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Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
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David J. Lynch, "The World's Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (And What Would Make It Right)" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Dan Roche, "Eyes by Hand: Prosthetics of Art and Healing" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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David McNally, "Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History" (U California Press, 2025)
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Maren A. Ehlers, "Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan" (Harvard U Asia Center, 2018)
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Tia Sahrakorpi on a Use-Based History of Electricity in Finland
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Joshua Specht, "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Daniel Wortel-London, "The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Laura Murphy, "Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt" (Columbia Global Reports, 2021)
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H. Vanatta, "Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Thane Gustafson, "Perfect Storm: Russia's Failed Economic Opening, the Hurricane of War and Sanctions, and the Uncertain Future" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Anders M. Greene-Crow, "Austerity Measures: The Poetics of Food Insecurity in Early Modern English Literature" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Victoria Basualdo et al., "Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America: A Transnational History of Profits and Repression" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Nicholas Birman Trickett, "Empire of Austerity: Russia and the Breaking of Eurasia" (Hurst, 2025)
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Gregg Mitman, "Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia" (New Press, 2021)
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Angela C. Tozer, "The Debt of a Nation: Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State, 1820-73" (U of British Columbia Press, 2025)
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Mariya Grinberg, "Trade in War: Economic Cooperation Across Enemy Lines" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Shennette Garrett-Scott, "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Bench Ansfield, "Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City" (Norton, 2025)
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Steve L. Monroe, "Mirages of Reform: The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Mary Bridges on US Bankers Abroad and the Making of a Global Superpower
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Alyssa Battistoni, "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Isabella M. Weber, "How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate" (Routledge, 2021)
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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Nicholas P. Roberts, "A Sea of Wealth: The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace" (U California Press, 2025)
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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Charly Coleman, "The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Edward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Kevin P. Donovan, "Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Every Purchase Matters: How Fair Trade Farmers, Companies, and Consumers are Changing the World
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Ahmad Shokr, "Harvests of Liberation: Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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Ronald C. Po, "Shaping the Blue Dragon: Maritime China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties" (Liverpool UP, 2024)
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Toby Lincoln, "An Urban History of China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2025)
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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Paul Vigna, "The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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Gavin Williams, "Format Friction: Perspectives on the Shellac Disc" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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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)
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Daniel Morales, "Between Here and There: The Political Economy of Transnational Mexican Migration, 1900-1942" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Thomas M. Kemple, "Marx's Wager: Das Kapital and Classical Sociology" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Nadya Bair, "The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market" (U California Press, 2020)
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, "Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Ford to City: Drop Dead
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want" (Harper, 2025)
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Michael John Witgen, "Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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David Engerman, "Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made" (Oxford UP and Penguin RandomHouse South Asia, 2025)
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Renay Richardson and Arisa Loomba, "Human Resources: Slavery and the Making of Modern Britain" (Profile Books, 2025)
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Aditi Sahasrabuddhe, "Bankers' Trust: How Social Relations Avert Global Financial Collapse" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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John Nott, "Between Feast Famine: Food, Health, and the History of Ghana's Long Twentieth Century" (UCL Press, 2025)
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Elizabeth Popp Berman, "Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Susan L. Carruthers, "Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Mara Einstein, "Hoodwinked: How Cult Marketing Tactics Left Us Anxious, Broke, and Conned" (Prometheus Books, 2025)
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Kevin Guyan, "Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Didi Kuo, "The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (U of California Press, 2025)
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Paul Tucker, "Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Heather Sutherland, "Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, C.1600-c.1906" (NUS Press, 2021)
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Sarah Bull, "Selling Sexual Knowledge: Medical Publishing and Obscenity in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Matthew Wisnioski on the History of the Idea and Culture of “Innovation” in the United States
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Eric Blanc, "We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" (Univ of California Press, 2025)
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Ian Kumekawa, "Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge" (Knopf, 2025)
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Yasmine Motawy, "Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society" (AUC Press, 2025)
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Prithwiraj Choudhury, "The World Is Your Office: How Work from Anywhere Boosts Talent, Productivity, and Innovation" (Harvard Business Review Press, 2025)
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Emily Webber, "Mining Men: Britain's Last Kings of the Coalface" (Penguin, 2025)
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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John H. Cochrane, Klaus Masuch, and Luis Garicano, "Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Mark Somos, Matthew Cleary, Pablo Dufour, Edward Jones Corredera, and Emanuele Salerno, "The Unseen History of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Mary A. Armstrong and Susan L. Averett, "Disparate Measures: The Intersectional Economics of Women in STEM Work" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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L. Sasha Gora, "Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada" (University of Toronto Press, 2025)
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Rita McGrath, "Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen" (Harper Business, 2019)
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Women as Economic Actors: New Sources, Theories, and Methods
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Charles A. O'Reilly, III and Michael L. Tushman, "Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma, Second Edition" (Stanford Business Books, 2021)
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Fernando Pérez-Montesinos, "Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands" (U Texas Press, 2025)
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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Anthony C. Infanti, "The Human Toll: Taxation and Slavery in Colonial America" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Coll Thrush, "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific" (University of Washington Press, 2025)
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Joshua K. Wright, "The NBA's Global Empire: How the League Became an International Powerhouse" (McFarland, 2025)
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Amit Ron and Abraham A. Singer, "Everyone's Business: What Companies Owe Society" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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John Horn, "Inside the Competitor's Mindset: How to Predict Their Next Move and Position Yourself for Success" (MIT Press, 2023)
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May 31, 2025 |
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Gennifer Weisenfeld, "The Fine Art of Persuasion: Corporate Advertising Design, Nation, and Empire in Modern Japan" (Duke UP, 2025)
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May 31, 2025 |
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Xing Hang, "The Port: Hà Tiên and the Mo Clan in Early Modern Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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May 30, 2025 |
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Julia McClure, "Empire of Poverty: The Moral-Political Economy of the Spanish Empire" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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May 30, 2025 |
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Chris Aslan, "Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia" (Icon Books, 2024)
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May 29, 2025 |
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Charles Hecker, "Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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May 29, 2025 |
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Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024)
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May 28, 2025 |
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Alex Davies, "Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
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May 27, 2025 |
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Dionne Koller, "More Than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sport" (U California Press, 2025)
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May 26, 2025 |
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Tim Minshall, "How Things Are Made: A Journey Through the Hidden World of Manufacturing" (Ecco, 2025)
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May 25, 2025 |
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Nicholas Borst, "The Bird and the Cage: China’s Economic Contradictions" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)
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May 25, 2025 |
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Jody Benjamin, "The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850" (Ohio UP, 2024)
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May 24, 2025 |
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Richard D. Oram, "A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400-1400" (Birlinn, 2025)
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May 24, 2025 |
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Aviva Briefel, "Ghosts and Things: The Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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May 23, 2025 |
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Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
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May 22, 2025 |
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Selda Altan, "Chinese Workers of the World: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan-Indochina Railway" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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May 21, 2025 |
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Ben Jackson, "Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England" (Manchester UP, 2025)
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May 20, 2025 |
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Júlia Király, "Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Troubles to Global Hurricane" (Springer, 2020)
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May 19, 2025 |
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False Dawn: A Conversation with George Selgin on Recovering from the Great Depression
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May 18, 2025 |
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Myka Tucker-Abramson, "Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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May 17, 2025 |
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Stuart Ward, "Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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May 16, 2025 |
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Jennifer Holt, "Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data" (MIT Press, 2024)
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May 16, 2025 |
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Brendan Haug, "Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
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May 15, 2025 |
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Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s World
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May 14, 2025 |
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William Jennings, "Dibia's World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
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May 13, 2025 |
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Tupur Chatterjee, "Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India" (NYU Press, 2025)
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May 12, 2025 |
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David de Jong, "Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties" (Mariner Books, 2022)
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May 11, 2025 |
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Maïa Pal, "Jurisdictional Accumulation: An Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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May 10, 2025 |
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Darryl Campbell, "Fatal Abstraction: Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software" (W. W. Norton, 2025)
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May 09, 2025 |
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Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian, "The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform" (Yale UP, 2024)
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May 08, 2025 |
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Jack Copley, "Governing Financialization: The Tangled Politics of Financial Liberalization in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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May 07, 2025 |
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Chloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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May 06, 2025 |
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Laleh Khalili, "Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy" (Profile Books, 2025)
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May 05, 2025 |
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Jerome Powell: “We don't think you're a straight shooter"
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May 04, 2025 |
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Janet Yellen: “She had a view that the world was on fire”
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May 03, 2025 |
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Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
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May 02, 2025 |
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Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
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May 01, 2025 |
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Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner, "Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts" (Eerdmans, 2025)
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024)
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Fernando Collantes, "Milk in Spain and the History of Diet Change: The Political Economy of Dairy Consumption Since 1950" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Annalisa Marzano, "Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome" (Cambridge UP. 2022)
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Melissa Villa-Nicholas, "Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry Around Immigrants" (U California Press, 2023)
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Bianca Murillo, "Market Encounters: Consumer Cultures in Twentieth-Century Ghana" (Ohio UP, 2017)
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Katie Rose Hejtmanek, "The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Margherita Zanasi, "Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Enrique C. Ochoa, "México Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Titas Chakraborty, "Empire of Labor: How the East India Company Colonized Hired Work" (U California Press, 2025)
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Colleen A. Dunlavy, "Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the U.S.into a Manufacturing Powerhouse" (Polity Press, 2024)
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Ståle Holgersen, "Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World" (Verso, 2024)
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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John Kay, "The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Andrew Leigh, "How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity" (Mariner Books, 2024)
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Kathleen Thelen, "Attention, Shoppers!: American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Patrick Wallis, "The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship and Economic Growth in Early Modern England" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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Angus Lockyer, "Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Nathalie Cooke, "Tastes and Traditions: A Journey Through Menu History" (Reaktion, 2025)
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Stacie A. Kent, "Coercive Commerce: Global Capital and Imperial Governance at the End of the Qing Empire" (Hong Kong UP, 2024)
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Tana Li, "A Maritime Vietnam: From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Philip Harling, "Managing Mobility: The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840-1860" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Jason L. Newton, "Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest" (West Virginia UP, 2024)
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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Bin Yang, "Discovered But Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, C. 1100-1620" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Robert J. Antony, "Outlaws of the Sea: Maritime Piracy in Modern China" (Hong Kong UP, 2024)
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Jeremy Black, "A History of Britain's Transport" (Pen and Sword, 2025)
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Jeffrey Lee Funk on Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, "The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2023)
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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James Tejani, "A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America" (Norton, 2024)
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Managerial Bishops Rule! Peter Brown on Wealth in Early Christianity (JP)
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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William Blakemore Lyon, "Forged in Genocide: Migrant Workers Shaping Colonial Capitalism in Namibia, 1890-1925" (de Gruyter, 2024)
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Maggie M. Cao, "Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Andrea Wright, "Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Chiara Faggella, "Becoming Couture: The Italian Fashion Industry after the Second World War" (Manchester UP, 2024)
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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The Library of Mistakes: A Conversation with Russell Napier
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Jamie Jelinski, "Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2024)
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Cotton, Central Asia and the New Great Game
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Jeremy Black, "A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero, "Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization" (U California Press, 2024)
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola, "Hollywood Unions" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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John Coakley ed et al., "The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World: Maritime Predation, Empire, and the Construction of Authority at Sea" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Erik Baker, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Giampaolo Conte, "A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms" (Routledge, 2024)
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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David R. Saunders, "Chasing Archipelagic Dreams: The Expansion of Foreign Influence in Sabah amid the End of Empire, 1945–1965" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Rhiannon Stephens, "Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Kathryn Taylor, "Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice" (U Delaware Press, 2023)
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Lori A. Flores, "Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to Covid-19" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Yoni Appelbaum, "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of Prosperity" (Random House, 2025)
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Melinda Cooper, "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance" (Zone Books, 2024)
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Raphael Chijioke Njoku, "Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans: Narrating Decolonization, Postwar Commonwealth, and Africa’s Development, 1947-2022" (Leuven UP, 2024)
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Xiangli Ding, "Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Philip Howell, "Pub" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Rebecca Haw Allensworth, "The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong" (Harvard UP, 2025)
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Michael Albertus, "Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies" (Basic Books, 2025)
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Katie Beisel Hollenbach, "The Business of Bobbysoxers: Cultural Production in 1940s Frank Sinatra Fandom" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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Zai Liang. "From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States" (U California Press, 2023)
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro, "Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Rosemary Wakeman, "The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918–1941" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Sophia Rosenfeld, "The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Sarah E. Bond, "Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Joel Z. Garrod, "Royal Histories: The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864-2022" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Lionel Barber, "Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son" (Atria, 2024)
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Enrico Ciappi, "Building Europe in New York: From the Munich Conference to the European Coal and Steel Community (1938-1952)" (Routledge, 2025)
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Richard Vague, "The Paradox of Debt: A New Path to Prosperity Without Crisis" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Kim Pernell, "Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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A. G. Hopkins, "Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Adam Franklin-Lyons, "Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon" (Penn State Press, 2022)
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Lennard J. Davis, "Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Alan Bollard, "Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, "America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Michael Tondre, "Oil" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Andy Wightman, "The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it" (Birlinn, 2025)
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Brigid Schulte, "Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life" (Henry Holt, 2024)
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Steven King, "Fraudulent Lives: Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present" (McGill Queen's UP, 2024)
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Duncan Mavin, "Meltdown: Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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James Michael Buckley, "City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Elizabeth L. Block, "Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Brett Bannor, "American Sheep: A Cultural History" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Jesper Juul, "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Patrick Dixon, "Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Edward Jones Corredera, "Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Dayne C. Riley, "Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751" (Bucknell UP, 2024)
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Alex Cuadros, "When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon" (Grand Central Publishing, 2024)
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Joshua Brinkman on American Farming Culture and the History of Technology
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Devin Fergus, “Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Austin Dean, "China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Joshua D. Rothman, "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America" (Basic Book, 2021)
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym, "Twitter: A Biography" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Benjamin T. Smith, "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Shannan Clark, "The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and 20th-Century Consumer Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Randy M. Browne, "The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Robert Darnton, "Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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John Eglin, "The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Juan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Rebecca Ball, "A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Marianne Kamp, "Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Lisa Sheryl Jacobson. "Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey After Prohibition" (U California Press, 2024)
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Christine M. Larson, "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, "The Unequal Effects of Globalization" (MIT, 2023)
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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Theresa Flanigan, "The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Politics, and Civic Identity in Late Medieval Florence" (Brepols, 2024)
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Bob Kuska, "Balls of Confusion: Pro Baskelball Goes to War (1965-1970)" (From Way Downtown, 2024)
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Sara Cantillon et al., "Feminist Political Economy: A Global Perspective" (Agenda, 2023)
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Alissa Klots, "Domestic Service in the Soviet Union; Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Carrie M. Lane, "More Than Pretty Boxes: How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn't Working" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman, "Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie®" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Ana Lucia Araujo, "Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Reem Hilu, "Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s: The Intimate Life of Computers" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Meredith McKittrick, "Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Benjamin J. Shestakofsky on How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Susan Gaunt Stearns. "Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Jeffrey M. Pilcher, "Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Toby Bennett, "Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Steven King et al., "In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Adrian Tinniswood, "The Power and the Glory: Life in the English Country House Before the Great War" (Basic Books, 2024)
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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James T. White and John Punter, "Condoland: The Planning, Design, and Development of Toronto's CityPlace" (UBC Press, 2023)
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Ken Wilcox, "The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice" (John Wiley & Sons, 2024)
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain, "How Government Built America" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Maria Adamopoulou, "The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974)" (de Gruyter, 2024)
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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Karen Lystra, "Love and the Working Class: The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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Ryan Moran, "Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Brian Donahue, "Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Steve J. Shone, "Dangerous Anarchist Strikers" (Brill, 2023)
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Kerry Meakin, "The Professionalization of Window Display in Britain, 1919-1939" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Andrew Fleming, "The Gravity of Feathers: Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kilda" (Birlinn, 2024)
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Katherine C. Epstein, "Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Travis A. Weisse, "Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness" (UNC Press, 2024)
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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An Existential Fight between Green and Carbon Assets (with Mark Blyth)
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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D. Andrew Johnson, "Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Nick Bernards, "Fictions of Financialization: Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation and Twenty-First Century Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2024)
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Laura F. Edwards, "Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Victor P. Petrov, "Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Anne Berg, "Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Seth E. Jenny et al., "Routledge Handbook of Esports" (Routledge, 2024)
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Why Can’t the US Compete with China in Infrastructure?
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Melissa Teixeira, "A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Mara Kardas-Nelson, "We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff on Automation
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Justene Hill Edwards, "Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank" (Norton, 2024)
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Adam Hanieh, "Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market" (Verso, 2024)
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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From Rubinomics to Bidenomics: On the Democratic Party’s Shifting Trade & Industrial Policy
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Dariusz Wojcik et al., "Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Eric Helleiner, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Michael Hardt, "The Subversive Seventies" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Mark W. Geiger, "Floor Rules: Insider Culture in Financial Markets" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Nicolas Delsol, "Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study" (UP of Florida, 2024)
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Toni Alimi, "Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Townsend Middleton, "Quinine's Remains: Empire’s Medicine and the Life Thereafter" (U California Press, 2024)
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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Himanshu Upadhyaya, "Critical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India (1850–1980)" (Springer, 2024)
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Deborah Valenze, "The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Anto Mohsin, "Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Kevin Sanson, "Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production" (U California Press, 2024)
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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Michael J. Alarid, "Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860" (U New Mexico Press, 2022)
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Peter C. Kunze, "Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Andrew G. Walder, “China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed” (Harvard UP, 2015)
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Corey Ross, "Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry" (Regnery History, 2024)
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Christian Velasco, "Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age" (Routledge, 2024)
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Juan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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A Deep Dive on Karl Marx's "Capital"
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Jeffrey Ding, "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Israel G. Solares, "Underground Leviathan: Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas" (U Nevada Press, 2024)
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Sean McMeekin, "To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism" (Basic Books, 2024)
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Robert Rozett, "Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front During the Second World War" (Yad Vashem, 2014)
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Mary Bridges, "Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Paola Bertucci, "In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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James A. Anderson, "The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road: Trade, Security, and State Formation" (U Washington Press, 2024)
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Inés Valdez, "Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Annette Kehnel, "The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Samuel J. Hirst, "Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Ian Williams, "Vampire State: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy (Birlinn, 2024)
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Jeff Schuhrke, "Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of U.S. Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade" (Verso, 2024)
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Zeev Levin, "Collectivization and Social Engineering: Soviet Administration and the Jews of Uzbekistan, 1917-1939" (Brill, 2015)
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Andrew W. Kahrl, "The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman, "Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Joseph Harley, "At Home with the Poor: Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, c.1650-1850" (Manchester UP, 2024)
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Max Hirsh and Till Mostowlansky, "Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Emily Carman, "Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System" (U Texas Press, 2016)
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Ilias Alami and Adam D. Dixon, "The Spectre of State Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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Beng Huat Chua, "Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore's Public Housing" (NUS Press, 2024)
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Karl Marx, "Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Thomas White, "China's Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier" (U Washington Press, 2024)
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, "When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Yakov Feygin, "Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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The Epic Story of America's Great Migration: A Talk by Isabel Wilkerson
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Alison Fragale, "Likeable Badass: The New Science of Successful Women" (Doubleday Books, 2024)
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2024)
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Aaron M. Hyman, "Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America" (Getty, 2021)
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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David Lay Williams, "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Henry H. Work, "Wood, Whiskey and Wine: A History of Barrels"(Reaktion Books, 2024)
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Manuela Moschella, "Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Cynthia A. Ruder, “Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space” (I. B. Tauris, 2018)
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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Susan Greenhalgh, "Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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Aleksander Pluskowski, "The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation" (Reaktion, 2024)
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: : The Horse and the Rise of Empires
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Cyrus Mody on the Importance of Square (as in NOT COOL) Scientists and Engineers
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Damaging Rationality: Exxon-Funded Legal Research and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Gary Mucciaroni, "Answers to the Labour Question: Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880–1945" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Robin Bernstein, "Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Edward Pearson, "The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670-1825" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Le Lin, "The Fruits of Opportunism: Noncompliance and the Evolution of China's Supplemental Education Industry" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Oliver Volckart, "The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Gregory Makoff, "Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Angela Geck, "The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Susanne Barth, "From Schmelt Camp to 'Little Auschwitz': Blechhammer’s Role in the Holocaust" (Purdue UP, 2024)
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Vanessa S. Oliveira, "Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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Zvi Schreiber, "Money, Going Out of Style: The Story of Money and the Mystery of Its Decline" (2021)
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Tehila Sasson, "The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Ana Raquel Minian, “Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration” (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Benjamin C. Waterhouse on "One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America"
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Eric Hoyt, "Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press" (U California Press, 2022)
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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David L. Hoffmann, "The Stalin Era" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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Catherine Boone, "Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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Paul Volcker: “The only number that works is zero”
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Claudia Strauss, "What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic" (ILR Press, 2024)
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Alice Mah, "Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Lio Mangubat, "Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period, 1565-1946" (Faction Press, 2024)
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Nora Stone, "How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Arthur Burns: “The smartest guy in the room”
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Jacob Soll, "Free Market: The History of an Idea" (Basic Books, 2022)
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Bill Martin: “Truman looked at him and said: ‘Traitor’”
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Andrew Denning, "Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Marriner Eccles: Reform “may not have happened in 1935 if Eccles hadn't been there”
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Katherine Hempstead, "Uncovered: The Story of Insurance in America" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Janine P. Holc, "The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Swati Chattopadhyay, "Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Elena Borisova, "Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life" (UCL Press, 2024)
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Roger Crowley, "Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Bernard E. Harcourt. "Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Richard D. Oram, "Where Men No More May Reap Or Sow: The Little Ice Age: Scotland 1400-1850" (Birlinn, 2024)
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Kate McDonald on Asian Mobility History as Labor History
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Kristie Flannery, "Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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Kathleen Loock, "Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Mark Baker, "Pivot of China: Spatial Politics and Inequality in Modern Zhengzhou" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Anton Howes, "Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Lisandro Perez, “Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York” (NYU Press, 2018)
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Lucia Hulsether, "Capitalist Humanitarianism" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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Michael J. Douma, "The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York: A Cultural, Economic, and Demographic History, 1700-1827" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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Kevin Loughran, "Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Sarah Milton, "Ageing and New Intimacies: Gender, Sexuality and Temporality in an English Salsa Scene" (Manchester UP, 2024)
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Mark R. Beissinger, "The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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James Mallery, "City of Vice: Transience and San Francisco's Urban History, 1848-1917" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Toby Green, "A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Mark Peterson, "The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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Jonathan Connolly, "Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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James D. Fisher, "The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Theresa McCulla, "Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Paul Rekret, "Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis" (Goldsmiths Press, 2024)
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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William Gow, "Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Laura Robson, "Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work" (Verso, 2023)
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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David Alff, "The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Jeremy Black, "A World History of Rail: From the Steam Regime to Today" (Amberley Publishing, 2023)
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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Jessie Abrahams, "Schooling Inequality: Aspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class" (Bristol UP, 2024)
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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Amanda McMillan Lequieu, "Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Racism as Power Relation: A Discussion with Adaner Usmani (EF, JP)
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Samuel Dolbee, "Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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John Soluri, "Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia" (UNC Press, 2024)
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Daniel Susskind, "Growth: A History and a Reckoning" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Miranda Sachs, "An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Michael Sonenscher, "Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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J. Megan Greene, "Building a Nation at War: Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Simon Heffer, "Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars" (Penguin, 2024)
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Saqib Khan, "Tribe-Class Linkages: The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura" (Routledge, 2024)
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Emily Zackin and Chloe N. Thurston, "The Political Development of American Debt Relief" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Trish Kahle on the Labor History of Energy Systems
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard, "Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Orazio Coco, "Sino-Italian Political and Economic Relations: From the Treaty of Friendship to the Second World War" (Routledge, 2024)
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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Christopher T. Conner and David R. Dickens, "Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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Oscar Sanchez-Sibony, "The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market: Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964–1971" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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Allison Elias, "The Rise of Corporate Feminism: Women in the American Office, 1960-1990" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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Sally Stocksdale, "When Emancipation Came: The End of Enslavement on a Southern Plantation and a Russian Estate" (McFarland, 2022)
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Timothy G. Anderson and Brian Schoen, "Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond" (Ohio UP, 2023)
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Hannah Forsyth, "Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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John Soluri, "Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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Jessica Calarco, "Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net" (Portfolio, 2024)
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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Laurence M. Geary, "The Land War in Ireland: Famine, Philanthropy and Moonlighting" (Cork UP, 2023)
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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Sidney Xu Lu, "The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Christopher William England, "Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Chloe Wigston Smith, "Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Adam Berg, "The Olympics that Never Happened: Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Kathleen Day, "Broken Bargain: Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Stephanie Ternullo, "How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Mark Stoll, "Profit: An Environmental History" (Polity Press, 2022)
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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Elisa Camiscioli, "Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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Financial Institutions and Enslavement
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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Jonathan H. Ebel, "From Dust They Came: Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California" (NYU Press,2023)
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Miles M. Evers and Eric Grynaviski, "The Price of Empire: American Entrepreneurs and the Origins of America's First Pacific Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Thomas Larkin, "The China Firm: American Elites and the Making of British Colonial Society" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Aaron Eddens, "Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa" (U California Press, 2024)
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Elena Kochetkova, "The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Naosuke Mukoyama, "Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Kyle Barnett, "Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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Daniel Rachel, "Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation" (Akashic Books, 2024)
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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Anthony Heath and Yaojun Li, "Social Mobility" (Polity Press, 2024)
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May 31, 2024 |
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Anne Kim, "Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor" (The New Press, 2024)
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May 30, 2024 |
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Tom Mueller, "How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine" (Norton, 2023)
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May 29, 2024 |
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Stephen J. Silvia, "The UAW's Southern Gamble: Organizing Workers at Foreign-Owned Vehicle Plants" (IRL Press, 2023)
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May 29, 2024 |
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The Social Acceptance of Inequality
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May 28, 2024 |
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Carola Binder, "Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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May 27, 2024 |
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Iris Moon, "Melancholy Wedgwood" (MIT Press, 2024)
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May 26, 2024 |
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American Innovation, American Vitality: A Conversation with Chris Buskirk
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May 22, 2024 |
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Rob Drew, "Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable" (Duke UP, 2023)
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May 20, 2024 |
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Daniel P. Ott, "Harvesting History: McCormick's Reaper, Heritage Branding, and Historical Forgery" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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May 20, 2024 |
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Priya Satia, "Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
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May 18, 2024 |
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Constantin Ardeleanu, "Steamboat Modernity: Travel, Transport, and Social Transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830–1860" (CEU Press, 2024)
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May 18, 2024 |
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Adriana Chira, "Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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May 17, 2024 |
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Joan E. Cho, "Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
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May 17, 2024 |
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Kunal M. Parker, "The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870-1970" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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May 16, 2024 |
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Rajrishi Singhal, "Slip, Stitch and Stumble: The Untold Story of Financial Reforms in India" (Viking, 2024)
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May 16, 2024 |
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Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson, "Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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May 16, 2024 |
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Raghuram G. Rajan and Rohit Lamba, "Breaking the Mold: India’s Untraveled Path to Prosperity" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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May 15, 2024 |
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Liliana Doganova, "Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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May 14, 2024 |
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Denise Von Glahn, "Circle of Winners: How the Guggenheim Foundation Composition Awards Shaped American Music Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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May 12, 2024 |
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Per Högselius and Achim Klüppelberg, "The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism" (CEU Press, 2023)
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May 12, 2024 |
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Görkem Akgöz, "In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey" (Brill, 2023)
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May 12, 2024 |
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Robert K. D. Colby, "An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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May 10, 2024 |
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Francesca Trivellato, "The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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May 05, 2024 |
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Tanisha M. Fazal, "Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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May 05, 2024 |
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Patrick Humphries, "Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood: How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios" (History Press, 2023)
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May 04, 2024 |
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Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac, "The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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May 03, 2024 |
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Jennifer M. Black, "Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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May 01, 2024 |
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Andre Schmid, "North Korea's Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953-1965" (U California Press, 2024)
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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George R. Boyer, "The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Sheilagh Ogilvie, "The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Michael De Groot, "Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Adrian Tinniswood, "Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House" (Basic Books, 2021)
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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John H. Cable, "Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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John L. Sullivan, "Podcasting in a Platform Age: From an Amateur to a Professional Medium" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Steven C. Beda, "Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Michael J. Graetz, "The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Philip Mark Plotch and Jen Nelles, "Mobilizing the Metropolis: How the Port Authority Built New York" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Gary S. Cross, "Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Jane Hamlett and Julie-Marie Strange, "Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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John Tolan, "England's Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Guido Alfani, "As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Jonathan Chatwin, "The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Liz Tregenza, "Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70" (Bloombury, 2023)
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Steven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I" (HarperCollins, 2023)
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Jeremy Black, "The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History" (Routledge, 2015)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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100 Years of Radio in South Africa: Then and Now
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Robert M. Jarvis, "Gambling Under the Swastika: Casinos, Horse Racing, Lotteries, and Other Forms of Betting in Nazi Germany" (Carolina Academic Press, 2019)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Sean Vanatta on Credit Cards
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Gustavo Guzmán, "Attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jews: From Acceptable Undesirables to Respected Businessmen" (Brill, 2022)
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Marc Edelman, "Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Social Movements and Agrarian Change" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, "The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market" (Bloomsbury. 2023)
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Naomi Cahn, et al., "Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Robert Bruno, "What Work Is" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Oliver Wunsch, "A Delicate Matter: Art, Fragility, and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century France" (Penn State UP, 2024)
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Jamie Goodall, "Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy: From Cape Cod to the Caribbean" (History Press, 2023)
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Rachel S. Gross, "Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Jeffrey A. Javed, "Righteous Revolutionaries: Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Marc-William Palen, "Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Anelise Hanson Shrout, "Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Heather Akou, "On the Job: A History of American Work Uniforms" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Max Fraser, "Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti, "Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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"Market pressure was growing by the day" with Charles Dallara
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Nancy Folbre, "The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy" (Verso, 2021)
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Thomas D. Conlan, "Kings in All But Name: The Lost History of Ouchi Rule in Japan, 1350-1569" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Victoria Perry, "A Bittersweet Heritage: Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape" (Hurst, 2022)
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Julie Kalman, "The Kings of Algiers: How Two Jewish Families Shaped the Mediterranean World During the Napoleonic Wars and Beyond" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Mark J. Higgins, "Investing in U.S. Financial History: Understanding the Past to Forecast the Future" (Greenleaf, 2024)
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Brian Merchant, "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech" (LIttle, Brown, 2023)
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Sean M. Kelley, "American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Alicia Kennedy, "No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating" (Beacon Press, 2023)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Alan Bollard, "Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Joanna Crosby, "Apples and Orchards Since the Eighteenth Century: Material Innovation and Cultural Tradition" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Kristine M. McCusker, "Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent: Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Who owns Khadi?
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Upal Chakrabarti, "Assembling the Local: Political Economy and Agrarian Governance in British India" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Fynn Holm, "The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600-2019" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Gerald Epstein, "Busting the Bankers' Club: Finance for the Rest of Us" (U California Press, 2024)
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Alessandro Gerosa, "The Hipster Economy: Taste and Authenticity in Late Modern Capitalism (UCL Press, 2024)
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, "Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Yanis Varoufakis, "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" (Melville House, 2023)
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Jacob Ward, "Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Neil Lee, "Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy" (U California Press, 2024)
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Lawrence Glickman, "Free Enterprise: An American History" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Tobias Straumann, "1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, "Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World" (U California Press, 2022)
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Ian Saxine, "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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"War is what you make of it" with Neta Crawford of Oxford University and the Costs of War Project
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Tim Keogh, "In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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Ana Lucia Araujo, "The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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Dallas Michelbacher, "Jewish Forced Labor in Romania, 1940-1944" (Indiana UP, 2020)
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, "The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future Through Science" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Julia Ornelas-Higdon, "The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Alex Burchmore, "New Export China: Translations Across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art" (U California Press, 2023)
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Erin R. Graham, "Transforming International Institutions: How Money Quietly Sidelined Multilateralism at the United Nations" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Marco Armiero et al., "Mussolini's Nature: An Environmental History of Italian Fascism" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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David M. Henkin, "The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms that Made Us who We are" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Paul Franke, "Feeling Lucky: The Production of Gambling Experiences in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Rachel Nolan, "Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Alka Vaid Menon, "Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards" (U California Press, 2023)
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Marcia Stephenson, "Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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Amanda Lanzillo, "Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India" (U California Press, 2024)
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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Bruce Wardhaugh, "Competition Law in Crisis: The Antitrust Response to Economic Shocks" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Caleb Wellum, "Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Nicholas Radburn, "Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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James R. Fichter, "Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773–1776" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Cornelia Woll, "Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Negotiated Justice in Global Markets" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Daniel Peris, "The Ownership Dividend: The Coming Paradigm Shift in the U.S. Stock Market" (Routledge, 2024)
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Chelsea Schields, "Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean" (U California Press, 2023)
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Lewis Wade, "Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France: Marine Insurance, War and the Atlantic Empire Under Louis XIV" (Boydell Press, 2023)
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Ajantha Subramanian on "The Caste of Merit" ((EF,JP))
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Aimee Loiselle, "Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Christopher Corker, "The Business and Technology of the Sheffield Armaments Industry, 1900-1930" (U of York, 2016)
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Gustav Cederlof, "The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba" (U California Press, 2023)
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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James W. Cortada, "Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action" (Columbia Business School, 2023)
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Stéphane Jettot, "Selling Ancestry: Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Matthew Romaniello, "Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Robert Michael Morrissey, "People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America" (U Washington Press, 2022)
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Katherine Rye Jewell, "Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Gerald Epstein, “What's Wrong with Modern Money Theory? A Policy Critique” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Seth Bernard, "Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Jayaseelan Raj, "Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit life in the Indian Tea Belt" (UCL Press, 2022)
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Klaus Buchenau, "From Grand Estates to Grand Corruption: The Battle Over the Possessions of Prince Albert of Thurn and Taxis in Interwar Yugoslavia" (Brill, 2023)
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Susanna Phillips Newbury, "The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Applying Historical Perspectives to Finance (with Daniel Peris)
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Chinmay Tumbe, "The Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920): How They Shaped India and the World" (Harper Collins, 2020)
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Max Deardorff, "A Tale of Two Granadas: Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Richard Vague, "A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Benjamin Lorr, "The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket" (Penguin, 2020)
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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James O'Toole, "The Enlightened Capitalists: Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good" (HarperBusiness, 2019)
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Benjamin R. Siegel, “Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Carolyn Birdsall, "Radiophilia" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Genealogies of Modernity Episode 7: A Genealogy of Gun Violence
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, "Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Marixa Lasso, "Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Tamara Venit-Shelton, "Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Jeremy Yellen, "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Matt Garcia, "Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World’s Most Notorious Corporations" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Devrim Adam Yavuz, "Democracy and Capitalism in Turkey: The State, Power, and Big Business" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt, "Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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Helen Louise Cowie, "Victims of Fashion: Animal Commodities in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Vineeta Sinha. "Temple Tracks: Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia" (Berghahn Books, 2023)
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Daniel Campo, "Postindustrial DIY: Recovering American Rust Belt Icons" (Fordham UP, 2023)
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, "Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Michelle R. Scott, "T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Sara Chatfield, "In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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The Future of Global Economic Governance: A Discussion with Jamie Martin
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Randall Hansen, "War, Work, and Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Jean Yen-chun Lin, "A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Niall G MacKenzie et al., "Varieties of Capitalism Over Time" (Routledge, 2022)
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Regina Lee Blaszczyk and David Suisman, "Capitalism and the Senses" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Yan Slobodkin, "The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Fae Dussart, "In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Christopher A. Whatley and Joanna Hambly, "Salt: Scotland's Newest Oldest Industry" (Birlinn, 2023)
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Lawrence Zhang, "Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Andrew C. McKevitt, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Sara Byala, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Daniel Herbert, "Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film" (U California Press, 2023)
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Charles S. Maier, "The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Dirk Van Laak, "Lifelines of Our Society: A Global History of Infrastructure" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Tabitha Stanmore, "Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Sarah E. Stoller, "Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Jarmo T. Kotilaine, "Sustainable Prosperity in the Arab Gulf: From Miracle to Method" (Routledge, 2023)
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Ruth Dalton, "Living in Houses: A Personal History English Domestic Architecture" (Lund Humphries, 2022)
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Economic Enchantments
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Amy Harris, "Being Single in Georgian England: Families, Households, and the Unmarried" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Joe Lane, "Networks, Innovation, and Knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851" (U of London, 2023)
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Thomas Blake Earle, "The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Jason Puskar, "The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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Matthew F. Jordan, "Danger Sound Klaxon!: The Horn That Changed History" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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Plantationocene
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Monetary History, Bretton Woods, and Banking Crises
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Eve Warburton, "Resource Nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, Big Business, and the State" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Jennifer Burns on the Life and Lasting Influence of Milton Friedman
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Kai Jun Chen, "Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China" (U Washington Press, 2023)
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Elizabeth Anderson, "Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Brendan J. Doherty, "Fundraiser in Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Campaign Cash" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Jennifer E. Brooks, "Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama" (LSU Press, 2022)
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Adrien Sebro, "Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Aditya Balasubramanian, "Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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Daniel Macfarlane, "Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US-Canada Relations" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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Huwy-min Lucia Liu, "Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Xaq Frohlich, "From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age" (U California Press, 2023)
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Aarathi Prasad, "Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses" (William Collins, 2023)
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Jieh-min Wu, "Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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The Future of Crucial Materials: A Discussion with Ed Conway
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Akram Benjamin, "Cotton, Finance and Business Networks in a Globalised World: The Case of Egypt During the First half of the Twentieth Century" (2019)
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Writing the History of Money and Monetary Policy
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Vicki Howard, ed., "A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Wm. Matthew Kennedy, "The Imperial Commonwealth: Australia and the Project of Empire, 1867-1914" (Manchester UP, 2023)
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Zeke Faux, "Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall" (Currency, 2023)
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Antitrust Policy, The Chicago School Consumer Welfare Standard and The Rise of the New Brandeisians
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Empires, States, Corporations: A Discussion with Historians Philip J. Stern and Quinn Slobodian
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Jeff Jarvis, "Magazine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Adam Bisno, "Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy: Liberalism and the Grand Hotels of Berlin, 1875-1933" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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James V. Fenelon, "Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492-1790" (Routledge, 2023)
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Diana Kamin, "Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Monetary economics, the Taylor Rule, fiscal policy, and economic growth
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Milton Friedman, The Chicago School, and The Government’s Incentive To Promote Economic Growth
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Jeremy Land, "Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776)" (Brill, 2023)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Vikram Visana, "Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Christopher Phillips, "Civilian Specialists at War: Britain's Transport Experts and the First World War" (U London Press, 2020)
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Ian Jones, "Using the Past: Authenticity, Reliability, and the Role of Archives in Barclays PLC's Use of the Past Strategies" (U Liverpool, 2021)
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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AI, Post-Truth, and Cultural Transformation
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Branko Milanovic, "Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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John D. Garrigus, "A Secret Among the Blacks: Slave Resistance Before the Haitian Revolution" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Vilja Hulden, "The Bosses' Union: How Employers Organized to Fight Labor Before the New Deal" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Michael Taylor, "The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery" (Bodley Head, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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James J. A. Blair, "Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol, "Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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On The History of Occupational Licensing in the U.S.
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Tariq D. Khan, "The Republic Shall be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Rachel O'Dwyer, "Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform" (Verso, 2023)
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Arunima Datta, "Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Daniel Satinsky, "Creating the Post-Soviet Russian Market Economy: Through American Eyes" (Routledge, 2023)
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Laura Gowing, "Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Nan Turner, "Clothing Goes to War: Creativity Inspired by Scarcity in World War II" (Intellect Books, 2022)
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, "Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution" (Polity, 2023)
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Taylor Lorenz, "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Twenty Years After “The New Economy”: A Conversation with Doug Henwood
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Boyd Cothran and Adrian Shubert, "The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914" (UNC Press, 2024)
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Isaac McKean Scarborough, "Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Jared Davidson, "Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2023)
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws, "Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Lee Mcguigan, "Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Jamie L. Jones, "Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Michelle K. Berry, "Cow Talk: Work, Ecology, and Range Cattle Ranchers in the Postwar Mountain West" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, "Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap" (U California Press, 2023)
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Global Inequality: Are We Really Measuring What We Should Be Measuring?
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Lenora Hanson, "The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Oscar Webber, "Negotiating Relief and Freedom: Responses to Disaster in the British Caribbean, 1812-1907" (Manchester UP, 2023)
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Luke Messac, "Your Money Or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Zachary Parolin, "Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2023)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Guillemette Crouzet, "Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Ines Prodöhl, "Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950" (Routledge, 2023)
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Race and Electrical Infrastructure in the Jim Crow South
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Padraic X. Scanlan, "Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain" (Robinson, 2021)
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Peter Good, "The East India Company in Persia: Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Ryan Tucker Jones, "Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Christian O. Paiz, "The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-And-File History of the UFW Movement" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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The Ideology of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Robert Eberhart
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Kalyani Ramnath, "Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Jeremy Black, "Why the Industrial Revolution Happened in Britain" (Amberley Publishing, 2023)
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Lucia Carminati. "Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859-1906" (U California Press, 2023)
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Outside the Box: The History and Future of Globalization
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Ulbe Bosma, "The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Roma Agrawal, "Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)" (Norton, 2023)
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Diane Purkiss, "English Food: A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables (William Collins, 2022)
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Nicholas Hoover Wilson, "Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Don J. Wyatt, "Slavery in East Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Bobby J. Smith II, "Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Yiwen Li, "Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges Between China and Japan, 839-1403 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Charlotte Karem Albrecht, "Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling" (U California Press, 2023)
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, "How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms" (Norton, 2023)
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Vaudine England, "Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong" (Scribner, 2023)
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Elizabeth Humphrys, "How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project" (Haymarket, 2019)
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Wendy A. Woloson, "Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Stevan Harrell, "An Ecological History of Modern China" (U Washington Press, 2023)
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Frank Jacob, "Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century" (Transcript Publishing, 2022)
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Steven Press, "Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Philip Roscoe, "How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance" (Bristol UP, 2023)
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Richard C. Hoffmann, "The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Ryan C. Smith, "The Real Oil Shock: How Oil Transformed Money, Debt, and Finance" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Cindy McCulligh, "Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Erika Marie Bsumek, "The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Yiannis Kokosalakis, "Building Socialism: The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921–1941" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Mike Rothschild, "Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories" (Melville House, 2023)
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony, "Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Christine Keiner, "Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Olga Fedorenko, "Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Logistic Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Colleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Nicholas Lemann, "Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream" (FSG, 2019)
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Powering American Farms: A Conversation with Richard Hirsh
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Manfred B. Steger and Ravi K. Roy, "Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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Tom Young, "Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2023)
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Richard N. Langlois, "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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The Texas Two-Step and Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Vincanne Adams, "Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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The Future of Supply Chains: A Discussion with Rob Handfield
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Ronan Bolton, "Making Energy Markets: The Origins of Electricity Liberalisation in Europe" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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US History in 15 Foods: A Conversation with Anna Zeide
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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John M. Findlay, "The Mobilized American West, 1940-2000" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Thomas Piketty on Capitalism and Inequality (Adaner Usmani, JP)
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Victor Luckerson, "Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street" (Random House, 2023)
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Juliet Schor, "After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back" (U California Press, 2021)
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Victoria Lee, "The Arts of the Microbial World: Fermentation Science in Twentieth-Century Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Meg Bernhard, "Wine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Callie Wilkinson, "Empire of Influence: The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Marco Grasso, "From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon, 2022)
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Randall Patnode, "The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Anne Giblin Gedacht, "Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan" (Brill, 2022)
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Palo Alto: A Conversation with Malcolm Harris
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Jason Chang et al., "The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom" (PM Press, 2022)
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Brent Cebul, "Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Shortage
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Chris Desan on Making Money (Recall This Buck)
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Chris Wickham, "The Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Jack Metzgar, "Bridging the Divide: Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society" (ILR Press, 2021)
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Malcolm F. Purinton, "Globalization in a Glass: The Rise of Pilsner Beer through Technology, Taste and Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada, "Connecting the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land" (Routledge, 2023)
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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The Bubble Economy: Is Sustainable Growth Possible?
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Daniel R. Smith, "The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945" (Manchester UP, 2023)
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Nicholas Dagen Bloom, "The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Alan Bollard, "Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Josh Shepperd, "Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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The Singer Sewing Machine in Spain and Mexico: Multinational Business, Gender, and Technologies
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Marcello Musto, "The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Make it New: A History of Silicon Valley Design
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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Craig Nelson, "V Is For Victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II" (Scribner, 2023)
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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The Outsourcer: The Story of India's IT Revolution
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Jean Pfaelzer, "California, a Slave State" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Stephanie Decker et al., "Handbook of Historical Methods for Management" (2023)
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Richard Duncan, "The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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David Cressy, "Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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The Future of Venture Capitalists: A Discussion with Sebastian Mallaby
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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The History of the American Shopping Mall and Its Cultures
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Keith Tribe, "Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Vera Keller, "The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Lloyd Daniel Barba, "Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Allan E. S. Lumba, "Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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J. P. Daughton, "In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism" (Norton, 2021)
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Stephen G. Gross, "Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, "Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Jacqueline Beatty, "In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Kathryn Olivarius, "Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Amanda L. Van Lanen, "The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Anne L. Murphy, "Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Peter Thilly, "The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Amy Brady, "Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--a Cool History of a Hot Commodity" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Rob Marchant, "East Africa’s Human Environment Interactions: Historical Perspectives for a Sustainable Future" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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The Future of Big Finance: A Discussion with Anastasia Nesvetailova
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, "The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty" (Penguin, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Perry Mehrling, "Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Simon Ville and David Merrett, "International Business in Australia before World Shaping a Multinational Economy" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
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May 31, 2023 |
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William J. Bernstein, "The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups" (Grove Press, 2021)
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May 29, 2023 |
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Lawrence H. White, "Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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May 28, 2023 |
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Burkhard Schnepel and Julia Verne, "Cargoes in Motion: Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean" (Ohio UP, 2022)
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May 27, 2023 |
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Missing: Men at Work — A Conversation with Nick Eberstadt
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May 26, 2023 |
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Kenneth Mondschein, "On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
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May 26, 2023 |
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Nicholas Scott Baker, "In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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May 26, 2023 |
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Saskia Coenen Snyder, "A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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May 25, 2023 |
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Suzanne Sutherland, "The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur: War, Diplomacy, and Knowledge in Habsburg Europe" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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May 24, 2023 |
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Adrian R. Bazbauers and Susan Engel, "The Global Architecture of Multilateral Development Banks: A System of Debt or Development?" (Routledge, 2023)
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May 24, 2023 |
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Truth, Fiction, and Student Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Beth Akers
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May 22, 2023 |
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Natalie Koch, "Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia" (Verso, 2023)
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May 22, 2023 |
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Enrique Martino, "Touts: Recruiting Indentured Labor in the Gulf of Guinea" (de Gruyter, 2022)
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May 20, 2023 |
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Inflation, Past and Present: A Conversation with Tyler Goodspeed
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May 19, 2023 |
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Troy Bickham, "Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
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May 19, 2023 |
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Mark Paul, "The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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May 18, 2023 |
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Claire Provost and Matt Kennard, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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May 17, 2023 |
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Peter Thilly, "The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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May 14, 2023 |
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John Klaess, "Breaks in the Air: The Birth of Rap Radio in New York City" (Duke UP, 2022)
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May 12, 2023 |
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Maria L. Quintana, "Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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May 12, 2023 |
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Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World" (Penguin, 2023)
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May 09, 2023 |
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Sarrah Kassem, "Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organization" (Bristol UP, 2023)
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May 06, 2023 |
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Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
|
May 05, 2023 |
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Jack Buffington, "Reinventing the Supply Chain: A 21st-Century Covenant with America" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
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May 05, 2023 |
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Peter Frankopan, "The Earth Transformed: An Untold History" (Knopf, 2023)
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May 04, 2023 |
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Chad E. Pearson, "Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century" (UNC Press, 2022)
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May 02, 2023 |
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Anne Marie Todd, "Valley of Heart's Delight: Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley" (U California Press, 2022)
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May 02, 2023 |
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Brian Domitrovic, "The Emergence of Arthur Laffer: The Foundations of Supply-Side Economics in Chicago and Washington, 1966–1976" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
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May 01, 2023 |
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Brett Christophers, "Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World" (Verso, 2023)
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Artan R. Hoxha, "Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania" (Central European UP, 2023)
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Elliott West, "Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Thomas Aiello, "Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration: The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Joel E. Correia, "Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay's Chaco" (U California Press, 2023)
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Quinn Slobodian, "Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy" (Metropolitan, 2023)
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Paul Kenny, "Why Populism?: Political Strategy from Ancient Greece to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Charles Read, "Calming the Storms: The Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises Since 1825" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Luca Zan, "The Venice Arsenal: Between History, Heritage, and Re-Use" (Routledge, 2022)
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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Harold James, "Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Nikhil Menon, "Planning Democracy: Modern India’s Quest for Development" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Amy Edwards, "Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain" (U California Press, 2022)
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Andrew Curley, "Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation" (U Arizona Press, 2023)
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Tim Simpson, "Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China's Consumer Revolution" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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The Cooperative Extension System
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Kate Strasdin, "The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Dror Goldberg, "Easy Money: American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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Howard Gillette, Jr., "The Paradox of Urban Revitalization: Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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Johnny Walker, "Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978-92" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Alan Blinder, "A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Sudha Rajagopalan, "Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India" (Routledge, 2023)
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Katherine Johnston, "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Julia H. Lee, "The Racial Railroad" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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The Transformation of Livestock Herding in Socialist Mongolia
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Leon Wansleben, "The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Weijian Shan, "Money Machine: A Trailblazing American Venture in China" (Wiley, 2023)
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Andrew Phemister, "Land and Liberalism: Henry George and the Irish Land War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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From China's Lost Generation to American Private Equity Professor
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Chris Alden and Alvaro Mendez, "China and Latin America: Development, Agency and Geopolitics" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden, "Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000–1800" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Eric Porter, "A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport" (U California Press, 2023)
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Roger Biles and Mark H. Rose, "A Good Place to Do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal Since 1945" (Temple UP, 2022)
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Mareike Schomerus, "Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Laura Kolb, "Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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James W. Cortada, "Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information Revolution Transformed Academic Research, Governments and Businesses" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Theresa Runstedtler, "Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA" (Bold Type Books, 2023)
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Alberto García, "Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico" (U California Press, 2023)
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Ross Melnick, "Hollywood's Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Xin Wen, "The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Chris Walley on Deindustrialization (EF, JP)
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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The Future of the Silk Road: A Discussion with Tim Winters
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Claudio E. Benzecry, "The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Joan Flores-Villalobos, "The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Nikhil Menon, "Planning Democracy: Modern India's Quest for Development" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Caroline Rusterholz, "Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70" (Manchester UP, 2021)
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Marcus Rediker, "The Slave Ship: A Human History" (Penguin, 2008)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Mary-Jane Rubenstein, "Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Mitchell Schwarzer, "Hella Town: Oakland's History of Development and Disruption" (U California Press, 2022)
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Claire Bond Potter, "Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy" (Basic Books, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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The Future of Democratic Capitalism: A Discussion with Martin Wolf
|
Feb 24, 2023 |
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Tara Zahra, "Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars" (Norton, 2023)
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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The Business of the Early NHL
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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David Bond, "Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment" (U California Press, 2022)
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Michael Schiltz, "Accounting for the Fall of Silver: Hedging Currency Risk in Long-Distance Trade with Asia, 1870-1913" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Anna Zeide, "US History in 15 Foods" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Zoe Adams, "The Legal Concept of Work" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Zoe Adams, "The Legal Concept of Work" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Geoffrey Jones, "Deeply Responsible Business A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership" (Harvard University Press, 2023)
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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Helen Yaffe, "We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Andrea G. McDowell, "We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Sarah Foss, "On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Historians Examine Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Sarah Kunz, "Expatriate: Following a Migration Category" (Manchester UP, 2023)
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Brian Lander, "The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Lisa Haushofer, "Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition" (U California Press, 2022)
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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The History of Student Loans in the United States
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Malcolm Harris, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" (Little, Brown, 2023)
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Leigh Campbell-Hale, "Remembering Ludlow But Forgetting the Columbine: The 1927-1928 Colorado Coal Strike" (U Colorado Press, 2023)
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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James Raven, "The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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John Goodlad, "The Salt Roads: How Fish Made a Culture" (Birlinn, 2022)
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Energy Costs, Poverty, and Race
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Andreas E. Feldmann et al., "The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration" (Routledge, 2022)
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Rowan Dorin, "No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Thomas Poell et al., "Platforms and Cultural Production" (Polity, 2022)
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Truth, Fiction, and Student Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Beth Akers
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Inventing American Telecommunications
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Missing: Men at Work
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Greg Brew, "Petroleum and Progress in Iran: Oil, Development, and the Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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The Future of Computer Chips: A Discussion with Julian Kamasa
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Business in Socialist Hungary
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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The History of Electricity in Mexico
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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The Archaeology of Innovation
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Shaping Civilisations: The Sea in Asian History
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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The History of Temp Work
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Sharon Milagro Marshall, "Tell My Mother I Gone to Cuba: Stories of Early Twentieth-century Migration from Barbados" (U West Indies Press, 2016)
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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David Collier and Gerardo L. Munck, "Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies: Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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Helen Anne Curry, "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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Liran Einav et al., "Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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Automating Finance
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Jeff Fearnside, "Ships in the Desert" (Santa Fe Writer's Project, 2022)
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Shoddy: Recycled Textiles in History
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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The Ideology of Innovation in India
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Michael Joseph Roberto, "The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920-1940" (Monthly Review Press, 2018)
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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South Korea, Technology, and Globalization
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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How Did the Pandemic Transform Workers and Work?
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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The History of the Black Urban Working-Class in the United States
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Infrastructure and Inequality
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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The Future of Inequality: A Discussion with Mike Savage
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Understanding Technology Bubbles
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Tricia Starks, "Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Alessandro Iandolo, "Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Clemente Penna, "Urban Economies, Capital, Credit, and Slavery in Rio de Janeiro, 1820-1860" (UFRJ, 2019)
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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The History of Household Technology from Open Hearth to the Microwave
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Neoliberalism and Higher Education
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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(In)efficiency: Should Efficiency be a Moral Value?
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Regine A. Spector, "Order at the Bazaar: Power and Trade in Central Asia" (Cornell UP, 2017)
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Josiah Ober, "The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Luke Munn, "Automation Is a Myth" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Garritt van Dyk, "Commerce, Food, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England and France" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Naa Oyo A. Kwate, "White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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The Future of Global Trade: A Discussion with Shannon K. O'Neil
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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John D. Wong, "Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s-1998" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Illiquidity + Opacity = Insolvency: A Discussion with Gary Stern, Former President of the Minneapolis Fed
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Clara E. Mattei, "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Jane Tynan, "Trench Coat" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Pamela H. Smith, "From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Carl Griffin, "The Politics of Hunger: Protest, Poverty and Policy in England, 1750-1840" (Manchester UP, 2020)
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Quentin Bruneau, "States and the Masters of Capital: Sovereign Lending, Old and New" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Jeremy L. Wallace, "Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Dan Slater and Joseph Wong, "From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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The Future of the Arms Industry: A Discussion with Pieter D. Wezeman
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Cynthia Radding, "Bountiful Deserts: Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain" (U Arizona Press, 2022)
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Gregory Smithsimon, "Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, "When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm" (Doubleday, 2022)
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Stephanie Decker, "Postcolonial Transition and Global Business History: British Multinational Companies in Ghana and Nigeria" (Routledge, 2022)
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Daniel Gross. "A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire" (Radius Book Group, 2022)
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Jake S. Friedman, "The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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James Mark and Paul Betts, "Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Robert L. Hetzel, "The Federal Reserve: A New History" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Max Haiven, "Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2022)
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, "Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon Books, 2022)
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz, "The Economics of Platforms: Concepts and Strategy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Mathematical Morality: The Ideology that Justifies Billionaires
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Trevor Jackson, "Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Tim Walker and Lucian Morris, "The Handbook of Banking Technology" (John Wiley & Sons, 2021)
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Darra Goldstein, "The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food" (U California Press, 2022)
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Kwasi Konadu, "Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire" (Hurst, 2022)
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Jennifer Mittelstadt and Mark R. Wilson, "The Military and the Market" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Kees Boterbloem, "Russia and the Dutch Republic, 1566–1725: A Forgotten Friendship" (Lexington Books, 2021)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Michael A. Verney, "A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, "Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back" (Beacon Press, 2022)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Anna Arabindan-Kesson, "Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Paul Barba, "Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Caroline Grego, "Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Lyndsie Bourgon, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (Little, Brown Spark, 2022)
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Antonio T. Bly, "Escaping Slavery: A Documentary History of Native American Runaways in British North America" (Lexington Books, 2022)
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Jennifer Eaglin, "Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Caroline Roope, "The History of the London Underground Map" (Pen and Sword Transport, 2022)
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Eric Tagliocozzo, "In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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David McDermott Hughes, "Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity" (Duke UP, 2017)
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Leandro Prados de la Escosura, "Human Development and the Path to Freedom: 1870 to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, "Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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The Future of Data Control: A Discussion with Sarah Lamdan
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Sofi Thanhauser, "Worn: A People's History of Clothing" (Vintage, 2022)
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Charles Read, "The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain's Financial Crisis" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Ghassan Moazzin, "Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Sarah Ifft Decker, "The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women's Work in Medieval Catalan Cities" (Pennsylvania State, 2022)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach, "Dream Books and Gamblers: Black Women's Work in Chicago's Policy Game" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Vivek Chibber, "Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change It" (Verso, 2022)
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Sarah T. Hines, "Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia" (U California Press, 2021)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Bruce G. Carruthers, "The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Ashley Sweetman, "Cyber and the City: Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age" (Springer, 2022)
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Yuhua Wang, "The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Brian A. Wong, "The Tao of Alibaba: Inside the Chinese Digital Giant That Is Changing the World" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Tom Haines-Doran, "Derailed: How to Fix Britain's Broken Railways" (Manchester UP, 2022)
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Ian Morris, "Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World--A 10,000-Year History" (FSG, 2022)
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz and Martin Campbell-Kelly, "Cellular: An Economic and Business History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Ahmed White, "Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers" (U California Press, 2022)
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, "Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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John Suval, "Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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John Briscoe, "Crush: The Triumph of California Wine" (U Nevada Press, 2018)
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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On Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Kimberly Kay Hoang, "Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Jakob Feinig, "Moral Economies of Money: Politics and the Monetary Constitution of Society" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Geert Lovink, "Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet" (Valiz, 2022)
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Rafico Ruiz, "Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Suzana Sawyer, "The Small Matter of Suing Chevron" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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P. E. Caquet, "Opium's Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Alan Warde et al., "The Social Significance of Dining Out: A Study of Continuity and Change" (Manchester UP, 2020)
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Mitch Troutman, "Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925-1942" (PM Press, 2022)
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Robyn D'Avignon, "A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Fanny Pigeaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla, "Africa's Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story" (Pluto Press, 2021)
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Margarita Fajardo, "The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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A History of the Biggest Mining Boom in Canadian History
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Edward Chancellor, "The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022)
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Ricardo López-Pedreros, "The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies" (Routledge, 2022)
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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The Cataclysmic Collapse of Abitibi Power and Paper
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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James Bessen, "The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert, "Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back)" (Verso, 2022)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Michael Leese, "Making Money in Ancient Athens" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Tripp Mickle, "After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul" (William Morrow, 2022))
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Ian W. Campbell, "Knowledge and the Ends of Empire: Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917" (Cornell UP, 2017)
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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James Belich, "The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Joshua Savala, "Beyond Patriotic Phobias: Connections, Cooperation, and Solidarity in the Peruvian-Chilean Pacific World" (U California Press, 2022)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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David Enrich, "Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice" (Mariner Books, 2022)
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Jamie Martin, "The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Máté Rigó, "Capitalism in Chaos: How the Business Elites of Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Philip Lymbery, "Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future" (Bloombury, 2022)
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Christin Essin, "Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Carl A. Brasseaux and Donald W. Davis, "Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, "Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Eric A. Posner, "How Antitrust Failed Workers" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Allyson P. Brantley, "Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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On John Maynard Keynes’ "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money"
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Truck Nuts: The Political History of Trucks and Trucking
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Fritz Bartel, "The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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J. Bradford DeLong, "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century" (Basic Books, 2020)
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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William Alexander, "Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Amy Edwards, "Are We Rich Yet?: The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain" (U California Press, 2022)
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Kate Phillips, "Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery" (Luath Press, 2022)
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Greg Woolf, "The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Bert Becker, "France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840-1930: Maritime Competition and Imperial Power" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Paul Oyer, "An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Mélissa Mialon, "Big Food & Co" (Thierry Souccar Editions, 2021)
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Johan Fourie, "Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom: Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Brett Scott, "Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets" (Harper Business, 2022)
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Brian Brege, "Tuscany in the Age of Empire" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Samuel Evan Milner, "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Power, Profits, and Productivity in Modern America" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Paolo Squatriti, "Weeds and the Carolingians: Empire, Culture, and Nature in Frankish Europe, AD 750-900" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Fiona Moore, "Global Taiwanese: Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Eswar S. Prasad, "The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Adam Sundberg, "Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Roselyn Hsueh, "Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Jamie Ducharme, "Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul" (Henry Holt, 2021)
|
Aug 11, 2022 |
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Christian Wolmar, "British Rail: A New History" (Michael Joseph, 2022)
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke, "The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945" (Harvard UP, 2016)
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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M. I. Franklin, "Sampling Politics: Music and the Geocultural" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Steven B. Miles, "Opportunity in Crisis: Cantonese Migrants and the State in Late Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Christopher Craig, "Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Meiji Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Nicholas Ferns, "Australia in the Age of International Development, 1945–1975: Colonial and Foreign Aid Policy in Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Emma Ashford, "Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
|
Aug 05, 2022 |
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Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Carl H. Nightingale, "Earthopolis: A Biography of Our Urban Planet" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Michael John Witgen, "Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Didac Queralt, "Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Christof Dejung et al., "The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Heejung Chung, "The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploitation" (Polity Press, 2022)
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Maeve Ryan, "Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Traci Parker, "Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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David Brown, "Empire and Enterprise: Money, Power and the Adventurers for Irish Land During the British Civil Wars" (Manchester UP, 2020)
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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David D. Dworak, "War of Supply: World War II Allied Logistics in the Mediterranean" (UP of Kentucky Press, 2022)
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Jason Resnikoff, "Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Johan Fourie, "Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom: Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Melanie Bell, "Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British Cinema" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Elena Conis, "How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT" (Bold Type Books, 2022)
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Nick Higham, "The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good--A History of London's Water" (Headline, 2022)
|
Jul 13, 2022 |
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David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)
|
Jul 12, 2022 |
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Jayita Sarkar, "Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Finnish Maritime Interaction with China in the 18th Century
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Meng Zhang, "Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Jessica Lipsky, "It Ain't Retro: Daptone Records and the 21st-Century Soul Revolution" (Jawbone, 2021)
|
Jul 05, 2022 |
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Mae Ngai, "The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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James Stafford, "The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Lauren K. Stokes, "Fear of the Family: Guest Workers and Family Migration in the Federal Republic of Germany" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Deirdre N. McCloskey and Art Carden, "Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Victor Seow, "Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Christopher Blattman, "Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace" (Viking, 2022)
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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The Future of Public Opinion: A Conversation with Susan Herbst
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Carol A. Lipscomb, "The Lady Makes Boots: Enid Justin & the Nocona Boot Company" (Texas Tech UP, 2021)
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Robert N. Wiedenmann and J. Ray Fisher, "The Silken Thread: Five Insects and Their Impacts on Human History" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Holger Droessler, "Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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John Wills, "Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Michael Munger, "The Sharing Economy: Its Pitfalls and Promises" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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David de Jong, "Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties" (Mariner Books, 2022)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Deindustrialization
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Paul Lerner et al., "Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin, "How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth" (Polity, 2022)
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Modernization
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Erich Schwartzel, "Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy" (Penguin, 2022)
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Andrew Shortland and Patrick Degryse, "When Art Isn’t Real: The World's Most Controversial Objects under Investigation" (Leuven UP, 2022)
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Chris Gratien, "The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Jessamyn Abel, "Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Irvin J. Hunt, "Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Jonathan Saha, "Colonizing Animals: Interspecies Empire in Myanmar" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Pierre Penet and Juan Flores Zendejas, "Sovereign Debt Diplomacies: Rethinking Sovereign Debt from Colonial Empires to Hegemony" (Oxford UP. 2021)
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May 31, 2022 |
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Tracey Deutsch, "Building a Housewife's Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2010)
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May 31, 2022 |
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Adam M. Romero, "Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture" (U California Press, 2021)
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May 30, 2022 |
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Amanda Phillips, "Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles Between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean" (U California Press, 2021)
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May 27, 2022 |
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Kate Luce Mulry, "An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic" (NYU Press, 2021)
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May 25, 2022 |
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The Future of Neoliberalism: A Conversation with Gary Gerstle
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May 24, 2022 |
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Scott Reynolds Nelson, "Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World" (Basic Books, 2022)
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May 23, 2022 |
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Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success" (Public Affairs, 2022)
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May 18, 2022 |
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Gijs Mom, "Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980" (Berghahn Books, 2020)
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May 17, 2022 |
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Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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May 16, 2022 |
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Simon Peter Rowberry, "Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform" (MIT Press, 2022)
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May 15, 2022 |
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Facing Failure and the Museum Dedicated to It
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May 12, 2022 |
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Jeff D. Colgan, "Partial Hegemony: Oil Politics and International Order" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 10, 2022 |
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The Problem with Museums: A Conversation with Georgina Adam and Nizan Shaked
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May 10, 2022 |
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Emily West, "Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly" (MIT Press, 2022)
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May 09, 2022 |
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Mikkel Bunkenborg et al., "Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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May 09, 2022 |
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Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community" (Harvard UP, 2022)Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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May 06, 2022 |
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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, "Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan" (U California Press, 2022)
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May 05, 2022 |
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William Wayne Farris, "A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
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May 04, 2022 |
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Jo Guldi, "The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights" (Yale UP, 2022)
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May 03, 2022 |
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Paul Geary, "Experimental Dining: Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative Restaurants" (Intellect Books, 2022)
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May 02, 2022 |
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Shobana Shankar, "An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of Race" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Sarah Brouillette, "Underdevelopment and African Literature: Emerging Forms of Reading" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Emily Klancher Merchant, "Building the Population Bomb" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Robert Cliver, "Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China's Yangzi Delta Silk Industry" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Kim Kelly, "Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor" (Atria, 2022)
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Amanda D. Lotz, "Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals, and Streaming Wars" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Barry Eichengreen et al., "In Defense of Public Debt" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Charly Coleman, "The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Faisal H. Husain, "Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Harry Verhoeven and Anatol Lieven, "Beyond Liberal Order: States, Societies and Markets in the Global Indian Ocean" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Gavin Mueller, "Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job" (Verso, 2021)
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Mary Childs, "The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All" (Flatiron Books, 2021)
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Charles Dellheim, "Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Hilton Judin, "Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital" (Routledge, 2021)
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Debt
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Susanne A. Wengle, "Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Isabella M. Weber, "How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate" (Routledge, 2021)
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Diana Garvin, "Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women's Food Work" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Jonathan Beller, "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Gregg Huff, "World War II in Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Tim Hwang, "Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet" (FSG Originals, 2020)
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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The Future of Life Expectancy: A Discussion with Angus Deaton
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, "Wasteland with Words: A Social History of Iceland" (Reaktion, 2010)
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Elisabeth Anderson, "Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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R. Douglas Arnold, "Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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William D. Adler, "Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787-1860" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Nic Marsh et al., "Indefensible: Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade" (Zed Books, 2017)
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 5: Necessarily Global--How the Pandemic Forces Us To Think Bigger
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Gary Gerstle, "The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath, "The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Jessica P. Clark, "The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Alexander Zaitchik, "Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines" (Counterpoint, 2022)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi, "A New History of Modern Computing" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy, "Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy: India 1947 and Beyond" (UChicago Press, 2022)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Alberto Bisin and Giovanni Federico, "The Handbook of Historical Economics" (Academic Press, 2021)
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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The Future of Rational Decision Making: A Discussion with Olivier Sibony
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Scott Timcke, "Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life" (Bristol UP, 2021)
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Kathleen Courtenay Stone, "They Called Us Girls: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men" (Cynren Press, 2022)
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Francesca Morgan, "A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Jeremy Friedman, "Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Elisabeth Ceppi, "Invisible Masters: Gender, Race, and the Economy of Service in Early New England" (Dartmouth College Press, 2018)
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Oded Galor, "The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality" (Dutton Books, 2022)
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Peter B. Lavelle, "The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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The Future of Disorder: A Discussion with Helen Thompson
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Molly M. Melin, "The Building and Breaking of Peace: Corporate Activities in Civil War Prevention and Resolution" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Vikrant Pande, "The SBI Story: Two Centuries of Banking" (Westland, 2021)
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Lydia Pyne, "Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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The Future of Africa: A Discussion with James A. Robinson
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Peter S. Goodman, "Davos Man: How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy" (Custom House, 2022)
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Poulomi Saha, "An Empire of Touch: Women's Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Joshua Frens-String, "Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile" (UC Press, 2021)
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Sarah-Neel Smith, "Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey" (U California Press, 2022)
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Carl Rhodes, "Woke Capitalism: How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging Democracy" (Policy Press, 2021)
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Michelle Christine Smith, "Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Nicholas Mulder, "The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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William D. Ferguson, "The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Kurt Edward Kemper, "Before March Madness: The Wars for the Soul of College Basketball" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Federica Francesconi, "Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Bruce Iglauer and Patrick A. Roberts, "Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Susie S. Porter, "From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890-1950" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Diane Coyle, "Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Zachary Austin Doleshal, "In the Kingdom of Shoes: Bata, Zlín, Globalization, 1894-1945" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Anderson, "Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Lina Zeldovich, "The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Peter Cappelli, "The Future of the Office: Work from Home, Remote Work, and the Hard Choices We All Face" (Wharton School Press, 2021)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Frank Andre Guridy, "The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Keith Wailoo, "Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, "The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Mircea Raianu, "Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Benjamin Holtzman, "The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Juan Manuel del Nido, "Taxis Vs. Uber: Courts, Markets and Technology in Buenos Aires" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Traci Brynne Voyles, "The Settler Sea: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Colin Jerolmack, "Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Bradley Schurman, "The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny" (Harper Business, 2022)
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Ethnography of "Development": Tania Li on Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Brendan Borrell, "The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine" (Mariner Books, 2021)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Kyle J. Anderson, "The Egyptian Labor Corps: Race, Space, and Place in the First World War" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Peter A. Swenson, "Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Matthew P. Romaniello, et al., "The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600-Present" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Alexander Etkind, "Nature′s Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources" (Polity Press, 2021)
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Isaac A. Kamola, "Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Shelly Chan, "Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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John C. Putman, "Boosting a New West: Pacific Coast Expositions, 1905-1916" (Washington State UP, 2020)
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Yeling Tan, "Disaggregating China, Inc.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Sam de Muijnck and Joris Tieleman, "Economy Studies: A Guide to Rethinking Economics Education" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Timothy M. Yang, "A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Carlo D'Ippoliti, "Democratizing the Economics Debate: Pluralism and Research Evaluation" (Routledge, 2020)
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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John Lapidus, "The Quest for a Divided Welfare State: Sweden in the Era of Privatization" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Thom Hartmann, "The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich" (Berrett-Koehler, 2021)
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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70 Recall This Buck 5: "Studying Up" with Daniel Souleles (EF, JP)
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, "Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Margaret Jacobs, “Enlightened Entrepreneurialism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Jörg Krieger, "Power and Politics in World Athletics: A Critical History" (Routledge, 2021)
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Andrew Demshuk, "Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Edmond Smith, "Merchants: The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Jarmo T. Kotilaine, "Trials of Resilience: How Covid-19 Is Driving Economic Change in the Arab Gulf" (Gilgamesh, 2021)
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Arnold Pacey and Francesca Bray, "Technology in World Civilization" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Diana Kelly, "The Red Taylorist: The Life and Times of Walter Nicholas Polakov" (Emerald, 2020)
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Jennifer Ferng and Lauren R. Cannady, "Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks" (Voltaire Foundation, 2021)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Edward J. Ayers, "Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020" (LSU Press, 2020)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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David Moon et al., "Place and Nature: Essays in Russian History" (White Horse Press, 2021)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Ramin Ganeshram, "Saffron: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Mark Lawrence Schrad, "Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Fabio Parasecoli, "Food" (MIT, 2019)
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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David Herzberg, "White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Álvaro Santana-Acuña, "Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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69 Recall this Buck 4: Daniel Souleles on Private Equity (JP, EF)
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Peter Cole, "Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly" (PM Press, 2021)
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Melissa Macauley, "Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Kenneth O'Reilly, "Asphalt: A History" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Tanya L. Roth, "Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military, 1945–1980" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Jeff Miller, "Avocado: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Ümit Kurt, "The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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J. Shapiro and J-A. McNeish, "Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance" (Routledge, 2021)
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Rosa Abreu-Runkel, "Vanilla: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Jen Corrinne Brown, "Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West" (U Washington Press, 2017)
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Ingrid Bleynat, "Vendors' Capitalism: A Political Economy of Public Markets in Mexico City" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Hiromu Nagahara, "Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and Its Discontents" (Harvard UP, 2017)
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Gregg Mitman, "Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia" (New Press, 2021)
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Joan Marie Johnson, "Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870-1967" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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William Robin, "Industry: Bang on a Can and New Music in the Marketplace" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Kristy Nabhan-Warren, "Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Max Siollun, "What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule" (Hurst, 2021)
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres" (Penguin, 2021)
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Leonidas Mylonakis, "Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean: Maritime Marauders in the Greek and Ottoman Aegean" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Laurence Coderre, "Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Will Mari, "The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960" (U Missouri Press, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Rocio Gomez, "Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835-1946" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Robert Hellyer, "Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, "Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Claudia Goldin, "Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Luci Marzola, "Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Rebecca Earle, "Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Timon Screech, "The Shogun's Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-1625" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Deanna Marcum and Roger C. Schonfeld, "Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Ying Jia Tan, "Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882-1955" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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John Shovlin, "Trading with the Enemy: Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Marnie Hughes-Warrington and Anne Martin, "Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography" (Routledge, 2021)
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Caley Horan, "Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Angeliki Lymberopoulou, "Cross-cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204-1669" (Routledge, 2020)
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Emily Erikson, "Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Noah Hurowitz, "El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord" (Atria Books, 2021)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Tom G. Hoogervorst, "Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Bernard F. Dick, "Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood" (U Kentucky Press, 2021)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Jared Davidson, "The History of a Riot: Class, Popular Protest and Violence in Early Colonial Nelson" (Bridget Williams Books, 2021)
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Gene Slater, "Free to Discriminate: How the Nation's Realtors Created Housing Segregation and the Conservative Vision of American Freedom" (Hayday Books, 2021)
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb, "Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy" (Lexington, 2021)
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Brigitte Le Normand, "Citizens Without Borders: Yugoslavia and Its Migrant Workers in Western Europe" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Arnab Dey, "Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Lindsay Naylor, "Fair Trade Rebels: Coffee Production and Struggles for Autonomy in Chiapas" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Keith Pluymers, "No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Corinna Zeltsman, "Ink Under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico" (U California Press, 2021)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Susan V. Spellman, "Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business" (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Philippe Vonnard, "Creating a United Europe of Football: The Formation of UEFA (1949–1961)" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Iker Saitua, "Basque Immigrants and Nevada's Sheep Industry: Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880-1954" (U Nevada Press, 2019)
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Jagjeet Lally, "India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Thomas C. Hubka, "Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England" (UP of New England, 2004)
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer, "A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Stanley Mirvis, "The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Craig Robertson, "The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Jason M. Kelly, "Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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James W. Cortada, "IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon" (MIT Press, 2019)
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Benjamin R. Cohen et al., "Acquired Tastes: Stories about the Origins of Modern Food" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Jonathan E. Robins, "Oil Palm: A Global History" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Margarita M. Balmaceda, "Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union" (Wilson Center, 2021)
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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David Potter, "Disruption: Why Things Change" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Carmen Soliz, "Fields of Revolution: Agrarian Reform and Rural State Formation in Bolivia, 1935-1964" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Alison Rose Jefferson, "Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Nina Trige Andersen, "Labor Pioneers: Economy, Labor, and Migration in Filipino-Danish Relations, 1950-2015" (Ateneo de Manila UP, 2019)
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Benjamin T. Smith, "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Priya Lakhani: Changing the World through A Premium Food Brand and An AI Platform for Education
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Brendan Goff, "Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Chiara Bonfiglioli, "Women and Industry in the Balkans: The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Luis Sierra, "La Paz's Colonial Specters: Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900-52" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Andrew W. Lo and Stephen R. Foerster, "In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Kevin McGruder, "Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Massimo Rostagno et al., "Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis: A Tale of Two Decades of the European Central Bank" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen, "The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Michael G. Hillard, "Shredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine's Mighty Paper Industry" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Gayle Rogers, "Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Malte Dold and Tim Krieger, "Ordoliberalism and European Economic Policy: Between Realpolitik and Economic Utopia" (Taylor & Francis, 2021)
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Nadya Bair, "The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market" (U California Press, 2020)
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Steven Klein, "The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Adam Crymble, "Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Ruth Ahnert et al., "The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Catharina Gabrielsson et al., "Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Joe Allen, "The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS" (Haymarket Books, 2020)
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Alan McDougall, "Contested Fields: A Global History of Modern Football" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Rod Phillips, "French Wine: A History" (U California Press, 2016)
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Papermaking Traditions, East and West: A Discussion with Timo Särkkä
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Stephen V. Bittner, "Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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J. Laite, "Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012)
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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C. Patterson Giersch, "Corporate Conquests: Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Claire L. Jones, "The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain before the Sexual Revolution" (Manchester UP, 2020)
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Peter E. Hamilton, "Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Sarah K. Mock, "Farm (and Other F Words): The Rise and Fall of the Small Family Farm" (New Degree Press, 2021)
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Zachary Karabell, "Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power" (Penguin, 2021)
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Shane Hamilton, "Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race" (Yale UP, 2018)
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Emma Rothschild, "An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Fei-Hsien Wang, "Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Suzanne L. Marchand, "Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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James M. Banner Jr., "The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History Is Revisionist History" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Nate Holdren, "Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Kristy Ironside, "A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Joanne Meyerowitz, "A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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May 27, 2021 |
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Christine Walker, "Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire" (UNC Press, 2020)
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May 21, 2021 |
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Joshua D. Rothman, "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America" (Basic Book, 2021)
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May 20, 2021 |
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Amanda Ciafone, "Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation" (U California Press, 2019)
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May 20, 2021 |
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Justene Hill Edwards, "Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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May 19, 2021 |
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Mary Pilon, "The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
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May 17, 2021 |
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John Wong, "Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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May 13, 2021 |
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Brian Castner, "Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike" (Doubleday, 2021)
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May 12, 2021 |
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Hannah Barker, "That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
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May 12, 2021 |
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John Kenneth Galbraith, "The Great Crash 1929" (Penguin Classics, 2021)
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May 11, 2021 |
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Lila Corwin Berman, "The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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May 05, 2021 |
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Andrew Konove, "Black Market Capital: Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City" (U California Press, 2018)
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May 03, 2021 |
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Paloma Fernández Pérez. "The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organisation in the World 1880s-1930s" (Emerald, 2021)
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Gordon H. Chang, "Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad" (HMH, 2019)
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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W. Quinn and J. D. Turner, "Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Zach Sell, "Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Robert Darnton, "Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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A. Gandhi et al., "Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Andrew Grant Wood, "The Business of Leisure: Tourism History in Latin America and the Caribbean" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Emma Griffin, "Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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K. Yazdani and D. M. Menon, "Capitalisms: Towards a Global History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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J. A. Delton, "The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Ravi Palat, "The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650" (Palgrave, 2015)
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Joshua Greenberg, "Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Joshua B. Freeman, "Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World" (W. W. Norton, 2019)
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Marcia Chatelain, "Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America" (Liveright, 2020)
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Amy Offner, "Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Nov 22, 2019 |
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Lawrence Glickman, "Free Enterprise: An American History" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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Michael Zakim, "Accounting for Capitalism: The World the Clerk Made" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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Vicki Howard, "From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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Richard Vague, "A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
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Jul 04, 2019 |
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Kris Lane, "Potosí: The Silver City That Changed the World" (U California Press, 2019)
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May 20, 2019 |
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Michael R. Cohen, "Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era" (NYU Press, 2017)
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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Caitlin C. Rosenthal, “Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management” (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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Rupali Mishra, “A Business of State: Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company” (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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Peter James Hudson, “Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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Fahad Bishara, “A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Alexia Yates, “Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siecle Capital” (Harvard UP, 2015)
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Jul 12, 2017 |
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Kiran Klaus Patel, “The New Deal: A Global History” (Princeton UP, 2016)
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Jul 12, 2017 |
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Chris Miller, “The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy” (UNC Press, 2016)
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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Barbara Hahn and Bruce Baker, “The Cotton Kings: Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Sep 16, 2016 |
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Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch, “The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire” (Verso, 2013)
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Feb 09, 2015 |
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Martha C. Howell, “Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600” (Cambridge UP, 2010)
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Jul 17, 2013 |
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Alec Foege, "The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great" (Basic Books, 2013)
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Jan 17, 2013 |
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Rowan K. Flad, "Salt Production and Social Hierarchy in Ancient China" (Cambridge UP, 2011)
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Apr 27, 2012 |
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Louis Hyman, “Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink” (Princeton UP, 2011)
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Mar 04, 2011 |
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Joyce Appleby, “The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism” (Norton, 2010)
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Feb 04, 2011 |