An interview with Andrew Konove

An interview with Paloma Fernández Pérez

An interview with Gordon H. Chang

An interview with William Quinn

An interview with Zach Sell

An interview with A. Gandhi and S. Schwecke

An interview with Robert Darnton

An interview with Andrew Grant Wood

An interview with Emma Griffin

"Capitalisms" aims to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue durée from the tenth century; at regions as diverse as Song China, South and South East Asia, Latin America and the Ottoman and Safavid Empires; and exploring the plurality of developments over this extended time and space...

Delton focuses on the conservative policy goals of the organization but also its surprisingly progressive tactics...

Palat counters eurocentric notions of long-term historical change by drawing upon the histories of societies based on wet-rice cultivation to chart an alternate pattern of social evolution and state formation...

What is money? No, really, what is money? It turns out the answer is not so simple.

Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has reflected both our dreams and our nightmares of industrialization and social change...

Chatelain examines the relationship between the fast-food industry, Black business owners, and the communities where they set up franchises after the Holy Week Uprisings of 1968...

Offner shows how strategies such as self-help housing, for-profit privatized state-functions, and austere social programs were well-trodded decades earlier in the mid-century “mixed economy"...

“Free enterprise” is an everyday phrase that connotes an American common sense...

This is a big story, told through an ostensibly marginal event: the birth of a class of “merchant clerks” in the United States...

Vague sees the rise and fall of private sector debt as the key factor explaining the cycle of economic crises experienced by developed and major developing economies over the past two centuries...

In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver bonanza...

Michael R. Cohen is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University, where he holds a Sizeler Professorship...

The familiar narrative of American business development begins in the industrial North, where paternalistic factory owners, committed to a kind of Protestant ethic, scaled up their operations into ‘total institutions’—an effort to forestall labor turno...

Though today the public and private sectors are treated as distinct if not separate, the situation was quite different in early modern England. Back then the two were often intertwined, with one of the best examples of this being the English East India...

Histories of banking and finance aren’t particularly well-known for being riveting, adventurous reads: they tend to be technical at the expense of being strongly narrative-driven. Peter James Hudson’s Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the C...