Routledge Economic History of War

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.

• Introduction: Why Study the Economic History of War? PART 1 Fiscal, Military, and Monetary Capacity 1. War and Finance in the Early Modern Era: A Eurasian Overview 2. Successes and Failures of Iberian Fiscal‑Military States in the Long Run, c. 1640–1820 3. Early Modern Trade and Naval Competition – England and Scandinavia from Westphalia to Vienna 4. Colonial Armies and the World Wars 5. Financing America’s Wars: Theory, Practice, and Lessons PART 2 Wars and Institutions 6. Mobilizing Resources for War by Economic Expansion: Contrasting Economic Visions 7. Marriage between Warfare and Religion? State Capacity and the Church in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe 8. War Inflation and Taxation 9. League of Nations and Interwar Security Framework PART 3 Economic Warfare 10. Economic Warfare: Lessons from the Two World Wars 11. How the First World War Globalized Economic Warfare 12. Dreams of Empire: War, Economics, and Imperialism in the Twentieth Century 13. The China Campaign Committee in Britain: Boycotts and the Effort to Help the Chinese Population, 1938–45 PART 4 Business and War 14. Commerce during Conflict: Business and War in Early Modern Europe 15. Contractors to Companies, Inventors to Industries: The Rise of Private Armaments Manufacturing, 1815–1914 16. Planning Mass Production of Merchant Ships in Japan during the Pacific War 17. Propaganda as Defense: The Origins and Development of the War Information Service 18. Debunking the Myth: War Does Not Necessarily Mean Business Success PART 5 Economic Effects of War 19. Economic Mobilization and Command Economies in Germany and Russia during the First World War 20. The Human Capital of American Service Personnel in and after War 21. Wars and the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities in the United States 22. Conflict and Inequality: A Survey and Empirical Applications to Finland 23. The Economic Impact of World War II in America: Multipliers, Productivity, and Sacrifice While Producing Massive Amounts of Munitions

"The Routledge Economic History of War offers a timely contribution both to scholars of the specific field and to those interested in historical, societal change more broadly. The volume draws together research on war and its many dimensions. Together, these contributions provide a broad foundation for understanding how war and economic development have shaped one another...To sum up, the volume has considerable temporal and geographical scope, as well as breadth in terms of the authors’ respective perspectives and methodological approaches. It is well organised, and each part connects to the larger questions raised above."Peter Hedberg, Scandinavian Economic History Review