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Economic and Business History
European Studies July 28, 2021

Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis

A Tale of Two Decades of the European Central Bank

Massimo Rostagno et al.

Hosted by Tim Jones
In July 2021, nine summers after its then president saved the euro with three choice words (“whatever it takes”), the European Central Bank published the results of a thoroughgoing …

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Economic and Business History July 27, 2021

Shredding Paper

The Rise and Fall of Maine's Mighty Paper Industry

Michael G. Hillard

Hosted by Jason Newton
From the early twentieth century until the 1960s, Maine led the nation in paper production. The state could have earned a reputation as the Detroit of paper production, however, the …
Early Modern History July 27, 2021

The Bookshop of the World

Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
After a turbulent political revolt against the military superpower of the early modern world, the tiny Dutch Republic managed to situate itself as the dominant printing and book trading power …
Intellectual History July 26, 2021

Speculation

A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI

Gayle Rogers

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
In a world that purports to know more about the future than any before it, why do we still need speculation? Insubstantial speculations – from utopian thinking to high-risk stock …
European Studies July 21, 2021

Ordoliberalism and European Economic Policy

Between Realpolitik and Economic Utopia

Malte Dold and Tim Krieger

Hosted by Tim Jones
Once described as a “German oddity”†, Ordoliberalism was one of a number of new liberalisms that emerged from the political maelstrom of the interwar period. But, unlike the other neoliberal …
Intellectual History July 20, 2021

The Work of Politics

Making a Democratic Welfare State

Steven Klein

Hosted by Tejas Parasher
The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State (Cambridge University Press 2020) advances a new understanding of how democratic social movements work with welfare institutions to challenge structures of …
Art July 20, 2021

The Decisive Network

Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market

Nadya Bair

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
The legendary Magnum photo agency has long been associated with heroic lone wolf male photographers such as Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, roaming the world in search of the “decisive …
Digital Humanities July 15, 2021

Technology and the Historian

Transformations in the Digital Age

Adam Crymble

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
The digital age has touched and changed pretty much everything, even altering how historical research is practiced. In his new book Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age …
Architecture July 14, 2021

Neoliberalism on the Ground

Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present

Kenny Cupers, Catharina Gabrielsson and Helena Mattsson

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has been not only a dominant paradigm in politics …
Economic and Business History July 13, 2021

The Package King

A Rank and File History of UPS

Joe Allen

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
If the 20th Century was the American Century, it was also UPS's Century. Joe Allen's The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS (‎Haymarket Books, 2020), tears down …
General History July 8, 2021

French Wine

A History

Rod Phillips

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today on New Books in History, Rod Phillips, Professor of History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, talks about his book, French Wine: A History, out in 2016 with the …
Nordic Asia Podcast July 5, 2021

Papermaking Traditions, East and West

A Discussion with Timo Särkkä

Timo Särkkä

Hosted by Satoko Naito
Our relationship to paper and paper products is changing every day. Fewer newspapers and magazines are in print, but growing dependence on online retail has increased demand for cardboard packaging …
East Asian Studies June 30, 2021

Corporate Conquests

Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China

C. Patterson Giersch

Hosted by Huiying Chen
Tenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions of China's north- and southwest. Such inequality is commonly attributed to geography, access to resources, and …
Economic and Business History June 29, 2021

Made in Hong Kong

Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization

Peter E. Hamilton

Hosted by Ghassan Moazzin
Between 1949 and 1997, Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a global financial capital. Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization (Columbia …
Economic and Business History June 29, 2021

The Secret Life of Groceries

The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket

Benjamin Lorr

Hosted by Paula De La Cruz-Fernandez
This episode of the New Books in Economic and Business History is an interview with New York writer Benjamin Lorr. Benjamin Lorr is the author of Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and …
Critical Theory June 29, 2021

The Business of Birth Control

Contraception and Commerce in Britain before the Sexual Revolution

Claire L. Jones

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How does understanding business help us understand sex? In The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain before the Sexual Revolution (Manchester UP, 2020), Claire Jones, a Senior …
Science, Technology, and Society June 23, 2021

Farm (and Other F Words)

The Rise and Fall of the Small Family Farm

Sarah K. Mock

Hosted by Christopher Gambino
In Farm (and Other F Words): The Rise and Fall of the Small Family Farm (New Degree Press, 2021), Sarah K. Mock seeks to answer “what exactly do we mean by a …
General History June 22, 2021

Inside Money

Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power

Zachary Karabell

Hosted by Mark Klobas
In 1800 a Belfast linen merchant named Alexander Brown emigrated with his wife and eldest son to Baltimore. Today his family’s name lives on in the investment firm Brown Brothers …
Economic and Business History June 22, 2021

Supermarket USA

Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race

Shane Hamilton

Hosted by Paula De La Cruz-Fernandez
This episode of the New Books in Economic and Business History is an interview with Dr. Shane Hamilton, Senior Lecturer in Management at The York Management School, University of York …
General History June 15, 2021

An Infinite History

The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries

Emma Rothschild

Hosted by Yi Ning Chang
Emma Rothschild’s new book, An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2021) (see the book’s accompanying website here: https://infinitehistory.org), is a …