Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
In Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study (University Press of F
Augustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his la
Economics sometimes feels like a physics–so sturdy, so objective, and so immutable. Yet, behind ever
Sequels, reboots, franchises, and songs that remake old songs—does it feel like everything new in po
Critical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India: Tracing the Pre-history of Green and
A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers d
Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development (U Wisconsin Press, 20
What is the future of the film industry? In Mobile Hollywood Labor and the Geography of Production (
In the early 1980s, Walt Disney Productions was struggling, largely bolstered by the success of its
In Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860 (University of New M
"With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that 1949 was actually the beginning, not the end, of th
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more tha
When U.S. presidents clash with corporate titans, what tips the balance of power?In The Power and th
Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age (Routledge, 2024) investigat
Over 150 years ago, Marx published the first volume of Capital, a systematic and voluminous account
Economic history has always emphasized the importance of long-distance trade in the emergence of mod
This episode focuses on a cluster of issues of longstanding significance in Southeast Asia and in So
When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great
Underground Leviathan: Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas (U Nevada Press, 2024) explo
From the spring of 1942 until the summer of 1944, some 45,000 Jewish men were forced to accompany Hu
