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

ケントとヨーロッパ　1450～1640年－商人、船乗り、海運、防衛
Blackmore, Robert / Lambert, Craig (eds.), Kent and Europe, 1450-1640: Merchants, Mariners, Shipping and Defence. 206 pp. 2025:10 (Boydell, UK) <758-302>
ISBN 978-1-83765-150-4 hard ¥25,058.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

An in-depth overview of Kent's economy, society and politics, and their relationship with Kent's environs over two centuries. Kent is surrounded by water on three sides, close to both the European continent and London: geography that has influenced those who have lived there in countless ways. This book explores their history in this setting from the mid-fifteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries, emphasising Kent's deep connection with Europe. Its chapters, which draw on a wide range of local and national sources, primarily centre on maritime affairs, reflecting the historical and ongoing significance of the sea to the region's inhabitants. These include a bold new description of Kent at the end of the Middle Ages and a reconstruction of the county's early modern maritime trade, including its merchants, both native and foreign, the commodities traded, as well as the impact of migration. An in-depth study also provides quantitative analyses of shipping and of the lives and careers of the shipboard community. Furthermore, there is a detailed examination of the military community of Kent, with a particular focus on the county's coastal fortifications and a chapter on predatory maritime activities in adjacent waters. Overall, the book puts forward the findings of deep research that connects Kent's economy, society and politics with its environs over a long period. As such, it exemplifies how future county studies might be composed.

C.Diebolt他編　経済史の現状－グローバルな視点
Diebolt, Claude / Haupert, Michael (eds.), The State of Economic History: A Global Perspective. (Frontiers in Economic History) 189 pp. 2025:12 (Springer, GW) <758-304>
ISBN 978-3-032-01623-2 hard ¥22,865.- (税込) EUR 89.99

This volume examines the state of the economic history discipline around the globe. It raises and answers questions such as: What are its roots, how did it evolve, and what is the current state of the discipline in each country or region presented? Transcending traditional Western paradigms, the book gathers renowned economic historians from around the globe to engage in a comprehensive dialogue about economic history's global standing. Investigating its role in shaping future economists, addressing pivotal questions, and its symbiotic relationship with economics, contributors analyze economic history's resonance across continents. By doing so, the chapters are not intended to be a survey of the research on each country, but rather an overview of the discipline: its practice, training, and position within the broader economics discipline. Addressing an academic audience, this book further analyzes the interplay of human capital scarcity and its profound impact on academia, spotlighting the evolution of economic history in diverse cultural and regional contexts. Scrutinizing historical milestones, such as Schumpeter's paradigm-shifting pillars and Romer's reflections, the book discusses the need to redefine economic history's role and takes readers on a journey through economic history from its pivotal role to its integration into the broader discipline.

中世における経済ハンドブック
Ertl, Thomas (Hrsg.), Handbuch Wirtschaft im Mittelalter: Themen - Thesen - Kontroversen. (Handbuecher zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte) 800 S. 2025:12 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <758-306>
ISBN 978-3-11-076524-3 hard ¥58,443.- (税込) EUR 230.00

エジプトの地中海－18世紀におけるムスリムの商人と帝国のビジネス
Griffith, Zoe, Egypt's Mediterranean: Muslim Merchants and the Business of Empire in the Eighteenth Century. 303 pp. 2026:4 (U. California Pr., US) <758-307>
ISBN 978-0-520-41663-5 hard ¥20,691.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-41664-2 paper ¥6,523.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Egypt's Mediterranean explores the intersections of commerce and statecraft in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire through the lives of overlooked intermediaries who lived and worked on Egypt's Mediterranean coast. Egypt's port cities mediated the geographic distance and economic scales between the province's agricultural landscape, its Red Sea connections, its hegemonic capital city, and its position within the wider Ottoman realm, while Ottoman Muslim merchants acted as linchpins of imperial governance in Egypt, mediating the state's access to Egyptian wealth. Drawing on Arabic, Ottoman, and French sources, Egypt's Mediterranean foregrounds the role of Muslims and Islamic law in Mediterranean history, decentering European capital and actors in an interconnected story of imperial realignment and changing fortunes on the eve of modernity.

〔英語版〕加島潤著『社会主義体制下の上海経済－計画経済と公有化のインパクト』
Kajima, Jun, Shanghai under the Socialist System: The Impact of the Planned Economy and the Socialist Transformation. (Studies in Economic History) 354 pp. 2025:12 (Springer, GW) <758-308>
ISBN 978-981-9532-24-7 hard ¥30,488.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book reveals how the formation of the Chinese socialist system in the 1950s dramatically transformed the nation's economy, and charts how the newly established economic system functioned during the planned economy period (1949-1978), through focusing on Shanghai, which had served as the center of China's modern economy since the latter half of the nineteenth century. Drawing on the rich historical primary sources of the Shanghai Municipal Archives, this study examines the impact of the institutional change wrought by the introduction of the socialist system on Shanghai's economy, through a careful comparison with the economic structure before 1949. Moreover, it also explores the distinctive features of the Chinese socialist system, first and foremost the relationship between local governments and local businesses that came about through the socialist transformation of private enterprise, by analyzing Shanghai's fiscal structure and a series of key industries, including the textile, machinery, rubber processing, cement, and power industries. This historical study proffers a new understanding of the long-term economic history of modern China across the pivotal 1949 and 1978 divides and sheds light on the origin of what has come to be known as "socialism with Chinese characteristics" today.

証券取引所の歴史
Karan, Mehmet Baha, A History of Stock Exchanges: The Role of Institutions in Shaping Market Evolution. (Contributions to Economics) 409 pp. 2025:12 (Springer, GW) <758-309>
ISBN 978-3-032-07787-5 hard ¥22,865.- (税込) EUR 89.99

This book offers a vivid and accessible narrative of the evolution of financial markets from the first millennium to 2025. Through compelling historical accounts and engaging storytelling, it brings to life the complex transformations that have shaped global finance. While Western financial centers such as Antwerp, Amsterdam, London, Paris, and Wall Street are thoroughly explored, the book also highlights the often-overlooked contributions of the East-including Islamic finance, ancient trade routes, and the Istanbul Stock Exchange. Grounded in the institutional framework of Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson-who argue that inclusive institutions are key to long-term development-and informed by Andrew Lo's Adaptive Markets Hypothesis, the book examines how financial systems have responded to shifting political, cultural, and economic forces. Far more than a chronological history of stock exchanges, this is a global narrative of how institutions, adaptation, and the power of storytelling have shaped the financial world across centuries.

古代ローマ世界における法的・経済的実践　第1巻
Mataix Ferrandiz, Emilia / Verboven, Koenraad (eds.), Legal and Economic Practice in the Roman World. Volume I.: Perspectives on Standardization and Localism. (Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies) 214 pp. 2026:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <758-312>
ISBN 978-3-031-90798-2 hard ¥43,193.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This edited volume examines the legal and economic world of the Romans through concepts, structures, and objects that reveal practices of standardization and localism. It explores the myriad ways in which the Roman Empire became an integrated political, social and economic system. Split across two volumes, the collection addresses the dynamic interaction between Rome and its provinces in developing institutions crucial to societal and economic development. It challenges notions of uniformity, demonstrating how tensions between imperial standardization and local cultures could both drive innovative legal and economic practices and hinder empire-wide integration. The chapters explore broad questions from various disciplinary perspectives, including ancient economic history, law, papyrology, epigraphy and archaeology. Contributions cover diverse topics such as weights, measures, and coinage, legal practices, taxation, and cultural symbols. Each chapter investigates how, even as local communities adopted practices associated with Rome as a ruling power, local customs could, in turn, influence practices across the Empire. By illuminating these reciprocal relationships, this book recontextualizes Roman standardization-not merely as a tool of imperial domination but as evidence of diverse socioeconomic practices and cross-cultural exchanges. It will be a valuable resource for scholars of ancient economic history, classical archaeology, and ancient law, as well as anyone interested in the economy and culture of Ancient Rome.

古代ローマ世界における法的・経済的実践　第2巻
Mataix Ferrandiz, Emilia / Verboven, Koenraad (eds.), Legal and Economic Practice in the Roman World. Volume II.: Perspectives on Standardization and Localism. (Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies) 198 pp. 2025:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <758-313>
ISBN 978-3-031-90802-6 hard ¥43,193.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This edited volume examines the legal and economic world of the Romans through concepts, structures, and objects that reveal practices of standardization and localism. It explores the myriad ways in which the Roman Empire became an integrated political, social and economic system. Split across two volumes, the collection addresses the dynamic interaction between Rome and its provinces in developing institutions crucial to societal and economic development. It challenges notions of uniformity, demonstrating how tensions between imperial standardization and local cultures could both drive innovative legal and economic practices and hinder empire-wide integration. The chapters explore broad questions from various disciplinary perspectives, including ancient economic history, law, papyrology, epigraphy and archaeology. Contributions cover diverse topics such as weights, measures, and coinage, legal practices, taxation, and cultural symbols. Each chapter investigates how, even as local communities adopted practices associated with Rome as a ruling power, local customs could, in turn, influence practices across the Empire. By illuminating these reciprocal relationships, this book recontextualizes Roman standardization-not merely as a tool of imperial domination but as evidence of diverse socioeconomic practices and cross-cultural exchanges. It will be a valuable resource for scholars of ancient economic history, classical archaeology, and ancient law, as well as anyone interested in the economy and culture of Ancient Rome.

現代における帝国主義の戦争
Ransom, Roger L. / McKenzie, Jared David, Imperial Wars in the Modern Era: The Struggling for Territory. (Frontiers in Economic History) 143 pp. 2025:12 (Springer, GW) <758-315>
ISBN 978-3-032-07700-4 hard ¥10,160.- (税込) EUR 39.99

Drawing upon a unique cliometric approach, this book offers a comprehensive examination of major conflicts and their consequences. War and imperialism have shaped the modern world in profound ways, leaving an indelible mark on nations and peoples. In this book, acclaimed historian Roger L. Ransom takes readers on an engaging and insightful journey through the pivotal conflicts and power struggles that defined the era from the beginning of the twentieth century until today. From the early days of imperialism to the recent events in Russia and Ukraine, the author delves into the unanswered questions surrounding imperialism and war, shedding new light on historical debates. Explore the rise of imperialist powers such as the USA and Germany, delve into the Russo-Japanese War and the Third Reich's thrust towards Moscow, and analyze pivotal moments like the Pearl Harbor attack and the use of the atomic bomb. With rigorous research and accessible prose, this book provides a compelling narrative that appeals to both scholars and general readers. This book is an invaluable resource for students, history enthusiasts, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of war and imperialism in the modern era.

『日本の挑戦』とドイツの家電産業　1950～87年
Staffel, Florian, Zwischen Konkurrenz und Kooperation: Die "Japanische Herausforderung" und die deutsche Unterhaltungselektronikindustrie 1950-1987. (Schriftenreihe zur Zeitschrift fuer Unternehmensgeschichte 39) 365 S. 2025:10 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <758-316>
ISBN 978-3-11-169830-4 paper ¥20,314.- (税込) EUR 79.95

How have companies reacted to new competitors from Asia over the course of globalization? And what roles have narratives, expectations, and perceptions played? This study examines these questions by considering Grundig and Telefunken, traditional German consumer electronic companies, and the strategies they employed in their competition with Japanese companies in the period 1950 to 1987.

啓蒙思想時代におけるスペインの商業改革
Tavarez, Fidel J., Assembling an Imperial Machine: Spanish Commercial Reform in the Age of Enlightenment. 344 pp. 2026:4 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <758-317>
ISBN 978-0-19-775505-1 hard ¥11,979.- (税込) US$ 55.00

フェリペ2世と貨幣の力－議会と銀行家の間
Alvarez-Nogal, Carlos / Chamley, Christophe, Philip II of Spain and the Power of Money: Between Parliament and Bankers. (Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series) 320 pp. 2026:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <758-318>
ISBN 978-1-009-39365-2 hard ¥26,532.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

This is a study of the financial system that sustained the sixteenth-century empire of Philip II of Spain. Detailing the links between royal revenue sources, trade fairs, credit market, long-term debt, and contracts with Genoese bankers, it reveals how Philip's financial and military strategy complemented each other. Central to the narrative is Philip's struggle with the Cortes, which, under Castile's implicit constitution, imposed limits on public debt, forcing repeated renegotiations as military expenses and debt escalated. In this first analytical study of Philip's financial policies, Carlos Alvarez-Nogal and Christophe Chamley draw on extensive archival research and secondary sources to show that Philip's main challenge was not the bankers but the Cortes. He used temporary payment suspensions and financial crises as tools to pressure the Cortes for additional taxation. The book highlights the interplay between debt, political power, and state formation in early modern Europe.

Nuetzenadel, Alexander / Streb, Jochen, Contingent Expectations: Uncertainty, Risk, and Economic Behavior in Historical Perspective. 288 pp. 2026:5 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <758-170>
ISBN 978-0-691-24853-0 hard ¥8,701.- (税込) US$ 39.95

An empirical analysis and new theoretical framework for understanding economic expectations and decision making in different historical settings.Expectations play a crucial role in shaping economic behavior. But how are expectations actually formed, and how has this changed over time? The financial crisis of 2007-2008 cast doubt on traditional theories of expectation formation, particularly the rational expectations framework. In Contingent Expectations, Alexander Nuetzenadel and Jochen Streb examine the ways that past experiences influence the economic expectations and decision making of households, investors, and policymakers through history, and offer an alternative perspective. Combining a comprehensive empirical analysis of expectation formation from the eighteenth century to the present day with an assessment of the relevant economic theory, Nuetzenadel and Streb present a new theoretical framework, contingent expectations, for understanding economic expectation.Nuetzenadel and Streb show how economic actors developed new forecasting methods in response to rising uncertainty brought on by the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of global trade, financial market integration, and environmental crises. Tracing the evolution of economic theories on expectations, they find that when growing market volatility made forecasting more complex, economic agents often adapted with remarkable flexibility to changing circumstances. Challenging prevailing concepts of expectations, including rational choice and adaptive expectations, Nuetzenadel and Streb emphasize the heterogeneity of economic agents' cognitive practices-in particular, the need to consider variation in information costs and historical experience. Expectation formation, they argue, is contingent on each individual's current decision making situation. Their account of the history of economic expectations has significant implications for current debates in economics.

B.アイケングリーン著　国境を超える貨幣－クロイソスから暗号通貨までのグローバルな通貨
Eichengreen, Barry, Money Beyond Borders: Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto. 344 pp. 2026:3 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <758-225>
ISBN 978-0-691-28053-0 hard ¥6,523.- (税込) US$ 29.95

A 2,500-year history of international currencies that reveals new insights about the future of the U.S. dollar-as well as crypto and central bank digital currenciesDoubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction, and fraying international alliances. Will the dollar continue to reign supreme? In Money Beyond Borders, the leading authority on international currencies, Barry Eichengreen, puts the dollar's prospects in deep historical perspective by chronicling the entire history of cross-border currencies, from the invention of coins in the seventh century BCE to the cryptocurrencies of today and the central bank digital currencies of tomorrow.Money Beyond Borders recounts how Greek and Roman coins became the first true international currencies. It tells how the Florentine gold florin became the "greenback of the Renaissance," and how it was succeeded by Spanish silver and a Dutch fiat currency. The book explains why the British pound dominated the international economy in the nineteenth century, why the dollar rose to the top during World War II, and why the dollar has survived predictions of the imminent loss of its preeminence since the 1970s.The long history of international currencies shows that the same factors that encourage their widespread use eventually lead to their abandonment. Money Beyond Borders makes a powerful case that the dollar is now on the downside of this cycle, and it considers who the winners and losers will be when there is flight away from the greenback. Revealing important patterns in the life cycles of international currencies over the past 2,500 years, the book offers valuable lessons and insights about how currencies rise-and why they fall.

グローバルな不均衡の歴史
Li Sheng, Edmund, A Recent History of Global Imbalances. 190 pp. 2025:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <758-231>
ISBN 978-981-9518-33-3 hard ¥30,488.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the economic disparities that have characterized the global landscape in recent years based on an international political economy perspective. Utilizing a blend of theoretical explanation and empirical analysis, the book will delve into the multifaceted causes and consequences of global imbalances, with a focus on the US and China as major sources of global imbalances. Finally, it will propose certain strategic measures that are required to achieve the sustainable development of the global economy, in a work that will interest journalists, economists and scholars of international relations.

20世紀における農業の近代化と緑の革命
Cabo, Miguel / Fernandez Prieto, Lourenzo et al. (eds.), Agricultural Modernisation and the Green Revolution in the Twentieth-Century World. (Boydell Studies in Rural History) 320 pp. 2026:3 (Boydell, UK) <758-239>
ISBN 978-1-83765-331-7 hard ¥28,006.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

古代ローマ世界における法的・経済的実践　全2巻
Mataix Ferrandiz, Emilia / Verboven, Koenraad (eds.), Legal and Economic Practice in the Roman World: Perspectives on Standardization and Localism. 2 vols. (Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies) 500 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <100-6633>
ISBN 978-3-031-94029-3 hard ¥60,980.- (税込) EUR 239.99

These edited volumes examine the legal and economic world of the Romans through concepts, structures, and objects that reveal practices of standardization and localism. They explore the myriad ways in which the Roman Empire became an integrated political, social and economic system. Split across two volumes, the collection addresses the dynamic interaction between Rome and its provinces in developing institutions crucial to societal and economic development. It challenges notions of uniformity, demonstrating how tensions between imperial standardization and local cultures could both drive innovative legal and economic practices and hinder empire-wide integration. The chapters explore broad questions from various disciplinary perspectives, including ancient economic history, law, papyrology, epigraphy and archaeology. Contributions cover diverse topics such as weights, measures, and coinage, legal practices, taxation, and cultural symbols. Each chapter investigates how, even as local communities adopted practices associated with Rome as a ruling power, local customs could, in turn, influence practices across the Empire. By illuminating these reciprocal relationships, these books recontextualize Roman standardization-not merely as a tool of imperial domination but as evidence of diverse socioeconomic practices and cross-cultural exchanges. They will be a valuable resource for scholars of ancient economic history, classical archaeology, and ancient law, as well as anyone interested in the economy and culture of Ancient Rome.