New Books in Economic and Business History

Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books

Episodes

Total: 1232

Gayle Rogers, "Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI" (Columbia UP, 2021)
2021/7/26

In a world that purports to know more about the future than any before it, why do we still need spec

Malte Dold and Tim Krieger, "Ordoliberalism and European Economic Policy: Between Realpolitik and Economic Utopia" (Taylor & Francis, 2021)
2021/7/21

Once described as a “German oddity”†, Ordoliberalism was one of a number of new liberalisms that eme

Steven Klein, "The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
2021/7/20

The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State (Cambridge University Press 2020) advances a

Nadya Bair, "The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market" (U California Press, 2020)
2021/7/20

The legendary Magnum photo agency has long been associated with heroic lone wolf male photographers

Adam Crymble, "Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
2021/7/15

The digital age has touched and changed pretty much everything, even altering how historical researc

Ruth Ahnert et al., "The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
2021/7/14

We live in a networked world. Online social networking platforms and the World Wide Web have changed

Catharina Gabrielsson et al., "Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
2021/7/14

Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times.

Joe Allen, "The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS" (Haymarket Books, 2020)
2021/7/13

If the 20th Century was the American Century, it was also UPS's Century. Joe Allen's The Package Kin

Alan McDougall, "Contested Fields: A Global History of Modern Football" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
2021/7/12

Today we are joined by Alan McDougall, Professor of History at the University of Guelph, and the aut

Rod Phillips, "French Wine: A History" (U California Press, 2016)
2021/7/8

Today on New Books in History, Rod Phillips, Professor of History at Carleton University in Ottawa,

Papermaking Traditions, East and West: A Discussion with Timo Särkkä
2021/7/5

Our relationship to paper and paper products is changing every day. Fewer newspapers and magazines a

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