New Books in Economic and Business History
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Susie S. Porter, "From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890-1950" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode I spoke to Dr. Susie Porter, Professor in History and in Gender Studies at the University of Utah. She is the author Working Women in...
Diane Coyle, "Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be" (Princeton UP, 2021)
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be (Princeton UP, 2021), Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems—but also opportuni...
Zachary Austin Doleshal, "In the Kingdom of Shoes: Bata, Zlín, Globalization, 1894-1945" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the world's largest sellers of footwear, the Bata Company of Zlín, Moravia has a remarkable history that touches on crucial aspects of what ma...
Elizabeth Anderson, "Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) (Princeton UP, 2019)
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for...
Peter Cappelli, "The Future of the Office: Work from Home, Remote Work, and the Hard Choices We All Face" (Wharton School Press, 2021)
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I spoke to Professor Peter Cappelli about his new book The Future of the Office: Work from Home, Remote Work, and the Hard Choices We...
Frank Andre Guridy, "The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics" (U Texas Press, 2021)
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When I was a teenager, I spent entirely too much time at the Pontiac Silverdome watching the Detroit Pistons play basketball. In all the games I watc...
Lina Zeldovich, "The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The average person produces about four hundred pounds of excrement a year. More than seven billion people live on this planet. Holy crap! Because of t...
Keith Wailoo, "Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Police put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold for selling cigarettes on a New York City street corner. George Floyd was killed by police outside a store...
Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, "The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Despite efforts to abolish slavery throughout Africa in the nineteenth century, the coercive labor systems that constitute "modern slavery" have conti...
Mircea Raianu, "Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism" (Harvard UP, 2021)
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly a century old, the grand façade of Bombay House is hard to miss in the historic business district of Mumbai. This is the iconic global headqua...
Benjamin Holtzman, "The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism" (Oxford UP, 2021)
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1960s and 1970s, New York City was beset by a host of fiscal and social crises wrought by white flight, federal and state disinvestment, and a ...
Juan Manuel del Nido, "Taxis Vs. Uber: Courts, Markets and Technology in Buenos Aires" (Stanford UP, 2021)
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Uber's April 2016 launch in Buenos Aires plunged the Argentine capital into a frenzied hysteria that engulfed courts of law, taxi drivers, bureaucrats...
Colin Jerolmack, "Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town" (Princeton UP, 2021)
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Up to Heaven and Down to Hell (Princeton UP, 2021) is a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking account of what happens when one of the most momentous deci...
Traci Brynne Voyles, "The Settler Sea: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Salton Sea is a kaleidoscope. To some people, it's a waste land, a place of death only suitable for a dumping ground. For others, it's a clarion c...
Bradley Schurman, "The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny" (Harper Business, 2022)
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Societies all over the world are getting older, the result of the fact that we are living longer and having fewer children. At some point in the near ...
Ethnography of "Development": Tania Li on Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What can years of ethnographic engagement with rural Indonesia teach us about capitalism, development, and resistance? On this episode of Ethnographic...
Brendan Borrell, "The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine" (Mariner Books, 2021)
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Heroic science. Chaotic politics. Billionaire entrepreneurs. Award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings the defining story of our times alive thr...
Kyle J. Anderson, "The Egyptian Labor Corps: Race, Space, and Place in the First World War" (U Texas Press, 2021)
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
During World War I, the British Empire enlisted half a million young men, predominantly from the countryside of Egypt, in the Egyptian Labor Corps (EL...
Peter A. Swenson, "Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine" (Yale UP, 2021)
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tracing the dramatic conflicts both inside organized medicine and between the medical profession and the larger society over quality, equality, and ec...
Alexander Etkind, "Nature′s Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources" (Polity Press, 2021)
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Nature′s Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources (Polity Press, 2021), Alexander Etkind views the history of humankind through the prism...
Matthew P. Romaniello, et al., "The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600-Present" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This collection of articles, edited by Matthew Romaniello, Alison Smith, Tricia Starks, takes up the history of material culture over the past se...
Isaac A. Kamola, "Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary" (Duke UP, 2019)
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Following World War II the American government and philanthropic foundations fundamentally remade American universities into sites for producing knowl...
Shelly Chan, "Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration" (Duke UP, 2018)
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration (Duke University Press, 2018) by Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of ...
John C. Putman, "Boosting a New West: Pacific Coast Expositions, 1905-1916" (Washington State UP, 2020)
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by Chicago’s successful 1893 World Columbian Exposition, the cities of Portland, Seattle, San Diego, and San Francisco all held fairs betwe...
Yeling Tan, "Disaggregating China, Inc.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order" (Cornell UP, 2021)
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Once you understand that markets require public institutions of governance and regulation in order to function well, and further, you accept that nati...
Sam de Muijnck and Joris Tieleman, "Economy Studies: A Guide to Rethinking Economics Education" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the global financial crisis of 2008, t...
Carlo D'Ippoliti, "Democratizing the Economics Debate: Pluralism and Research Evaluation" (Routledge, 2020)
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I spoke with Dr. Carlo D’Ippoliti, Professor of Economics at the Department of statistical sciences, Sapienza University of Rome. We talked about ...
Timothy M. Yang, "A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan" (Cornell UP, 2021)
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Timothy Yang’s A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan (Cornell 2021) is a case study of Hoshi Pharmaceutical, a Japanese...
Thom Hartmann, "The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich" (Berrett-Koehler, 2021)
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Thom Hartmann about his new book The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely R...
John Lapidus, "The Quest for a Divided Welfare State: Sweden in the Era of Privatization" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Generous welfare states are losing their key characteristics, not least in Sweden, where privatisation of funding has proceeded privatisation of provi...
70 Recall This Buck 5: "Studying Up" with Daniel Souleles (EF, JP)
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John and Elizabeth continue their conversation with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist at the Copenhagen Business School and author of Songs of Profit,...
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, "Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn's book Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America (Oxford UP, 2021) examines how housing mar...
Margaret Jacobs, “Enlightened Entrepreneurialism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Enlightened Entrepreneurialism is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Margaret Jacob, Distinguished Professor of Histo...
Jörg Krieger, "Power and Politics in World Athletics: A Critical History" (Routledge, 2021)
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Power and Politics in World Athletics: A Critical History (Routledge, 2021) by Jörg Krieger provides the first detailed history of one of the most p...
Andrew Demshuk, "Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021) compares how three prewar German cities shar...
Jarmo T. Kotilaine, "Trials of Resilience: How Covid-19 Is Driving Economic Change in the Arab Gulf" (Gilgamesh, 2021)
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Gulf region can no longer rely on the traditional growth drivers – oil, government spending, and large infrastructure projects. The anticipated...
Edmond Smith, "Merchants: The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650" (Yale UP, 2021)
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the century following Elizabeth I's rise to the throne, English trade blossomed as thousands of merchants launched ventures across the globe. Throu...
Arnold Pacey and Francesca Bray, "Technology in World Civilization" (MIT Press, 2021)
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Technology in World Civilization represents a milestone history of technology. First published in 1990 and now revised and expanded in light of rece...
Diana Kelly, "The Red Taylorist: The Life and Times of Walter Nicholas Polakov" (Emerald, 2020)
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Diana Kelly, author of The Red Taylorist: The Life and Times of Walter Nicholas Polakov (Emerald, 2020), tells us of the advantage...
Edward J. Ayers, "Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020" (LSU Press, 2020)
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taking a wide focus, Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020 (LSU Press, 2020) narrates the evolution of southern history ...
David Moon et al., "Place and Nature: Essays in Russian History" (White Horse Press, 2021)
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Place and Nature: Essays in Russian History (White Horse Press, 2021) is a collection of essays on environmental history spanning primarily the 19th ...
Jennifer Ferng and Lauren R. Cannady, "Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks" (Voltaire Foundation, 2021)
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A ground-breaking volume examining the transnational conditions of the European Enlightenment, Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transn...
Ramin Ganeshram, "Saffron: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Explore the dramatic history of the world’s most expensive spice in Saffron: A Global History (Reaktion Books, 2020). Literally worth their weigh...
Mark Lawrence Schrad, "Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition" (Oxford UP, 2021)
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition (Oxford UP, 2021) is a unique retelling of the history of temperance and prohibition. Ra...
Fabio Parasecoli, "Food" (MIT, 2019)
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody eats. We may even consider ourselves experts on the topic, or at least Instagram experts. But are we aware that the shrimp in our freezer ma...
David Herzberg, "White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretching bac...
Álvaro Santana-Acuña, "Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic" (Columbia UP, 2020)
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a revered classic today fifty five years after it was first published in 1967. Today I talked to Alvaro Santana Acuñ...
69 Recall this Buck 4: Daniel Souleles on Private Equity (JP, EF)
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this installment of our Recall this Buck series (check out our earlier conversations with Thomas Piketty, Peter Brown and Christine Desan), Joh...
Peter Cole, "Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly" (PM Press, 2021)
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly w...
Melissa Macauley, "Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier" (Princeton UP, 2021)
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The Europeans raise all the cattle, but the Chinese get all the milk.” This joke, told in colonial Singapore, was indicative of the importance of...
Kenneth O'Reilly, "Asphalt: A History" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Asphalt: A History (U Nebraska Press, 2021), Kenneth O’Reilly provides a history of this everyday substance. By tracing the history of asphalt—...
Tanya L. Roth, "Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military, 1945–1980" (UNC Press, 2021)
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tanya L. Roth's Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military, 1945–1980 (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) explains that while Rosie the Rivet...
Jeff Miller, "Avocado: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The avocado is the iconic food of the twenty-first century. It has gone from a little-known regional food to a social media darling in less than a hun...
Ümit Kurt, "The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province" (Harvard UP, 2021)
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ümit Kurt, born and raised in Gaziantep, Turkey, was astonished to learn that his hometown once had a large and active Armenian community. The Armeni...
J. Shapiro and J-A. McNeish, "Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance" (Routledge, 2021)
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Judith Shapiro and John-Andrew McNeish's book Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance (Routledge, 2021) emphasizes how the spect...
Rosa Abreu-Runkel, "Vanilla: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Rosa Abreu-Runkel about her new book Vanilla: A Global History (Reaktion Books, 2020). Intoxicating and evocative, vanilla is so...
Ingrid Bleynat, "Vendors' Capitalism: A Political Economy of Public Markets in Mexico City" (Stanford UP, 2021)
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mexico City's public markets were integral to the country's economic development, bolstering the expansion of capitalism from the mid-nineteenth to mi...
Jen Corrinne Brown, "Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West" (U Washington Press, 2017)
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But as...
Hiromu Nagahara, "Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and Its Discontents" (Harvard UP, 2017)
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and its Discontents (Harvard University Press, 2017) by Hiromu Nagahara is the first English-language history o...
Gregg Mitman, "Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia" (New Press, 2021)
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of t...
William Robin, "Industry: Bang on a Can and New Music in the Marketplace" (Oxford UP, 2021)
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Presenting eclectic, irreverent marathons of experimental music in crumbling venues on the Lower East Side, Bang on a Can sold out concerts for a ge...
Joan Marie Johnson, "Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870-1967" (UNC Press, 2020)
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late ninet...
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, "Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland" (UNC Press, 2021)
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whether valorized as the heartland or derided as flyover country, the Midwest became instantly notorious when COVID-19 infections skyrocketed among wo...
Max Siollun, "What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule" (Hurst, 2021)
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this ambitious book, Max Siollun provides an overview of Nigerian history from 1472 to the 1950s. As such, What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short Hi...
Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres" (Penguin, 2021)
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kelefa Sanneh was born in England, and lived in Ghana and Scotland before moving with his parents to the United States in the early 1980s. He was a po...
Leonidas Mylonakis, "Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean: Maritime Marauders in the Greek and Ottoman Aegean" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Leonidas Mylonakis (PhD in History from the University of California, San Diego) is the author of Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean: Maritime M...
Laurence Coderre, "Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China" (Duke UP, 2021)
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Laurence Coderre’s Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China (Duke UP, 2021) is an exciting book that considers Chinese socialist cul...
Claudia Goldin, "Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity" (Princeton UP, 2021)
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female coll...
Robert Hellyer, "Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups" (Columbia UP, 2021)
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Hellyer’s Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups (Columbia UP, 2021) is a tale of American and Japanese teaways, s...
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, "Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature o...
Rocio Gomez, "Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835-1946" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Mexico environmental struggles have been fought since the nineteenth century in such places as Zacatecas, where United States and European mining i...
Will Mari, "The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960" (U Missouri Press, 2021)
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The story of the American newsroom is that of modern American journalism. In The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960 (University of Missouri Pre...
Luci Marzola, "Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System" (Oxford UP, 2021)
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Luci Marzola's book Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building Studio System (Oxford University Press, 2021) tells...
Rebecca Earle, "Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Rebecca Earle, Feeding the People: T...
Deanna Marcum and Roger C. Schonfeld, "Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization" (Princeton UP, 2021)
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Google announced that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowledge accessible to all, questions were raised about the roles and res...
Timon Screech, "The Shogun's Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-1625" (Oxford UP, 2020)
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An English mission to Japan arrives in 1613 with all the standard English commodities, including wool and cloth: which the English hope to trade for J...
Ying Jia Tan, "Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882-1955" (Cornell UP, 2021)
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955 (Cornell University Press, 2021), Ying Jia Tan explores the fascinating politics of Chinese ...
John Shovlin, "Trading with the Enemy: Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order" (Yale UP, 2021)
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Britain and France waged war eight times in the century following the Glorious Revolution, a mutual antagonism long regarded as a "Second Hundred Year...
Marnie Hughes-Warrington and Anne Martin, "Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography" (Routledge, 2021)
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography (Routledge, 2021) introduces students to ethics in historiography through an exploration...
Caley Horan, "Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Actuarial thinking is everywhere in contemporary America, an often unnoticed byproduct of the postwar insurance industry’s political and economic in...
Angeliki Lymberopoulou, "Cross-cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204-1669" (Routledge, 2020)
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The early modern Mediterranean was an area where many different rich cultural traditions came in contact with each other, and were often forced to co-...
Bernard F. Dick, "Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood" (U Kentucky Press, 2021)
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From Double Indemnity to The Godfather, the stories behind some of the greatest films ever made pale beside the story of the studio that made them. In...
Tom G. Hoogervorst, "Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949" (Cornell UP, 2021)
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949 (Cornell UP, 2021) explores a fascinating archive of Sino-Malay texts – ...
Noah Hurowitz, "El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord" (Atria Books, 2021)
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"El Chapo. The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord" (Atria Books, 2021) is a stunning investigation of the life and legend of Mexican ...
Emily Erikson, "Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought" (Columbia UP, 2021)
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can ideas from sociology help us understand history and economics? In Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought (Co...
Gene Slater, "Free to Discriminate: How the Nation's Realtors Created Housing Segregation and the Conservative Vision of American Freedom" (Hayday Books, 2021)
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gene Slater's book Free to Discriminate: How the Nation's Realtors Created Housing Segregation and the Conservative Vision of American Freedom (Hayd...
Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb, "Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy" (Lexington, 2021)
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb is the author of Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plant...
Jared Davidson, "The History of a Riot: Class, Popular Protest and Violence in Early Colonial Nelson" (Bridget Williams Books, 2021)
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talk to Jared Davidson, the author of The History of a Riot: Class, Popular Protest and Violence in Early Colonial Nelson (Bridget Williams ...
Brigitte Le Normand, "Citizens Without Borders: Yugoslavia and Its Migrant Workers in Western Europe" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Among Eastern Europe’s postwar socialist states, Yugoslavia was unique in allowing its citizens to seek work abroad in Western Europe’s liberal de...
Arnab Dey, "Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India (Cambridge UP, 2021), Arnab Dey examines the intersecting role of la...
Lindsay Naylor, "Fair Trade Rebels: Coffee Production and Struggles for Autonomy in Chiapas" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fair trade certified coffee is now commonly found on the supermarket shelves of the Global North, but the connections between the consumer and produce...
Keith Pluymers, "No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pushing back against the traditional narratives assuming that the American colonies served as resource “windfalls” which released Europe from the ...
Corinna Zeltsman, "Ink Under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico" (U California Press, 2021)
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During the independence era in Mexico, individuals and factions of all stripes embraced the printing press as a key weapon in the broad struggle for p...
Susan V. Spellman, "Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business" (Oxford UP, 2016)
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode for the Economic and Business History channel, I interviewed Dr. Susan V. Spellman, Associate Professor of History at Miami University...
Philippe Vonnard, "Creating a United Europe of Football: The Formation of UEFA (1949–1961)" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are joined by Philippe Vonnard, Senior SNSF Researcher at the University de Lausanne, and the author of Creating a United Europe of Football...
Iker Saitua, "Basque Immigrants and Nevada's Sheep Industry: Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880-1954" (U Nevada Press, 2019)
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ranching in the West meant more than cowboys and cattle drives, writes Dr. Iker Saitua, and assistant professor of public policy and economic history ...
Jagjeet Lally, "India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When we think about modern trade, we tend to think about the sea: port cities and large ships carrying goods back and forth. It’s a story that tends...
Thomas C. Hubka, "Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England" (UP of New England, 2004)
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Big house, little house, back house, barn”―this rhythmic cadence was sung by nineteenth-century children as they played. It also portrays the f...
Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer, "A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication" (Harvard UP, 2021)
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Statistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary bounds. Today graphics are ubiq...
Stanley Mirvis, "The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Yale UP, 2020)
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stanley Mirvis' The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition (Yale University Press, 2020) offers an ...