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New Books in Economic and Business History

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Fahad Ahmad Bishara, "Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History" (U California Press, 2025)

45 mins; November 27, 2025

Lauren E. M. Everett, "Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land: At Home in Santa Monica's Rent-Controlled Housing" (Temple UP, 2025)

49 mins; November 26, 2025

Amy Hughes, "An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

64 hours 14 mins; November 24, 2025

Verena Halsmayer on Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact

82 hours 6 mins; November 24, 2025

Emily Callaci, "Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor" (Seal Press, 2025)

46 mins; November 20, 2025

Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)

54 mins; November 19, 2025

Christina Jerne, "Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

56 mins; November 19, 2025

Vanessa S. Williamson, "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History" (Basic Books, 2025)

53 mins; November 18, 2025

Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022)

28 mins; November 17, 2025

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

61 hours 15 mins; November 16, 2025

Pierre-Yves Donzé & Maki Umemura, "Pierre-Yves Donzé & Maki Umemura, Japan and the Great Divergence in Business History" (JESB, 2025)

32 mins; November 13, 2025

Joseph Stiglitz, "The Origins of Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025)

39 mins; November 10, 2025

How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse

70 hours 28 mins; November 10, 2025

Fahad Ahmad Bishara, "Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History" (U California Press, 2025)

109 hours 59 mins; November 06, 2025

Charles Watkins, "Trees Ancient and Modern: Woodland Cultures and Conservation" (Reaktion, 2025)

55 mins; November 05, 2025

William J. Glover, "Reformatting Agrararian Life: Urban History from the Countryside in Colonial India" (Stanford UP, 2025)

56 mins; November 05, 2025

Loic De Canniere, "The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labour Markets and Welfare" (Anthem, 2025)

67 hours 47 mins; November 04, 2025

Linda Upham-Bornstein, "'Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender': Taxpayers’ Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law during the Great Depression" (Temple UP, 2023)

45 mins; November 02, 2025

Peter McAteer, "Leading the Sustainable Organization: The Quest for Ethical Brands and a Culture of Sustainable Innovation" (Anthem Press, 2025)

72 hours 37 mins; November 02, 2025

Maxim Sytch, "The Influence Economy: Decoding Supplier-Induced Demand" (Oxford UP, 2025)

66 hours 59 mins; November 01, 2025

Edmond Smith, "Ruthless: A New History of Britain’s Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800" (Yale UP, 2025)

57 mins; October 28, 2025

Daniel B. Rood, "The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean" (Oxford UP, 2020)

41 mins; October 27, 2025

Hector Vera, "Yardstick Nation: The Metric System in America" (Vanderbilt UP, 2025)

57 mins; October 25, 2025

Jeff Neilson, "Fortress Farming: Agrarian Transitions, Livelihoods, and Coffee Value Chains in Indonesia" (Cornell UP, 2025)

44 mins; October 25, 2025

Scott D. Anthony, "Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations That Shaped Our Modern World" (Harvard Business Review Press, 2025)

63 hours 49 mins; October 24, 2025

Alice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War" (U California Press, 2025)

45 mins; October 23, 2025

Robert C. Bird, "Legal Knowledge in Organizations: A Source of Strategic and Competitive Advantage" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

59 mins; October 23, 2025

Stuart Hart, "Beyond Shareholder Primacy: Remaking Capitalism for a Sustainable Future" (Stanford Business Books, 2024)

76 hours 17 mins; October 22, 2025

Deborah Gordon, "No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World" (Oxford UP, 2021)

46 mins; October 20, 2025

Nancy Newman, "Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement in Upstate New York: Including Twenty-Two New Settings of Period Tunes" (SUNY Press, 2025)

53 mins; October 18, 2025

Christopher F. Jones, "The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Forgot About the Natural World" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)

52 mins; October 18, 2025

Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)

35 mins; October 17, 2025

Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio, "Shipping Sculptures from Early Modern Italy: The Mechanics, Costs, Risks, and Rewards" (Brepols, 2025)

54 mins; October 17, 2025

Maggie Gram, "The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History" (Basic Books, 2025)

63 hours 3 mins; October 16, 2025

Emily Gee, "Hostel, House and Chambers: Accommodating the Victorian and Edwardian Working Woman" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

49 mins; October 15, 2025

Ethan A. Everett, "The Investment Philosophers: Financial Lessons from the Great Thinkers" (Columbia Business School, 2025)

77 hours 46 mins; October 13, 2025

David Singerman, "Unrefined: How Capitalism Reinvented Sugar" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

68 hours 28 mins; October 11, 2025

Maria Fedorova, "Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921–1935" (Northern Illinois UP, 2025)

49 mins; October 09, 2025

Anthony J. Knowles, "Driving Productivity: Automation, Labor, and Industrial Development in the United States and Germany" (Brill, 2025)

46 mins; October 09, 2025

Aram G. Sarkisian, "Orthodoxy on the Line: Russian Orthodox Christians and Labor Migration in the Progressive Era" (NYU Press, 2025)

55 mins; October 08, 2025

Michael Glass, "Cracked Foundations: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

62 hours 29 mins; October 07, 2025

Katherine J. Parkin, "The Abortion Market: Buying and Selling Access in the Era Before Roe" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

42 mins; October 06, 2025

Richard Duncan, "The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)

55 mins; October 06, 2025

Marcia C. Schenck, "Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World: Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

45 mins; October 05, 2025

Carlotta Daro, "The Architecture of the Wire: Infrastructures of Telecommunication" (MIT Press, 2025)

37 mins; October 05, 2025

Emília Barna, "Working in Music on the Semi-Periphery: Local Cultural Production and Global Capitalism" (CEU Press, 2025)

45 mins; October 03, 2025

Eric T. Jennings, "Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean" (Yale UP, 2025)

51 mins; October 02, 2025

John L. Campbell, "Pay Up!: Conservative Myths about Tax Cuts for the Rich" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

34 mins; September 27, 2025

Mary E. Hicks, "Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2025)

66 hours 43 mins; September 26, 2025

Thea Riofrancos, "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism" (W.W. Norton, 2025)

85 hours 41 mins; September 26, 2025

Paris Papamichos Chronakis, "The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule" (Stanford UP, 2024)

71 hours 50 mins; September 25, 2025

Debra Michals, "She's the Boss: The Rise of Women’s Entrepreneurship since World War II" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

43 mins; September 25, 2025

Edward Fishman, "Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare" (Portfolio, 2025)

60 hours 18 mins; September 23, 2025

Bob Wyss, "Black Gold: The Rise, Reign, and Fall of American Coal" (University of California Press, 2025)

47 mins; September 22, 2025

Karen Robert, "Driving Terror: Labor, Violence, and Justice in Cold War Argentina" (U New Mexico Press, 2025)

64 hours 55 mins; September 21, 2025

Calvin Schermerhorn, "The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made" (Yale UP, 2025)

64 hours 55 mins; September 21, 2025

Victoria Bateman, "Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power" (Seal Press, 2025)

56 mins; September 20, 2025

Bradley A. Gorski, "Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market After Socialism" (Northern Illinois UP, 2025)

61 hours 25 mins; September 19, 2025

Lucy Sante, "Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City (The Experiment, 2022)

36 mins; September 14, 2025

Nidhi Mahajan, "Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean" (U of California Press, 2025)

64 hours 3 mins; September 13, 2025

Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl, "Crusading for Globalization: US Multinationals and Their Opponents Since 1945" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

66 hours 57 mins; September 11, 2025

David Welsh, "The Social Railway and Its Workers in Europes Modern Era, 1880-2023: Moments of Fury, Ramparts of Hope" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

64 hours 50 mins; September 10, 2025

Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the 19th Century Circus

34 mins; September 09, 2025

William Kelleher Storey, "The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes" (Oxford UP, 2025)

64 hours 41 mins; September 08, 2025

Dan Roche, "Eyes by Hand: Prosthetics of Art and Healing" (MIT Press, 2025)

65 hours 2 mins; September 05, 2025

David J. Lynch, "The World's Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (And What Would Make It Right)" (PublicAffairs, 2025)

58 mins; September 05, 2025

David McNally, "Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History" (U California Press, 2025)

43 mins; September 03, 2025

Maren A. Ehlers, "Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan" (Harvard U Asia Center, 2018)

68 hours 51 mins; September 02, 2025

Tia Sahrakorpi on a Use-Based History of Electricity in Finland

80 hours 25 mins; September 01, 2025

Joshua Specht, "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America" (Princeton UP, 2019)

30 mins; August 31, 2025

Daniel Wortel-London, "The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)

30 mins; August 30, 2025

Laura Murphy, "Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt" (Columbia Global Reports, 2021)

44 mins; August 30, 2025

Thane Gustafson, "Perfect Storm: Russia's Failed Economic Opening, the Hurricane of War and Sanctions, and the Uncertain Future" (Oxford UP, 2025)

62 hours 18 mins; August 29, 2025

Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H. Vanatta, "Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)

53 mins; August 29, 2025

Victoria Basualdo et al., "Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America: A Transnational History of Profits and Repression" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

50 mins; August 27, 2025

Anders M. Greene-Crow, "Austerity Measures: The Poetics of Food Insecurity in Early Modern English Literature" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

64 hours 33 mins; August 27, 2025

Gregg Mitman, "Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia" (New Press, 2021)

42 mins; August 25, 2025

Nicholas Birman Trickett, "Empire of Austerity: Russia and the Breaking of Eurasia" (Hurst, 2025)

42 mins; August 25, 2025

Angela C. Tozer, "The Debt of a Nation: Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State, 1820-73" (U of British Columbia Press, 2025)

67 hours 31 mins; August 22, 2025

Mariya Grinberg, "Trade in War: Economic Cooperation Across Enemy Lines" (Cornell UP, 2025)

46 mins; August 21, 2025

Bench Ansfield, "Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City" (Norton, 2025)

48 mins; August 20, 2025

Shennette Garrett-Scott, "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal" (Columbia UP, 2019)

41 mins; August 20, 2025

Steve L. Monroe, "Mirages of Reform: The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World" (Cornell UP, 2025)

24 mins; August 19, 2025

Alyssa Battistoni, "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2025)

91 hours 59 mins; August 18, 2025

Mary Bridges on US Bankers Abroad and the Making of a Global Superpower

68 hours 10 mins; August 18, 2025

Isabella M. Weber, "How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate" (Routledge, 2021)

51 mins; August 17, 2025

Nicholas P. Roberts, "A Sea of Wealth: The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace" (U California Press, 2025)

53 mins; August 16, 2025

Charly Coleman, "The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment" (Stanford UP, 2021)

62 hours 34 mins; August 15, 2025

Edward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia" (Yale UP, 2025)

63 hours 8 mins; August 13, 2025

Every Purchase Matters: How Fair Trade Farmers, Companies, and Consumers are Changing the World

57 mins; August 12, 2025

Kevin P. Donovan, "Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

62 hours 3 mins; August 12, 2025

Ahmad Shokr, "Harvests of Liberation: Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2025)

38 mins; August 10, 2025

Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community" (Harvard UP, 2022)

64 hours 55 mins; August 09, 2025

Ronald C. Po, "Shaping the Blue Dragon: Maritime China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties" (Liverpool UP, 2024)

75 hours 46 mins; August 06, 2025

Toby Lincoln, "An Urban History of China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

91 hours 18 mins; August 04, 2025

David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2025)

47 mins; August 03, 2025

Paul Vigna, "The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)

62 hours 24 mins; August 02, 2025

Gavin Williams, "Format Friction: Perspectives on the Shellac Disc" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

69 hours 47 mins; August 01, 2025

Jennifer Bess, "Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing: The Akimel O'odham and Cycles of Agricultural Transformation in the Phoenix Basin" (U Colorado Press, 2021)

60 hours 22 mins; July 31, 2025

Thomas M. Kemple, "Marx's Wager: Das Kapital and Classical Sociology" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

72 hours 0 mins; July 30, 2025

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