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

Covey, R. Alan / Dalton, Jordan A., Economies of the Inca World. (Elements in Ancient and Pre-modern Economies) 75 pp. 2024:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <737-410>
ISBN 978-1-009-55213-4 hard ¥14,296.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-009-55209-7 paper ¥4,862.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

The Inca Empire (c. 1400-1532) was the largest Indigenous state to develop in the Americas, spanning the extraordinarily rich landscapes of the central Andes. Scholarly approaches to Inca-era economies initially drew on Spanish colonial documents that emphasized royal resource monopolies, labor tribute, and kin-based land tenure. Anthropologists in recent decades have emphasized local economic self-sufficiency and the role of reciprocity in Inca economics. This Element adds to the existing literature by reviewing recent archaeological research in the Inca capital region and different provinces. The material evidence and documents indicate considerable variation in the development and implementation of Inca political economy, reflecting an array of local economic practices that were tailored to different Andean environments. Although Inca economic development downplayed interregional trade, emerging evidence indicates the existence of more specialized trading practices in Inca peripheral regions, some of which persisted under imperial rule.

Huang, Chunyan, A Panoramic View of the Song Dynasty Through the Lens of Shipbuilding Industry. 581 pp. 2024:9 (Springer, GW) <737-412>
ISBN 978-981-9761-27-2 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book examines the impact of shipbuilding on the society of the Song Dynasty from multiple perspectives and points out the positive contribution of ancient manufacture industry to social development at that time. It explores some virgin territories and presents strong originality, such as the inland navigation methods in the Song Dynasty, the system of gods and goddesses in the aquatic world, and the defense system of the Yangtze River and the sea in the Southern Song Dynasty. It includes the markets in the coastal areas, the perception and imagery of the sea, the maritime disasters and rescues, the river courses and sea warfare, and the management of private ships in the Song Dynasty. On top of that, it provides fresh analysis and new perspectives on some issues that have been studied, such as Lisheng, shapes and sizes of ships, and vehicles and ships in the Song Dynasty.

Kantor, Shawn / Kitchens, Carl T. (eds.), Research in Economic History. Volume 38. 268 pp. 2025:1 (Emerald, UK) <737-413>
ISBN 978-1-83608-929-2 hard ¥29,185.- (税込) US$ 132.00

In this new volume of Research in Economic History, editors Shawn Kantor and Carl T. Kitchens bring together a diverse range of expert contributors to vigorously interrogate and analyse historic economics questions. This includes examinations of inequality from North and South America, as well as Europe, in terms of health, land, and wealth. For researchers and students of economic history, this volume pulls together the latest research on a variety of unanswered questions from the 1860s until the present day.

初期中世世界におけるグローバルな交易－富、香辛料、薬物の移動　700～1100年
Khatun, Toslima, Global Trade in the Early Medieval World: The Movement of Wealth, Spice and Medicine, 700-1100. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 288 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <737-414>
ISBN 978-1-032-97100-1 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Exploring the movement of peoples, perfumes, and spices across vast distances in this period of medieval history across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, this book examines the role of Arab merchants in trade between and among the Caliphal and Carolingian elites.The study of the trade in perfumes and spices highlights the relationship between the South Asian subcontinent and the Caliphate. It is shown that the societies involved in this intercontinental maritime trade intermingled through the demand for goods and products which allowed for the transmission of ideas and learning. Crucially, the Eurasian end of these trading routes were tapping into pre- existing networks of trade as there is evidence that there were links of trade between East Asia and the near and Middle East as early as the seventh century B.H./ first century A.D. Thus, the book challenges the Eurocentric worldview which fails to take into account that the Europeans in the late medieval period came into a pre- existing trading network.This book will be of interest to readers in economic history as well as the history of trade, globalisation, South Asia, the Middle East, and the Medieval world.

オスマンの政治と経済－周辺と中心
Lamprakis, Dimitrios K., Ottoman Politics and Economy: The Periphery and the Centre. (SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East) 400 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <737-415>
ISBN 978-0-367-46998-6 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book examines the history of the transformation of the small town of Kozani, situated in modern Greek Macedonia, into a vibrant commercial hub and self-administering community during the period of Ottoman rule, c.1400-1821.Beginning with a comprehensive examination of the foundation myths as recorded in local amateur historical works, the book then proceeds with a reconstruction of the foundation of Kozani as a small village during the chaotic Ottoman conquest of Macedonia in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It then examines the history of the village using extant Ottoman and Greek documentation, as well as available Ottoman and European travelogues and geographical treatises. Key moments are highlighted in the socio-economic transformation of the village into a thriving commercial hub and religio-political and administrative centre during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. To that end, it discusses the taxation status of Kozani and more particularly the establishment and administration of the malikane life-term tax-farming system. The book also examines local myths about communal strife, applying the scheme of bilateral factionalism to explain the repeated waves of intra-communal violence that almost tore the settlement apart.Shedding new light on an area long overlooked by Ottoman historians, the book is vital reading for those interested in the history, politics and economy of Ottoman, Islamic and Balkan towns.

Pratt, Catherine E., Economy and Commodity Production in the Aegean Bronze Age. (Elements in The Aegean Bronze Age) 75 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <737-416>
ISBN 978-1-009-45467-4 hard ¥14,296.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-009-45470-4 paper ¥4,862.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

This Element does not discuss every aspect of the economy. Rather, it focuses on the first stage of an economic cycle ? that of production. Two of the major guiding questions are: What products were the Bronze Age palatial states concerned with producing in surplus? And how did the palatial states control the production of these essential commodities? To answer these questions, the Element synthesizes previous work while interspersing its own conclusions on certain sub-topics, especially in light of recent archaeological data that help to fill out a picture incomplete based on textual evidence alone. With these goals in mind, this Element brings together both textual and archaeological data to reconstruct the internal economy and the production of commodities under the purview of Minoan and Mycenaean palatial states.

Shokr, Ahmad, Harvests of Liberation: Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt. 296 pp. 2025:5 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <737-418>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4008-5 hard ¥26,532.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4279-9 paper ¥6,633.- (税込) US$ 30.00

In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty. Where once the volatilities of foreign markets and capital were seen as the main threat, over time large landowners and their imperial allies were targeted as the principal obstacles to the country's industrial progress. The perceived locus of imperial domination shifted from the realm of circulation to the realm of production. Harvests of Liberation situates this transformation in the midcentury dynamics of agrarian capitalism in Egypt. Ahmad Shokr tells a story of decolonization through the lens of cotton, Egypt's prized export. He follows a range of actors-colonial advisors, nationalist leaders, agrarian reformers, merchant-financiers, landowners, and rural workers-whose interactions moved the levers of the cotton trade from institutions that facilitated accumulation on an imperial scale to new sites of control within the nation-state. Amidst depression and war, the transformation of Egypt's cotton economy prompted nationalists to embrace policies of land reform and industrialization and adopt a new conception of history. Ultimately, Shokr argues, these efforts set the stage for the construction of a postcolonial republic under Gamal Abdel Nasser, where national liberation became equated with national development.

van Dam, Peter, Fair Trade: Humanitarianism in the Age of Postcolonial Globalization. 225 pp. 2025:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <737-419>
ISBN 978-1-009-58625-2 hard ¥20,016.- (税込) GB￡ 69.99
ISBN 978-1-009-58626-9 paper ¥6,574.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99

The fair trade movement has been one of the most enduring and successful civic initiatives to come out of the 1960s. In the first transnational history of the movement, Peter van Dam charts its ascendance and highlights how activists attempted to transform the global market in the aftermath of decolonization. Through original archival research into the trade of handicrafts, sugar, paper, coffee and clothes, van Dam demonstrates how the everyday, material aspects of fair trade activism connected the international politics of decolonization with the daily realities of people across the globe. He explores the different scales at which activists operated and the instruments they employed in the pursuit of more equitable economic relations between the global South and North. Through careful analysis of a now ubiquitous global movement, van Dam provides a vital new lens through which to view the history of humanitarianism in the age of postcolonial globalization.

メキシコの経済史　1519～2000年
Salvucci, Richard J, An Economic History of Mexico: Contested Conquest, Ambiguous Development: 1519-2000. 288 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <737-261>
ISBN 978-1-032-87420-3 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-032-87419-7 paper ¥10,578.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

After a turbulent modern history of conquest and colonialism, Mexico has developed as an economy which may be emerging but still displays significant levels of poverty, particularly in relation to its neighbour to the north, the United States.Drawing on archival data, decades of new Mexican historiography, and considering issues of political economy, this book explores how Mexico ended up in the relative economic position that it did. Beginning with Hernan Cortes and the invention of the Conquest of New Spain, this book explores the economic history of Mexico through the lens of political economy incorporating environment and demography, politics and power, and industrialization and inequality. The aftermath of the Conquest brought about a complete restructuring of the economy as a result of death from disease, the introduction of European-style agriculture and a more intensive exploitation of the peasantry. The 18th and 19th Centuries saw "reform" followed by a series of crises and rebellions under which sustained economic growth was impossible. Globalization and the expansion of agricultural exports provided some opportunities in the late 19th and 20th Centuries, but it failed to provide the booming rural population with a sustainable means of supporting domestic demand. The so-called "Mexican Miracle" - the period of rapid growth in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s - disguised a failure to address the economic inequality embedded since the colonial period. As this book clearly demonstrates, this inequality was sometimes challenged in Mexican history but never decisively addressed, let alone reversed.This accessible and engaging book is vital reading for students and scholars of the history of Mexico and Latin America and those interested in economic development in historical perspective.

Fedorova, Maria, Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921-1935. (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) 240 pp. 2025:8 (Northern Illinois U. Pr., US) <737-320>
ISBN 978-1-5017-8279-4 hard ¥11,042.- (税込) US$ 49.95

Seeds of Exchange examines the US and Soviet exchange of agricultural knowledge and technology during the interwar period. Maria Fedorova challenges the perception of the Soviet Union as a passive recipient of American technology and expertise. She reveals the circular nature of this exchange through official government bureaus, amid anxious farmers in crowded auditoriums, in cramped cars across North Dakota and Montana, and by train over the once fertile steppes of the Volga. Amid the post-World War I food insecurity, Soviet and American agricultural experts relied on transnational networks, bridging ideological differences. As Soviets traveled across the US agricultural regions and Americans plowed steppes in the southern Urals and the lower Volga, both groups believed that innovative solutions could be found beyond their own national borders. Soviets were avidly interested in American technology and American agricultural experts perceived the Soviet Union to be an ideal setting for experimenting with and refining modern farm systems and organizational practices. As Seeds of Exchange shows, agricultural modernization was not the exclusive domain of Western countries.