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

Laurent, Sylvie, Capital and Race: The History of a Modern Hydra. 320 pp. 2026:6 (Polity Pr., UK)
ISBN 978-1-5095-7190-1 hard ¥7,892.- (税込) US$ 35.00

1492: a year that captivated the world. Columbus's "discovery" of a new continent is widely remembered for revealing both the wonders of the earth and the unprecedented capacity of men to free themselves from boundaries. But the invention of America was actually a story untold: the consecration of a new relationship between nature and mankind, which saw capital and race unite irrevocably. Sylvie Laurent tells the story of racial capitalism as a "two-headed creature" forged by figures such as Daniel Defoe in Robinson Crusoe, Voltaire, Adam Smith, and Alexis de Tocqueville. Beneath these authors' fantasies of a free-market land of endless riches is the empire of racial capitalism. However powerful, this system has been identified and resisted by a long line of anti-colonial theorists, from Rosa Luxemburg to W. E. B. Du Bois. Against the backdrop of their thinking, and at a time when it is commonplace to oppose class struggles and racial demands, Laurent illuminates the rich and little-known intellectual tradition of overcoming the divide. It's about time, she argues, that Karl Marx and Martin Luther King Jr. get to talk to one another. Capital and Race: The History of a Modern Hydra is a timely and gripping intellectual history that will be of interest to historians and general readers alike.

J.Stobart他編　18世紀の世界におけるオークションと世帯－世界を横断する比較的視点　1700～1850年
Blonde, Bruno / Overkamp, Anne / Stobart, Jon (eds.), Auctions and Households in the Eighteenth-Century World: Comparative Perspectives from across the Globe, 1700-1850. (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies) 284 pp. 2026:4 (Routledge, UK) <765-308>
ISBN 978-1-032-73672-3 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

The long eighteenth century is often seen as a time when consumption was driven by novelty, fashion and an expanding world of goods. This book takes an innovative approach to the supply of and demand for consumer goods in this period by exploring the nature, organisation and experience of household sales: events where used goods re-entered the market.These sales took place in a wide variety of settings, from country houses to garrisons and from large cities to remote rural settlements. They were important economic and social events that offer new insights into the emergence of a modern consumer society and its relationship with material goods. In bringing together case studies from different settings across Europe, North America, the Caribbean and India, it offers a unique comparative perspective on an important and surprisingly neglected mechanism of economic exchange. Household sales played a vital role in the (re)circulation of household goods during this crucial period in the history of consumption. It reveals the common practices and shared desires that brought together auctions in diverse places, but also highlights how household sales were flexible events, shaped by local circumstances and priorities.Auctions and Households in the Eighteenth-Century World is aimed at scholars and students of economic history, material culture, and consumption studies, as well as anyone interested in the social and cultural dynamics of the eighteenth century.

Bloom, Peter, Nativism and Capitalism: From Colonial Hauntings to Radical Indigenous Futures. (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy) 256 pp. 2026:6 (Routledge, UK) <765-309>
ISBN 978-1-041-03395-0 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

Nativism and Capitalism: From Colonial Hauntings to Radical Indigenous Futures offers a sweeping reappraisal of nativism as a central force within global capitalism rather than a simple reaction against it. Peter Bloom shows how the figure of the "native," inherited from colonial rule, continues to shape how capitalist modernity organizes scarcity, hierarchy, and belonging.From nineteenth-century empire to today's far-right populisms, the book traces how contemporary movements convert economic dispossession into racialized narratives of authenticity and exclusion. Bringing together political economy, decolonial thought, and cultural critique, the book reframes indigeneity as a global political horizon rooted in internationalist Indigenous politics that challenges both exclusionary nativism and neoliberal globalization. Drawing on Indigenous epistemologies, governance practices, ecological perspectives, and transnational movements, Bloom highlights alternative ways of imagining community, reciprocity, and planetary solidarity while also revealing how colonial legacies persist in shaping the present. The result is a pioneering work that offers new insights into the politics of belonging and outlines pathways toward more just and sustainable futures.It is essential reading for scholars in political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, and cultural studies, as well as policymakers and activists working on nationalism, migration, global justice, and Indigenous rights.

Bouley, Bradford A., The Barberini Butchers: Meat, Murder, and Warfare in Early Modern Italy. 277 pp. 2026:5 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <765-310>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2945-7 hard ¥16,912.- (税込) US$ 75.00

近世世界における食品の生産とジェンダー
Calaresu, Melissa / Manzanares Mileo, Marta (eds.), Food Production and Gender across the Early Modern World. (Food Culture, Food History before 1900) 242 pp. 2026:5 (Routledge, UK) <765-311>
ISBN 978-90-485-5941-1 hard ¥43,274.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00

This collection of nine essays presents new research exploring the significance and forms of labour involved in food production across the early modern world from c. 1500 to 1800.Ranging from the Netherlands to the Mediterranean basin and from the Pacific and Atlantic worlds, the volume opens up new directions in research on various activities which have received little attention such as preserving, grinding, curing, and frying. These essays uncover historical actors engaged in the processing of different foodstuffs, whose embodied knowledge and work are often obscured in the historical record, and rendered even less accessible when performed by women.By interpreting genre paintings, revisiting well-known documents, and engaging in hands-on reconstruction research, the essays provide a more nuanced and fuller understanding of food production in and out of the kitchen, and advance long-standing historiographical debates on gender, food, and work in meaningful ways.

スペインの工業化の経済史
Catalan, Jordi / Prat, Marc (eds.), An Economic History of Spanish Industrialization. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 320 pp. 2026:6 (Routledge, UK) <765-312>
ISBN 978-1-032-77216-5 hard ¥46,365.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00

Spain belongs to the group of European peripheral economies where the diffusion of the British Industrial Revolution failed during the 19th century, as Professor Jordi Nadal underlined half a century ago.This book presents the analysis of leading economic historians on the long-term economic development problems which made Spain a backward economy before industrialization later took hold. The book begins by revisiting the thesis of the failure of the First Industrial Revolution with updated data and methods and analysing the modernization of key manufacturing activities, with contributions from specialists in the history of these industries. By contrast, the next sections of the book explore the Second Industrial Revolution in Spain which appears to have been a remarkable success during the 1914-1973 period. The contributors in this section look to explain the reasons why the experience of industrialization was so different this time around. The book explores the reasons why Spain again lagged behind during the Third Technological Revolution, albeit with mixed experiences in different manufacturing industries. Finally, the last part of the book focuses on the reasons for the Spanish performance during the ICT era and the challenges for 21st century economic development in a country with a very uneven path of industrial growth.This book will be of great interest to readers in economic history, business history, economics, economic sociology, political science, industrial development, and Spanish history more broadly.

南欧におけるIMFと世界銀行－政策、経済、制度的転換　1950～80年代
Coppolaro, Lucia / Petrini, Francesco / Tedoldi, L. (eds.), The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Southern Europe: Policy, Economy, and Institutional Transformation, 1950s-1980s. (Routledge Studies in Modern European History) 252 pp. 2026:6 (Routledge, UK) <765-313>
ISBN 978-1-041-16467-8 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

Offering an interdisciplinary analysis of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank's (WB) interventions in Southern Europe during a transformative period in the 20th century and focusing on Southern Europe as its geographical frame, this volume brings together leading scholars from international history, economics and economic history to examine how these international financial institutions influenced, and were influenced by, economic and political developments in the region.Written by specialists in the field, the volume presents national case studies in order to analyze the role of the IMF/WB in Southern Europe during key historical moments such as post-World War II reconstruction, the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s, the crises of the 1970s, the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, and the transitions from authoritarian regimes to democracy. It examines both the institutional evolution of the IMF and the WB, and the role of member states, thereby providing a more comprehensive understanding of how these organizations operated within a regional and international context.The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Southern Europe: Policy, Economy, and Institutional Transformation, 1950s-1980s for a broad academic audience, including scholars, researchers, and students in the fields of history, economics, international political economy, international relations, and political science.

Frangipane, Marcella / Mori, Lucia, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Economies of Mesopotamia: 4th and 3rd Millennia BCE. (Elements in Ancient and Pre-modern Economies) 75 pp. 2026:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <765-314>
ISBN 978-1-009-67072-2 hard ¥17,000.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00
ISBN 978-1-009-33296-5 paper ¥5,563.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00

The Element reconstructs economic developments in the crucial phase of State formation in Mesopotamia, from the 4th to early 3rd millennium BCE, trying to understand how interrelating environmental, social, economic, and political factors in the two main areas of Mesopotamia profoundly changed the structures of societies and transformed the relations between social components, giving rise to increasing inequality and strengthening political institutions. The interrelation between economic changes and state formation and urbanization is analyzed. Mesopotamia represents a foundational case study to understand the processes that transformed the function of economy from being an instrument to satisfy community needs to become a means of producing "wealth" for privileged categories. These processes varied in characteristics and timescales depending on environmental conditions and organizational forms. But wherever they took place, far-reaching changes occurred resulting in emergent hierarchies and new political systems. Reflecting on these changes highlights phenomena still affecting our societies today.

Herrero, Rolando, On the Path to the Fifth Industrial Revolution. (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine) 225 pp. 2026:6 (Routledge, UK) <765-315>
ISBN 978-1-032-96862-9 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

presents the evolution of industrial revolutions by combining relevant technological and scientific concepts with historical context, examining the transition from the current fourth and future fifth industrial revolutions, both reliant on cyber-physical systems but differing mainly in the nature of the computational systems used to deploy them.

なぜヨーロッパか？－大分岐と西洋のグローバルな支配への台頭
Hoffman, Philip T., Why Europe?: The Great Divergence and the West's Rise to Global Predominance. (New Approaches to Economic and Social History) 250 pp. 2026:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <765-316>
ISBN 978-0-521-50961-9 hard ¥24,728.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00
ISBN 978-0-521-73844-6 paper ¥7,727.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00

Economic growth transformed the world. It freed us from a world where nearly everyone was mired in poverty and half of all children died before reaching adulthood. However, these benefits have not been felt everywhere, nor by everyone. In this groundbreaking new account of the divergence between east and west, Philip T. Hoffman uncovers the ultimate causes of economic growth and the reasons why it originated in seventeenth-century western Europe. He examines the relative impacts of a wide range of economic, political, and social factors, from high wages, cheap capital, and financial institutions to political fragmentation, porous borders, and interstate warfare. Through accessible economic principles and fascinating case studies, he demonstrates why growth began in Britain, why it spread so unevenly elsewhere, and why inequality inhibits growth.

Patel, Kiran Klaus (ed.), Between Collapse, Integration and Co-Transformation: Universalist and Particularist Economic Ideas and Practices in Europe since the 1970s. 191 pp. 2026:5 (Routledge, UK) <765-318>
ISBN 978-1-041-31123-2 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

This book comprises a collection of essays that delves into the economic history of Europe since the 1970s, offering a fresh perspective on the period by examining the interplay between universalist and particularist claims to validity. By exploring how these claims were constructed, justified, and contested, the book sheds new light on the ways they shaped political and social change in contemporary European history. Through a critical analysis of the economy as a dynamic field, the essays uncover the complexities of universalist and particularist concepts, their interactions, and the tensions they generate, providing a nuanced understanding of their role in shaping modern Europe.Focusing on the intersection of economic history, political theory, and social change, this book will appeal to students, scholars and readers interested in European history, economic thought, and the evolution of contemporary political ideologies. It is particularly relevant for those studying the historical roots of current debates on globalization, identity, and the challenges to universalist ideals in an increasingly fragmented world.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the European Review of History.

1800年以降のフランス資本主義の政治経済
Cogneau, Denis, Empire on the Cheap: The Political Economy of French Colonialism Since 1800. 498 pp. 2026:5 (Polity Pr., UK) <765-326>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6333-3 hard ¥10,147.- (税込) US$ 45.00

In the nineteenth century, France embarked on the colonization of whole swathes of Africa and Asia. What drove this policy, and what methods did it use to establish and enforce French domination? What disruptive effects did this have on the colonized societies, and what did it mean for their economic and social development? Today, can we say they have been completely decolonized? Empire on the Cheap offers new answers to these ever-controversial questions.Drawing on extensive archival work and statistical analysis, Denis Cogneau offers a richly detailed description of the colonial states and how they functioned, with a particular focus on issues of taxation, military recruitment, capital flows and inequalities. He shows that the empire cost France little until the wars of independence following World War II, and that capital from France did not trickle down to the colonies. The French Republic proclaimed its "civilizing mission", but its rule did not lead to the development of the occupied countries, and instead established violent colonial regimes with ambiguous and sometimes conflicting goals. Such regimes mainly benefited a small minority of French colonists and capitalists. Yet, even after winning independence, nationalist elites in the former colonies most often maintained an authoritarian and inegalitarian state order.Examining both the evolution of the colonized societies and what has become of them after independence, Cogneau makes a major contribution to our understanding of imperialism, past and present.

東南アジアにおける経済成長－1870年以降の貿易、グローバル化、開発
Huff, Gregg, The Economic Growth of Southeast Asia: Trade, Globalization and Development since 1870. 660 pp. 2026:10 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <765-330>
ISBN 978-1-108-48742-9 hard ¥40,183.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-108-72026-7 paper ¥13,600.- (税込) GB￡ 44.00

This is the first comprehensive analysis of Southeast Asian globalization and development since 1870. Interpreting over 150 years of Southeast Asian economic history, Gregg Huff traces the impact of a first period of globalisation from the 1870s to 1929, the effects of Japanese occupation during World War II and its aftermath, and a second wave of globalisation since the late 1960s. He uses vent-for-surplus, dual economy and plural society concepts and argues that the response of those in Southeast Asia to periods of transport revolutions, innovation and opportunity in the world economy translated into rapid export-led growth. Recent swift growth enabled Southeast Asia to start to 'catch up' with the world's leading countries for the first time in its history. Achievements include industrialization, genuine social progress and numerous large urban regions. Nevertheless, the book contends that Southeast Asian development in its 'miracle economies' remains incomplete.

Rupprecht, Tobias, The Tragedy of Soviet Market Economists: The Failed Quest to Civilise Russia, 1972-2022. 372 pp. 2026:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <765-190>
ISBN 978-1-009-73697-8 hard ¥30,910.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00
ISBN 978-1-009-73698-5 paper ¥9,891.- (税込) GB￡ 32.00

In this pathbreaking history, Tobias Rupprecht offers a revisionist account of Russia's post-Soviet marketisation from the perspective of the advisors and ministers who oversaw this transformation. Based on extensive interviews with economists and research in state and private archives, he uncovers a significant minority of economic liberals from late Soviet academic and dissident circles who sought to chart a new path, believing free prices and private property were the foundations of a 'civilised country'. This provides a vital challenge to the dominant narrative that neoliberal advisors and organisations imposed harmful reforms on Russia after the collapse of Communism. Liberal reformers faced a profound dilemma - one for which Western advisors had no solution either: Should they commit to democratic political activism and risk irrelevance, or align themselves with those in power and be co-opted by an authoritarian state determined to re-assert its imperial strength?

Das, Amarendra / Das, Keshab / Mishra, D. K. et al. (eds.), Trajectories of Development: Odisha@100. 506 pp. 2026:5 (Routledge, UK) <765-222>
ISBN 978-1-041-01488-1 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

Trajectories of Development: Odisha@100 offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and interpretative analysis of Odisha's tryst with the economic, social and governance challenges through policy and parastatal initiatives since the state's formation in 1936 to the present day. Positioned within the global debates on uneven regional growth, the volume examines Odisha's recent economic resurgence while probing its distributional, ecological and social implications.The book traces the Indian state's historical antecedents-marked by colonial exploitation and disparate functioning of the myriad princely states-and its transformation into a formally unified subnational entity. Sector-specific chapters analyse agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and services, complemented by district-level insights. The volume explores developments in education, health, and demography, and examines possibilities of emerging frontiers of tourism, and tribal economy. Additional chapters assess poverty, unemployment, food security, fiscal management, disaster governance, neglect of natural resources, displacement, distress migration, unfolding of media, and roles of private and civil society actors.This volume will benefit scholars of development studies, economics, political economy, regional planning, and public policy, as well as practitioners and administrators of development. Readers will gain a nuanced, empirically grounded understanding of Odisha's developmental journey and a forward-looking roadmap as the state approaches its centenary in 2036.

1978年以降の中国経済
Li, Yining, China's Economy Since 1978: Forty Years of Reform and Opening-Up. (China Academic Library) 436 pp. 2026:3 (Springer, GW) <764-342>
ISBN 978-981-9557-32-5 hard ¥31,808.- (税込) EUR 119.99

Examined by Mr. Li Yining himself, the forty articles included in this book present a panorama of the forty years since China adopted the reform and opening-up policy. The issues range from the reform of the Chinese economic system to the challenges and chances encountered in this process, from China's agricultural and industrial reform to education and management closely related to economy. A crystallization of Mr. Li's thesis during the past four decades, the book sheds light on future economic reform and development in the country.

De Luca, Giuseppe / Romani, Marina (eds.), Monetary and Non-Monetary Payment Systems: Forms and Practices in Europe and the Colonial World from 14th to 20th Century. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance) 298 pp. 2026:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <764-439>
ISBN 978-3-032-11809-7 hard ¥45,063.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This book analyses how preindustrial monetary practices functioned, focusing on Europe and some selected colonial areas between the fourteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores the major contexts in which monetary circulation operated and provides a fascinating range of case studies from experts in the field. A primary context for this edited volume is the raft of challenges associated with cash in the preindustrial period. Covering issues such as the slow circulation of coins, the risk of debasement, clipping, the first proto currency, and parallel circulation of several currencies, the book offers insight into the ways in which people dealt with the need to transact and exchange payment. It focuses on cash-equivalent goods and commodity currencies as well as traditional cash methods, looking at the physical development of money as well as exploring the structure of payment methods and financial systems in past societies. Grounded in extensive archival research, chapters use a range of sources such as notary deeds, wills, rent-books, expenditure accounts and public ledgers to analyse the dynamics of circulation and transaction in various settings, from the city to the countryside, regional to international contexts, and different European states. This will be highly valuable reading for scholars interested in financial and monetary history.

Khalifa, Sherif, Climate Change, Economic Channels, and Historical Junctures: How Climate Change Shaped Human History. 366 pp. 2026:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <764-440>
ISBN 978-3-031-91866-7 hard ¥34,459.- (税込) EUR 129.99

Discover how past climatic events have shaped economic, political, and social structures. This book discusses the effects of climate change on major historical junctures, including: the evolution of our species to anatomically modern humans, human dispersal from the cradle of humanity, the peopling of our world over time, the transition to sedentary life, the introduction of farming, the collapse of complex societies, the demise of civilizations, the decline of kingdoms and empires, the outbreak of conflicts, and the spread of infectious diseases. Historical episodes explored include the evolution of hominins, human migration patterns, the development of agriculture, and the rise and fall of civilizations especially during the 4.2 ka event, the Late Bronze Age Crisis, and the Little Ice Age. Blending theoretical perspectives and evidence from multiple disciplines, the book examines how climate anomalies have led to societal changes. Exploring the interplay between climate and economies, Climate Change, Economic Channels, and Historical Junctures amplifies the connections between climate change and human history. Throughout the book, economist Sherif Khalifa emphasizes the economic consequences of climate change, offering unique insights into how environmental factors have driven historical outcomes. Chapters underscore the significance of understanding these historical patterns to predict-and mitigate-potential future impacts of ongoing climate change.

Seravalli, Gilberto, Collective Action in the Age of Polycrisis: From Stalemate to Success. (Contributions to Economics) 291 pp. 2026:1 (Springer, GW) <764-441>
ISBN 978-3-032-12652-8 hard ¥29,157.- (税込) EUR 109.99

In an era defined by profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval-termed the "polycrisis"-this book tackles one of the most pressing ethical-political issues of our time: the stalemate in collective action aimed at promoting solidarity and common goods. Through a broadly transdisciplinary approach, the author draws on the full spectrum of social-economic and cultural-historical sciences to explore the conditions for the possible, albeit challenging, success of such collective efforts. This comprehensive analysis is enriched with a wealth of documentary evidence and rigorous quantitative evaluations conducted by the author, engaging in dialogue with the vast contemporary literature on the subject. This book is an essential read for scholars, policymakers, and anyone interested in understanding the complex dynamics of collective action in today's interconnected world.

第二の奴隷制の時代におけるキューバのたばこ
Morgan, William A., Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery. (Race in the Atlantic World 1700 - 1900) 296 pp. 2026:6 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <763-316>
ISBN 978-0-8203-7692-9 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-0-8203-7689-9 paper ¥7,429.- (税込) US$ 32.95

By 1865, more than 750,000 enslaved Africans had arrived in Cuba, making it the leading Spanish American slave colony and the epicenter of slavery in the Atlantic. At the height of the global tobacco economy, tens of thousands of these slaves labored in Pinar del Rio, Cuba-a region devoted exclusively to tobacco cultivation. These enslaved people were responsible for exporting a record fourteen million pounds of raw tobacco per year, leaving one contemporary writer to argue that no agricultural economy produced more value, in proportion to the capital and labor employed, than tobacco. While tobacco was second only to sugar in export significance and in the number of rural enslaved, tobacco was unequivocally as dependent on enslaved labor as the more infamous export. Despite Cuba being one of the first-introduced and last-abolished slave societies in the Atlantic world, this slave economy remains largely ignored, existing outside the considerable and recent scholarship on the region.Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery directly refutes the myth of tobacco as a small-scale, family, and free-labor crop promoted by both contemporary and current scholarship. It also rejects the prevailing use of sugar as the model for epitomizing Cuban slavery-a paradigm that obscures the full measure of diversity in this region and era. Arguing tobacco was more counterpart than counterpoint to sugar, Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery focuses on the development of tobacco as a plantation economy-and the exponential increase in forced labor supporting it-to suggest an alternative narrative in understanding both Cuban and Atlantic slavery in this period.

食品とジェンダー－近現代世界の形成
Goucher, Candice, Food and Gender: Making the Modern World. (Gendering World History) 264 pp. 2026:5 (Routledge, UK) <763-309>
ISBN 978-1-032-65587-1 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00
ISBN 978-1-032-65586-4 paper ¥12,978.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99

Food and Gender: Making the Modern World places food and gender at the center of the human experience and through this creates a new periodization for modern world history. In focusing on food and gender, and the connections between them, the books shows that a shift in the markers of modernity is needed, away from the traditional perspectives organizing this history that emphasize war, political states, and the global economy which often exclude and marginalize women and trivialize the study of foodways.Instead, it places emphasis on the changes in household organization, female labor, family, the informal sector, personal technology, urban literacy and education, enfranchisement, sexuality, and childrearing/cultural/social reproduction as among the most powerful forces at the heart of modern history. It then recovers a narrative that considers feminist perspectives and traces the impact of masculinities, while fully integrating women, both aiming to restore female agency to the "food in world history" narrative. Chapters trace themes that focus on the embodied history of foodways, including the role of accumulation, exchange, power, revolution, conflict, migration, technology, and difference. Together these thematic explorations show how contemporary patterns of abundance and scarcity have been created. The relationships between gender and food also serve as markers of cultural, racial, social, national, and sexual identities and thus reflect the differences and disparities that have shaped our history.This book explores the major themes of world history: the environment, cultural developments and interactions, governance, economic systems, social interactions and organization, ideas and power, and technology and innovation, but puts women, gender, and foodways at its center.

中世後期北西欧におけるイタリアのマーチャント・バンカー
Guidi-Bruscoli, Francesco, Italian Merchant Bankers in North-Western Europe in the Late Middle Ages. (Variorum Collected Studies) 304 pp. 2026:5 (Routledge, UK) <763-310>
ISBN 978-1-032-87071-7 hard ¥44,819.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Italian merchants played a pivotal role in the international trade of England and the Low Countries during the late Middle Ages. While the field is well established, the examination of a vast array of Italian business sources kept in private and public archives offers important new insights.The ten studies in this volume (two published in English for the first time) reveal previously unknown sources. These are used to examine the role and activity of Italians in London and Bruges. Most of the volume is devoted to the Italian communities in England, many of whom were merchants. They are discussed not only for the role they played in English foreign trade, but also for their model of settlement, their relationship with the local population and for the institutions they established. Given the near absence of surviving English business records prior to 1500, this book also provides valuable material for those interested in English mercantile activity. Many indigenous merchants feature in the financial accounts of Italian banks.Italian Merchant Bankers in North-Western Europe in the Late Middle Ages will be of value to economic historians of England and the Low Countries, and, more broadly, to students and scholars interested in late medieval trade and finance.

インド・アラビア数字の技法－いかに西欧において実用算術が商業と数学を形成したか　1200～1600年
Danna, Raffaele, The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals: How Practical Arithmetic Shaped Commerce and Mathematics in Western Europe, 1200-1600. 432 pp. 2026:4 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <762-53>
ISBN 978-0-674-27933-9 hard ¥9,020.- (税込) US$ 40.00

"A must-read." -Joel Mokyr, Nobel Prize-winning author of A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern EconomyAn illuminating, fine-grained account of how Indo-Arabic numerals facilitated the spread of practical knowledge in Western Europe-reshaping both commerce and mathematics in the process.In the thirteenth-century Mediterranean, commerce transformed as merchants shifted from Roman to Indo-Arabic numerals-an alternative that better facilitated complex calculations. It has long been known that this transition stemmed from Europe's increasing exchanges with India, Persia, and the Arabic world. Yet much remains to be understood about how Indo-Arabic numerals-and the practical arithmetic they enabled-actually spread across Europe. As Raffaele Danna shows, it was hundreds of ordinary merchants, schoolmasters, and artisans who nurtured these changes, thereby driving key advances in both commerce and mathematics.Drawing on an original catalog of more than 1,200 practical arithmetic manuals, Danna charts the incremental spread of the new figures with unprecedented precision. While Italian merchants were the early adopters, it took nearly three centuries for Indo-Arabic numerals to become established in northern Europe. As Danna shows, adoption did not follow the routes of maritime trade. Rather, Indo-Arabic numerals moved gradually across the continent through inland networks of practitioners. Everywhere they went, the ten figures enhanced commercial practices and facilitated the emergence of a coherent language of mathematical craft. The growing social circulation of this knowledge, in turn, had a lasting impact on the economic trajectory of Western Europe. By the late sixteenth century, even academics were absorbing lessons from the vernacular tradition-a development that led to the first major breakthroughs in European mathematical theory since antiquity.Combining economic history with the social history of mathematics, The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals illuminates the integral role of practical arithmetic in both intellectual and commercial transformations across Western Europe.

帝国の周辺での交易－1600年頃のフランチェスコ・カルレッティの世界
Brege, Brian / Findlen, Paula / Mola, Luca et al. (eds.), Trading at the Edge of Empires: Francesco Carletti's World, ca. 1600. (I Tatti Research Series) 500 pp. 2026:4 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <762-252>
ISBN 978-0-674-29618-3 paper ¥11,049.- (税込) US$ 49.00

In narrating his circumnavigation of the world at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Florentine Francesco Carletti became the first European merchant to leave an account of travel on existing commercial routes. A repentant ex-slave trader and smuggler turned dealer in Chinese goods, Carletti travelled "at the edge of empires," providing a unique perspective on the promise and peril of a connected globe. With his long stays in Lima, Mexico City, Manila, Nagasaki, Macao, and Goa, as well as travels across the Americas, the Pacific, and Asia, Carletti documents a changing world in which European powers and traders interacted and often clashed with other empires and polities. Trading at the Edge of Empires brings together 24 scholars to situate and unpack how Carletti's travels illuminate our understanding of trade, slavery, empire, religion, language, ethnography, cartography, cosmography, and material culture in the early modern world.

アフリカの奪い合いにおけるオランダ人企業家　1830～1910年代
Dreijer, Gijs, Private Entrepreneurship and European Imperialism: Dutch Entrepreneurs in the Scramble for Africa, 1830s-1910s. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 322 pp. 2026:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <762-254>
ISBN 978-3-032-01085-8 hard ¥13,251.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book presents a groundbreaking new perspective on European imperialism in Africa, by focusing on the role of Dutch private entrepreneurs in colonial activities during the so-called 'Scramble for Africa'. Distinguishing between a state-based 'Partition of' and an actor-based 'Scramble for' Africa, the book illustrates this process by tracking the entrepreneurial strategy of a group of Dutch entrepreneurs in the Scramble, at a time when the Dutch state itself largely withdrew from the African continent. This book thus investigates why and how nineteenth-century Dutch entrepreneurs from the port city of Rotterdam invested significant resources in West and West Central Africa between the 1830s and the 1910s. It demonstrates the trans-national nature of colonial investments in the Scramble for Africa, highlighting the crucial role Dutch entrepreneurs played in trade, production and investment in empires across West and West Central Africa (the Congo Free State, French Congo and Portuguese Angola). The book aims to rethink the Dutch role in European imperialism more broadly and its repercussions in the present day. The book takes into account the social and political implications of colonial entrepreneurship as much as the economic and business implications, going beyond a strictly entrepreneurial analysis of success and failure. It will be essential reading for scholars of economic and business history, as well as historians of imperialism, colonialism and trans-imperial relations.

いかに資本主義が世界を征服したか
Jackson, Trevor, The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World. 320 pp. 2026:3 (Norton, US) <762-255>
ISBN 978-1-324-10687-6 hard ¥7,663.- (税込) US$ 33.99

Today, virtually the entire world lives under the economic system called capitalism and most people alive have never known another. But as Trevor Jackson argues, it wasn't always capitalism, it didn't have to be capitalism and capitalism didn't have to be this way. How did it happen? With a firm grasp on history and economics and a keen eye for the telling anecdote, Jackson explains the rise of capitalism from the discovery of the New World to the First World War. A fast-paced work of global history that explores the role of Chinese mulberry trees, Dutch tulips and whale blubber-along with Spanish conquistadors, Mexican mine workers and English bankers-The Insatiable Machine traces capitalism's development from the accidental construction of an international monetary system to the creation of banking, the emergence of a new form of slavery, fossil-fuel industrialisation and finally the global capitalist system spread by imperialism.

Vandeweerdt, Nena, Women and Work Through a Comparative Lens: Gender and the Urban Labor Markets of Premodern Brabant and Biscay. (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia 51) 250 pp. 2025:12 (Leuven U. Pr., BE) <762-258>
ISBN 978-94-6270-494-7 paper ¥9,009.- (税込) EUR 26.00

Urban Markets and Women's Labor: Navigating Institutional Boundaries in Premodern EuropeWomen played a crucial role in medieval and early modern urban economies, yet their labor opportunities varied greatly depending on local institutions. This book compares the guild-structured labor markets of Antwerp and Mechelen in Brabant with Bilbao's informal economy in Biscay during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. By analyzing these distinct institutional contexts, it offers a multifaceted understanding of women's economic roles in premodern Europe. Drawing on a wide range of legislative and judicial sources, Vandeweerdt demonstrates how legal frameworks, socioeconomic structures, and individual strategies shaped women's activities in small-scale trade. Bridging institutional analysis and personal agency, Women and Work through a Comparative Lens sheds new light on the interplay between labor organization and everyday practices in premodern Europe.

Fernando, Tamara Surani, Shallow Blue Empire: A History of Pearl Diving in the Indian Ocean, 1850-1930. (Harvard Historical Studies) 288 pp. 2026:7 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <762-266>
ISBN 978-0-674-29414-1 hard ¥9,007.- (税込) US$ 39.95

Strangio, Donatella (ed.), Migration, Innovation and Knowledge Transmission: An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Italian Migration and its Socioeconomic Impact. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 293 pp. 2026:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <762-184>
ISBN 978-3-031-98110-4 hard ¥53,016.- (税込) EUR 199.99

This edited collection presents an interdisciplinary assessment of the impact of migration on knowledge transmission and entrepreneurial innovation. Focusing on Italian migration to Europe and the Americas, the book analyses the socioeconomic transformations enabled by migration and fills an important gap in the literature on the economic history of migration. Featuring contributions from fifteen scholars from around the world, the book presents a range of case studies and archival research that shows how the transmission of knowledge and skills, passed on by migrants in destination countries, represents a less-known but crucial aspect of the migration phenomenon. Chapters discuss the impact of Italian migrants in a range of contexts, with their entrepreneurial, professional, manual and craft skills significantly contributing to economic, cultural and industrial development in countries such as Chile, Argentina, Brazil and the US. Chapters bring out larger themes such as technological innovation, educational practices, institutional and public policies and experiences of short-term or temporary migration. The interdisciplinary framework of the book, bringing together economic historians, architects and sociologists, fosters unique perspectives and enriches our understanding of the economic impact of migration beyond simply linear economic growth. This will be a valuable resource for researchers of economic and business history, as well historians of migration, sociologists and demographers.

インドの政治経済の75年間
Jha, Praveen / Pal, Puja / Majumder, Bhaskar (eds.), India's Political Economy @75: Opportunities & Challenges of Development. (The Political Economy of the Asia Pacific) 416 pp. 2026:2 (Springer, GW) <762-161>
ISBN 978-981-9678-81-5 hard ¥47,714.- (税込) EUR 179.99

This book provides a comprehensive exploration and reflection of the opportunities and challenges that have shaped India's growth trajectory in past seven decades. The book contains rigorously researched articles on various contemporary issues and debates around four broad key themes on-political economy appraisal, sectoral challenges, employment, labour and informality and social sector performance, offering conceptual understanding, critical analysis and policy implications. In addition to offering significant insights into recent emerging issues such as the agrarian crisis, non-performing assets (NPAs), post-COVID-19 transformations, shifts in the labor market due to artificial intelligence (AI), digitalization, and more, the book also explores the dominant theoretical discourses essential for comprehending India's political economy since independence till recent. The book offers actionable policy recommendations to address existing gaps between policies and practices of India's development trajectory. The book is particularly intended for research scholars and students, of economics, political science and development studies. Also, policymakers, institutions, general reader and academics worldwide who are interested in understanding the political aspect of Indian economy, its development trajectory, and the challenges and opportunities that nation faces at the cusp of completing 75 years of independence.

Everill, Bronwen, Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance. 304 pp. 2025:10 (The New Pr., US) <762-168>
ISBN 978-1-62097-975-4 hard ¥7,889.- (税込) US$ 34.99

アメリカの企業利益　1950～2024年
Silva, Ednaldo, U.S. Corporate Profits, 1950-2024: Operating Profit Markups in Leading U.S. Firms. (SpringerBriefs in Economics) 93 pp. 2026:2 (Springer, GW) <762-138>
ISBN 978-3-032-11398-6 paper ¥11,926.- (税込) EUR 44.99

This book offers a regression-based analysis of corporate profitability in the United States over the period 1950 to 2024. Drawing on detailed analysis of 71 leading corporations across 11 key industries-from petroleum and natural gas to high-tech and government contracting-this book reveals a striking pattern: operating-profit markups have remained both high and remarkably stable over the past seven decades.Using a clear and accessible regression-based methodology, the author demonstrates how corporations have consistently maintained their ability to pass through costs, challenging common assumptions about volatility in profit margins.Written by a seasoned expert for professionals in corporate accounting, corporate law, finance, taxation, and economic policy, this book provides:A robust empirical framework for analyzing long-term profitabilityIndustry-specific insights into pricing power and cost pass-throughA valuable resource for understanding corporate behavior across economic cycles Whether you're advising clients, shaping policy, or conducting research, this book offers essential insights into the enduring dynamics of corporate profitability.

グローバル化した世界におけるオーストラリアの鉄鋼－1964～2024年
Abbott, Malcolm, Australian Steel in a Globalised World: From 1964 to 2024. 217 pp. 2026:1 (Springer, GW) <762-139>
ISBN 978-981-9544-60-8 hard ¥29,157.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book explores the history and evolution of Australia's steel industry. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the creation of a large, technologically advanced steel sector was widely seen as essential for economic development, providing vital inputs for railways, shipping, engineering, and construction. While new materials such as plastics, aluminium, and concrete have since taken centre stage, steel once stood at the heart of industrial progress. In the Australian context, the steel industry became closely linked with Broken Hill Proprietary Limited (BHP), for decades the country's largest private corporation and long identified as the "Big Australian." BHP's exit from steelmaking in 2002 marked not just a corporate turning point but also reflected the broader transformation of the Australian economy, where mining increasingly overshadowed manufacturing. Yet, the story of steel in Australia is not merely one of decline. This book examines how the industry endured through profound shifts in the national and global economy, overcoming challenges and adapting to survive, even prosper, through the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In doing so, it reveals how businesses, particularly in the manufacturing sector, can demonstrate resilience and strategic adaptation in an era of globalisation. By tracing the steel industry's rise, struggles, and persistence, this book offers fresh insights into the dynamics of industrial change and the lessons it holds for Australia's economic future.

Chancel, Lucas, Energie et inegalites: une histoire politique. (Eco-histoires) 426 p. 2025:10 (Seuil, FR) <761-320>
ISBN 978-2-02-151612-8 paper ¥6,627.- (税込) EUR 25.00

企業と統合－大企業と単一欧州市場の形成
Ballor, Grace, Enterprise and Integration: Big Business and the Making of the Single European Market. (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise) 280 pp. 2026:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <761-399>
ISBN 978-1-009-20935-9 hard ¥29,364.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

In post-Brexit Europe, it has never been more important to understand who benefits from the European Union and its Single Market. In this innovative approach to the history of European integration, Grace Ballor reconstructs the creation of the Single Market in the 1980s and 1990s through the lens of multinational business. She both shows how policymakers viewed big business as an ally in market integration and uncovers the diverse responses of European companies, ranging from enthusiastic support for the market to opposition to its attendant social and environmental policies. Drawing on institutional and corporate archives and interviews with key policymakers and business leaders, Ballor demonstrates how businesses adapted their strategies to the new realities of integration and how these adaptations in turn shaped international markets. This is essential reading for anyone wishing to make sense of contemporary European economics and the complex relationships between business and policymaking, economy and society.

スイスフランの誕生
Chiarelli, Jan, La naissance du franc suisse. (Le savoir suisse) 185 p. 2025:10 (Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, SZ) <761-402>
ISBN 978-2-88915-674-0 paper ¥3,949.- (税込) EUR 14.90

Doucette, Jonathan Stavnskaer, How Settlers Shaped Eastern Europe and Scandinavia: Economic Development, Regime Change, and State Formation, 800-1800. (Elements in Political Economy) 75 pp. 2026:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <761-403>
ISBN 978-1-009-54667-6 hard ¥17,000.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00
ISBN 978-1-009-54670-6 paper ¥5,563.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00

This Element argues that settlers from Western Europe shaped European state formation and transformed the political and economic fate of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia between 800 and 1800. While existing work on European colonization focuses on overseas settlers, and studies of Europe's development tend to concentrate on the continent's western regions, the Element highlights a significant internal wave of settlement from Western to Eastern and Northern Europe. Beginning around 1100 and tapering off after 1400, this settler movement spurred economic development and the spread of local self-government across Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. Settlers also provided institutional templates that local rulers adapted in their efforts to build states. These rulers were increasingly compelled to bargain with politically autonomous and large cities. Over time, the emergence of new states in Eastern Europe intensified geopolitical competition across the continent.

第一次世界大戦における鉄道　第2巻
Giuntini, Andrea / Jacolin, Henry (eds.), Railways in the First World War. Volume 2. (Routledge Studies in Modern History) 244 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <761-404>
ISBN 978-1-032-72068-5 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

This book, the second in a two-volume work resulting from a 2018 conference organized by the International Railway History Association (IRHA), examines the relationship between the railways and the First World War from a global theoretical, methodological and geographical perspective.Although World War I (1914-1918) has been studied extensively from virtually every angle, the question of the railways has not been the subject of robust historical interest, despite their crucial role in every respect and at every stage. The war forced the railways to adopt more efficient techniques more quickly than they would have done in peacetime, to the extent where military operations would not have been possible without their massive and multifaceted help. This collection of essays brings together specialists in the field from a broad range of disciplines and backgrounds to demonstrate how this topic is integral to understanding the developments of European and world history throughout the 1910s and 1920s.Railways in the First World War will be a useful tool for students, scholars and non-specialist readers interested in the history of transport, the history of the First World War and World history.

Helling, Benjamin D. R. / Spoerri Butcher, M. et al. (eds.), Roman Coin Hoards Across Frontiers. (Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy) 480 pp. 2026:6 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <761-406>
ISBN 978-0-19-898644-7 hard ¥38,637.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00

The spread of Roman coins and their imitations, from Ireland to Thailand, reaches well beyond a modern political map of the Roman provinces. Roman Coin Hoards Across Frontiers provides a broad survey of hoarding of Roman coins beyond the Roman Empire from c. 30 BC to AD 518 and its relevance to our understanding of the commercial, political, and cultural connections between Rome and its neighbours, near and far. Written by nineteen international scholars, it draws on data gathered for the Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project, an online database cataloguing all known Roman coin hoards. The volume starts with select studies on aspects of deposition within the Empire, followed by regional analyses covering Southern Scandinavia, Germany, and Eastern Europe, as well as the eastern part of the Roman Empire and its adjacent regions, from the Caucasus up to India. The last section looks outside the Roman hoard evidence itself, offering insights from a later period in the Viking north and from metallurgy. The concluding chapter provides an analysis of the key literary textual evidence for the export of coin outside the Empire. By studying the full reach of Roman material culture beyond the frontiers through the lens of coin hoards, this book reveals the nature of Roman imperialism, the importance of commerce, and the significance of borders.

Kim, Jeongmin, Black Market Intimacies: The Transpacific Sexual Economy of the Korean War. 280 pp. 2026:6 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <761-408>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4569-1 hard ¥24,805.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4696-4 paper ¥6,314.- (税込) US$ 28.00

Black Market Intimacies reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities involving sexual encounters between Korean and Japanese women and US soldiers provided the material foundations of the regional economy across Korea and Japan during the Korean War. Against the conventional view that illicit exchanges exist outside the formal economy and legal regulations, Jeongmin Kim examines how the interlinked markets for transactional sex and goods crucially constituted the transpacific formation of US military base capitalism in post-World War II East Asia. Going beyond what is commonly categorized as prostitution and violence in Cold War archives, Kim weaves together stories from the myriads of mundane records scattered around multilingual archives to document larger transnational webs of the war economy. From Korean women who brought camel blankets and whiskey to local markets in Seoul, to middle-aged Okinawan women dealing in US military notes, Kim uncovers the crucial roles that local women played in circulating war supplies and currency across the region through their sexual and intermediary labor. The result is an intimate and global history of the Korean War that urges us to rethink the often-antithetical relationship between sexual intimacy and market economies in the context of war and occupation.

Ru, Sung Hee, The Road Taken: China's Incorporation Process into the Capitalist World System and Its Capitalist Transition. 414 pp. 2025:9 (State U. New York Pr., US) * paper 2026:3 <761-410>
ISBN 979-88-558-0307-5 hard ¥31,570.- (税込) US$ 140.00
ISBN 979-88-558-0306-8 paper ¥8,782.- (税込) US$ 38.95

Traces China's transformations with a focus on China's incorporation process in the nineteenth century, which help to grasp the historical origins of China's capitalism.As Europe's colonial powers reached China in the nineteenth century, they became so strong that China could no longer ignore them. Given that the unprecedented geographical expansion of the European system undermined a China-centered world order and brought unprecedented changes to Chinese society, an intriguing question-why and how the Chinese empire entered into the capitalist world economy-has attracted increasing attention among historians, historical sociologists, and world-systems researchers. Yet, there has been no comprehensive monograph touching on China's incorporation process into the capitalist world-economy. To rectify this, The Road Taken investigates China's incorporation process. Incorporation studies, based on world-systems analysis, aims to illustrate the long-term integration process of external arenas into the capitalist world-economy. Ru traces China's transformations with a focus on how incorporation process unfolded over the course of a century (1780s-1890s), which represents a watershed era in the relations between China and the capitalist world.

P.N.スターンズ著　世界史における産業革命　第6版
Stearns, Peter N., The Industrial Revolution in World History. 6th ed. 300 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <761-411>
ISBN 978-1-041-21305-5 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00
ISBN 978-1-041-20065-9 paper ¥12,978.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99

Now in its sixth edition, this book explores the ways in which the industrial revolution reshaped world history, covering the international factors that helped launch the industrial revolution, its global spread and its impact from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day.The single most important development in human history over the past three centuries, the industrial revolution continues to shape the contemporary world. Revised and brought into the present, The Industrial Revolution in World History extends the global analysis of the industrial revolution, looking beyond the West, extending to India, the Middle East and Africa and now including more on key Latin American economies and China, as well as environmental impacts in all these areas. A new chapter covers the heightened tensions, since 2008, about the economic aspects of globalization and the decline of manufacturing in the West, plus the implications of Artificial Intelligence. This edition also features an updated suggestions for further reading and boxed debate features that encourage the reader to consider diversity and different viewpoints in their own analysis.Illustrating the contemporary relevance of the industrial revolution's history, this is essential reading for students of world history and economics, as well as for those seeking to know more about the global implications of what is arguably the defining socioeconomic event of modern times.

Weise, Franziska, Heilung und ihr Preis: Zur Oekonomie attischere Heilkulte. (Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne 36) 384 S. 2026:3 (F. Steiner, GW) <761-412>
ISBN 978-3-515-14019-5 hard ¥17,496.- (税込) EUR 66.00

初期バビロニア社会の行政と経済－ノートルダム大学T.M.Hesburghライブラリー所蔵のウル第三王朝時代の楔形文字テキスト
Widell, Magnus, Administration and Economy in Early Babylonian Society: The Cuneiform Texts from the Ur III Period in the University of Notre Dame Theodore M. Hesburgh Library. (Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts) 208 pp. 2026:5 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <761-413>
ISBN 978-0-19-898899-1 hard ¥46,365.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00

Administration and Economy in Early Babylonian Society presents an analytical edition of 65 previously unpublished cuneiform tablets and bullae from the Ur III period (2112-2004 BC), currently held in the Theodore M. Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame. Carefully transliterated, translated, and annotated, these texts are made available for the first time, offering fresh material for research not only in Ur III studies and Assyriology but also in economic history, social anthropology, and the study of early bureaucratic systems. The tablets provide detailed records of Ur III administrative practices, economic organization, and daily operations. They cover agricultural management, including field maintenance, irrigation systems, and the production of crops from orchards and date groves. Additional documents shed light on livestock administration, craft production, labour allocation (including lists of workers and their supervisors), food preparation, and the transportation of goods. Collectively, they reveal the intricate mechanisms that sustained one of Mesopotamia's earliest centralized states. Beyond institutional structures, these texts illuminate the lives of individuals--scribes recording transactions, overseers managing workforces, and labourers fulfilling their duties--offering a human dimension to our understanding of Ur III society. The volume combines rigorous philological analysis with historical interpretation, ensuring reliability for specialists while remaining accessible to non-specialists interested in comparative studies of early complex societies.

ソ連経済のマルクス主義的分析
Moysan, Erwan, A Marxist Analysis of the Soviet Economy. (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy) 200 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <761-251>
ISBN 978-1-041-21487-8 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

Analysing Soviet economic history through the lens of Marx's critique of political economy, this book argues that the Soviet Union was a young capitalist country and, further, explains the collapse of the Soviet Union as the result of a capitalist crisis.This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Soviet economy through a Marxist lens, and provides a digestible definition of the capitalist mode of production according to Marx, refuting criticism of his thought based on association with the USSR. This book also refutes other theories about the Soviet Union, such as the theory of a degenerated workers' state, theories of the Soviet Union having a new mode of production, and even other theories of capitalist USSR, as inadequate because they take the Soviet economy to be 'superior' in some way and therefore cannot explain the Soviet economy's collapse. The goal is not to unearth, collect, and present new data on the Soviet economy but, rather, a Marxist analysis of the Soviet economy based on a synthesis of existing empirical studies. In doing so, the books shines a light on the political debate around the nature of the USSR.The book will be of interest to academic and non-academic Marxists alike in economics, politics, sociology, history and beyond.

Y.カッシス他編　ブレトン・ウッズ以降の歴史、記憶、金融危機の再来
Cassis, Youssef / Telesca, Giuseppe (eds.), History, Memory, and the Return of Financial Crises after Bretton Woods. 240 pp. 2026:5 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <761-297>
ISBN 978-0-19-895012-7 hard ¥27,200.- (税込) GB￡ 88.00

Despite the 'return of financial crises' since the end of the Bretton Woods era, a new generation of bankers hardly had any experience or any memory of a previous systemic financial crisis. The events of summer 2007 prompted investors, CEOs, and regulators to investigate the past to understand the present and foresee the future. The 2008 financial crisis strengthened the need to place financial crises in long-term historical perspectives, establish parallels, and make comparisons. Such comparisons, however, have remained sparse and generally reduced past financial crises to stylized facts in a quest for lessons that could be drawn rather than analysed their specifics. This book is a contribution of history to the study of financial crises, with a focus on whether and how the memory of previous crises has persisted, faded, or changed over time. Intertwining memory and narrative representations of the reality, it investigates the reasons why some crises have been selectively remembered and others apparently forgotten. It does so with a focus on the new era of financial instability that followed the end of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates in 1973 - a period marked by a series of financial crises (1974, 1982, 1987, 1997, among others); economic, political, and cultural changes (globalization, deregulation, formalized mathematical economics), and culminating in the global financial crisis of 2008.

国際経済の成長　1820～2025年　第6版
Graff, Michael / Kenwood, A. G. / Lougheed, A. L., Growth of the International Economy 1820-2025. 6th ed. 468 pp. 2026:4 (Routledge, UK) <761-314>
ISBN 978-1-032-46537-1 hard ¥52,547.- (税込) GB￡ 170.00
ISBN 978-1-032-46536-4 paper ¥16,069.- (税込) GB￡ 51.99

Growth of the International Economy has been the benchmark introduction to the development of the global economy for decades. Updating the story to the present day, the new edition of this classic textbook includes coverage of key events from 2008 onwards which have impacted and brought disruption to the global economy.Beginning with the industrial revolution, the book charts the long nineteenth century, the impact of colonialism, the fast pace of technology growth and the impact of global wars. Significant additions to the sixth edition include coverage of the aftermath of the Great Recession, the growing impact of China and the New Silk Route and the economic consequences of Covid-19 pandemic. The geopolitical and economic reasons for the war in Ukraine, and its consequences, are also considered. References and recommendations for further reading are included at the end of each chapter to encourage additional study, and a selection of appendices are incorporated into the book, outlining the economic concepts and theories underlying the text.This new edition of Growth of the International Economy provides the reader with a clear understanding of the factors which have been instrumental in creating the economic environment we face two hundred years after the industrial revolution.

バニラの歴史
Jennings, Eric T., Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean. 312 pp. 2025 (Yale U. Pr, US) * paper 2026:8 <251-58759>
ISBN 978-0-300-26453-1 hard ¥6,765.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *
ISBN 978-0-300-29216-9 paper ¥4,510.- (税込) US$ 20.00

The fascinating and wide-ranging history of vanilla, from the sixteenth century to today Vanilla is one of the most expensive of flavorings-so valuable that it was smuggled or stolen by pirates in the early days-and yet it is everywhere. It is a key ingredient in dishes ranging from creme brulee to Japanese purin. It is the quintessential ice cream flavor in the United States. Eric T. Jennings explains how the world's only edible orchid, originally endemic to Central America, became embedded in the international culinary and cultural landscape. In tracing vanilla's rise, Jennings describes how in the 1840s an enslaved boy named Edmond Albius discovered a way to pollinate vanilla orchids with a toothpick or needle-an ingenious process that is still in use. This method transformed the vanilla sector by enabling the plant to be grown outside of its natural range. Jennings also looks at how the vanilla craze led to the search for now-pervasive substitutes, and how a vanilla lobby has fought back. He further unravels how vanilla-the world's most expensive crop and once considered its most refined fragrance-came to mean "bland." This tale of botany, production techniques, consumption habits, and colonial rivalry connects the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, revealing how vanilla has become a potent symbol of the modern global village.

Antunes, Catia A. P. / Garcia-Monton, A. et al., A Hydra of Business and Men: The Habsburg Asiento de Negros in Structuring the European Transatlantic Slave Trade. (Library of Economic History 21) 216 pp. 2025:12 (Brill, NE) <760-251>
ISBN 978-90-04-74508-7 hard ¥26,244.- (税込) EUR 99.00

This book offers a historical and historiographical analysis of the Spanish asiento de negros, a contract between the Spanish Monarchy and private parties to introduce specific number of enslaved Africans to Spanish America. As the Spanish American market was the largest single market for enslaved people prior to 1720, studying this colonial contract is essential for understanding the development of the most significant colonial contract of the long 17th century. The asiento framed the European transatlantic slave trade for nearly two centuries and shaped much of the political economy of the Spanish Atlantic empire. This book is unique in providing the first comprehensive study of the asiento since George Scelle's 1906 work (La traite negriere aux Indes de Castille. Contracts et traites d'assiento, 2 vols.). Unlike Scelle, who focused on legal frameworks and presented the monarchy's perspective, this book examines the asientistas themselves, offering insights into their business decisions and organizations. It concentrates on the period that gave rise to the idea of an asiento and the Habsburg-era asientos (1595-1713), preceding the so-called Bourbon reforms.

オランダ共和国における公債の政治経済
Feenstra, H. Alberto, Frontiers of Finance: The Political Economy of Public Debt in the Dutch Republic. (Library of Economic History 20) 365 pp. 2025:12 (Brill, NE) <760-252>
ISBN 978-90-04-43320-5 hard ¥39,499.- (税込) EUR 149.00

This book analyses the political economy of provincial public debt within the federal Dutch Republic. Frontiers of Finance: The Political Economy of Public Debt in the Dutch Republic shows that the domestic effect of Holland's financial revolution and Amsterdam's subsequent rise to an international financial centre was limited. Instead, the fiscal and legal fragmentation caused differences in risk, capital supply, transaction costs and, consequently, borrowing costs. The merits of Holland's financial revolution were thus not transferable to another context. The results are relevant for wider debates about the role of institutions and the financial sector for economic growth.