Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
The avocado is the iconic food of the twenty-first century. It has gone from a little-known regional
Ümit Kurt, born and raised in Gaziantep, Turkey, was astonished to learn that his hometown once had
Judith Shapiro and John-Andrew McNeish's book Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resist
Today I talked to Rosa Abreu-Runkel about her new book Vanilla: A Global History (Reaktion Books, 20
Mexico City's public markets were integral to the country's economic development, bolstering the exp
From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved featu
Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and its Discontents (Harvard University Press, 2017) by Hiromu
In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of
Presenting eclectic, irreverent marathons of experimental music in crumbling venues on the Lower Eas
Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a
Whether valorized as the heartland or derided as flyover country, the Midwest became instantly notor
In this ambitious book, Max Siollun provides an overview of Nigerian history from 1472 to the 1950s.
Kelefa Sanneh was born in England, and lived in Ghana and Scotland before moving with his parents to
Dr. Leonidas Mylonakis (PhD in History from the University of California, San Diego) is the author o
Laurence Coderre’s Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China (Duke UP, 2021) is an excit
A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a care
Robert Hellyer’s Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups (Columbia UP, 2021)
In Mexico environmental struggles have been fought since the nineteenth century in such places as Za
The story of the American newsroom is that of modern American journalism. In The American Newsroom:
The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world.
