Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought
In Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa (Cornell University P
More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive
Historically, the insurance industry in America has been fragmented. As a result, there have been de
Beginning in late 1940, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their fami
Swati Chattopadhyay's book Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire (Bloomsbury, 2023) rec
Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life (UCL Press, 2024) by Dr. Elena Borisova
The spice islands: Specks of land in the Indonesian archipelago that were the exclusive home of clov
Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate
Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical reco
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Kate McDonald, Associate Professor of History at Uni
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) offers a
From the inception of cinema to today’s franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing f
China’s modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities,
A new book reveals an incredible slice of Cuban-American history that’s been all but forgotten until
Over the past 300 years, The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades – to the point
Original and deeply researched, The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York: A Cultural, Economic, a
In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt
