New Books in Economic and Business History

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

Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey (University of California Press, 2022) i

Today I talked to Carl Rhodes about his book Woke Capitalism: How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging D

Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age (Southern Illinois UP, 2