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The resurgence of neo-Schumpeterian theories and models of technological innovation and development1 is an enduring sign of the historical significance of Joseph A. Schumpeters theoretical works on the dynamics of economic change as a result of long-term technological change.

Any economic theory of value is divided into two parts: the notion of value, and its determination. Since the latter normally depends on the former, our investigation will be directed principally to the notion of economic value in the period preceding Marx's Critique of Political Economy and Capital. Before the Classical labour theory of value, we have no complete system of economic value. Naturally, the notion of value existed from very early times, for common-sense always expressed an estimate of the utility of goods both as satisfying personal needs and for purposes of exchange. As history evolved and as exchange increased, however, economic value began to acquire a growing importance. ; N/A

Intermingling architectural, cultural, and religious history, Louis Nelson reads Anglican architecture and decorative arts as documents of eighteenth-century religious practice and belief. In The Beauty of Holiness, he tells the story of the Church of England in colonial South Carolina, revealing how the colony's Anglicans negotiated the tensions between the persistence of seventeenth-century religious practice and the rising tide of Enlightenment thought and sentimentality. Nelson begins with a careful examination of the buildings, grave markers, and communion silver fashioned and used by ea

'Urban historians', we are told, are 'obliged to be more eclectic' than other scholars of the city. The volumes covered by this review certainly speak to the rich diversity of urban history making.* While the others can take a 'well-defined disciplinary perspective' – as sociologists, geographers, etc. – only we are expected to 'study the interaction of the urban fabric on the social fabric' in its 'unique spatial setting' across social, economic and political boundaries (and of course through time). This is a rhetoric – an ideal, perhaps – with which most of us, doubtless, are already familiar. But how does it translate into practice? In our everyday imperfect world of time constraints a nominal commitment to eclecticism can instead spawn specialization, and thus a lack of cross-disciplinary 'cohesion', so that the 'umbrella' of diversity instead becomes an agency for introversion. To be truly eclectic, therefore, presumably urban historians need to be not only better read (and/or brighter) than other academic colleagues, but also better resourced! Yet before we all rush to our respective departmental heads to make a claim, we need to ask, too, whether this declaration of eclecticism is little more than yet another 'idealized' story that we tell about ourselves: part of our identity, of how we would like to be seen, an affirmation of our self-view. Is it as 'imagined', for example, as other forms of identity – a construct to serve a purpose? Is it there to make us feel special, valued and privileged?

During the First World War, the belligerent powers attempted to recruit the neutral States to support their cause. Their citizens abroad and propaganda were a crucial part of their strategy. This article examines a German propaganda initiative addressed to Latin America through a case study focused on Argentina: the daily newspaper La Unión. This publication – developed by the local German community with the support of its government – sought to neutralize the allegiance to the Allied cause that prevailed in public opinion due to demographic, economic, cultural, and informational factors. This article reconstructs the obstacles faced by La Unión, as well as its objectives and strategies, and offers an assessment of its achievements.

This article considers the Second World War's socio-economic impact on the colonized populations of French North Africa's three adjoining territories: Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. It suggests that the war's significance for the long-term political future of French colonial rule was markedly different from that typically ascribed to it both by contemporary French and Allied observers and by subsequent historians of the conflict. This argument will be developed by contrasting the signpost events usually assigned to north-west Africa in strategic histories of the Second World War with the internal episodes, socio-political trends, and local changes in the fabric of colonial rule that, arguably, held greater importance for the region's people.