Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
From trade to technology to military might, competition between the United States and China dominate
In When Art Isn’t Real: The World's Most Controversial Objects under Investigation (Leuven Universit
In this episode, I talk to Chris Gratien, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virgin
Jessamyn Abel’s Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World’s First Bullet Train (Stanford
In their darkest hours over the course of the twentieth century, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, Georg
Colonial Myanmar was teeming with animals, both wild and domesticated. Yet few histories have devote
In Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success (PublicAffairs, 2022), Ran Abramitzk
The title of the book that we are introducing today is Building a Housewife's Paradise Gender, Polit
Pierre Penet and Juan Flores Zendejas' book Sovereign Debt Diplomacies: Rethinking Sovereign Debt fr
The toxicity of pesticides to the environment and humans is often framed as an unfortunate effect of
Textiles were the second-most-traded commodity in world history, preceded only by grain. In the Otto
When Charles II ascended the English throne in 1660 after two decades of civil war, he was confronte
The word neoliberalism is often used more as an insult than a description of a set of beliefs. And p
Grain traders wandering across the steppe; the Russian conquest of Ukraine (in the 18th century, tha
Immigration is one of the most fraught, and possibly most misunderstood, topics in American social d
Why has "car society" proven so durable, even in the face of mounting environmental and economic cri
It's easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of
Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform (MIT Press, 2022) is the first book-length analysis
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Why failure is part of the hidden c
When and why does international order change? The largest peaceful transfer of wealth across borders
