Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
Priya Lakhani is an entrepreneurial adrenaline junkie. She has founded two successful companies, won
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In Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism (Harvard University Press, 2021), Pro
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La Paz's Colonial Specters: Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900-52
Today I talked to Kevin McGruder about his new book Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem (Colum
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In a world that purports to know more about the future than any before it, why do we still need spec
Once described as a “German oddity”†, Ordoliberalism was one of a number of new liberalisms that eme
The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State (Cambridge University Press 2020) advances a
The legendary Magnum photo agency has long been associated with heroic lone wolf male photographers
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Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times.
If the 20th Century was the American Century, it was also UPS's Century. Joe Allen's The Package Kin
Today we are joined by Alan McDougall, Professor of History at the University of Guelph, and the aut
Today on New Books in History, Rod Phillips, Professor of History at Carleton University in Ottawa,
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