Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
In this episode, I talk to Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. H
Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched
Daniel Susskind examines the brief and powerful history of economic growth and puts it into perspect
Childhood as lived during the French Third Republic was very different from childhood during the mod
What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake
Building a Nation at War: Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Develop
Simon Heffer's book Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars (Penguin, 2024) is an astonishingly ambi
Tribe-Class Linkages: The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura (Routledge, 2023)
A political history of the rise and fall of American debt relief. Americans have a long history with
A probing examination of the dynamic history of predictive methods and values in science and enginee
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Trish Kahle, Assistant Professor of History at Georg
Sino-Italian Political and Economic Relations: From the Treaty of Friendship to the Second World War
Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
From the 1960s through the 1990s, the most common job for women in the United States was clerical wo
In The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market. Energy and the Ascent of Finance in C
Linked by declarations of emancipation within the same five-year period, two countries shared human
Scholars working in archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story ab
Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 (
Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chi
How do unequal societies function? In Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net (Po
