New Books in Economic and Business History

1245 Episodes

1. Margherita Zanasi, "Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

   Published: 4/21/2025
2. Enrique C. Ochoa, "México Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

   Published: 4/20/2025
3. Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)

   Published: 4/19/2025
4. Titas Chakraborty, "Empire of Labor: How the East India Company Colonized Hired Work" (U California Press, 2025)

   Published: 4/15/2025
5. Colleen A. Dunlavy, "Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the U.S.into a Manufacturing Powerhouse" (Polity Press, 2024)

   Published: 4/13/2025
6. Ståle Holgersen, "Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World" (Verso, 2024)

   Published: 4/11/2025
7. John Kay, "The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong" (Yale UP, 2025)

   Published: 4/10/2025
8. Andrew Leigh, "How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity" (Mariner Books, 2024)

   Published: 4/9/2025
9. Kathleen Thelen, "Attention, Shoppers!: American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy" (Princeton UP, 2025)

   Published: 4/8/2025
10. Patrick Wallis, "The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship and Economic Growth in Early Modern England" (Princeton UP, 2025)

    Published: 4/5/2025
11. Angus Lockyer, "Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

    Published: 4/4/2025
12. Nathalie Cooke, "Tastes and Traditions: A Journey Through Menu History" (Reaktion, 2025)

    Published: 4/3/2025
13. Stacie A. Kent, "Coercive Commerce: Global Capital and Imperial Governance at the End of the Qing Empire" (Hong Kong UP, 2024)

    Published: 4/2/2025
14. Tana Li, "A Maritime Vietnam: From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 4/1/2025
15. Philip Harling, "Managing Mobility: The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840-1860" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 3/25/2025