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

タイ王国の米政策　1932～60年
Nung Wong, Pak / Chongstitvatana, Suchitra et al. (eds.), Rice Policies of the Kingdom of Thailand, 1932 - 1960. 216 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <753-434>
ISBN 978-1-041-04905-0 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book is a historical study of the rice policies of the government in the Kingdom of Thailand between the years from 1932 to 1960 in the context of the rice shortage World War II. It examines the production and trading policies of the government, including the effects of such policies. While initially the move proved favourable, the book shows how the policy aimed at increasing production by expanding planting areas rather than developing agricultural technology led to a decline in rice production and was one of the causes of the economic problems experienced by the Thai farmers later. This book will be of interest to the historians, researchers, students and policy-makers in the fields of Southeast Asian studies, international history, international political economy and security studies as well as public policy.

R.C.アレン著『なぜ豊かな国と貧しい国が生まれたのか』第2版
Allen, Robert C., Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction. 2nd ed. (Very Short Introductions) 160 pp. 2026:4 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <753-532>
ISBN 978-0-19-892183-7 paper ¥1,969.- (税込)

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Why are some countries rich, and some poor? Does this status persist throughout time, and if so, why? How can a country escape poverty? In this Very Short Introduction, Robert C. Allen explores the interplay of geography, globalization, technological change, economic policy, and institutions, to show how they have determined the wealth and poverty of nations around the world. Using historical examples to analyse the factors that have influenced growth, he exposes what has caused the unequal world we live in today, focusing on recent changes in equality and world economic disruption. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Atuguba, Raymond A., The Political Economy of Policing in Ghana, 1830-2005. (African Histories and Modernities) 297 pp. 2025:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <753-533>
ISBN 978-3-031-91921-3 hard ¥34,646.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book is a testament to the importance of historical institutional analysis for understanding the reform of Africa's institutions. As an entry point, Raymond Atuguba examines the regulations of public order and alcohol by the police in Ghana, outlining an interplay of changing ideological and interest formations on the one hand and changing institutional forms on the other. The study reveals not only new forms of oppressive institutional orderings that descend from colonialism; but also new institutional forms that produce possibilities and countervailing technologies of power, capable of meeting and assailing the ways in which the power of post-modern colonialism mobilizes itself. In sum, this book explores the themes of institutional continuities, hegemonic practices, and institutional reform. It discusses how the British political, economic and legal infrastructure penetrated and disrupted pre-existing regulation of public order and alcohol that was conducive to a particular political economy and various social practices. It emphasizes the enduring character of the new institutions created around public order and alcohol, and how they crystallized at independence and were perpetuated in the post-independence era.

中国の数量史
Chen, Zhiwu / Campbell, Cameron / Ma, Debin (eds.), Quantitative History of China: State Capacity, Institutions and Development. (Studies in Economic History) 347 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <753-534>
ISBN 978-981-9682-71-3 hard ¥12,371.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This Open Access book marks the beginning of a new era in the study of Chinese history. Since the beginning of the computer age, quantitative techniques have been increasingly used to study specific topics like family, population, and living standards in China's past. However, sample sizes have usually been small due to either historical archives' availability constraints or limited human processing capacity. With much increased computing power and machine-assisted reading/processing capacity, many big historical databases have become available, offering quantitative historians and social scientists great opportunities to study China's past development experience. This volume showcases a collection of new findings concerning China's political, social, and economic history and typically based on newly constructed large historical datasets. Most of the work has involved an interdisciplinary team of economists, sociologists, political scientists, historians and econometricians, demonstrating how new big data and quantitative methods may be brought to bear on some of the biggest questions related to China's development over the past three millennia and on the implications of distant past events on contemporary China. Topics covered range from the roles of war, state formation, religion, culture, finance and institutions in long-run development and technological innovations, to regicide history, to the organization and capacity of the bureaucracy. Contributors include leading figures in the quantitative study of China's long-run socioeconomic and political history. This volume will be of value to anyone with an interest in Chinese economic, political, social and/or institutional history as well as anyone interested in quantitative history more generally.

Dumetz, Jerome / Akcaoglu, Emin (eds.), The Role of Culture in Economic Development: Case Studies from Former Empires. 130 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <753-535>
ISBN 978-3-031-94490-1 hard ¥44,546.- (税込) EUR 179.99

This book draws together interdisciplinary perspectives from economic history, cultural economics and cross-cultural management to analyse the impact of culture on the economic trajectories of former empires. Chapters in the book explore the role of cultural values in shaping the institutional frameworks influencing economic development, focusing on a global selection of case studies that share a common imperial heritage. The empires reviewed consist of: The Netherlands, the Ashanti, Spain, Austria-Hungary, Germany, Turkey, France, Great-Britain, Japan and Russia. The focus on former empires enables the book to provide fascinating comparative and historical analysis of the ways in which different countries gained, justified and lost imperial power over time, and the ways in which their global influences remain today. Each contribution draws on the Steyr Intercultural Management Model (SIMM) to analyse cultural values in their broadest sense, while maintaining awareness of the limitations in defining 'culture' in different historical periods and nations. The volume also offers a unique integration of historical and cultural economic approaches that will be of interest to scholars across a range of fields.

第一次世界大戦における鉄道　第1巻
Giuntini, Andrea / Jacolin, Henry (eds.), Railways in the First World War. Volume 1. (Routledge Studies in Modern History) 350 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <753-536>
ISBN 978-1-032-72067-8 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book, the first 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.

Gouzi, Vincent, L'industrialisation de la Grece: la creation d'une industrie moderne: 1950-2014. (Historiques. Serie Travaux) 287 p. 2025:6 (L'Harmattan, FR) <753-537>
ISBN 978-2-336-51697-4 paper ¥7,425.- (税込) EUR 30.00

20世紀の欧州におけるツーリズムの目的地と政策
Larrinaga, Carlos / Strangio, Donatella (eds.), Tourism Destinations and Policies in Europe During the 20th Century: Evolution, Strategies and Markets. (Contributions to Economics) 139 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <753-538>
ISBN 978-3-031-88446-7 hard ¥37,121.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book analyzes key aspects of European tourism development in the 20th century, focusing on the development of tourist destinations, as well as tourism policies that were created to shape these destinations. The book also examines the private sector, which has traditionally played a determining role in European tourism development. While doing so, this volume presents case studies of Western European and Eastern European countries, such as Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain and Yugoslavia. This book will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars of economics and business in general, and economic history and tourism studies in particular, interested in a better understanding of the development of tourism destinations and tourism policies in Europe during the 20th century.

『ヨーロッパの奇跡』他－E.L.ジョーンズ記念論集
Magee, Gary B. / Deng, Kent (eds.), The European Miracle and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Professor E. L. Jones. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 279 pp. 2025:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <753-539>
ISBN 978-3-031-90247-5 hard ¥49,496.- (税込) EUR 199.99

This edited volume presents a set of essays honouring the agricultural, environmental and world economic historian, Eric L. Jones. Drawing insights from contributors spanning the social sciences, it highlights how Jones' approach was ahead of its time, illuminating the benefits of studying economic history from a long-run, comparative perspective. In the spirit of Jones' path-breaking book The European Miracle, this volume is divided into two parts. The first part takes the intellectual contributions of Eric Jones as its focus, closely considering Jones' contributions to the development of a non-Eurocentric perspective of world history, our understanding of long-term social processes and Eliasian sociology, and the study of the urban built environment. The second part of the book changes tack, offering a series of detailed studies on historical and contemporary themes. Each essays in this part explicitly draws its influence and inspiration from Jones' work. These 'applied' chapters, written by leading experts, make important and novel contributions to an array of important questions: the Great Divergence, economic performance in Song China, the rise of Nazi Germany, the evolution of modern China's economic links with Australia, and the likely effect on international politics of China and Russia's current growing alliance. This book provides a wide-ranging introduction to the works of Eric Jones, one of the most influential economic historians of the twentieth century, and illustrates not only the ongoing relevance of Jones' work, but, crucially, how contemporary researchers can learn from his approach to studying long-run change.

市場操作と卵の価格－自由市場と人為的な価格のミクロヒストリー
Ress, David, Market Manipulation and The Price of Eggs: A Microhistory of Free Markets and Artificial Prices. (Palgrave Pivot) 147 pp. 2025:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <753-544>
ISBN 978-3-031-87170-2 hard ¥9,896.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This Palgrave Pivot presents a microhistory of an important but little-known incident of futures trading. The case in question concerns an incident in the futures market operated by the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) in 1968, where an individual trader David Henner was able to set an unusually (and, ultimately unjustified) high closing price for delivery of eggs in six months. By examining the legal and economic theoretical context of this incident, the book argues that the definition of market manipulation is not straightforward, and has been complicated by a reluctance among regulators to accept the idea that ordinary market dynamics can produce a false price. Unlike most other cases of financial market manipulation, the finding here did not involve a market corner or some form of insider trading, but instead suggested that the inherent dynamics of an open outcry market could produce an unreal price. As narrative history, it offers scholars and practitioners of financial market regulation and operation a valuable way of looking at why otherwise inexplicable breaks in prices occur. This book will be valuable reading for those interested in law and economics, financial regulation, and the history of commodities and futures trading.

紀元前500年から今日までのユーラシアにおけるイノベーションと経済開発－分岐のルーツ
Van Leeuwen, Bas / Didenko, Dmitry / Calabrese, M. et al., Innovation and Economic Development in Eurasia, 500 BCE-Present: The Roots of Divergence. (Frontiers in Economic History) 408 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <753-546>
ISBN 978-3-031-97042-9 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores the long-term economic growth of three key regions: China, Central Eurasia, and Western Europe. It discusses why some areas experienced faster, and more sustained growth than others by focusing on how new ideas are created (innovation), how different countries use these ideas (adoption), and how these factors influence long-term economic differences and similarities (divergence/convergence). These key drivers are examined across time and throughout different regions, considering factors like state involvement, urbanization, the development of specific resources (e.g., fertile land), labor relations, and prices and wages. The book presents new research, connects chapters with recurring themes, and offers combined explanations. Without getting stuck in purely theoretical or historical discussions, it thus goes beyond the various theories to study how the nations caught up, fell behind, and forged ahead in GDP and immaterial well-being. Finally, the book highlights that, while there is value in understanding various existing theories, it is important to acknowledge the complexities in each region's specific historical and regional context.

18世紀の中国・英国茶貿易とデザインの文化交流
Zhang, Chi, Beyond the Teacup: 18th Century Sino-British Tea Trade and Design Cultural Exchange. 192 pp. 2025:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <753-547>
ISBN 978-981-9776-90-0 hard ¥29,696.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book focuses on tea-ware design exchanges between China and the UK since the middle of 17th Century, and explores how design encouraged trade and how the market demand influenced the development of design. The spirit of Chinese tea came to Britain alone with tea itself, and enriched the design of tea-ware, as well as British tea culture. During this process, tea-related oriental aesthetics evolved into an aesthetic image mechanism and developed as aesthetic concept, which infiltrated from private space to social space.

Michalopoulos, Constantine, Greek Foreign Trade and Finance: The Mixed Blessings of Economic Dependence. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 152 pp. 2025:7 (Springer, GW) <753-288>
ISBN 978-3-031-92103-2 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book examines the role of international trade and finance in the Greek economy since the beginnings of the Greek state two centuries ago to the present day. It focuses on the benefits and challenges of Greece's economic dependence on the larger and higher income countries of Western Europe, and in particular the European Union, have played in its economic development. The volume begins by examining Greece's links to Europe in the 19th century and its desultory participation in the Latin Monetary Union. Its main focus is the post- World War II period, starting with Greece's efforts to establish sustainable economic growth, at a time when the country was facing severe foreign exchange constraints and relied on assistance from the US under the Marshall Plan. It then examines relations between Greece and the European Community, particularly on its efforts to integrate into the European Union, the debt crisis and the reforms and recovery in its aftermath. The book details in accessible and engaging style how the story of Greece's economic integration in Europe has involved both successful development but also failures by Greek, Eurozone and IMF policymakers. With valuable historical insights, this book will be of interest to academics and policymakers in Greece, the EU and emerging economies weighing economic integration. It will also be of interest to economic historians and political economists more broadly.

J.L.ニューウェル著　世界の経済のグローバル化－歴史的入門
Newell, James L., The Globalization of the World's Economies: A Concise Historical Introduction. (Europa Introduction to...) 224 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <753-389>
ISBN 978-1-041-06196-0 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

The world is standing at a crossroads. On the one hand, economic globalization has brought unprecedented levels of prosperity. It has lifted millions out of poverty; it has massively enhanced education and skills development; and it has increased the potential for the exercise of power from below, for the complexity of global supply chains renders them highly vulnerable to disruption by the protests of small groups of people in far-flung places. On the other hand, neoliberal globalization has brought rising inequality; the emergence, in the developed world, of the so-called left behind; refugee crises; and increasingly problems related to health and the climate, which the institutions of global governance have struggled to deal with, thus undermining their authority and fuelling the growth of populist nationalism.In order to get a sense of whether economic globalization will in future take a positive or a negative path, it is essential to look at the past. It is only through gaining an understanding of how we have come to be where we are that we will be better placed to see where we are going and, most importantly, to take the action needed to enable us to face the future with optimism rather than with fear.This volume provides a comprehensive overview in historical perspective of the development and current state of globalization, offering a wealth of information to students, professionals and researchers alike.

Manuel, Jeffrey T. / Rogers, Thomas D., Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels. 328 pp. 2025:10 (U. Oklahoma Pr., US) <753-409>
ISBN 978-0-8061-9601-5 hard ¥7,381.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years - good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon or boondoggle? - its use goes back more than a century. Tracing the little-known history of this promising and contentious fuel, Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels reveals the transnational nature of ethanol's development by its two biggest producers, the U.S. and Brazil. By drawing the connections between the shifting fortunes of ethanol in these two countries, the book presents the first full picture of the long history of this renewable fuel that from the beginning offered an imperfect alternative to oil. Though generally presented as parallel stories, the histories of ethanol in the U.S. and Brazil are inextricably linked. Authors Jeffrey T. Manuel and Thomas D. Rogers show how policies in one country shaped those in the other. Brazil patterned its mid-century development on the U.S. model, adopting an automobile- and highway-focused transportation system and a fossil fuel-intensive agricultural sector. U.S. policymakers in turn took note when Brazil responded to the 1970s oil shocks by distributing ethanol nationwide, replacing half of its gasoline consumption. In the 2000s, the nations' leaders worked together to dramatically expand ethanol production. Today, as a new generation of biofuels meant to power aviation and fight climate change again connects Brazilian and U.S. ethanol, Manuel and Rogers explain how the fuel's future, like its history, is complicated by technical, scientific, economic, and social questions - about how to calculate carbon emissions, agricultural land use, national security and sovereignty, and the balance between government regulation and market forces. Understanding the future of biofuels demands a reckoning with this extensive, shared history - a reckoning that Manuel and Rogers's far-reaching, deeply researched book brings into view.

宗教的ツーリズムとイタリア経済　1870～1950年
Semeraro, Riccardo / Maffi, Luciano / Gregorini, Giovanni, Religious Tourism and the Italian Economy, 1870-1950: The Development of Catholic Pilgrimages as a Mass Phenomenon. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 249 pp. 2025:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <753-219>
ISBN 978-3-031-94323-2 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book addresses a little-studied area of the history of tourism, religious tourism, and pilgrimage and introduces a comprehensive economic analysis of their development from elite pursuits to a mass phenomenon. Focusing on Rome, Lourdes, and the Holy Land as destinations, the book showcases religious tourism as a key precursory factor in mass tourism in Italy and Europe. Departing from conventional historiographical timeframes, the authors demonstrate that the surge in tourism during the Italian "economic miracle" did not arise ex novo at that time but was part of a longer process of transformation originating prior to the Second World War. Diverse factors are discussed such as the social and economic role of the Catholic Church, its relationship to tourism, revolutions in transport technologies, rising wages, and increasing leisure time. Key questions are explored regarding religious travel (who, when, how) and how it gained momentum in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished sources, many from the Vatican Archives, the book uncovers new religious, social, and cross-cultural perspectives and contexts for studying the economic history of tourism.