Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
Luci Marzola's book Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building Stud
Potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity
When Google announced that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowledge accessible to
An English mission to Japan arrives in 1613 with all the standard English commodities, including woo
In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955 (Cornell University Press, 2021), Ying Jia Tan
Britain and France waged war eight times in the century following the Glorious Revolution, a mutual
Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography (Routledge, 2021) introduces students t
Actuarial thinking is everywhere in contemporary America, an often unnoticed byproduct of the postwa
The early modern Mediterranean was an area where many different rich cultural traditions came in con
"El Chapo. The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord" (Atria Books, 2021) is a stunnin
Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949 (Cornell UP, 2021) explores
From Double Indemnity to The Godfather, the stories behind some of the greatest films ever made pale
How can ideas from sociology help us understand history and economics? In Trade and Nation: How Comp
Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb is the author of Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and
Today I talk to Jared Davidson, the author of The History of a Riot: Class, Popular Protest and Viol
Gene Slater's book Free to Discriminate: How the Nation's Realtors Created Housing Segregation and t
Among Eastern Europe’s postwar socialist states, Yugoslavia was unique in allowing its citizens to s
In Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India (Cambridge UP, 2021),
Fair trade certified coffee is now commonly found on the supermarket shelves of the Global North, bu
Pushing back against the traditional narratives assuming that the American colonies served as resour
