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• Mariya Grinberg, "Trade in War: Economic Cooperation Across Enemy Lines" (Cornell UP, 2025) 21.08.2025
• Shennette Garrett-Scott, "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal" (Columbia UP, 2019) 20.08.2025
• Bench Ansfield, "Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City" (Norton, 2025) 20.08.2025
• Steve L. Monroe, "Mirages of Reform: The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World" (Cornell UP, 2025) 19.08.2025
• Alyssa Battistoni, "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2025) 18.08.2025
• Mary Bridges on US Bankers Abroad and the Making of a Global Superpower 18.08.2025
• Isabella M. Weber, "How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate" (Routledge, 2021) 17.08.2025
• Nicholas P. Roberts, "A Sea of Wealth: The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace" (U California Press, 2025) 16.08.2025
• Charly Coleman, "The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment" (Stanford UP, 2021) 15.08.2025
• Edward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia" (Yale UP, 2025) 13.08.2025
• Kevin P. Donovan, "Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 12.08.2025
• Every Purchase Matters: How Fair Trade Farmers, Companies, and Consumers are Changing the World 12.08.2025
• Ahmad Shokr, "Harvests of Liberation: Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2025) 10.08.2025
• Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community" (Harvard UP, 2022) 09.08.2025
• Ronald C. Po, "Shaping the Blue Dragon: Maritime China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties" (Liverpool UP, 2024) 06.08.2025
• Toby Lincoln, "An Urban History of China" (Cambridge UP, 2021) 04.08.2025
• David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2025) 03.08.2025
• Paul Vigna, "The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin" (St. Martin's Press, 2025) 02.08.2025
• Gavin Williams, "Format Friction: Perspectives on the Shellac Disc" (U Chicago Press, 2024) 01.08.2025
• Jennifer Bess, "Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing: The Akimel O'odham and Cycles of Agricultural Transformation in the Phoenix Basin" (U Colorado Press, 2021) 31.07.2025