New Books in Economic and Business History

Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books

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Power and Politics in World Athletics: A Critical History (Routledge, 2021) by Jörg Krieger provides

Enlightened Entrepreneurialism is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and

Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders (U Pittsburgh Press, 20

The Gulf region can no longer rely on the traditional growth drivers – oil, government spending, and

In the century following Elizabeth I's rise to the throne, English trade blossomed as thousands of m

Technology in World Civilization represents a milestone history of technology. First published in 19

In this podcast Diana Kelly, author of The Red Taylorist: The Life and Times of Walter Nicholas Pola

Place and Nature: Essays in Russian History (White Horse Press, 2021) is a collection of essays on e

Taking a wide focus, Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020 (LSU Press, 2

A ground-breaking volume examining the transnational conditions of the European Enlightenment, Craft

Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition (Oxford UP, 2021) is a unique retelling

Explore the dramatic history of the world’s most expensive spice in Saffron: A Global History (Reakt

The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the lat

Everybody eats. We may even consider ourselves experts on the topic, or at least Instagram experts.

In Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937 (Cambridge University Press

One Hundred Years of Solitude is a revered classic today fifty five years after it was first publish

In this installment of our Recall this Buck series (check out our earlier conversations with Thomas

In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers,

“The Europeans raise all the cattle, but the Chinese get all the milk.”This joke, told in colonial S

In Asphalt: A History (U Nebraska Press, 2021), Kenneth O’Reilly provides a history of this everyday