Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
Christopher Craig’s Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Meiji Japan
In the voluminous literature on the history of modernisation theory and its associated concept of de
In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt
This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities
Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining much of their land in the Old Northw
How foreign lending weakens emerging nations In the nineteenth century, many developing countries tu
While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeoisie, the e
Why are we working harder? In The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploita
Maeve Ryan’s new book Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System (Yale UP, 202
In Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1
In Empire and Enterprise: Money, Power and the Adventurers for Irish Land During the British Civil W
Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work (U Illinois Press, 2021) traces the discour
The era of modern warfare introduced in World War II presented the Allied Powers with one of the mor
Where are the women in the history of British cinema? In Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British C
Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom: Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History (Cambridge UP, 2022)
The story of DDT as you’ve never heard it before: a fresh look at the much-maligned chemical compoun
No city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn a tap a
They worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's cotton pl
Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2
As COVID-19 disrupted maritime trade with China, the world was again reminded of the importance of s
