New Books in Economic and Business History

Barrels – we rarely acknowledge their importance, but without them we would be missing out on some o

Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes readers deep inside

In Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space (I. B. Tauris, 2018), Cynth

Aleksander Pluskowski of the University of Reading joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, The 

No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a sli

We've heard and rehearsed the conventional wisdom about oil: that the U.S. military presence in the

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Cyrus Mody, Professor in the History of Science, Tec

This is part #3 of a the (ir)Rational Alaskans, a Cited Podcast mini-series that re-examines the leg

Since the mid-nineteenth century, public officials, reformers, journalists, and other elites have re

In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York Stat

In The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670-1825 (U

An in-depth examination of the regulatory, entrepreneurial, and organizational factors contributing

The problems that gave rise to the widespread desire to introduce a common currency were myriad. Whi

The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law Unlike ind

The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization (University of Toronto Pres

From Schmelt Camp to "Little Auschwitz" Blechhammer's Role in the Holocaust (Purdue UP, 2024) is the

Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative capital of Portuguese Angola, was

What is money? Why are trillions of dollars, euros, pounds, and yen being printed, but not spent, an

After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through n

In the 1970s, the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migrati