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

金融の地図－貨幣のグローバルな物語のマッピング
Wojcik, Dariusz, Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money. 240 pp. 2024:9 (Yale U. Pr., US) <728-270>
ISBN 978-0-300-25305-4 hard ¥9,108.- (税込) US$ 40.00

A unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today's interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of finance has always taken place on an international stage. Finance is one of the most globalized and networked of human activities, and one of the most important social technologies ever invented. This volume, the first visually based book dedicated to finance, uses graphics and maps to bring the complex and abstract world of finance down to earth, showing how geography is fundamental for understanding finance, and vice versa. It illuminates the people-including Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes-who have shaped our thinking about global finance; brings to life the ways that place-specific histories, laws, regulations, and institutions influence finance; shows how finance relates to innovation, globalization, and environmental change; and details how finance plays a key part in drawing the landscape of uneven development, inequality, and instability. The Atlas of Finance, with word and image, will change the way you view both your money and your world.

20世紀における病院の経営史
Fernandez Perez, Paloma (eds.), Business History of Hospitals in the 20th Century: Entrepreneurship, Organization, and Finances. (Frontiers in Economic History) 300 pp. 2025:2 (Springer, GW) <728-331>
ISBN 978-3-031-59422-9 hard ¥44,150.- (税込) EUR 179.99

新興市場の現代経済史　1950～2020年
Akarli, Ahmet, A Modern Economic History of Emerging Markets (1950-2020): Dirigisme, Globalization and Disruption. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 298 pp. 2024:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <728-356>
ISBN 978-3-031-55209-0 hard ¥31,885.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book offers a comprehensive economic history of emerging market economies post-WWII and identifies a complex web of sustainability problems that face the EMEs going forward. It seeks to present a truly global perspective on the development of EMEs and the long-term trends that have brought EMEs to a critical economic juncture. The first section of the book charts how EMEs became tightly integrated into the global economy at rapid pace, analysing economic achievements as well as imbalances and sustainability issues that have been generated over time. It considers how EMEs have withstood episodes of complex structural transitions and financial shocks, and offers comparative perspectives on patterns of dispersion within the EME landscape from the end of WWII to the present. The second part of the book seeks to understand how EMEs might cope with the volatility brought about by a new 'age of disruption' defined by major structural challenges to the neo-liberal economic order. It considers which EMEs are best positioned to respond to issues of economic inequality, financial excess, technological disruption and climate change, what a global historical understanding of the EMEs can offer to policymakers, and the impact on the EME investment landscape. This book will be of interest to a broad audience including researchers of economic history and political economy, as well as policymakers, investment professionals, and the general reader interested in global economic development.

古典期アテナイにおける日常生活－社会経済的分析
Economou, Emmanouil M. L. / Kyriazis, Nicholas C., Daily Life in Classical Athens: A Socioeconomic Analysis. (Frontiers in Economic History) 368 pp. 2024:8 (Springer, GW) <728-357>
ISBN 978-3-031-58540-1 hard ¥31,885.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book presents the economic heartbeat and institutional details that shaped Athenian society during the Classical period (508-323 BCE), employing an innovative and outside-the-box approach to studying history. It answers questions about societal structure, the roles of women, foreigners, and slaves, the transformation of their economy from agrarian to maritime, and commercially-oriented. 28 short fictional stories enliven the narrative, each accompanied by rigorous academic analysis - revealing how banking, insurance, and the Athenian drachma, the internationally accepted currency of the times, shaped their world. Exploring the symbiotic relationship between democracy and economic evolution, the book examines the sophisticated economic institutions of ancient Athens -ranging from property rights protection to market-driven price determination, anti-profiteering measures, measures to protect the Athenian currency's trustworthiness from forgery, business and labor mentality and practices, international trade patterns, as well as the existence of a robust public sector related also to the provision of a series of public goods. In a comprehensive analysis, the book scrutinizes daily life, societal structures, and customs, addressing a variety of questions such as marriage, cuisine, attire, values, and entertainment. Employing New Institutional Economics as a methodology, the book puts together historical evidence with institutional analysis, offering an interdisciplinary lens through economics, political science, strategy, and behavioral theory. Richly supported by ancient sources, inscriptions, and a vast modern bibliography, this work not only explains ancient Athens but also proposes its socioeconomic pattern as a guide for modern societal challenges in economic governance and democracy.

銃と台帳－初期の経済的グローバル化の時代における中国と東アジア世界
Li, Bozhong, Guns and Ledgers: China and the East Asian World in the Age of Early Economic Globalization. 367 pp. 2024 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <728-359>
ISBN 978-981-9963-22-5 hard ¥31,885.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book seeks to reconcile the dual forces of war and economic globalization in tracing China's early modernity. For late imperial China, there were two forms of encounter with the West; the guns of invading Europeans, and the ledgers by which trade between China and the West was measured and regulated. Even today, China's reactions to the West oscillate between business-driven openness and military paranoia. In this intellectual tour de force, Bozhong Li, one of China's preeminent intellectual and economic historians, traces the unprecedented transition that led China into the modern world; the book will be of value for economists, historians, and sinophiles alike.

ボヘミアとハプスブルクの財政・金融・軍事レジーム　1650～1710年
Sander-Faes, Stephan, Lordship and State Transformation: Bohemia and the Habsburg Fiscal-Financial-Military Regime, 1650-1710. 472 pp. 2024:12 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <728-360>
ISBN 978-0-228-02290-9 hard ¥25,047.- (税込) US$ 110.00

Although state transformation - continuous struggle and bargaining between rulers and their subjects, producing an unpredictable variety of political structures - is often overlooked, the process is crucial in assessing the organizational development of early modern composite monarchies and deserves further investigation.In Austria, the monarchy's emergence as a great power required it to overcome several successive crises that culminated in the decades around 1700. The Habsburgs succeeded more by adjusting relations between Crown and lordships than through institution building. This unusual interaction of state and non-state actors resulted in an Austria that markedly deviated from the centralizing nation-state exemplified by Britain or France. The nascent Habsburg fiscal-financial-military regime transformed regional and local authority, leading to armed conflict and causing disintegration of the administrative and social fabric. From the mid-seventeenth century onward, power - whether local or central, or social or political - would undergo enormous changes.Grounded in extensive research into Czech archives and spanning an era from the Thirty Years' War to the coronation of Charles VI, Lordship and State Transformation delves into the complex transitions that characterized the first instance of a balance of power in Europe, with a focus on its underresearched great power, the Habsburg monarchy.

V.スミル著　発明とイノベーション
Smil, Vaclav, Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure. 232 pp. 2024:9 (MIT Pr., US) <728-361>
ISBN 978-0-262-55101-4 paper ¥4,541.- (税込) US$ 19.95

Tinn, Honghong, Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan's Computing Industry. (History of Computing) 456 pp. 2025:1 (MIT Pr., US) <728-362>
ISBN 978-0-262-54938-7 paper ¥13,662.- (税込) US$ 60.00

ラテンアメリカ経済史
Ball, Molly C., Latin American Economic History: An Introduction to Daily Life, Debt, and Development. (Latin American Topicos) 160 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <727-302>
ISBN 978-1-03-225546-0 hard ¥39,501.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-222434-3 paper ¥10,530.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Latin American Economic History: An Introduction to Daily Life, Debt, and Development guides readers through significant features and developments in the region's economic history from independence through 2022.In approachable language, the book introduces readers to relevant New Economic History concepts and explains important characteristics of Latin America, such as the region's high volatility, rapid urbanization experience, the continued prominence of commodities, and its culture of informality. The volume provides explicit connections between culture, politics, and economics over five distinct time periods. Readers will learn how Cinco de Mayo featured into foreign debt repayments in the 19th century, how novels like Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude reflected on the expansion of railroads during a period of export-led growth, and how a United States federal reserve interest hike in 1979 sent the region into the Lost Decade. When considered collectively, the region's economic trajectory demonstrates that development does not always accompany economic growth.This is an accessible introductory text with clear definitions and discussions of relevant economic concepts, which will be a valuable resource for students of Latin American economic, cultural, and political history.

Belndorfer, Helene, Zollunion, Bankenkrise, Putschversuch: 1931 oder die Erste Republik zwischen den Schatten des imperialen Oesterreich und Hitler ante portas. 650 S. 2024:12 (Boehlau, AU) <727-303>
ISBN 978-3-205-22048-0 hard ¥11,038.- (税込) EUR 45.00

Ein Europa uberraschendes deutsch-oesterreichisches Zollunionsprojekt, eine existenzielle Bankenkrise und ein Putschversuch rechter Paramilitars gegen die parlamentarische Demokratie pragen Oesterreich 1931, dem Jahr, in dem sich der Niedergang der Ersten Republik dramatisch beschleunigt. Drei krisenhafte Ereignisse, die 1931 Oesterreichs Souveranitat, wirtschaftliche Existenz und parlamentarische Demokratie gefahrden, fungieren als Analysevehikel, um ? anstelle der abstrakten, metaphorisch konstruierten Akteure Weltwirtschaftskrise, Not oder Schicksal ? fur den Niedergang verantwortliche Personen und Institutionen aus Politik, Administration, Wirtschaft, Paramilitars, Presse etc., sowie Narrative und Orte der Macht sichtbar zu machen. Bisher nur partiell genutzte Quellen wie die Protokolle der Ministerratstreffen, des zentralen Kommunikationsforums der Regierung, und entscheidender Parlamentssitzungen sowie diverse Printmedien ermoeglichen neue Einblicke zu den Ereignissen, die raumlich weit uber Oesterreich und zeitlich weit uber 1931 in Vergangenheit und Zukunft hinausragen.

貨幣、硬貨、植民地主義
Burstroem, Nanouschka M. / Kemmers, Fleur (eds.), Money, Coinage and Colonialism: Entangled Exchanges. 312 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <727-304>
ISBN 978-1-03-252638-6 hard ¥39,501.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book explores coinage and related object types as an important form of material culture that is crucial to interrogating interactions between coloniser and colonised.Money, Coinage and Colonialism is a much overdue treatment of coinage and money in debates around ancient and recent colonial practices. It argues that coinage offers unique opportunities to study interactions and effects of the meeting between colonisers and colonised, as well as the economic, political and ideological interactions between colonial communities and the state of origin. It is argued that the study of coins and other means of exchange may reveal less apparent and under-communicated processes, values and discourses in the study of colonial environments and projects, with commonalities informing a larger ?global history? approach. A broad picture is built from numerous case studies, spanning from Classical Greek colonies to European colonial enterprises of the Modern period, exploring colonial histories, settings, ideology and resistance. Particular attention is paid to the role of coins in identity construction; to ambiguity, hybridity and creolisation of monetary objects in colonial contexts; and to specific uses of coins that tell of violence, oppression and resistance as well as of networks, acculturation and globalisation.Composed of chronologically broad and diverse case studies from colonial contexts, this book is for researchers in colonial and post-colonial archaeology as well as archaeological and cultural-historical numismatics.

Jenks, Stuart (ed.), Four Books of Rates (1507, 1536/45, 1558, 1604): And Two Hanseatic Translations. (Quellen und Darstellungen zur hansischen Geschichte 80) 424 S. 2024:8 (Boehlau, GW) <727-306>
ISBN 978-3-412-53070-9 paper ¥17,171.- (税込) EUR 70.00

A.J.H.レイサム著　1945年以降のアジアにおける米の貿易
Latham, A. J. H., The Rice Trade in Asia. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) 258 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <727-307>
ISBN 978-1-03-279596-6 hard ¥39,501.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book analyses the development of the rice trade in Asia since 1945.This book focuses on the three historically important exporters Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam and the two key importers Indonesia and the Philippines. The book addresses the impacts of several major transitions during this period on the rice trade in these nations, namely their initial recovery post-war, the political turbulence during and following the independence struggles of these nations, and the impact of the Vietnam war. It also tracks the fluctuating impact of the various El Nino/ Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climatic events across the period on harvest and exports, for example in events such as the rice crisis of 1973-75.Using data from the London Rice Brokers' Association Circular to create a detailed narrative of the rice trade, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian history, economic history and economic development in post-war Asia.

Reitmayer, Morten / Weispfennig, Stefan (Hrsg.), Konsum und Politik nach dem Boom. (Nach dem Boom) 232 S. 2024:8 (Vandenhoeck, GW) <727-308>
ISBN 978-3-525-30277-4 hard ¥15,944.- (税込) EUR 65.00

Storli, Espen / Boon, Marten (eds.), Creating Global Capitalism: Commodity Traders and the First Global Economy. 148 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <727-309>
ISBN 978-1-03-285133-4 hard ¥39,501.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book provides a unique insight into the world of commodity trading companies, often depicted as the hidden companies of the global economy and showcases how they were instrumental in bringing about the economic integration of new commodities and far-flung regions into the first global economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.The late nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented phase of global economic integration. As organisers of global trade, trading companies specialising in commodities were instrumental in creating this first global economy. From soybeans to cultural artefacts, from seal hides to rubber, trading companies connected far-flung regions at or beyond the frontier of empires to a growing global market for these commodities. Satisfying the unsatiable appetite for commodities of industrializing economies in North America, Europe and East Asia, their nimble organisations and specialised trading skills allowed trading companies to harness imperial geopolitics, latch onto local networks and move across borders. This book brings together a collection of case studies of commodity trading companies across a range of commodities and regions between the 1870s and the 1930s. Through the lens of global value chains, the contributions showcase how these companies continuously adapted their businesses to a world that was at once economically more integrated but politically increasingly competitive in this age of high imperialism and national competition.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Business History.

D.A.アーウィン他編　変動相場制の為替相場の50年
Irwin, Douglas A. / Obstfeld, Maurice (eds.), Floating Exchange Rates at Fifty. 384 pp. 2024:4 (Peterson Institute for International Economics, US) <727-219>
ISBN 978-0-88132-749-6 paper ¥5,692.- (税込) US$ 25.00

グローバル経済危機の一世紀
Vinhas de Souza, Lucio, A Century of Global Economic Crises: Monetary Policy in Search of An Anchor. 193 pp. 2024:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-311>
ISBN 978-3-031-53459-1 hard ¥31,885.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores the end of the era of low inflation and stable price increases, known as "The Great Moderation", and the impact this will have on monetary policy. The macroeconomic trends and economic policy issues observed within developed countries over the last 70 years are linked with the economic theory debates of the time to highlight how the current economic challenges came about. The limitations of past economic policies are highlighted to help create a new policy framework for an era defined by high inflation, low economic growth, large budget deficits, and increased private sector debt.This book presents a new understanding of monetary policy that engages with the changing behaviour of economic agents. It will be relevant to researchers and policymakers interested in monetary policy and the political economy.

パンのモラル・エコノミー及び市場経済－ウィーンにおける規制と改革　1775～1885年
Albrecht, Jonas, The Moral and Market Economies of Bread: Regulation and Reform in Vienna, 1775-1885. (Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations) 280 pp. 2024:7 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-372>
ISBN 978-1-350-39847-4 hard ¥24,871.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

From the 1770s the Vienna bread market was rocked by a series of politico-economic and technological changes that questioned the way this everyday foodstuff was sold and produced. In this book, Jonas Albrecht explores how this reconfiguration of the bread market had wide-reaching and significant consequences for a society who relied on this foodstuff to live. Before 1860 the production and selling of bread was embedded into a moral economy with distinct regulations. But as the grain market expanded and new cereal varieties arrived from the empire's peripheries reformers sought to create a 'free' market through liberalizing reforms. The Moral and Market Economies of Bread shows that while terminating market regulation did mobilize and diversify Vienna's bread market in spatial terms, it intensified inequality among consumers. As opaque prices, non-transparent market procedures and diverging power relations between producers and consumers led to unrest, city officials and bakers struggled to meet the shortcomings of the free market from within. This book brings economic, social and urban histories together and employs a spatial approach and GIS methods to explore the relationship between market and society, and capitalism at large.

Del Prete, Rossella, The Neapolitan Creative Economy: The Growth of the Music Market and Creative Sector in Naples, 17th-19th Centuries. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 328 pp. 2024:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-373>
ISBN 978-3-031-55902-0 hard ¥29,432.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book analyses the emergence and growth of the creative sector in Naples between the early modern and modern eras, focusing particularly on the development of music markets in the city. From the seventeenth century, Naples became one of the most culturally enriched regions in the Italian peninsula, with internationally known music schools, theatres and opera venues attracting visitors from across Europe in a burgeoning tourist market. This book sheds light on the driving economic factors and political contexts behind this key case study for the early growth of the opera and music sector in Europe. Starting with a discussion of the value of economic history to understanding cultural industries, the chapters approach this analysis through multiple lenses: the formation of human capital as the result of Naples' institutional urban welfare system; the role of cultural consumption as it evolved from a primarily religious activity to growing popular demand; and the rolethat central city authorities played in encouraging cultural activity through private investment and public policy. The book also draws on fascinating archival research to examine the contribution of Naples' music conservatories in the local creative economy. This book is a valuable resource to a broad range of readers, including those working in economic history, tourism history, the history of music and theatre, Italian social history and more.

ギリシア・ローマ経済への現代的アプローチを評価する
Murray, Sarah C. / Bernard, Seth (eds.), Models, Methods, and Morality: Assessing Modern Approaches to the Greco-Roman Economy. (Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies) 374 pp. 2024:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-375>
ISBN 978-3-031-58209-7 hard ¥49,056.- (税込) EUR 199.99

This edited volume presents a multi-perspectival inquiry into the models that have shaped the study of ancient economies in past decades. The contributions collected here respond to the prevailing tendency to measure ancient Mediterranean economies using methods and techniques designed for assessing the performance of modern economies, considering a range of approaches that might generate a more socially and morally attuned history of the ancient Mediterranean. The volume explores the challenges of quantification and critically examines the ideological assumptions implicit within the models usually applied to the study of ancient economic performance. The chapters advocate for more inclusive alternatives to traditional ideas of 'growth' that take factors such as social inequality, fairness, wellbeing and the relationship between humans and the natural environment into consideration. The book examines through a series of different questions the importance of querying the appropriateness of economic methods from an ethical or socially aware position. Rather than condemning older models, methods, and points of view for their inadequacies, this book focuses on leveraging the benefits from existing methods in economics and suggesting new frameworks to reach toward historical approaches that are both methodologically sophisticated and attuned to the moral, ethical, and political concerns of the twenty-first century. This book will be a valuable resource for interdisciplinary researchers in economics, economic history, ancient history and archaeology.

L.ニール著　ルイジアナ購入の忘れられた金融家－欧州の銀行家、米国、国際金融の台頭
Neal, Larry, The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase: European Bankers, the US, and the Rise of International Finance. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance) 251 pp. 2024:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-376>
ISBN 978-3-031-56276-1 hard ¥31,885.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book provides a comprehensive account of how the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was financed. Where existing research has focused predominantly on the political and diplomatic significance of the Purchase, this book demonstrates the importance of the Purchase to global financial history. The book provides context and background for the Louisiana Purchase and examines the role of key actors and companies, focusing particularly on the 'forgotten financiers' of the Purchase - individuals from the US, France and the UK including Alexander Baring, Albert Gallatin, Pierre Cesar Labouchere and Francois Barbe-Marbois. Based on extensive, original archival research, the chapters will illuminate the role played by these individuals in bringing about financial innovation and facilitating a major transaction that doubled the size of the original United States and helped set the country on a path to global power. The book will be a valuable resource for historians of Europe and America, particularly those with interests in economic and financial history, as well as banking and finance scholars who are interested in the emergence of large-scale international finance in the 19th century.

計量経済史ハンドブック　第3版　全3巻
Diebolt, Claude / Haupert, Michael (eds.), Handbook of Cliometrics. 3rd ed. 3 vols. 2826 pp. 2024:6 (Springer, GW) <726-276>
ISBN 978-3-031-35582-0 hard ¥245,296.- (税込) EUR 999.99

This handbook is a milestone in the field of historical economics and econometric history through its emphasis on the concrete contribution of cliometrics to our knowledge in economics and history. The articles in the handbook authored by the leading scholars in the fields, stress the usefulness of cliometrics for economists, historians and social scientists in general. The handbook offers a comprehensive coverage of topics with each article providing an overview of the contributions of cliometrics to a particular topic. The handbook has set a new standard of quality in the field by offering a world-wide forum of discussion in cliometrics. This updated and extended third edition of the handbook of cliometrics offers a substantially enlarged collection of articles and thus stresses its unique position as authoritative reference work in this field.

Russ, Daniela / Turnbull, Thomas (eds.), Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon. 232 pp. 2025:2 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-225>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4086-3 hard ¥27,324.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4150-1 paper ¥6,831.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth's energies as its object of inquiry. This interdisciplinary field documents and analyzes how humans thought about, harnessed, stored, and exploited stocks and flows of energy. In recent decades, in response to evidence of the effect of fossil fuel use in our climatic system and coinciding with an energy turn across the humanities, a new urgency and purpose has been ascribed to such work. Energy's History challenges abstract and universalizing conceptions of energy's history-making capacities. This collection contains twelve chapters that present, analyze, and contextualize a primary source. The contributors focus on ideas, events, and statements that recorded and critiqued the distinct historical paths of energy, thereby broadening the scope of where and what constitutes energy history. As energy's world-making has enmeshed ever more of the planet into a dangerous compact with fossil fuels, energy histories must be revised within this new energy-historical reality. This volume both presents persuasive visions of energy-driven development beyond the Western capitalist model and provides an expansive and critical account of the ways in which energy histories have shaped the past and impact the present.

伝染をコントロールする－黒死病からCovidまでの伝染病と制度
Ogilvie, Sheilagh, Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid. 480 pp. 2025:2 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <725-290>
ISBN 978-0-691-25556-9 hard ¥10,246.- (税込) US$ 45.00

How human institutions-markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families-have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.How do societies tackle epidemic disease? In Controlling Contagion, Sheilagh Ogilvie answers this question by exploring seven centuries of pandemics, from the Black Death to Covid-19. For most of history, infectious diseases have killed many more people than famine or war, and in 2019 they still caused one death in four. Today, we deal with epidemics more successfully than our ancestors managed plague, smallpox, cholera or influenza. But we use many of the same approaches. Long before scientific medicine, human societies coordinated and innovated in response to biological shocks-sometimes well, sometimes badly.Ogilvie uses historical epidemics to analyze how human societies deal with "externalities"-situations where my action creates costs or benefits for others beyond those that I myself incur. Social institutions-markets, states, communities, religions, guilds, and families-help us manage the negative externalities of contagion and the positive externalities of social distancing, sanitation, and immunization. Ogilvie shows how each institution enables us to coordinate, innovate and inspire each other to limit contagion. But each institution also has weaknesses that can make things worse. Markets shut down voluntarily during every epidemic in history-but they also brought people together, spreading contagion. States mandated quarantines, sanitation, and immunization-but they also waged war and censored information, exacerbating epidemics. Religions admonished us to avoid infecting our neighbours-but they also preached against science and medical innovations. What decided the outcome, Ogilvie argues, was a temperate state, an adaptable market, and a strong civil society where a diversity of institutions played to their own strengths and checked each other's flaws.

Chronakis, Paris Papamichos, The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule. (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) 384 pp. 2024:10 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-307>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3966-9 hard ¥15,939.- (税込) US$ 70.00

The Business of Transition examines how the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie of the Eastern Mediterranean navigated the transition from empire to nation-state in the early twentieth century. In this social and cultural history, Paris Papamichos Chronakis shows how the Jewish and Greek merchants of Salonica (present-day Thessaloniki) skillfully managed the tumultuous shift from Ottoman to Greek rule amidst revolution and war, rising ethnic tensions, and heightened class conflict. Bringing their once powerful voices back into the historical narrative, he traces their entangled trajectories as businessmen, community members, and civic leaders to illustrate how the self-reinvention of a Jewish-led bourgeoisie made a city Greek. Papamichos Chronakis draws on previously untapped local archival material to weave a rich narrative of individual portraits, introducing us to revered philanthropists and committed patriots as well as vilified profiteers and victimized Salonicans. Offering a kaleidoscopic view of a city in transition, this book reveals how the collapse of empire shook all the constitutive elements of Jewish and Greek identities, and how Jews and Greeks reinvented themselves amidst these larger political and economic disruptions.

M.エザメル著　古代エジプト経済－国家、行政、制度
Ezzamel, Mahmoud, The Economy of Ancient Egypt: State, Administration, Institutions. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 496 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <725-308>
ISBN 978-1-03-255087-9 hard ¥43,890.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00

The aim of this book is to theorise the state, administration and economy of ancient Egypt taking ancient records as the starting point for the analysis. The Egyptian state is theorised as an administrative field of material and symbolic powers with emphasis upon the latter because it has received scant attention in Egyptology. Maat (truth, fairness, connective justice) is theorised as symbolic power discursively authored, disseminated and monitored by senior administrators who discursively redefined its meaning to suit changes in the socio-political contexts.The book examines the classification schemes of the Egyptian population devised by the administrative field of power and how they were used to differentiate, hierarchise and fix specific individuals within clearly demarcated social and economic categories that aimed to fix the subjectivity of those assigned to each category. Ancient Egyptian had a significant state economic sector and a private sector. A multiplicity of sources of state economic resources are examined: taxation/impost, war booty and tributes, and gifts exchanged between the Egyptian kings and foreign kings. A nuanced understanding of Polanyi's work on redistribution is used to theorise the cycle of levying, collecting, storing and redistributing tax revenues. Gifts exchanges between Egyptian kings and kings from Asia Minor are theorised as occurring on as stage of institutional drama, war booty as an 'economy of force' and tribute as an economy of restitution. Private exchange is theorised by developing the concept of 'sociable markets' and drawing on Maat in its various meanings as truth, fairness and connective justice.This book will be of interest to readers in economic history, ancient Egypt and ancient history more broadly.

Kaika, Maria / Ruggiero, Luca, Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization. (IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change) 264 pp. 2024:12 (U. California Pr., US) <725-309>
ISBN 978-0-520-41007-7 hard ¥21,631.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-41008-4 paper ¥6,818.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Class Meets Land reveals something seemingly counterintuitive: that nineteenth-century class struggles over land are deeply implicated in twenty-first-century financial capitalism. Narrating the closely knit stories of Milan's working class, industrial elites, and industrial land, Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero foreground the tenacious role of class struggle over land in choreographing capitalist transitions. They assert that land assetization and financialization are not recent phenomena but rather historical practices sculpted into the present configuration through long-term rituals and struggles, rooted in the everyday lives and histories of both capital and labor. Exploring land assetization from the outset of capitalism's early history, Kaika and Ruggiero offer a novel understanding of land financialization as a "lived" process: the outcome of a relentless and socially embodied historical unfolding, within which land performs a multiplicity of ever-changing symbolic and material roles for both capital and labor as it becomes enrolled simultaneously in local class struggle cycles and the circuits of global (financial) capital.

欧州エネルギー産業の経済史　19～21世紀
Martinez-Lopez, Alberte / Miras Araujo, Jesus et al., Economic History of the European Energy Industry: Lighting up Western Europe, 19th to 21st centuries. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 256 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <725-310>
ISBN 978-1-03-255034-3 hard ¥38,038.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Global climate change and the war in Ukraine have put energy back on the agenda for Europe in a way that has not been seen since the oil crisis of the 1970s. But the economics and business of supplying energy to Europe has a long and rich history going back to the 19th century. This book explores changes in energy markets, strategies, firms and investments during the 19th and 20th centuries. The primary focus is on manufactured gas - the gas that was initially produced from coal distillation until new ways of manufacturing gas emerged after World War II.The expert contributors to this volume draw on their extensive research and utilise primary sources to explore a wide range of issues including technological adaptation, market regulation, energy investments (particularly the role of foreign capital), gas consumption and supply issues. The case studies are particularly drawn from Spain, France and Italy but the authors provide a comparative and global perspective to consider the wider context. The volume closes with an epilogue which brings the story into the present day to consider current issues affecting gas markets in the EU including war, geostrategy and pipelines.This book will be of interest to readers in economic history, business history, energy history, the history of public utilities and modern European history more broadly.

北朝鮮における経済管理の歴史
Park, Phillip, History of Economic Management in North Korea: From Planned Economy to Socialist Enterprise System. (Perspectives in Economic and Social History) 272 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-312>
ISBN 978-1-03-277056-7 hard ¥39,501.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book seeks to understand how the economic construction of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) evolved, shaped by the formulation and execution of various economic management systems spanning the years 1949 to 2023, in response to numerous challenges faced by the country.Split into four chapters, Park charts the developmental phases of the DPRK economy under Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and current leader Kim Jung Un. He carefully cross-examines sources from within the DPRK, including the Complete Works of King Il Sung, Selected Works of Kim Jong Il, the Rodong Shinmun and the Chosun Central Yearbook. Where related literature relies on testimonies and interviews of defectors, this book offers a novel and comprehensive analysis of sources taken from North Korea, furnishing readers with new insights into the DPRK's economic management and construction policies.With its novel approach, this book will be of interest to researchers and advanced undergraduates of Korean history, Korean studies, and economic history.

二つの世界大戦の民間人の犠牲者
O Grada, Cormac, The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars. (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) 520 pp. 2024:9 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <725-314>
ISBN 978-0-691-25875-1 hard ¥13,662.- (税込) US$ 60.00

A staggering new account of the civilian death toll of the world wars-and what it reveals about the true nature and cost of modern warSoldiers have never been the only casualties of wars. But the armies that fought World Wars I and II killed far more civilians than soldiers as they countenanced or deliberately inflicted civilian deaths on a mass scale. By one reputable estimate, 9.7 million civilians and 9 million combatants died in World War I, while World War II killed 25.5 million civilians and 15 million combatants. But in The Hidden Victims, Cormac O Grada argues that even these shocking numbers are almost certainly too low. Carefully evaluating all the evidence available, he estimates that the wars cost not 35 million but some 65 million civilian lives-nearly two-thirds of the 100 million total killed. Indeed, he shows that war-induced famines alone may have killed 30 million people, making them the single largest cause of death.The Hidden Victims is the first book to attempt to measure and describe the full scale of civilian deaths during the world wars, from all causes, including genocide, starvation, aerial bombardment, and disease. While nations went to great lengths to record military casualties, they often didn't count or deliberately obscured civilian deaths. Getting the numbers right is important. It reveals much about the true human costs of the wars, the nature of modern warfare, and the failure of efforts to stop civilian casualties. It also makes it possible to argue with those who try to deny, minimize, or exaggerate wartime savagery.

19世紀の女性実業家
Le Chapelain, Charlotte (ed.), Nineteenth Century Businesswomen: A Retrospective Glance at Women Entrepreneurship. (Frontiers in Economic History) 267 pp. 2024:7 (Springer, GW) <724-284>
ISBN 978-3-031-56410-9 hard ¥39,244.- (税込) EUR 159.99

The book examines female entrepreneurship in the nineteenth century. Economic history has long accorded women entrepreneurs a very minor place, relegating them to the status of historical anecdotes. The hypothesis of women's withdrawal from the business sphere after the eighteenth century has long dominated. However, this view has recently been subject to a fundamental questioning. Women did in fact actively contribute to economic development by occupying key positions in the business sphere as independent workers, investors and entrepreneurs. Businesswomen were no exception in the nineteenth century. They ran businesses of all sizes and in a wide range of industrial sectors. This book helps to bring nineteenth-century women entrepreneurs out of invisibility, by examining their entrepreneurial practices and shedding light on the role of the legal framework in which they operated. This interdisciplinary book will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers of economic history, business history, history of law, and economics and management sciences in general, interested in a better understanding of female entrepreneurship in the nineteenth century.

中世ヨーロッパにおけるユダヤ人とワインの交易
Soloveitchik, Haym, Jews and the Wine Trade in Medieval Europe: Principles and Pressures. 312 pp. 2024:7 (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, UK) <724-285>
ISBN 978-1-904113-24-9 hard ¥8,762.- (税込) GB￡ 29.95 *

Although Jews were at the centre of commercial activity in medieval Europe, a talmudic ban on any wine touched by a Gentile prevented them from engaging in the lucrative wine trade. Wine was consumed in vast quantities in the Middle Ages, and the banks of the Rhineland hosted some of the finest vineyards in northern Europe. German Jews were, until the thirteenth century, a merchant class. How could they abstain from trading in one of the region's major commodities? In time, they ruled that it was permissible to accept wine in payment of debt, but forbade trading in it, and they maintained that ban throughout the Middle Ages. Further study in the twelfth century, however, led Talmudists to discover that Jews were only forbidden to profit from trading in Gentile wine if they dealt with idolaters, but that trade with Christians and Muslims was permitted. Nevertheless, the German community refused to take advantage of this clear licence. Using Jewish and Gentile sources, this study probes the sources of this powerful taboo. In describing the complex ways in which deeply held cultural values affect Jews' engagement in the economy of the surrounding society, this book also illustrates the law of unintended consequences-how the ban on Gentile wine led both to a major Jewish contribution to German viticulture and to the involvement of Jews in moneylending, with all its tragic consequences.

比較的視点における協同組合企業
Spicer, Jason, Co-operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective: Exceptionally Un-American? 288 pp. 2024:5 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <724-286>
ISBN 978-0-19-766507-7 hard ¥20,493.- (税込) US$ 90.00

Co-operative enterprises, which are democratically owned and governed by their workers, customers, or suppliers, have long captured the imagination of activists and social scientists alike. In centering economic democracy and a collectivist-democratic logic, and in embodying a "third way" alternative to profit-maximizing corporations and state-owned enterprises, co-operatives offer the promise of a more sustainable and equitable economy. Despite extensive study of cooperatives' real and imagined benefits, we know little about the conditions under which they achieve the lasting scale needed to be a viable alternative and transform the economy. Under what conditions can co-operatives achieve such scale? And are such conditions present in the US, where, despite repeated organizing efforts, co-operatives remain exceptionally rare at scale? A rigorous comparative-historical analysis of how co-operative enterprises in different national contexts, this book seeks to answer these questions. Deploying two different variants of the new institutionalism, Spicer treats the US as a central case of comparative failure, as contrasted to three rich democracies where the co-operative business model has been more successful: Finland, France, and New Zealand. Through an institutional approach, the cause of co-operatives' comparative weakness in the US is identified as reflecting the joint effect of economic liberalism and structural racism. Only in the US did the co-operative face, in its initial development, two well-entrenched incumbents operating with competing ownership models: the investor-owned firm and the race-based chattel slavery system of ownership of people. Proponents of these two models acted to deprive the co-operative movement of resources, and undermined the solidarity at the models' heart, splintering the American co-operative movement in the process. In subsequent waves of co-operative organizing, advocates have never fully succeeded in overcoming these initial obstacles. In contrast, in the successful cases, advocates were better able to leverage resources to animate a national solidarity and procure the necessary political and economic resources to achieve scale.

哲学と貨幣ハンドブック　第1巻：古代・中世思想
Tinguely, Joseph J. (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Money. Volume 1: Ancient and Medieval Thought. 883 pp. 2024:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-35>
ISBN 978-3-031-54135-3 hard ¥49,056.- (税込) EUR 199.99

The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Money surveys the role of money in the history of ideas. Volume 1: Ancient and Medieval Thought explores the worldviews of societies in the process of monetization. The volume is divided into sections on early Civilizations, classical Greece, the Roman era, and Medieval and Renaissance thought.

哲学と貨幣ハンドブック　第2巻：近現代思想
Tinguely, Joseph J. (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Money. Volume 2: Modern Thought. 887 pp. 2024:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-36>
ISBN 978-3-031-54139-1 hard ¥49,056.- (税込) EUR 199.99 *

The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy surveys the role of money in the history of ideas. Volume 2: Modern Thought examines the treatment of money in the writings of philosophers from the emergence of capitalism through the 20th century. The volume is divided into sections on Early Modernity, Late Modernity, and the Twentieth Century. Volume 2 presents an alternative history of modern philosophy in which monetary relations are both an explicit theme and an implicit condition of philosophical reflection.

石油、企業の力、世界市場の形成
Hanieh, Adam, Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market. 336 pp. 2024:9 (Verso, UK) <724-229>
ISBN 978-1-83976-342-7 hard ¥6,437.- (税込) GB￡ 22.00

This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis. Beyond simplistic narratives that frame oil as 'prize' or 'curse', Crude Capitalism uncovers the surprising ways that oil is woven into the fabric of our modern world: the rise of an American-centered global order; the breakdown of Empire and anti-colonial rebellion; contemporary finance and US dollar hegemony; debt and militarism; and the emergence of new forms of synthetic consumption. Much more than an energy source or transport fuel, oil has a foundational place in all aspects of contemporary life - no challenge to the fossil fuel industry can be effective without taking this fact seriously. Crude Capitalism maps the varied geographies of oil, including the rise of OPEC, the importance of revolutionary and Post-Soviet Russia, the crucial role of African upstream reserves, and the new petrochemical circuits that link the Middle East, China, and East Asia. The book provides an original and fine-grained empirical analysis of corporate ownership and control, including refining and petrochemicals. By exposing these structures of power and placing oil in capitalism, the book makes an essential contribution to debates around oil-dependency and the struggle for climate justice.

Hartmann, Heinrich / Tischler, Julia (eds.), Planting Seeds of Knowledge: Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century. (Environment in History: International Perspectives 24) 366 pp. 2023:6 (Berghahn, US) <723-261>
ISBN 978-1-80539-010-7 hard ¥33,016.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, agricultural practices and rural livelihoods were challenged by changes such as commercialization, intensified global trade, and rapid urbanization. Planting Seeds of Knowledge studies the relationship between these agricultural changes and knowledge-making through a transnational lens. Spanning exchanges between different parts of Europe, North and South America, the Indian subcontinent, and Africa, the wide-reaching contributions to this volume reform current historiography to show how local experiences redefined global practice.

アイルランドの海洋漁業　1400～1600年－経済学、環境、エコロジー
Hayes, Patrick W, Ireland's Sea Fisheries, 1400-1600: Economics, Environment and Ecology. (Irish Historical Monographs) 330 pp. 2023:12 (Boydell, UK) <723-262>
ISBN 978-1-78327-706-3 hard ¥26,334.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

This book examines the environmental, political, and economic history of Ireland's marine fisheries from 1400 to 1600. It combines a wide range of historical sources with innovative digital research methods to provide a comprehensive and systematic overview. Government letters and court documents highlight the diverse range of fishing fleets from across Europe that visited Irish waters in the early sixteenth century, bringing wealth and cultural influence to the native Irish, who developed complex systems to protect and tax the visitors. Furthermore, trade records illustrate that fish was Ireland's premier export in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. However, a range of factors led to the industry's collapse by the end of the sixteenth century: the Tudor conquest which disrupted fishing operations and fundamentally altered who controlled fishing resources; the destabilization of Irish waters resulting from the terrestrial conflict, which allowed pirates to thrive; an influx of cheap cod from the newly exploited fisheries in Newfoundland which changed consumption patterns in Ireland and across Europe; and shifting climatic conditions and decades of over-exploitation which meant fewer fish and poorer catches. Overall, the book reveals that fisheries form a vital part of the broader environmental, political, and economic history of Ireland.

Kouli, Yaman / Mueller, Uwe (eds.), The Middle-Income Trap in Central and Eastern Europe: Causes, Consequences and Strategies in Post-Communist Countries. (New Perspectives on Central and Eastern European Studies 4) 322 pp. 2023:11 (Berghahn, US) <723-263>
ISBN 978-1-80539-181-4 hard ¥30,739.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Since the 1990s, the economic development of Central and Eastern Europe has maintained high economic growth rates, seemingly leading to an era of prosperity. This very positive vision of future economic success, linked to current political backlash and a long history of economic adversity, is a thin veil of the economic "way west" for so-called transition countries. The Middle-Income Trap in Central and Eastern Europe examines the reality of the diminishing marginal utility of further international investments alongside the pitfalls of higher government spending to cultivate innovation which ultimately makes foreign capital less attractive. In this volume authors from diverse disciplinary perspectives reflect on current debates surrounding the developmental bottlenecks in East-Central Europe. Their common goal is to analyze the manner of socio-economic transformation, question of the relevance and impact of the "middle-income trap" and identify possible ways to escape it.

McLeod, Jane, Print, Politics and Trade in the French Atlantic: The Labottiere Family as Eighteenth-Century Cultural Brokers. (Knowledge and Communication in the Enlightenment World) 352 pp. 2024:7 (Boydell, UK) <723-264>
ISBN 978-1-83765-086-6 hard ¥27,797.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00 *

The epic histories of the French Revolution, Enlightenment, and colonialism in the West Indies, told through the history of one family. The Labottieres were the largest printing and bookselling dynasty in eighteenth-century Bordeaux. From the 1680s to the sale of their business in 1794 three generations of this family acted as major cultural brokers in this booming Atlantic port, serving the rapidly expanding commercial and legal sectors with books, pamphlets, and newspapers. The lives and businesses of this family are heavily entwined with the histories of the Enlightenment, French colonialism in the West Indies, and the French Revolution. We find the final generation, welcoming the Revolution, printing a pro-revolutionary newspaper that framed the revolts in Haiti and Martinique in pro-revolutionary terms. They would come to establish their shop as a Jacobin centre and, along with their workers and journalists, navigated the forces of popular censorship and state control. However, despite these activities, the Labottiere printing and bookselling enterprise would, eventually, be destroyed by the very Revolution it had supported. Through this lively microhistory of the Labottieres, Jane McLeod presents the important role played by the flourishing Atlantic port economy in supporting the expansion of printing and bookselling. Furthermore, from McLeod's extensive archival research into over thirty members of the Labottiere family, emerges a new understanding of the role played by printers and booksellers in the spreading of the ideas and concerns that underpinned some of the landmark social, cultural and political changes of the eighteenth century.

ブリストルと大西洋経済の誕生　1500～1700年
Stone, Richard, Bristol and the Birth of the Atlantic Economy, 1500-1700. 268 pp. 2024:6 (Boydell, UK) <723-265>
ISBN 978-1-83765-053-8 hard ¥24,871.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Analyses data from the Bristol Port Books to rewrite the history of trade in Bristol, including the city's early involvement with the slave trade. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a transformative period for global commerce, with the principal focus of England's trade shifting away from trade with Europe, primarily in woollen cloth, to a new Atlantic system, with trade in a diverse range of commodities. Based on the fantastically detailed Bristol Port Books, previously thought impenetrable, and using new computer technology to analyse the vast amount of data, this book provides the first long duration history of a major Atlantic port in this period. It rewrites the history of Bristol's trade, overturning much established thinking, for example showing that trade flourished in the late Tudor and early Stuart period, demonstrating that Bristol was involved in the slave trade much earlier than was previously thought and charting the growth of commerce with North America and the Caribbean from nothing to three quarters of Bristol's imports in the short period from the 1630s to the 1650s. Overall, the book represents a major contribution to understanding how the Atlantic economy worked and how it developed in this crucial period.

Waldenstroem, Daniel, Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West. 256 pp. 2024:6 (Polity Pr., UK) <723-267>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5778-3 hard ¥6,818.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Once there were princes and peasants and very few between. The extremes of wealth and poverty are still with us, but that shouldn't blind us to the fact our societies have been utterly transformed for the better over the past century. As Daniel Waldenstroem makes clear in this authoritative account of wealth accumulation and inequality in the modern west, we are today both significantly richer and more equal. Using cutting-edge research and new, sometimes surprising, data, Waldenstroem shows that what stands out since the late 1800s is a massive rise in the size of the middle class and its share of society's total wealth. Unfettered capitalism, it seems, doesn't have to lead to boundless inequality. The key to progress was political and institutional change that enabled citizens to become educated, better paid, and to amass wealth through housing and pension savings. Waldenstroem asks how we can consolidate these gains while encouraging the creation of new capital. The answer, he argues, is to pursue tax and social policies that raise the wealth of people in the bottom and middle rather than cutting wealth of entrepreneurs at the top. Richer and More Equal is a benchmark account of one of the most profound and encouraging social changes in human history and a blueprint for continued progress.

Curry, Helen Anne / Lorek, Timothy W. (eds.), Agricultural Science as International Development: Historical Perspectives on the CGIAR Era. 324 pp. 2024:10 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <723-173>
ISBN 978-1-00-943466-9 hard ¥23,404.- (税込) GB￡ 79.99

For more than fifty years, international aid for agricultural research has been shaped by an unusual partnership: an ad-hoc consortium of national governments, foreign aid agencies, philanthropies, United Nations agencies, and international financial institutions, known as CGIAR. Formed in 1971 following the initial celebration of the so-called Green Revolution, CGIAR was tasked with extending that apparent transformation in production to new countries and crops. In this volume, leading historians and sociologists explore the influence of CGIAR and its affiliated international research centres. Traversing five continents and five decades of scientific research, agricultural aid, and political transformation, it examines whether and how science-led development has changed the practices of farmers, researchers, and policymakers. Although its language, funding mechanisms, and decision-making have changed over time, CGIAR and its network of research centres remain powerful in shaping international development and global agriculture. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Velasco, Christian, Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa) 192 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-182>
ISBN 978-1-03-265860-5 hard ¥38,038.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right through from their origins, to their role during the colonial period, the process of adaptation following independence, and up to their responses to new challenges and economic policies in the twenty-first century. The British colonisation of East Africa required the development of diverse political, social and economic institutions to advance and exercise control over the territories and their populations. Multinational commercial banks were among the first institutions, with the National Bank of India, Standard Bank of South Africa and Barclays Bank DCO all setting up business in Kenya, whilst continuing to maintain close relationships with the UK and other colonial actors. This book assesses the impact of commercial banks during the last years of colonial domination and the tools they used to adapt in the first decades of independence. The book concludes by considering how the colonial banking system has influenced the development of modern financial institutions in Kenya in the twenty-first century. This book argues that commercial banks are fundamental to understanding African colonies, and the foundations over which the financial system of contemporary Africa was constructed. It will be of interest to researchers of banking, economic history, the colonial period, and African studies.

アイルランドの長期的好景気－1986～2007年のケルトの虎の経済
O'Malley, Eoin, Ireland's Long Economic Boom: The Celtic Tiger Economy, 1986-2007. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 264 pp. 2024:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <722-192>
ISBN 978-3-031-53069-2 hard ¥12,261.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-53072-2 paper ¥9,808.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This Open Access book examines the long economic boom experienced in Ireland between the late 1980s and 2007, analysing why this boom occurred. The book situates Ireland as a relative latecomer to economic development, with specific challenges and advantages inherent to this position. It discusses the risks involved in remaining reliant on foreign companies, exploring how in Ireland's case the rapidly growing economy required active, interventionist and imaginative policy measures rather than relying primarily on free market forces. The book also offers an estimation of the value of the net foreign earnings associated with different categories of exports after deducting the profit outflows and payments for imported inputs, revealing a number of findings about the importance of Irish indigenous companies and services during this time. It shows that Irish indigenous companies, assisted by industrial policy measures, played a significant part, as did the services sector,alongside the more visible and widely recognised role of foreign multinationals in high-tech manufacturing. Offering fresh insights and analyses more than 15 years after the long boom ended at the precipice of the global financial crisis, this book will be a useful resource for economic historians, scholars of political economy and macroeconomic policy, as well as those interested in modern Irish history more broadly.

中国の労働市場　1950～2050年
Du, Jane, China's Labour Market, 1950-2050: The Role of Family Planning in Demographic and Income Transitions. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 163 pp. 2024:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <722-202>
ISBN 978-3-031-53137-8 hard ¥9,808.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book presents an in-depth examination of China's population control policies from their establishment to the present and explores the developing implications of these policies on the Chinese labour market. The book connects original research on contemporary Chinese demographics with a historical analysis of China's labour market structure. Using data from the most recent population census, chapters explore the economic impact of the demographic transition that has taken place over recent decades, from the strict implementation of family planning policies to the current easing of these policies. The book examines income growth and economic development in China after the Second World War with comparative perspectives from other Asian countries including Japan and South Korea. It also devotes a chapter to regional variations in the effectiveness of population control policies, exploring differences in rural and urban areas, and surveys the future challenges for the Chinese government in addressing population and growth-related concerns. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in economic history, labour economics, and demography, as well as those interested in Chinese economic and societal development.

Dainoff, Charles A. / Farley, Robert M. / Williams, G. F., Waging War With Gold: National Security and the Finance Domain Across the Ages. 249 pp. 2023:8 (Lynne Rienner, US) <722-225>
ISBN 978-1-68585-945-9 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

Cleaver, Laura / Magnusson, D. / Morcos, H. et al. (eds.), The Pre-Modern Manuscript Trade and its Consequences, ca. 1890-1945. (Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities) 467 pp. 2024:5 (Arc Humanities Pr., UK) <722-287>
ISBN 978-1-80270-137-1 hard ¥42,427.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

1580年から現在までのオランダ製紙産業
Ehrich, Martha Emilie, The Dutch Paper Industry from 1580 to the Present: The Survival of a Long-Established Industry. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 149 pp. 2024:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <722-290>
ISBN 978-3-031-54323-4 hard ¥12,261.- (税込) EUR 49.99 *

This open access book is the first to provide an analysis of the Dutch paper industry over a period encompassing six centuries. Responding to a trend of renewed scholarly interest in paper industries and production, the book seeks to illuminate the factors behind this relatively small national industry's centuries-long survival. Previous historical research has shown that sets of colonial, trade, merchant and family networks, tightly interwoven through a dense web of capital, were crucial for paper production and trade in early modern Europe. This book situates the Dutch paper industry within these overlapping contexts and their shifting dynamics over time, and historicizes the challenges and obstacles it had to overcome through four phases of capitalism: the rise of Dutch capitalism (1580-1815), Dutch monarchic liberalism (1815-1914), Fordism (1914-1980), and post-Fordism (1980 until now). Each chapter covers not only technological advancements in the industry, but its development alongside further determining dimensions, such as state-industry relations (industry policies), labour-capital relations (unions) and competition and cooperation, overall painting a picture of how the industry adapted to and endured changes in national and global networks surrounding the industry. This book will be of broad interest to scholars of economic and business history, as well as industrial history, political economy, and management studies. "This publication was supported by funds from the Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs of the Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany."

南アフリカにおける金、金融、帝国主義　1887～1902年－株式取引からの視点
Lukasiewicz, Mariusz, Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887-1902: A View from the Stock Exchange. (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies) 242 pp. 2024:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <722-292>
ISBN 978-3-031-51946-8 hard ¥29,432.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book provides a unique account of the financial and political history of the South African War by analysing the organisation and operations of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the oldest existing stock exchange in the African continent. Identifying the JSE as the nexus between international finance, South African gold mining and British imperialism, the book exposes the financial and political connections between Johannesburg, Pretoria, London, and Paris during the final stage of the imperial 'scramble for southern Africa.' Gold mining presented the South African Republic (ZAR) and the whole southern African regional economy with a long-term economic future and new prospects of industrialisation. However, this socio-economic transformation was dependent on extensive capital investments and the institutionalisation of a coercive labour regime based on racial discrimination. This monograph provides the first empirical examination of how international finance, imperial politics, and racialised industrial relations became entrenched in a key financial intermediary in colonial South Africa - first in Kimberley in the Cape Colony, and then in Johannesburg in the ZAR. By studying the Johannesburg capital market's social microstructures, the author demonstrates how colonial and international financial intermediaries underwrote and financed the largest wave of mining investments in Africa prior to the First World War. Filling an important gap in literature on nineteenth-century British imperialism and Anglo-African-Afrikaner relations, this insightful book uses the JSE as a lens to carefully expose the structures and agency of global finance in the outbreak of the South African War, and the making of South Africa as a unified colonial state.