New Books in Economic and Business History

1232 Episodes

1. Philip Harling, "Managing Mobility: The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840-1860" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/31/2025
2. Jason L. Newton, "Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest" (West Virginia UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/29/2025
3. Bin Yang, "Discovered But Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, C. 1100-1620" (Columbia UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/28/2025
4. Robert J. Antony, "Outlaws of the Sea: Maritime Piracy in Modern China" (Hong Kong UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/27/2025
5. Jeremy Black, "A History of Britain's Transport" (Pen and Sword, 2025)

   Published: 3/26/2025
6. Jeffrey Lee Funk on Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles

   Published: 3/25/2025
7. Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

   Published: 3/24/2025
8. Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, "The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2023)

   Published: 3/23/2025
9. James Tejani, "A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America" (Norton, 2024)

   Published: 3/21/2025
10. Managerial Bishops Rule! Peter Brown on Wealth in Early Christianity (JP)

    Published: 3/20/2025
11. William Blakemore Lyon, "Forged in Genocide: Migrant Workers Shaping Colonial Capitalism in Namibia, 1890-1925" (de Gruyter, 2024)

    Published: 3/17/2025
12. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023)

    Published: 3/16/2025
13. Maggie M. Cao, "Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/15/2025
14. Andrea Wright, "Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea" (Stanford UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/14/2025
15. Chiara Faggella, "Becoming Couture: The Italian Fashion Industry after the Second World War" (Manchester UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/13/2025
16. Cotton, Central Asia and the New Great Game

    Published: 3/10/2025
17. Jamie Jelinski, "Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/10/2025
18. The Library of Mistakes: A Conversation with Russell Napier

    Published: 3/10/2025
19. Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/9/2025
20. Jeremy Black, "A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/8/2025