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New books published in 2019 in business and economic history [Spring issue]

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The following list contains newly published books in business and economic history. If your publication has not been included in this list, or you wish to add titles to this or future lists, please contact the blog editor. [My apologies for the incomplete list of books that went out last Friday 5/31]

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property. White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, Yale University Press.
  • To learn more about this publication, an interview with the author is available as part of Yale University Press podcast. Also, John David Smith reviews the book in the publication Datebook
Bill Maurer (editor), A Cultural History of Money. Volumes 1-6. Bloomsbury Academic.

Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, Bubbles and Crashes: The Boom and Bust of Technological Innovation, Stanford University Press.

Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Dark Matter Credit: The Development of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Banking in FrancePrinceton University Press.
JoAnne Yates and Craig N. Murphy, Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880, Johns Hopkins University Press.

Katie Jarvis, Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary FranceOxford University Press.

David K. Johnson, Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a MovementColumbia University Press.
Buying Gay

M. Houston Johnson V, Taking Flight: The Foundations of American Commercial Aviation, 1918–1938Texas A&M University Press.

Jack Kelly, The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in AmericaSt. Martin's Press.

Elisabeth Köll, Railroads and the Transformation of ChinaHarvard University Press.

Will B. Mackintosh, Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture (New York University Press.
Selling the Sights

Sheilagh Ogilvie, The European Guilds: An Economic AnalysisPrinceton University Press.

John Oldland, The English Woollen Industry, c. 1200-c.1560Routledge.

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776–1848Johns Hopkins University Press.

Jason E. Taylor, Deconstructing the Monolith: The Microeconomics of the National Industrial Recovery ActUniversity of Chicago Press.

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