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New Books in Economic and Business History

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Jeremy Land, "Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776)" (Brill, 2023)

43 mins; October 18, 2023

Christopher Phillips, "Civilian Specialists at War: Britain's Transport Experts and the First World War" (U London Press, 2020)

43 mins; October 17, 2023

Ian Jones, "Using the Past: Authenticity, Reliability, and the Role of Archives in Barclays PLC's Use of the Past Strategies" (U Liverpool, 2021)

42 mins; October 17, 2023

AI, Post-Truth, and Cultural Transformation

41 mins; October 16, 2023

Branko Milanovic, "Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War" (Harvard UP, 2023)

36 mins; October 16, 2023

Vilja Hulden, "The Bosses' Union: How Employers Organized to Fight Labor Before the New Deal" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

63 hours 46 mins; October 15, 2023

Michael Taylor, "The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery" (Bodley Head, 2021)

79 hours 33 mins; October 15, 2023

John D. Garrigus, "A Secret Among the Blacks: Slave Resistance Before the Haitian Revolution" (Harvard UP, 2023)

59 mins; October 15, 2023

James J. A. Blair, "Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic" (Cornell UP, 2023)

46 mins; October 13, 2023

Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol, "Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party" (Columbia UP, 2023)

40 mins; October 12, 2023

On The History of Occupational Licensing in the U.S.

32 mins; October 11, 2023

Tariq D. Khan, "The Republic Shall be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

51 mins; October 09, 2023

Rachel O'Dwyer, "Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform" (Verso, 2023)

48 mins; October 08, 2023

Arunima Datta, "Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

73 hours 11 mins; October 07, 2023

Daniel Satinsky, "Creating the Post-Soviet Russian Market Economy: Through American Eyes" (Routledge, 2023)

59 mins; October 06, 2023

Laura Gowing, "Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

41 mins; October 05, 2023

Nan Turner, "Clothing Goes to War: Creativity Inspired by Scarcity in World War II" (Intellect Books, 2022)

50 mins; October 05, 2023

Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, "Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution" (Polity, 2023)

98 hours 37 mins; October 04, 2023

Taylor Lorenz, "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)

59 mins; October 03, 2023

Twenty Years After “The New Economy”: A Conversation with Doug Henwood

68 hours 31 mins; October 02, 2023

Boyd Cothran and Adrian Shubert, "The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914" (UNC Press, 2024)

75 hours 2 mins; October 02, 2023

Isaac McKean Scarborough, "Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2023)

74 hours 55 mins; October 01, 2023

Jared Davidson, "Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2023)

58 mins; September 28, 2023

Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws, "Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

66 hours 29 mins; September 27, 2023

Jamie L. Jones, "Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling" (UNC Press, 2023)

48 mins; September 26, 2023

Lee Mcguigan, "Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech" (MIT Press, 2023)

59 mins; September 26, 2023

Michelle K. Berry, "Cow Talk: Work, Ecology, and Range Cattle Ranchers in the Postwar Mountain West" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)

58 mins; September 26, 2023

Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, "Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap" (U California Press, 2023)

48 mins; September 19, 2023

Lenora Hanson, "The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation" (Stanford UP, 2022)

69 hours 45 mins; September 18, 2023

Global Inequality: Are We Really Measuring What We Should Be Measuring?

43 mins; September 18, 2023

Oscar Webber, "Negotiating Relief and Freedom: Responses to Disaster in the British Caribbean, 1812-1907" (Manchester UP, 2023)

61 hours 12 mins; September 17, 2023

Luke Messac, "Your Money Or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine" (Oxford UP, 2023)

34 mins; September 17, 2023

Zachary Parolin, "Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2023)

31 mins; September 15, 2023

Guillemette Crouzet, "Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

61 hours 39 mins; September 12, 2023

A Better Way to Buy Books

34 mins; September 12, 2023

Race and Electrical Infrastructure in the Jim Crow South

53 mins; September 11, 2023

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

51 mins; September 11, 2023

Padraic X. Scanlan, "Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain" (Robinson, 2021)

86 hours 53 mins; September 11, 2023

Peter Good, "The East India Company in Persia: Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

55 mins; September 10, 2023

Ryan Tucker Jones, "Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

59 mins; September 09, 2023

Christian O. Paiz, "The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-And-File History of the UFW Movement" (UNC Press, 2023)

70 hours 31 mins; September 08, 2023

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

67 hours 36 mins; September 08, 2023

The Ideology of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Robert Eberhart

76 hours 24 mins; August 28, 2023

Kalyani Ramnath, "Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962" (Stanford UP, 2023)

92 hours 54 mins; August 27, 2023

Jeremy Black, "Why the Industrial Revolution Happened in Britain" (Amberley Publishing, 2023)

25 mins; August 26, 2023

Lucia Carminati. "Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859-1906" (U California Press, 2023)

57 mins; August 24, 2023

Outside the Box: The History and Future of Globalization

62 hours 55 mins; August 21, 2023

Ulbe Bosma, "The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years" (Harvard UP, 2023)

29 mins; August 20, 2023

Roma Agrawal, "Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)" (Norton, 2023)

43 mins; August 19, 2023

Diane Purkiss, "English Food: A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables (William Collins, 2022)

64 hours 31 mins; August 18, 2023

Don J. Wyatt, "Slavery in East Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

44 mins; August 17, 2023

Nicholas Hoover Wilson, "Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India" (Columbia UP, 2023)

46 mins; August 17, 2023

Bobby J. Smith II, "Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2023)

78 hours 27 mins; August 16, 2023

Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)

45 mins; August 15, 2023

The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga

18 mins; August 14, 2023

Yiwen Li, "Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges Between China and Japan, 839-1403 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

55 mins; August 13, 2023

Charlotte Karem Albrecht, "Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling" (U California Press, 2023)

67 hours 45 mins; August 11, 2023

Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, "How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms" (Norton, 2023)

43 mins; August 10, 2023

Vaudine England, "Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong" (Scribner, 2023)

53 mins; August 10, 2023

Elizabeth Humphrys, "How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project" (Haymarket, 2019)

64 hours 24 mins; August 09, 2023

Wendy A. Woloson, "Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

44 mins; August 09, 2023

Frank Jacob, "Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century" (Transcript Publishing, 2022)

40 mins; August 08, 2023

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

57 mins; August 08, 2023

Steven Press, "Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa" (Harvard UP, 2021)

82 hours 36 mins; August 08, 2023

Richard C. Hoffmann, "The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

59 mins; August 07, 2023

Philip Roscoe, "How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance" (Bristol UP, 2023)

40 mins; August 07, 2023

Ryan C. Smith, "The Real Oil Shock: How Oil Transformed Money, Debt, and Finance" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

61 hours 57 mins; August 06, 2023

Erika Marie Bsumek, "The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau" (U Texas Press, 2023)

56 mins; August 06, 2023

Cindy McCulligh, "Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River" (MIT Press, 2023)

62 hours 43 mins; August 06, 2023

Yiannis Kokosalakis, "Building Socialism: The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921–1941" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

77 hours 31 mins; August 06, 2023

Mike Rothschild, "Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories" (Melville House, 2023)

49 mins; August 06, 2023

Christine Keiner, "Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal" (U Georgia Press, 2020)

31 mins; August 05, 2023

Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony, "Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance" (Columbia UP, 2022)

59 mins; August 05, 2023

Olga Fedorenko, "Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)

78 hours 4 mins; August 05, 2023

Logistic Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth

15 mins; August 03, 2023

Colleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)

40 mins; August 02, 2023

Nicholas Lemann, "Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream" (FSG, 2019)

50 mins; August 02, 2023

Powering American Farms: A Conversation with Richard Hirsh

73 hours 59 mins; July 31, 2023

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

45 mins; July 31, 2023

Manfred B. Steger and Ravi K. Roy, "Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2021)

66 hours 49 mins; July 30, 2023

Tom Young, "Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2023)

56 mins; July 29, 2023

Richard N. Langlois, "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise" (Princeton UP, 2023)

45 mins; July 27, 2023

The Texas Two-Step and Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder

57 mins; July 26, 2023

Vincanne Adams, "Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move" (Duke UP, 2023)

57 mins; July 25, 2023

The Future of Supply Chains: A Discussion with Rob Handfield

36 mins; July 25, 2023

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

71 hours 14 mins; July 24, 2023

Ronan Bolton, "Making Energy Markets: The Origins of Electricity Liberalisation in Europe" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

57 mins; July 24, 2023

US History in 15 Foods: A Conversation with Anna Zeide

52 mins; July 24, 2023

Thomas Piketty on Capitalism and Inequality (Adaner Usmani, JP)

50 mins; July 20, 2023

Victor Luckerson, "Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street" (Random House, 2023)

58 mins; July 17, 2023

Juliet Schor, "After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back" (U California Press, 2021)

57 mins; July 17, 2023

Victoria Lee, "The Arts of the Microbial World: Fermentation Science in Twentieth-Century Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

50 mins; July 16, 2023

Meg Bernhard, "Wine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

58 mins; July 15, 2023

Callie Wilkinson, "Empire of Influence: The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

40 mins; July 14, 2023

Marco Grasso, "From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis" (MIT Press, 2022)

35 mins; July 13, 2023

Randall Patnode, "The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

52 mins; July 12, 2023

Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon, 2022)

64 hours 57 mins; July 12, 2023

Anne Giblin Gedacht, "Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan" (Brill, 2022)

67 hours 43 mins; July 11, 2023

Palo Alto: A Conversation with Malcolm Harris

91 hours 42 mins; July 10, 2023

Jason Chang et al., "The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom" (PM Press, 2022)

81 hours 7 mins; July 09, 2023

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