New Books in Economic and Business History
A podcast by New Books Network
1066 Episodes
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Christine Walker, "Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire" (UNC Press, 2020)
Published: 5/21/2021 -
Joshua D. Rothman, "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America" (Basic Book, 2021)
Published: 5/20/2021 -
Amanda Ciafone, "Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation" (U California Press, 2019)
Published: 5/20/2021 -
Justene Hill Edwards, "Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Published: 5/19/2021 -
Mary Pilon, "The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Published: 5/17/2021 -
John Wong, "Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Published: 5/13/2021 -
Hannah Barker, "That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Published: 5/12/2021 -
Brian Castner, "Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike" (Doubleday, 2021)
Published: 5/12/2021 -
John Kenneth Galbraith, "The Great Crash 1929" (Penguin Classics, 2021)
Published: 5/11/2021 -
Lila Corwin Berman, "The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Published: 5/5/2021 -
Andrew Konove, "Black Market Capital: Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City" (U California Press, 2018)
Published: 5/3/2021 -
Paloma Fernández Pérez. "The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organisation in the World 1880s-1930s" (Emerald, 2021)
Published: 4/28/2021 -
Gordon H. Chang, "Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad" (HMH, 2019)
Published: 4/26/2021 -
W. Quinn and J. D. Turner, "Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Published: 3/30/2021 -
Zach Sell, "Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital" (UNC Press, 2021)
Published: 3/29/2021 -
A. Gandhi et al., "Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Published: 2/26/2021 -
Robert Darnton, "Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Published: 2/26/2021 -
Andrew Grant Wood, "The Business of Leisure: Tourism History in Latin America and the Caribbean" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Published: 1/27/2021 -
Emma Griffin, "Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy" (Yale UP, 2020)
Published: 1/25/2021 -
K. Yazdani and D. M. Menon, "Capitalisms: Towards a Global History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Published: 11/6/2020
Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books