| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.3

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

David Hackett Fischer. The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. Pp. xvi, 536. $30.00.

Over the past fifteen years, David Hackett Fischer has written or edited substantial books on varied aspects of North American history: on the history of Concord, Massachusetts, between 1750 and 1850; on the regional cultures transplanted from England to its North American colonies; on the expansion of the Virginia frontier in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and on Paul Revere's ride in the American Revolution. Now he has extended his scholarly net wider to write an unusual account of price revolutions and their impact on world history from the twelfth century to the present. Around half of the book is taken up with a text devoted to this theme, accompanied by many tables, graphs, and splendid maps; besides endnotes, the rest of the book includes extensive appendixes and a discursive bibliographical essay detailing the primary and secondary sources on prices used. As usual with Fischer, bold themes are addressed, complex arguments developed, and connections made between disparate data that other scholars would not be inclined to explore. . . .

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