Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed that rainfall was dwin
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Benjamin Shestakofsky about his book, Behind the Sta
Shortly after the ratification of the US Constitution in 1789, twenty-two-year-old Andrew Jackson pl
Today I’m speaking with Jeffrey Pilcher, Professor of Food History at the University of Toronto. We
How does the music industry actually work? In Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking
Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English
In the decades before the First World War, the owners of the nation’s stately homes revelled in a go
The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice (Wiley
Casting an eye toward the frantic vertical urbanization of Toronto, Condoland: The Planning, Design,
How Government Built America (Cambridge UP, 2024) challenges growing, anti-government rhetoric by hi
Love and the Working Class: The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans (Oxford University Pres
Was migration to Germany a blessing or a curse? The main argument of this book is that the Greek sta
Ryan Moran’s Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life I
In Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests (Yale UP, 2024), environmental historian Brian Don
Dangerous Anarchist Strikers (Brill, 2023) explores the ideas of three largely forgotten radical wom
In recent decades, the disciplines of retail history, business history, design and cultural history
When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in
At the beginning of the twentieth century, two British inventors, Arthur Pollen and Harold Isherwood
In Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness (University of North C
Welcome to What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of R
