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New in Paperback: Spring 2018 Edition

This listing covers books published from January through May 2018. The listing does not include books published simultaneously in hardcover and paper.

Mehrsa Baradaran, How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy (Harvard University Press, March 2018 [2015])

Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, eds., Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (University of Pennsylvania Press, January 2018 [2016])

Dan Bouk, How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual (University of Chicago Press, February 2018 [2015])

Christy Clark-Pujara, Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island (New York University Press, March 2018 [2016])

George Colpitts, Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780–1882 (Cambridge University Press, March 2018 [2014])

Leon Fink, The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order (University of Pennsylvania Press, March 2018 [2014])

Philip S. Foner, Organized Labor and the Black Worker (Haymarket Books, January 2018 [1974])

Stephen G. Gross, Export Empire: German Soft Power in Southeastern Europe, 1890–1945 (Cambridge University Press, February 2018 [2016])

Roger Horowitz, Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food (Columbia University Press, May 2018 [2016])

Peter Knight, Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America (Johns Hopkins University Press, February 2018 [2016])

Jürgen Kocka and Marcel van der Linden, Capitalism: The Reemergence of a Historical Concept (Bloomsbury Academic, February 2018 [2016]))

Joel Mokyr, A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy (Princeton University Press, June 2018 [2016])

Kim Phillips-Fein, Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (Metropolitan Books, April 2018 [2017])

E. Michael Rosser and Diane M. Sanders, A History of Mortgage Banking in the West: Financing America's Dreams (University Press of Colorado, March 2018 [2017])

Tirthankar Roy, Company of Kinsmen: Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700-1940
(Oxford University Press, May 2018 [2010])

Richard Swedberg, Tocqueville's Political Economy (Princeton University Press, February 2018 [2009])

Benjamin C. Waterhouse, The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States (Simon & Schuster, April 2018 [2017])

Charlie Whitham, Post-War Business Planners in the United States, 1939-48: The Rise of the Corporate Moderates (Bloomsbury Academic, April 2018 [2016])

Gavin Wright, Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South (Harvard University Press, Fenruary 2018 [2013])


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