Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
In the past few years, museums of contemporary art have come under a fair deal of scrutiny. Pressure
Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization (Cornell UP, 2022) is an
How Amazon combined branding and relationship marketing with massive distribution infrastructure to
In The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community (Harvard University Press,
2019 marked the five-hundred year anniversary of the launch of Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage around th
A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea (U Hawaii Press, 2019) is the first book in a
Jo Guldi tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Land is show
Dr. Paul Geary’s Experimental Dining: Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative
The entwined histories of Blacks and Indians defy easy explanation. From Ghanaian protests over Gand
In Underdevelopment and African Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Sarah Brouillette tac
Across the twentieth century, Earth's human population increased undeniably quickly, rising from 1.6
American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific. Incar
Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China's Yangzi Delta Silk Industry (Harvard UP, 2020) is
Has the internet really been the main culprit behind the upheaval of the contemporary media industri
Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern history as governments responded to the
Charly Coleman's latest book, The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlig
Rivers of the Sultan offers a history of the Ottoman Empire's management of the Tigris and Euphrates
There is no political power without control of the archive, if not of memory. Effective democratizat
We often neglect the Indian Ocean when we talk about our macro-level models of geopolitics, global e
In Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites are Right About Why You Hate Your Job (Verso, 2021), Gavin
