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New Books in Economic and Business History

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Isabelle Held, "Atomic Bombshells: How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies" (Duke UP, 2026)

52 mins; April 03, 2026

Avner Greif et al., "Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000" (Princeton UP, 2025)

50 mins; April 02, 2026

Shredding Capitalism with Sven Beckert (Paul Kramer, JP)

43 mins; April 02, 2026

Allan Greer, "Canada in the Age of Rum" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2026)

44 mins; March 31, 2026

Ben Collier on Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy

60 hours 38 mins; March 30, 2026

Zheng Liu, "Cultural Mavericks: The Business and Politics of Independent Bookselling in China" (Columbia UP, 2026)

60 hours 2 mins; March 28, 2026

Nellie Chu, "Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou" (Duke UP, 2026)

65 hours 18 mins; March 28, 2026

Dovev Lavie, "The Cooperative Economy: A Solution to Societal Grand Challenges" (Routledge, 2023)

85 hours 3 mins; March 27, 2026

James Lin, "The Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan" (U California Press, 2025)

57 mins; March 25, 2026

J. S. Nelson, "Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford UP, 2021)

79 hours 3 mins; March 24, 2026

Steffan Blayney, "Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body" (Activist Studies of Science, 2022)

44 mins; March 23, 2026

Elizabeth Mitchell Elder, "Company Towns: Industry Power and the Historical Foundations of Public Mistrust" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

32 mins; March 22, 2026

Orsi Husz, "Bankminded: Banks As Intimate Agents of Everyday Life in Welfare State Sweden" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)

46 mins; March 22, 2026

Doug Crandell, "Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages" (Cornell UP, 2022)

63 hours 10 mins; March 21, 2026

Paul Kohlbry, "Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2026)

70 hours 10 mins; March 20, 2026

Lisa Nakamura, "The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)

43 mins; March 18, 2026

Abe Walker, "Reassembling the UAW: Insurgency, Contention, and the Struggle for Unionism in the American South" (Temple UP, 2026)

61 hours 41 mins; March 17, 2026

César A. Hidalgo, "The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge" (Allen Lane, 2026)

66 hours 35 mins; March 16, 2026

Eurie Dahn, "Snack" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

43 mins; March 16, 2026

Entrepreneurial Work Ethic

15 mins; March 16, 2026

Marianna Dudley, "Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain by Marianna Dudley" (Manchester UP, 2025)

44 mins; March 14, 2026

Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee, "Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How it Could Save Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

67 hours 36 mins; March 14, 2026

Michael Kimmel, "Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2026)

33 mins; March 14, 2026

Jessica Ann Levy, "Black Power, Inc.: Corporate America and the Rise of Multinational Empowerment Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)

65 hours 42 mins; March 13, 2026

Cheng Li, "Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China" (Stanford UP, 2025)

50 mins; March 12, 2026

Cheng Li, "Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China" (Stanford UP, 2025)

49 mins; March 12, 2026

Kim Bowes, "Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent" (Princeton UP, 2025)

61 hours 38 mins; March 12, 2026

Jon Stobart, "Life in the Georgian Parsonage: Morals, Material Goods and the English Clergy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

51 mins; March 11, 2026

Geoffrey Jones and Sabine Pitteloud eds., "The Cambridge Companion to the History of Multinationals and Society" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

35 mins; March 10, 2026

Mattie Armstrong-Price, "Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways" (U California Press, 2026)

43 mins; March 07, 2026

Lucy Lavers et al.," Adventurous Vents: A Journey through the Ventilation Shafts of Britain" (Penguin, 2025)

59 mins; March 06, 2026

Patrick Chung, "Standardizing Empire: The US Military, Korea, and the Origins of Military-Industrial Capitalism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)

61 hours 53 mins; March 06, 2026

Eleanor Gordon et al., "Working-Class Courtship, Marriage, and Divorce in Scotland, 1855–1939" (Oxford UP, 2025)

64 hours 16 mins; March 05, 2026

Miles Kenney-Lazar, "Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos" (U Hawai’i Press, 2025)

61 hours 14 mins; March 04, 2026

Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Paul Poast, "Wheat at War: Allied Economic Cooperation in the Great War" (Oxford UP, 2025)

54 mins; March 03, 2026

Jessi Streib, "The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

34 mins; March 02, 2026

Claire Provost and Matt Kennard, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

44 mins; March 02, 2026

Trish FitzSimons and Madelyn Shaw, "Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

69 hours 10 mins; March 01, 2026

Alice Wiemers, "Village Work: Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana" (Ohio UP, 2021)

55 mins; February 28, 2026

Elliot Dolan-Evans, "Making War Safe for Capitalism: The World Bank, IMF, and the Conflict in Ukraine" (Bristol UP, 2025)

54 mins; February 28, 2026

Margaret S. Graves, "Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics" (Princeton UP, 2026)

57 mins; February 27, 2026

Ilana Gershon, "The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

46 mins; February 25, 2026

Paolo Zannoni, "Money and Promises: Seven Deals That Changed the World" (Columbia Business School, 2024)

60 hours 25 mins; February 24, 2026

Michelle Jackson, "The Division of Rationalized Labor" (Harvard UP, 2025)

61 hours 6 mins; February 21, 2026

Raiford Guins, "King PONG: How Atari Bounced Across Markets to Make Millions" (MIT Press, 2026)

75 hours 23 mins; February 20, 2026

Denys Gorbach, "The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City" (Berghahn Books, 2024)

69 hours 31 mins; February 19, 2026

W. Patrick McCray, "README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines" (MIT Press, 2025)

48 mins; February 19, 2026

Donald Chew, "The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations" (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2025)

74 hours 4 mins; February 18, 2026

Sara Pennell & Jon Stobart, "Auctions and the Consumption of Second-Hand Goods in Georgian England" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

58 mins; February 17, 2026

David Obst, "Saving Ourselves from Big Car" (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2025)

60 hours 41 mins; February 17, 2026

Bridget Salmon and Andrew Godley, "The Making of the Modern Supermarket: Self-Service Adoption in British Food Retailing, 1950-1975" (Oxford UP, 2025)

61 hours 11 mins; February 12, 2026

Javiera Barandiaran, "Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium" (MIT Press, 2026)

54 mins; February 12, 2026

Peter S. Goodman, "Davos Man: How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy" (Custom House, 2022)

56 mins; February 09, 2026

Luca Cottini, "The Rise of Americanism in Italy, 1888-1919" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

59 mins; February 02, 2026

Stevan Harrell, "An Ecological History of Modern China" (U Washington Press, 2023)

57 mins; February 01, 2026

Mark Harrison, "Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism" (Stanford UP, 2023)

63 hours 18 mins; January 31, 2026

Nathan Munier, "Zimbabwe's Diamond Trade: The State, Resource Politics and Development" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

35 mins; January 31, 2026

Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)

45 mins; January 31, 2026

Robert Yee, "The City's Defense: The Bank of England and the Remaking of Economic Governance, 1914-1939" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

36 mins; January 30, 2026

Bram de Maeyer, "Building for Belgium: Belgian Embassies in a Globalising World (1945-2020)" (Leuven UP, 2025)

37 mins; January 28, 2026

Misty L. Heggeness, "Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy" (U California Press, 2026)

45 mins; January 27, 2026

Toby Green, "The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

44 mins; January 27, 2026

Matteo Gatti, "Corporate Power and the Politics of Change" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

28 mins; January 25, 2026

Nena Vandeweerdt, "Women and Work Through a Comparative Lens: Gender and the Urban Labor Markets of Premodern Brabant and Biscay" (Leuven UP, 2025)

42 mins; January 25, 2026

Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, "Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

66 hours 58 mins; January 24, 2026

Colin Mayer, "Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them" (Oxford UP, 2024)

78 hours 2 mins; January 22, 2026

Emilie Connolly, "Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States" (Princeton UP, 2025)

50 mins; January 21, 2026

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, "Taco" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

36 mins; January 19, 2026

Malcolm Harris, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" (Little, Brown, 2023)

61 hours 8 mins; January 19, 2026

Ines Prodöhl, "Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950" (Routledge, 2023)

51 mins; January 18, 2026

John M. Findlay, "The Mobilized American West, 1940-2000" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

71 hours 14 mins; January 18, 2026

Aija Leiponen, "Digital Innovation Strategy" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

58 mins; January 14, 2026

Marcy Norton, "The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492" (Harvard UP, 2024)

60 hours 38 mins; January 11, 2026

Kendra D. Boyd, "Freedom Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

57 mins; January 10, 2026

David Morris, "Stealing The Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia" (Watkins Media, 2025)

59 mins; January 05, 2026

Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)

54 mins; January 04, 2026

Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World" (Penguin, 2023)

44 mins; January 01, 2026

Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

77 hours 4 mins; December 31, 2025

Anna Zeide, "US History in 15 Foods" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

38 mins; December 31, 2025

Sara Byala, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African" (Oxford UP, 2023)

67 hours 39 mins; December 30, 2025

Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

67 hours 58 mins; December 29, 2025

Sven Beckert, "Capitalism: A Global History" (Allen Lane, 2025)

60 hours 59 mins; December 25, 2025

Simon Avenell, "A History of Postwar Japan: Recovery, Prosperity, and Transformation" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)

60 hours 37 mins; December 23, 2025

Matthew Scobie and Anna Sturman, "The Economic Possibilities of Decolonisation" (Bridget Williams Books, 2024)

55 mins; December 22, 2025

Molly-Claire Gillett, "Irish Lacemaking: Art, Industry and Cultural Practice" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

64 hours 13 mins; December 21, 2025

Celina Su, "Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities" (Princeton UP, 2025)

35 mins; December 17, 2025

Maddalena Alvi, "The European Art Market and the First World War: Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910–1925" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

60 hours 8 mins; December 17, 2025

Megan Tobias Neely, "Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street" (U California Press, 2022)

61 hours 57 mins; December 16, 2025

Mike Bird, "The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset" (Penguin, 2025)

51 mins; December 14, 2025

Kathryn Chelminski, "Governing Energy Transitions: A Study of Regime Complex Effectiveness on Geothermal Development in Indonesia and the Philippines" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

55 mins; December 12, 2025

Jack Wertheimer, "Jewish Giving: Philanthropy and the Shaping of American Jewish Life" (NYU Press, 2025)

60 hours 38 mins; December 10, 2025

Thomas Haigh on the History of “AI” as a Brand

102 hours 6 mins; December 08, 2025

David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)

64 hours 47 mins; December 08, 2025

Anny Gaul, "Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato" (U California Press, 2025)

57 mins; December 04, 2025

Maria Bach, "Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

33 mins; December 03, 2025

Jimmy Wales with Dan Gardner, "The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last" (Crown Currency, 2025)

50 mins; December 02, 2025

Michael McCulloch, "Building a Social Contract: Modern Workers’ Houses in Early Twentieth-Century Detroit" (Temple UP, 2023)

56 mins; November 30, 2025

Meg Bernhard, "Wine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

58 mins; November 28, 2025

Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)

54 mins; November 28, 2025

Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)

67 hours 36 mins; November 28, 2025

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