A listing of books of interest to business and economic historians, published in January and February 2018 (plus a few earlier titles we missed):
Alexander Charles Baillie, Call of Empire: From the Highlands to Hindustan (McGill-Queen's University Press, November 2017)
Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, eds., American Capitalism: New Histories (Columbia University Press, 2018)
Gillian Cookson, The Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution (Boydell and Brewer, February 2018) [straight to paper]
William Deringer, Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age (Harvard University Press, February 2018)
Robert Hunt Ferguson, Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi (University of Georgia Press, January 2018)
Margot Finn and Kate Smith, eds., The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 (University College London Press, February 2018)
Joshua B. Freeman, Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World (W. W. Norton, February 2018)
Allan Greer, Property and DispossessionNatives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America (Cambridge University Press, January 2018)
Per H. Hansen, Danish Modern Furniture, 1930-2016: The Rise, Decline and Re-emergence of a Cultural Market Category (University Press of Southern Denmark, February 2018)
Gerard Helferich, Unlikely Trust: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Improbable Partnership That Remade American Business (Rowman & Littlefield [Lyons Press], January 2018)
Thomas K. McCraw and William R. Childs, American Business since 1920: How It Worked, 3rd ed. (Wiley, November 2017)
Dana E. Powell, Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation (Duke University Press, January 2018)
Jonathan Rees, Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice (Johns Hopkins University Press, February 2018)
Susan Rose, The Wealth of England: The Medieval Wool Trade and Its Political Importance, 1100–1600 (Oxbow Books, February 2018)
William T. Rowe, Speaking of Profit: Bao Shichen and Reform in Nineteenth-Century China (Harvard University Press, January 2018)
Shomari Wills, Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires (Harper Collins [Amistad], January 2018)
Adam Winkler, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights (W. W. Norton, February 2018)
