New Books in Economic and Business History

Stephen V. Bittner, "Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar" (Oxford UP, 2021)

2021/7/1

Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar (Oxford UP, 2021) tells the st

C. Patterson Giersch, "Corporate Conquests: Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China" (Stanford UP, 2020)

2021/6/30

Tenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions

J. Laite, "Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012)

2021/6/30

Between 1885 and 1960, laws and policies designed to repress prostitution dramatically shaped London

Peter E. Hamilton, "Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization" (Columbia UP, 2021)

2021/6/29

Between 1949 and 1997, Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a globa

Claire L. Jones, "The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain before the Sexual Revolution" (Manchester UP, 2020)

2021/6/29

How does understanding business help us understand sex? In The Business of Birth Control: Contracept

Sarah K. Mock, "Farm (and Other F Words): The Rise and Fall of the Small Family Farm" (New Degree Press, 2021)

2021/6/23

In Farm (and Other F Words): The Rise and Fall of the Small Family Farm (New Degree Press, 2021), Sa

Zachary Karabell, "Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power" (Penguin, 2021)

2021/6/22

In 1800 a Belfast linen merchant named Alexander Brown emigrated with his wife and eldest son to Bal

Shane Hamilton, "Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race" (Yale UP, 2018)

2021/6/22

This episode of the New Books in Economic and Business History is an interview with Dr. Shane Hamilt

Emma Rothschild, "An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries" (Princeton UP, 2021)

2021/6/15

Emma Rothschild’s new book, An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centurie

Fei-Hsien Wang, "Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China" (Princeton UP, 2019)

2021/6/7

Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China (Princeton University Press, 2

James M. Banner Jr., "The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History Is Revisionist History" (Yale UP, 2021)

2021/6/4

In recent years the phrase “revisionist history” has emerged as a label for politically-correct reex

Suzanne L. Marchand, "Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2020)

2021/6/4

Suzanne L. Marchand's new book Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe (Princeton University P

Nate Holdren, "Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

2021/6/3

Nate Holdren is the author of Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the P

Kristy Ironside, "A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union" (Harvard UP, 2021)

2021/6/2

In spite of Karl Marx's proclamation that money would become obsolete under Communism, the ruble rem

Joanne Meyerowitz, "A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit" (Princeton UP, 2021)

2021/5/27

A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit (Princeton U

Christine Walker, "Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire" (UNC Press, 2020)

2021/5/21

Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire (Omohundro Institu

Amanda Ciafone, "Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation" (U California Press, 2019)

2021/5/20

Today I talked to Amanda Ciafone's (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) about her book Counter

Joshua D. Rothman, "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America" (Basic Book, 2021)