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

ローマ共和政の戦争経済　紀元前406～100年
Biglino, Fabrizio, The War Economy of the Roman Republic (406-100 BCE): The System that Built an Empire. (Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 487) 344 pp. 2024:12 (Brill, NE) <735-268>
ISBN 978-90-04-71428-1 hard ¥31,308.- (税込) EUR 133.00

How did the Roman economy support the expansion of the Republic and play a crucial role in its success and rise from regional power in Central Italy to the dominant superpower of the Mediterranean world? To what extent did the intensification of the military efforts contribute to the growth of the Roman economy, and how did this happen? In The War Economy of the Roman Republic, Fabrizio Biglino examines the growth of the Roman army and its economic impact from the late fifth to the end of the second centuries BCE. By building an original interpretational framework, Biglino offers a new analysis of the interplay of warfare and the economy in the Republican period and, on a wider scale, the role of warfare in the development of pre-industrialised economies.

南欧における建築と経済成長　1050～1300年
Carocci, Sandro / Fiore, Alessio (eds.), Building and Economic Growth in Southern Europe (1050-1300). (The Medieval Countryside 26) 268 pp. 2024 (Brepols, BE) <735-269>
ISBN 978-2-503-60541-8 hard ¥18,832.- (税込) EUR 80.00

Mahmuzlu, Ekin, Agrarian, Commercial, and Maritime Change in the Southeastern Black Sea Region: Production, Ecology, and Institutions (1830s-1910s). (Brill's Studies in Maritime History 18) 350 pp. 2024:12 (Brill, NE) <735-270>
ISBN 978-90-04-71458-8 hard ¥30,602.- (税込) EUR 130.00

Economic historians have often examined the effects of the integration of the Ottoman Empire into the world markets with macro-level approaches. This book aims to scrutinize the effects of this transition to a capitalist economy through a micro-level approach instead, using micro-level data and microeconomics. It examines the structure of agricultural production and commerce by analyzing major crops and commercial institutions before assessing agrarian, commercial, and maritime changes at the micro-level. Utilizing recent developments in economic history, institutional economics, and ecological economics, it explores the causality behind these agrarian and commercial changes.

中東欧における統合された農民経済－比較的視点
Panjek, Aleksander (ed.), Integrated Peasant Economy in Central and Eastern Europe: A Comparative Approach. 280 pp. 2025:1 (Brepols, BE) <735-271>
ISBN 978-2-503-59004-2 paper ¥18,596.- (税込) EUR 79.00

Penati, Beatrice, Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan. (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 8: Uralic & Central Asian Studies 31) 650 pp. 2024:12 (Brill, NE) <735-272>
ISBN 978-90-04-69777-5 hard ¥39,782.- (税込) EUR 169.00

In the mid-1920s, Uzbekistan's countryside experienced a 'land reform', which aimed at solving rural poverty and satisfying radical fringes among peasants and Party, while sustaining agricultural output, especially for cotton. This book analyses the decision-making process underpinning the reform, its implementation, and economic and social effects. The reform must be understood against the background of the wreckage caused by war and revolution, and linked to subsequent policies of 'land organisation' and regime-sponsored 'class struggle'. Overall, this is the first comprehensive account of early Soviet policy in Central Asia's agricultural heartland, encompassing land rights, irrigation, credit, resettlement, and the co-operative system.

Phimister, Ian, Bulls, Bears, Boers and Brits: Finance and the Coming of War in Southern Africa, 1894-1899. (Afrika-Studiecentrum Series 44) 175 pp. 2025:2 (Brill, NE) <735-273>
ISBN 978-90-04-69078-3 paper ¥13,182.- (税込) EUR 56.00

In the 1890s financial speculation and market manipulation were prominent features of the Southern African gold mining industry. Extravagantly capitalised, starved of working capital, and poorly managed, many mines could not be made to pay. Investors suffered more at the hands of Randlords than they did than they did from those of the Boer Government in Pretoria. By failing to take any of this into serious consideration, accounts that focus on mining company complaints as the root cause of the Jameson Raid and the outbreak of war in 1899 are missing a key dimension of the past.

Poni, Carlo / Gruder, Vivian R. / Leech, P. et al. (eds.), Worlds of Work: Peasants and Artisans, Engineers and Theorists. (Library of Economic History 19) 466 pp. 2024:12 (Brill, NE) <735-274>
ISBN 978-90-04-29434-9 hard ¥37,664.- (税込) EUR 160.00

The essays in this volume take the readers into the complex world of work in early modern Europe. Carlo Poni explores this theme from multiple perspectives, examining work practices in agriculture, artisan production, and the silk industry. Extensive archival material, analyzed with theories derived from Economics, illuminates the social relations and conflicts that arose from different work practices in agriculture, artisan production and the silk industry. The author presents the ideas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theorists: the Venetian engineer Vittorio Zonca on mechanics; the natural philosopher John Theophilus Desaguliers on bodily movements; and, with an incisive critique, Denis Diderot on workers and their practices in the Encyclopedie. Contributors are: Carlo Ginzburg, Alberto Guenzi, Steven L. Kaplan, Edmund Leites, and Roberto Scazzieri.

Richard, Jacques, Capitalism as Megamachine: A New Historical, Legal and Political Approach. (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy) 288 pp. 2025:1 (Routledge, UK) <735-275>
ISBN 978-1-03-288480-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

The concept of a 'megamachine' - a closed system operating to a pre-established utilitarian purpose which results in the machinization of humanity - has existed in various forms since at least the late 19th century.This book builds on previous attempts to define and analyse the machine and argues that modern industrial capitalism is at the heart of it. The first part of the book takes stock of previous attempts to explain the origin and nature of the Megamachine phenomenon, from Nietzsche to the twenty first century including Mumford, Latouche and Scheidler. The second part of the book proposes a new analysis of the nature of the Megamachine beginning with a historical, sociological and political exploration of the development of modern capitalism from the Middle Ages to the present day. It is shown that the modern world is under the yoke of accounting and corporate laws which ratify, on an international scale, the systematic protection of financial capital to the detriment of natural and human capitals: a megamachine of accountants and managers. Defeating the machine will require more than minor reforms such as carbon pricing and integrated reporting: it will be necessary to initiate a program of cooperation, education and economic policy reorientation on a global scale.This vital book on the crisis of capitalism, the concept of the megamachine and the future of global society will be of great interest to readers across the social sciences and humanities.

Sharma, Nabanita, Commerce, Political Economy and Ecology in Northeast India: Assam, c. 1826 -1905. 170 pp. 2025:1 (Routledge, UK) <735-276>
ISBN 978-1-03-244654-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Historically, commerce has existed in Assam in different forms. In the late medieval and early modern times, Assam had trading connections with neighbouring areas of Bhutan, Tibet, Bengal, and Myanmar (Burma). This book studies the commercial activities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in and around Assam. It looks at colonial Assam's economy, its traders, mercantile communities, riverine trade and transportation, bazaars, and examines the use of resources by the colonial regime. The book also studies the unique ecology of the region and the role it played in defining Assam's place in the global economy.Rich in archival resources, this book fills a major gap in the historiography of Northeast India and will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of Northeast India, colonial history, economic history, trade and commerce, cultural history, Indian history, South Asian history, and history in general.