New Books in Economic and Business History

New Books in Economic and Business History

Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books

Latest Episode

Marcia C. Schenck, "Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World: Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) (05.10.2025)

Previous Episodes

  • Carlotta Daro, "The Architecture of the Wire: Infrastructures of Telecommunication" (MIT Press, 2025) 05.10.2025
  • Emília Barna, "Working in Music on the Semi-Periphery: Local Cultural Production and Global Capitalism" (CEU Press, 2025) 03.10.2025
  • Eric T. Jennings, "Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean" (Yale UP, 2025) 02.10.2025
  • John L. Campbell, "Pay Up!: Conservative Myths about Tax Cuts for the Rich" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 27.09.2025
  • Mary E. Hicks, "Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2025) 26.09.2025
  • Thea Riofrancos, "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism" (W.W. Norton, 2025) 26.09.2025
  • Debra Michals, "She's the Boss: The Rise of Women’s Entrepreneurship since World War II" (Rutgers UP, 2025) 25.09.2025
  • Paris Papamichos Chronakis, "The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule" (Stanford UP, 2024) 25.09.2025
  • Edward Fishman, "Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare" (Portfolio, 2025) 23.09.2025
  • Bob Wyss, "Black Gold: The Rise, Reign, and Fall of American Coal" (University of California Press, 2025) 22.09.2025
  • Karen Robert, "Driving Terror: Labor, Violence, and Justice in Cold War Argentina" (U New Mexico Press, 2025) 21.09.2025
  • Calvin Schermerhorn, "The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made" (Yale UP, 2025) 21.09.2025
  • Victoria Bateman, "Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power" (Seal Press, 2025) 20.09.2025
  • Bradley A. Gorski, "Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market After Socialism" (Northern Illinois UP, 2025) 19.09.2025
  • Lucy Sante, "Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City (The Experiment, 2022) 14.09.2025
  • Nidhi Mahajan, "Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean" (U of California Press, 2025) 13.09.2025
  • Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl, "Crusading for Globalization: US Multinationals and Their Opponents Since 1945" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) 11.09.2025
  • David Welsh, "The Social Railway and Its Workers in Europes Modern Era, 1880-2023: Moments of Fury, Ramparts of Hope" (Bloomsbury, 2025) 10.09.2025
  • Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the 19th Century Circus 09.09.2025
  • William Kelleher Storey, "The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes" (Oxford UP, 2025) 08.09.2025

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