Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
In Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy: India 1947 and Beyond (University of Chicago Press, 202
In A New History of Modern Computing (MIT Press, 2021), Thomas Haigh and Paul Ceruzzi trace changes
Although the dividing line between private life and public responsibilities can never be definite an
In this podcast Owen Bennett-Jones discusses the future of rational decision making with Professor O
The Handbook of Historical Economics (Academic Press, 2021) guides students and researchers through
In mid-twentieth-century America, women faced a paradox. Thanks to their efforts, World War II produ
As the US contends with issues of populism and de-democratization, this timely study considers the i
In A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History (University of No
Early American literature scholar Elisabeth Ceppi’s thought-provoking new book, Invisible Masters: G
In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent Asian and African countries and esta
Nothing has had a more profound impact on the lives of humans than economic growth. Thus, understand
In The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century Chi
In her book Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century (Oxford UP, 2022), Cambridge academic Helen Tho
Private corporations are rarely discussed as playing a role in efforts to curb civil violence, even
Africa is often portrayed in terms of dictators, starvation, corruption, tribalism, war, disease, po
For this episode, I met historian and writer Dr. Lydia Pyne. She is author of Postcards: The Rise an
From princes to peasants, musicians to masons, cement plant owners to casual labourers—the State Ban
Can subalterns speak? Now an iconic question from a prominent postcolonial studies scholar Gayatri S
Drawing on decades of experience covering the global economy, New York Times' journalist Peter S. Go
In Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile (University of Califor
