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    New Books in Economic and Business History

    New Books in Economic and Business History

    New Books in Economic and Business History

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    919 episodes
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    English
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    Podcast

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    Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 919 episodes

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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)

    In 1647, the French author Étienne Cleirac asserted in his book Les us, et coustumes de...

    62 minutes
    		May 05, 2024

    Tanisha M. Fazal, "Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Decisions to go to war are often framed in cost-benefit terms, and typically such asses...

    56 minutes
    		May 05, 2024

    Patrick Humphries, "Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood: How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios" (History Press, 2023)

    The astonishing behind-the-scenes story of the 1963 film Cleopatra and how it changed t...

    53 minutes
    		May 04, 2024

    Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac, "The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality" (Harvard UP, 2023)

    In many countries, property law grants equal rights to men and women. Why, then, do wom...

    63 minutes
    		May 03, 2024

    Jennifer M. Black, "Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

    In the early nineteenth century, the American commercial marketplace was a chaotic, unr...

    56 minutes
    		May 01, 2024

    Andre Schmid, "North Korea's Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953-1965" (U California Press, 2024)

    Histories of North Korea typically focus on one man — Kim Il Sung — and one narrative —...

    71 minutes
    		Apr 30, 2024

    Sheilagh Ogilvie, "The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis" (Princeton UP, 2019)

    Guilds were prominent in medieval and early modern Europe, but their economic role has ...

    60 minutes
    		Apr 29, 2024

    George R. Boyer, "The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain" (Princeton UP, 2019)

    The creation of the postwar welfare state in Great Britain did not represent the logica...

    67 minutes
    		Apr 29, 2024

    Michael De Groot, "Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2024)

    In Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War (Cor...

    53 minutes
    		Apr 28, 2024

    Adrian Tinniswood, "Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House" (Basic Books, 2021)

    As the sun set slowly on the British Empire in the years after the Second World War, th...

    52 minutes
    		Apr 28, 2024