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    Topic: General Economic History

    Bordo, Michael, Claudia Goldin and Eugene White, (eds.), The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the 20th Century

    Brenner, Reuven, History: The Human Gamble

    Brenner, Reuven, Betting on Ideas: Wars, Inflation and Invention

    Chandler, Lester, America's Greatest Depression, 1929-1941

    Cipolla, Carlo, An Economic History of World Population

    Cipolla, Carlo, Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700

    Cipolla, Carlo, Guns, Sails and Empires: Technological Innovation and the Early Phases of European Expansion

    Costa, Dora, The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990

    Deane, Phyllis, The First Industrial Revolution

    Easterlin, Richard, Growth Triumphant: The 21st Century in Historical Perspective

    Engerman, Stanley, (ed.), Trade and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850 (Growth of the World Economy, 2)

    Engerman, Stanley and Robert Gallman, (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of the United States

    Engerman, Stanley, (ed.), The Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor (Making of Modern Freedom)

    Folsom, Burton, The Myth of the Robber Barons

    Fogel, Robert, Railroads and American Economic Growth

    Fogel, Robert and Stanley Engerman, Time On the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery

    Fogel, Robert, Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery

    Friedman, Milton & Anna Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States

    Goldin, Claudia, Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women

    Hartwell, R. M., The Industrial Revolution

    Hayek, F. A., (ed.), Capitalism and the Historians

    Heckscher, Eli, Mercantilism

    Higgs, Robert, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of Government

    Higgs, Robert, Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy, 1865-1914

    Higgs, Robert, The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865-1914

    Jones, Eric The European Miracle

    Landes, David, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are so Rich and Some are so Poor

    Landes, David, The Unbound Prometheus

    Libecap, Gary, and Claudia Goldin, (eds.), The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy

    Macfarlane, Alan, The Origins of English Individualism

    Mantoux, Paul, The Industrial Revolution in the 18th Century

    Martin, Albro, Enterprise Denied

    McCloskey, D. N., and Roderick Floud, (eds.), Economic History of Britain since 1700

    McCloskey, D. N., (ed.) Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of American Economic History

    McCusker, John and Russell Menard, The Economy of British America, 1607-1789

    Mokyr, Joel, (eds.), The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective

    Mokyr, Joel, Why Ireland Starved: A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy

    Mokyr, Joel, The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress

    North, Douglass, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

    North, Douglass, Structure and Change in Economic History

    North, Douglass, Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860

    North, Douglass and Robert Paul Thomas, The Rise of the Western World

    North, Douglass, Terry Anderson and Peter Hill, Growth and Welfare in the American Past: A New Economic History

    Rosenberg, Nathan, Perspectives on Technology

    Rosenberg, Nathan, Inside the Black Box

    Rosenberg, Nathan and Leon Birdzell, How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World

    Simon, Julian, Richard Easterlin and Timur Kuran, The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause: What Governed the Speed of Human Progress Through the Ages

    Solow, Barbara and Stanley Engerman, (eds.), British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams

    Vedder, Richard and Lowell Gallaway, Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in the Twentieth Century

    Weber, Max, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

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