New Books in Economic and Business History

Greg Marchildon interviews Charlie Angus, the author of Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of

Edward Chancellor's just published history of interest rates could not be better timed. As the world

As a collective effort, The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealog

In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews the author of Corporate Cataclysm: Abitibi Power

Today power is in the hands of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. How do we understand this transformat

Given their cultural, intellectual, and scientific achievements, surely the Greeks were able to appr

In The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Unde

Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his "spiritual partner at Apple." The London-born genius was the second-m

In Knowledge and the Ends of Empire: Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917 

In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy

The War of the Pacific (1879–1883) looms large in the history of Peru and Chile. Upending the prevai

The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance (Harvard University P

In his acclaimed #1 bestseller Dark Towers, David Enrich presented the never-before-told saga of how

Capitalism in Chaos: How the Business Elites of Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War (Cornel

From the United Kingdom to Italy, from Brazil to the Gambia to the USA, Philip Lymbery, the internat

Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor (University of Mich

Shrimp is easily America’s favorite seafood, but its very popularity is the wellspring of problems t

Leah Cargin (Ph.D student, University of Oklahoma) speaks with Elizabeth Quay Hutchison (Professor,

Today I talked to Eric Posner about his book How Antitrust Failed Workers (Oxford UP, 2021).When ant

Before the craft beer revolution, Coors was a hot commodity. Impossible to find outside a few states