information, including newspapers, printed exchange rates, and educational texts--part of the 'print revolution' that permeated all aspects of the early modern world. Rather than relying on externally-produced printed works, commercial agents retained agency in creating and sharing their own business and educational information, which was shared in other forms and prioritised and valued over printed material. This book explores the ways that merchants and other commercial agents learned about business in the early modern British Atlantic World. It considers how they acquired, dispersed, stored, and used information, as well as considering their contribution to creating and shaping that information. Prioritising a wide range of manuscript material held in disparate collections, including merchants' correspondence, letter-books, notebooks, family papers, exercise books, and ships' logs, Talbott explores the ways that knowledge, information, and business education was created, circulated, and used in the early modern British Atlantic World. It offers a new perspective on the exchange of business information in a period dominated by discussions of print, prioritising manuscript and oral forms of exchange. In doing so, it presents a more holistic account of the ways that networks of knowledge operated in early modern business, centralising the creation, circulation, and use of business information specifically by those individuals most involved in--and most affected by--its production.

Oezyasar, Yonca Koeksal / Nacar, Can, Anatolian Livestock Trade in the Late Ottoman Empire. (LUP Middle East Environmental Histories) 220 pp 2024:9 (Leiden U. Pr., NE) <733-411>
ISBN 978-90-8728-435-0 hard ¥27,350.- (税込) GB￡ 96.00 *

Busygina, Irina, How Geography and Institutions Shaped the Development of Nations: Across Countries and Continents. (Routledge Studies in Human Geography) 272 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <733-249>
ISBN 978-1-03-280408-8 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book provides a concise and informative introduction to how geography and institutions shaped the development of nations, showing that while the role of institutions for the development of nations is indisputable, the role of geographic factors remains underexplored and underestimated.Drawing on rich empirical material from the history and modernity of different continents and nations, How Geography and Institutions Shaped the Development of Nations: Across Countries and Continents seeks to show not only the importance of geographical explanations of development, but also their extraordinary diversity. This book is divided into two parts: the first examines the main contributions to the understanding of development under the influence of geographic and institutional factors, as well as state's geographic attributes and borders as geographic institutions. The second part immerses the reader in empirical material, presenting various cases on different continents in different historical periods.An essential read for researchers in a broad range of areas including international organizations and practitioners involved accelerating national development. This book will also be of interest to scholars and students in development studies, and more broadly to geography, comparative politics, and regional studies.

農業とILO　1920～50年代
Ribi Forclaz, Amalia, Cultivating Fields of Progress: Agriculture and the International Labour Organization, 1920s-1950s. 224 pp. 2025:3 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <733-321>
ISBN 978-0-19-284989-2 hard ¥23,931.- (税込) GB￡ 84.00

After the First World War, the improvement of working and living conditions in agriculture became an international issue for the first time. Led by the International Labour Organization and related organizations, as well as overlapping expert networks, agrarian interest groups, trade unionists, and farmer representatives, the immediate interwar and post-war years were a fertile time for international debates, knowledge production, and policy-making. Cultivating Fields of Progress traces the thematic, temporal, and geographical scope of these debates for the first time, from the plight of landless farmworkers in Europe in the early 1920s to the conditions of plantation workers in the 1950s. By using the archives of international organizations, the book considers how and to what ends questions of rural poverty and problematic labour conditions both in Europe and overseas made their way to the world stage, against a backdrop of broader discourses on social progress, decolonizaton, and economic development. Bringing the tools of social history to the study of economic and political history allows for a better understanding of the international development and circulation of ideas and theories of agriculture, as well as broader insights into the nature of power, policy, and knowledge production across a period of global change.

Yenilmez, Meltem Ince / Oezdemir, Caglar (eds.), Labor Market Dynamics in Turkey during the Last 100 Years. 304 pp. 2024:11 (Lexington Books, US) <733-336>
ISBN 978-1-66695-617-7 hard ¥25,872.- (税込) US$ 120.00

Labor Market Dynamics in Turkey during the Last 100 Years provides a thorough examination of the complex interactions that exist between social changes, economic policies, and the changing labor market environment in Turkey. This book draws on a wealth of historical and modern data to explore important topics including youth employment, unionization, migration, gender inequality, and the effects of economic crises. It also examines government interventions, employment package efficacy, and the complex ramifications of labor market changes, with an emphasis on the post-2008 period.

L.R.Sullivan他著　中国における金融制度歴史事典
Sullivan, Lawrence R. / Liu-Sullivan, Nancy Y., Historical Dictionary of the Financial System in China. (Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East) 432 pp. 2024:11 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <733-13>
ISBN 979-88-8180-180-9 hard ¥43,120.- (税込) US$ 200.00 *