Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
In Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System (Cambridge Univ
In 1897, the United States was mired in the worst economic depression that the country had yet endur
Before the Transatlantic slave trade ravaged the western coast of Africa, immense numbers of persons
"A good knowledge of what happened in 1929 remains our best safeguard against the recurrence of the
For years, American Jewish philanthropy has been celebrated as the proudest product of Jewish endeav
In Black Market Capital Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City (University of Californ
The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organisation in the World 1880s-1930s (Emerald, 2021
How do we understand our contemporary politics of race in historical, economical, and political cont
Are we in the midst of a financial bubble? Do the current valuations of the electronic vehicle stock
The middle decades of the 19th century witnessed the expansion of slavery and white settlement and d
Modern markets and exchange, compared with other social and political spheres, are seen through tech
In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile
Professor Andrew Grant Wood’s new edited volume, The Business of Leisure: Tourism History in Latin A
Emma Griffin's Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy (Yale UP, 2020) offers a r
Capitalisms: Towards a Global History (Oxford University Press, 2020), edited by Kaveh Yazdani and D
Historians often portray the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) as a conservative force in
Ravi Palat’s The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650: Princes, Paddy fields, and Baza
What is money? No, really, what is money? It turns out the answer is not so simple.During the course
In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman's Behemoth:
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (Liveright, 2020) by Marcia Chatelain is a fascinating
