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New Books: Summer 2020

NEW BOOKS IN BUSINESS HISTORY

SUMMER 2020




Coffeeland: One Man’s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favo
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, by Augustine Sedgewick. An audio sample is available here, and an interview with the author in the podcast show Who Makes Cents is available here.




How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960, by Paige Glotzer. For an interview with the author in the podcast show Who Makes Cents click here.

William Quinn's and John D. Turner's Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles came out in August 2020. The TOC is available here


Nate Holdren's Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era came out in April of 2020. For a TOC visit this link. There is more information and discussion on the book The Labor and Working-Class History Association blog, the Legal History publication Jotwelland on the Cambridge University Press roundup post Labor, Poverty and Power

The History of Entrepreneurship in Mexico: Contextualizing Theory, Theorizing Context, edited by Araceli Almaraz Alvarado and Oscar Javier Montiel MĂ©ndez features studies by twenty authors. For the table of contents click on this link. There will be a presentation of the book available here in Spanish after September 22, 2020.

Claudio Belini's compilation of articles Empresarios y Estado en Argentina. PolĂ­tica y economĂ­a, 1955-2001 discusses the history of business and government in Argentina. For a description in Spanish and the book's table of contest visit this link.

Also in Spanish is Eugenia Scarzanella's La FIAT in America Latina (1946-2014)

Inter and Post-war Tourism in Western Europe, 1916–1960 edited by Carmelo Pellejero MartĂ­nez and Marta Luque Aranda contains the eight articles that can be accessed separately in this link.


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