Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
In The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670-1825 (U
An in-depth examination of the regulatory, entrepreneurial, and organizational factors contributing
The problems that gave rise to the widespread desire to introduce a common currency were myriad. Whi
The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law Unlike ind
The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization (University of Toronto Pres
From Schmelt Camp to "Little Auschwitz" Blechhammer's Role in the Holocaust (Purdue UP, 2024) is the
Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative capital of Portuguese Angola, was
What is money? Why are trillions of dollars, euros, pounds, and yen being printed, but not spent, an
After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through n
In the 1970s, the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migrati
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Benjamin Waterhouse, full-as-full-can- be Professor
In his new book The Stalinist Era(Cambridge University Press, 2018), David L. Hoffmann focuses on th
For the first half of the twentieth century, no American industry boasted a more motley and prolific
Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design (Cambridge University Press, 2024
More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive
What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic (ILR Press, 2024) goes beyond the stereotypes and cap
Is a green future possible? In Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformatio
Baseball’s introduction to the Philippines. The slot machine trade between Manila and Shanghai. A mu
How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022 (Oxford University Press, 2023) provides a m
