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Steven King et al., "In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)
65 hours 3 mins; December 02, 2024
Ken Wilcox, "The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice" (John Wiley & Sons, 2024)
62 hours 5 mins; December 01, 2024
James T. White and John Punter, "Condoland: The Planning, Design, and Development of Toronto's CityPlace" (UBC Press, 2023)
83 hours 56 mins; December 01, 2024
Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain, "How Government Built America" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
88 hours 49 mins; December 01, 2024
Maria Adamopoulou, "The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974)" (de Gruyter, 2024)
87 hours 34 mins; November 30, 2024
Karen Lystra, "Love and the Working Class: The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 55 mins; November 30, 2024
Ryan Moran, "Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance" (Cornell UP, 2024)
103 hours 19 mins; November 29, 2024
Brian Donahue, "Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests" (Yale UP, 2024)
52 mins; November 26, 2024
Steve J. Shone, "Dangerous Anarchist Strikers" (Brill, 2023)
47 mins; November 25, 2024
Kerry Meakin, "The Professionalization of Window Display in Britain, 1919-1939" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
51 mins; November 25, 2024
Katherine C. Epstein, "Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
67 hours 34 mins; November 24, 2024
Andrew Fleming, "The Gravity of Feathers: Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kilda" (Birlinn, 2024)
42 mins; November 24, 2024
Travis A. Weisse, "Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness" (UNC Press, 2024)
53 mins; November 23, 2024
An Existential Fight between Green and Carbon Assets (with Mark Blyth)
33 mins; November 21, 2024
Laura F. Edwards, "Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (Oxford UP, 2022)
55 mins; November 18, 2024
Nick Bernards, "Fictions of Financialization: Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation and Twenty-First Century Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2024)
84 hours 56 mins; November 18, 2024
D. Andrew Johnson, "Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
41 mins; November 18, 2024
Victor P. Petrov, "Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain" (MIT Press, 2023)
57 mins; November 18, 2024
Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
56 mins; November 16, 2024
The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics
70 hours 21 mins; November 13, 2024
Anne Berg, "Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany" (Oxford UP, 2024)
61 hours 6 mins; November 11, 2024
Seth E. Jenny et al., "Routledge Handbook of Esports" (Routledge, 2024)
35 mins; November 09, 2024
Why Can’t the US Compete with China in Infrastructure?
48 mins; November 07, 2024
Melissa Teixeira, "A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal" (Princeton UP, 2024)
68 hours 5 mins; November 05, 2024
Mara Kardas-Nelson, "We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)
45 mins; November 05, 2024
Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff on Automation
81 hours 24 mins; November 04, 2024
Justene Hill Edwards, "Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank" (Norton, 2024)
42 mins; November 03, 2024
Adam Hanieh, "Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market" (Verso, 2024)
94 hours 5 mins; November 02, 2024
From Rubinomics to Bidenomics: On the Democratic Party’s Shifting Trade & Industrial Policy
60 hours 1 min; November 01, 2024
Dariusz Wojcik et al., "Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money" (Yale UP, 2024)
77 hours 25 mins; October 31, 2024
Mark W. Geiger, "Floor Rules: Insider Culture in Financial Markets" (Yale UP, 2024)
75 hours 26 mins; October 29, 2024
Michael Hardt, "The Subversive Seventies" (Oxford UP, 2023)
86 hours 54 mins; October 29, 2024
Eric Helleiner, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History" (Cornell UP, 2021)
52 mins; October 29, 2024
Nicolas Delsol, "Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study" (UP of Florida, 2024)
59 mins; October 28, 2024
Toni Alimi, "Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
66 hours 58 mins; October 28, 2024
Townsend Middleton, "Quinine's Remains: Empire’s Medicine and the Life Thereafter" (U California Press, 2024)
67 hours 31 mins; October 28, 2024
Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
81 hours 47 mins; October 27, 2024
Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
65 hours 56 mins; October 27, 2024
Himanshu Upadhyaya, "Critical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India (1850–1980)" (Springer, 2024)
58 mins; October 25, 2024
Deborah Valenze, "The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History" (Yale UP, 2023)
71 hours 39 mins; October 24, 2024
Anto Mohsin, "Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
68 hours 26 mins; October 21, 2024
Kevin Sanson, "Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production" (U California Press, 2024)
39 mins; October 20, 2024
Michael J. Alarid, "Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860" (U New Mexico Press, 2022)
42 mins; October 19, 2024
Peter C. Kunze, "Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
68 hours 52 mins; October 19, 2024
Andrew G. Walder, “China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed” (Harvard UP, 2015)
80 hours 27 mins; October 18, 2024
Corey Ross, "Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
82 hours 34 mins; October 17, 2024
Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry" (Regnery History, 2024)
44 mins; October 16, 2024
Christian Velasco, "Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age" (Routledge, 2024)
56 mins; October 15, 2024
Juan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
53 mins; October 07, 2024
A Deep Dive on Karl Marx's "Capital"
161 hours 7 mins; October 07, 2024
Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives
46 mins; October 06, 2024
Israel G. Solares, "Underground Leviathan: Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas" (U Nevada Press, 2024)
33 mins; October 05, 2024
Jeffrey Ding, "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" (Princeton UP, 2024)
35 mins; October 05, 2024
Robert Rozett, "Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front During the Second World War" (Yad Vashem, 2014)
63 hours 0 mins; October 04, 2024
Sean McMeekin, "To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism" (Basic Books, 2024)
55 mins; October 04, 2024
Paola Bertucci, "In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
70 hours 15 mins; October 01, 2024
Mary Bridges, "Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower" (Princeton UP, 2024)
60 hours 17 mins; October 01, 2024
James A. Anderson, "The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road: Trade, Security, and State Formation" (U Washington Press, 2024)
31 mins; September 30, 2024
Annette Kehnel, "The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
54 mins; September 29, 2024
Inés Valdez, "Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
62 hours 47 mins; September 29, 2024
William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)
63 hours 56 mins; September 29, 2024
Samuel J. Hirst, "Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939" (Oxford UP, 2024)
64 hours 45 mins; September 28, 2024
Jeff Schuhrke, "Blue Collar Empire: Labor Internationalism, the Global Cold War, and the Untold History of the AFL-CIA" (Verso, 2024)
69 hours 0 mins; September 27, 2024
Ian Williams, "Vampire State: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy (Birlinn, 2024)
63 hours 6 mins; September 27, 2024
Zeev Levin, "Collectivization and Social Engineering: Soviet Administration and the Jews of Uzbekistan, 1917-1939" (Brill, 2015)
83 hours 49 mins; September 26, 2024
Andrew W. Kahrl, "The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
59 mins; September 25, 2024
Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman, "Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite" (Harvard UP, 2024)
44 mins; September 25, 2024
Joseph Harley, "At Home with the Poor: Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, c.1650-1850" (Manchester UP, 2024)
50 mins; September 25, 2024
Max Hirsh and Till Mostowlansky, "Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
65 hours 13 mins; September 24, 2024
Emily Carman, "Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System" (U Texas Press, 2016)
75 hours 8 mins; September 22, 2024
Ilias Alami and Adam D. Dixon, "The Spectre of State Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
69 hours 35 mins; September 22, 2024
Beng Huat Chua, "Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore's Public Housing" (NUS Press, 2024)
67 hours 39 mins; September 19, 2024
Karl Marx, "Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1" (Princeton UP, 2024)
34 mins; September 16, 2024
Thomas White, "China's Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier" (U Washington Press, 2024)
68 hours 42 mins; September 14, 2024
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, "When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
48 mins; September 13, 2024
Yakov Feygin, "Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform" (Harvard UP, 2024)
66 hours 55 mins; September 08, 2024
Alison Fragale, "Likeable Badass: The New Science of Successful Women" (Doubleday Books, 2024)
46 mins; September 07, 2024
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration: A Talk by Isabel Wilkerson
68 hours 39 mins; September 07, 2024
David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2024)
47 mins; September 05, 2024
David Lay Williams, "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx" (Princeton UP, 2024)
70 hours 9 mins; September 03, 2024
Aaron M. Hyman, "Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America" (Getty, 2021)
60 hours 40 mins; September 03, 2024
Henry H. Work, "Wood, Whiskey and Wine: A History of Barrels"(Reaktion Books, 2024)
46 mins; September 01, 2024
Manuela Moschella, "Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy" (Cornell UP, 2024)
46 mins; September 01, 2024
Susan Greenhalgh, "Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
20 mins; August 31, 2024
Cynthia A. Ruder, “Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space” (I. B. Tauris, 2018)
58 mins; August 31, 2024
Aleksander Pluskowski, "The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation" (Reaktion, 2024)
56 mins; August 30, 2024
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: : The Horse and the Rise of Empires
62 hours 42 mins; August 29, 2024
Cyrus Mody on the Importance of Square (as in NOT COOL) Scientists and Engineers
71 hours 56 mins; August 26, 2024
Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy" (Stanford UP, 2020)
68 hours 25 mins; August 26, 2024
Damaging Rationality: Exxon-Funded Legal Research and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
73 hours 50 mins; August 25, 2024
Gary Mucciaroni, "Answers to the Labour Question: Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880–1945" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
68 hours 1 min; August 24, 2024
Robin Bernstein, "Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
76 hours 0 mins; August 23, 2024
Edward Pearson, "The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670-1825" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
66 hours 11 mins; August 22, 2024
Le Lin, "The Fruits of Opportunism: Noncompliance and the Evolution of China's Supplemental Education Industry" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
102 hours 1 min; August 21, 2024
Oliver Volckart, "The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency" (Oxford UP, 2024)
53 mins; August 21, 2024
Gregory Makoff, "Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
59 mins; August 20, 2024
Angela Geck, "The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
64 hours 43 mins; August 20, 2024
Susanne Barth, "From Schmelt Camp to 'Little Auschwitz': Blechhammer’s Role in the Holocaust" (Purdue UP, 2024)
64 hours 20 mins; August 19, 2024
Vanessa S. Oliveira, "Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)
67 hours 5 mins; August 18, 2024
Zvi Schreiber, "Money, Going Out of Style: The Story of Money and the Mystery of Its Decline" (2021)
29 mins; August 15, 2024
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