1st Edition
The Routledge Economic History of War
Introduction: Why Study the Economic History of War?
Jari Eloranta, Jeremy Land, Elina Kuorelahti, and Price Fishback
PART 1 Fiscal, Military, and Monetary Capacity
1 War and Finance in the Early Modern Era: A Eurasian Overview
Luciano Pezzolo
2 Successes and Failures of Iberian Fiscal‑Military States in the Long Run, c. 1640–1820
Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez
3 Early Modern Trade and Naval Competition – England and Scandinavia from Westphalia to Vienna
Henric Häggqvist and Jeremy Land
4 Colonial Armies and the World Wars
Leigh Gardner and Tirthankar Roy
5 Financing America’s Wars: Theory, Practice, and Lessons
Hugh Rockoff
PART 2 Wars and Institutions
6 Mobilizing Resources for War by Economic Expansion: Contrasting Economic Visions
David Mitch
7 Marriage between Warfare and Religion? State Capacity and the Church in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe
Henri Aaltonen, Jari Eloranta, and Jyrki Knuutila
8 War Inflation and Taxation
Oriol Sabaté and Sara Torregrosa‑Hetland
9 League of Nations and Interwar Security Framework
Elina Kuorelahti, Madeleine Dungy, and Jari Eloranta
PART 3 Economic Warfare
10 Economic Warfare: Lessons from the Two World Wars
Mark Harrison
11 How the First World War Globalized Economic Warfare
Phillip Dehne
12 Dreams of Empire: War, Economics, and Imperialism in the Twentieth Century
Roger L. Ransom
13 The China Campaign Committee in Britain: Boycotts and the Effort to Help the Chinese Population, 1938–45
Mark J. Crowley
PART 4 Business and War
14 Commerce during Conflict: Business and War in Early Modern Europe
Siobhan Talbott
15 Contractors to Companies, Inventors to Industries: The Rise of Private Armaments Manufacturing, 1815–1914
Christopher W. Miller, Benjamin Turnbull, and Jari Ojala
16 Planning Mass Production of Merchant Ships in Japan during the Pacific War
Tetsuji Okazaki
17 Propaganda as Defense: The Origins and Development of the War Information Service
Erik Lakomaa
18 Debunking the Myth: War Does Not Necessarily Mean Business Success
Eric Golson
PART 5 Economic Effects of War
19 Economic Mobilization and Command Economies in Germany and Russia during the First World War
Pavel Osinsky
20 The Human Capital of American Service Personnel in and after War
Ahmed S. Rahman
21 Wars and the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities in the United States
Andreas Ferrara
22 Conflict and Inequality: A Survey and Empirical Applications to Finland
Jaakko Meriläinen, Matti Mitrunen, and Tuomo Virkola
23 The Economic Impact of World War II in America: Multipliers, Productivity, and Sacrifice While Producing Massive Amounts of Munitions
Price V. Fishback
Biography
Jari Eloranta is Professor of Economic History and currently a Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki.
Jeremy Land is a university researcher in economic history at the University of Helsinki and a visiting scholar at the University of Gothenburg.
Elina Kuorelahti is a business historian and a lecturer of Nordic and European studies at the University of Helsinki.
Price Fishback is Regents Professor and APS Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona.
