Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
During the independence era in Mexico, individuals and factions of all stripes embraced the printing
In the late nineteenth century, as much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard, Chin
In this episode for the Economic and Business History channel, I interviewed Dr. Susan V. Spellman,
Today we are joined by Philippe Vonnard, Senior SNSF Researcher at the University de Lausanne, and t
Ranching in the West meant more than cowboys and cattle drives, writes Dr. Iker Saitua, and assistan
When we think about modern trade, we tend to think about the sea: port cities and large ships carryi
On this episode of the Economic and Business History channel, I spoke with Dr. Victoria Basualdo and
“Big house, little house, back house, barn”―this rhythmic cadence was sung by nineteenth-century chi
Statistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escape
Stanley Mirvis' The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Tran
The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship wit
We think we know the history of China’s opening to the outside world. Maoist China was closed off, u
Retired from life after 38 years in several roles at IBM, the prolific academic production of James
Oil palms are ubiquitous—grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edi
The modern way of eating—our taste for food that is processed, packaged, and advertised—has its root
Margarita Balmaceda’s Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine
Today I talked to David Potter about his new book Disruption: Why Things Change (Oxford UP, 2021).Di
Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era (Nebraska, 2020)
Fields of Revolution: Agrarian Reform and Rural State Formation in Bolivia, 1935-1964, published in
For over a century Mexico has been embroiled in a drug war dictated by the demands of their neighbor
