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

インドの近現代の経済成長の起源－植民地主義とイギリスおよびヨーロッパの台頭
Bhattacharya, Prabir, The Indian Origins of Modern Economic Growth: Colonialism and the Rise of Britain and Europe. (Routledge Focus) 120 pp. 2026 (Routledge, UK) <759-221>
ISBN 978-1-041-20163-2 hard ¥15,737.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99 *

Modern economic growth first emerged in Britain and then spread to a few other countries in western Europe and the USA. This book argues that it is her control over India which put Britain at the apex of the world economy in the nineteenth century, and it is British policies and actions, based on her Indian foundation, which led to the globalisation of the nineteenth century - a globalisation very different from the previous globalisations in history.Technological innovations of the nineteenth century were embedded in that globalisation process. It is this which ensured that growth and innovations would not peter out this time, as they had after various "efflorescences" in history. While the increased availability of silver from the Mexican and Peruvian mines in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the Atlantic slave trade both had important consequences for global development, the decisive disjuncture that opened the path to modern economic growth was the British victory in the Battle of Plassey (1757), which in due course led to the colonisation of the whole of the subcontinent.The book is likely to be of interest to a diverse readership, beyond those interested in economic history and growth economics.

歴史的資本主義における植民地の商品－ブラジルの輸出
Acioli Lopes, Gustavo / Marques, Leonardo et al. (eds.), Colonial Commodities in Historical Capitalism: Brazil for Export. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 288 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <759-358>
ISBN 978-1-032-80317-3 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

From the role of sugar in the early history of the colonial era to coffee in the long nineteenth century, commodities have played a crucial role in the development of the Brazilian economy.Drawing on the history of commodities approach, this book explores both the external and internal commodity markets since the time that Portuguese settlers established new commodity frontiers to supply global markets based on the coerced labor of the native population and of millions of enslaved Africans and their descendants. The essays in this book each focus on a specific commodity - including cotton, leather, timber, soy and more - that have shaped not only the history of Brazil but also of the wider world. Each contributor outlines how a particular export sector integrated Brazil to global circuits of trade, thus contributing to the making of the modern capitalist economy. This approach also allows for the exploration of different aspects of the extraction and production of these goods, including the various labor regimes employed and the environmental conditions and impacts that accompanied them.The book will be of interest to all readers in economic history, especially in its intersections with social, political, cultural, and environmental processes and in the broader context of the development of global capitalism.

金融化の歴史
Ahnland, Lars, A History of Financialization: Inequality, Debt and Crisis from Liberalism to Neoliberalism. (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy) 120 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <759-359>
ISBN 978-1-032-99946-3 hard ¥15,737.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99 *

Analyzing long-cycle patterns during the twentieth century, this book presents novel findings on how core features of financialization are interconnected across advanced economies.It proposes that, since the late nineteenth century, international macroeconomic policy regimes have favored either capital or labor, giving rise to corresponding cycles of financialization and de-financialization: a liberal phase of financialization (1896-1929), a regulated phase of de-financialization (1946-1973), and a neoliberal phase of financialization (1983-2019). The book argues that these cycles can be explained through underconsumption theory in 13 advanced economies. During financialization, the study suggests inequality created a savings glut that stimulated liquidity for credit expansion, which in turn led to financial instability. Meanwhile, the lack of aggregate demand due to inequality depressed economic growth. By contrast, during the de-financialization of the regulated Bretton Woods era, credit formation did not lead to financial crises, and economic growth was high. Nevertheless, both the liberal and regulated phases succumbed to structural crises caused by internal frictions. These crises transformed not only the economy, but also the political landscape - and at times, even democracy itself. The question remains whether the neoliberal regime is also undergoing an existential crisis, and what lessons we can learn from history to avoid the pitfalls ahead.The book is primarily aimed at scholars and students of global political economy.

T.ロイ他編　近現代南アジア経済史　第2部：1947年から現在までの南アジア
Chaudhary, Latika / Roy, Tirthankar / Swamy, A. V. (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern South Asia. Part 2.: South Asia, 1947 to Present. 529 pp. 2026:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <759-361>
ISBN 978-1-009-76948-8 hard ¥35,640.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00

South Asia's economies, as well as the scholarship on their economic histories, have been transformed in recent decades. This landmark new reference history will guide economists and historians through these transformations in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Part I revisits the colonial period with fresh perspectives and updated scholarship, incorporating recent research on topics such as gender, caste, environment, and entrepreneurship. The contributors highlight the complex and diverse experiences of different groups to offer a more nuanced understanding of the past. Part II focuses on economic and social changes in South Asia over the last seventy-five years, offering a comprehensive view of the region's historical trajectory. Together, the contributions to this volume help to reassess the impact of colonialism through a more informed lens, as well as providing analysis of the challenges and progress made since independence.

18世紀ヨーロッパにおけるショッピング
Hellsing, My / Ilmakunnas, Johanna (eds.), Shopping in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Experiences and Identities. (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies) 210 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <759-362>
ISBN 978-1-032-57443-1 hard ¥43,065.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This volume explores the practices of shopping in Europe during the long eighteenth century, a period during which consumption choices expanded to encompass much larger groups than before. Shopping functioned as an act of social distinction, where retail practices not only reflected and reinforced social aspirations and identities but also were a means of creating relationships through shared information and exchanges.Bringing together ten diverse case studies, the collection provides in-depth insights into the transformation of shopping practices across Western and Northern Europe. The production of made-to-order goods gave way to a range of ready-made objects that could be viewed, browsed and touched in shops, booths, workshops and markets. Together, the chapters highlight a crucial historical nuance: the concept of 'shopping' as understood in England-with its associations of pleasure and socialising-did not exist in other major European languages during this period. From actors in Stockholm to aristocrats in Paris, this study rigorously contextualises the practice of consumption, leaving readers with an enriched understanding of how shopping shaped identities and social relationships throughout eighteenth-century Europe.This collection is an essential resource for scholars, students and non-specialists interested in the material culture, economy, everyday life and social dynamics of Europe during the long eighteenth century.

小林篤史著　東南アジアにおける地域貿易史－中継港としてのシンガポール
Kobayashi, Atsushi, History of Regional Trade in Southeast Asia: Singapore as an Entrepot. (Perspectives in Economic and Social History) 214 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-363>
ISBN 978-1-041-09223-0 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

This book explores maritime Southeast Asia's trade development during the long nineteenth century, with a focus on the role of Singapore as a regional trade hub. Classical literature attributes the trade growth in modern Southeast Asia to the progress of Western colonisation and assumed Singapore's prosperity as a result of her status as a free port-city for British economic influence over Asia. Challenging this conventional historiography, this monograph sheds fresh light on the role of Singapore as a global entrepot.A series of quantitative and qualitative analyses reveals that intra-Southeast Asian trade grew based on Singapore's entrepot functions, such as its ability to act as a financial hub for multilateral trade settlements. Drawing on Singapore's foreign trade statistics, including statistics of monetary imports and exports, particularly of silver, and augmented with other quantitative and qualitative sources of newspapers, where available, the book provides readers with a new understanding of Singapore's role in intra-regional trade.In addition to Southeast Asian economic historians, this book will appeal to those working on wider themes such as global history, maritime Asian trade, and colonialism.

W.マリガン著　第一次世界大戦の経済的起源
Mulligan, William, The Fraying Bonds of Peace: Economic Origins of the First World War. 444 pp. 2026:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <759-365>
ISBN 978-1-009-60234-1 hard ¥8,910.- (税込) GB￡ 30.00

What is the relationship between economic interdependence, war, and peace? William Mulligan addresses this key question in a major new account of international economic relations and the origins of the First World War. He shows how economic interdependence reshaped power politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, channelling rivalries into trading and financial relations and constraining states from going to war. However, this reshaping of power relations created new asymmetries of power with winners and losers. And as the losers turned towards the use of military force to compensate for their weaknesses and vulnerabilities, they altered the logic of economic interdependence, which now came to serve the militarisation of European politics, rather than act as a constraint on war. This shift in the logic of economic interdependence was a key pre-condition for the outbreak of war in 1914.

歴史的視点における経済的期待ハンドブック
Lenel, Laetitia / Nuetzenadel, Alexander et al. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Economic Expectations in Historical Perspective. 634 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <759-183>
ISBN 978-1-032-45860-1 hard ¥68,310.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00 *

The Routledge Handbook of Economic Expectations in Historical Perspective offers a one-stop reference that distills and summarizes the recent scholarship on economic expectations. Investigating the dynamics, effects, and determinants of economic expectations from a global perspective since the seventeenth century, this book enhances the understanding of expectation formation across time and space.Expectations drive economic decision-making and thus offer a fundamental key to understanding economic behavior. Given the centrality of economics to society, the historical study of economic expectations is a highly relevant endeavor, for which this volume provides an accessible starting point. Featuring 33 chapters written by leading scholars from fields ranging from anthropology to political science, this handbook provides a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective. Together, the collection of essays argues that the development of economic theory and empirical research on expectation formation has not taken place in a vacuum. Rather, it must be understood as one strand in a complex entanglement of knowledge production, experiences, and economic and political decision-making, which interacted with, challenged, and transformed each other.With its broad scope, this handbook will be of interest to students and scholars across multiple disciplines, including economic history, economics, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and political science.

Rais, Angeline, The Antiquarian Book-Trade in Switzerland: Sir Thomas Phillipps's Acquisitions in the 1820s and Their Later Dispersal. (Bibliologia 69) 450 pp. 2025:10 (Brepols, BE) <759-10>
ISBN 978-2-503-61620-9 hard ¥29,727.- (税込) EUR 115.00