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  Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America A Transnational History of Profits and Repression by Basualdo, Victoria, Berghoff, Hartmut, Bucheli, Marcelo (Eds.) Book presentation event on Thursday May 27 at the 3º Encontro Internacional – REDE DE PROCESSOS REPRESSIVOS, EMPRESAS, TRABALHADORAS/ES E SINDICATOS NA AMÉRICA LATINA

NEW BOOKS IN BUSINESS HISTORY SUMMER 2020 Coffeeland: One Man’s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favo rite Drug , 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 .    Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order by Stefan J. Link.  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 b...

NEW BOOKS IN BUSINESS HISTORY SPRING 2020 [reply to [ web-editor@thebhc.org ] if you wish your book to be announced on  The Exchange ] Capitalism's Hidden Worlds, Edited by Kenneth Lipartito and Lisa Jacobson (University of Pennsylvania Press) Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America by Teresa A. Goddu (University of Pennsylvania Press) The Great American Housing Bubble: What Went Wrong and How We Can Protect Ourselves in the Future, by Adam J. Levitin and Susan M. Wachter (Harvard University Press) Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain (Liveright) The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes , by Zachary D. Carter Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic,  by Joshua R. Greenberg (University of Pennsylvania Press)

#BHCCharlotte Book Auction If you have a recently published book or you are the editor of a journal in a field related to business history, please contact your publisher and urge them to participate in our free Book and Journals Exhibit. Direct them to the information available on the BHC Meeting webpage, specifically to the page of information for publishers at https://thebhc.org/book-exhibit-information-publishers . A large number of publishers participate in the BHC exhibit each year, but smaller presses often do not plan to display their wares unless they are contacted by an author. Also, though publishers tend to display only new titles, they are usually willing to include any item still in print, especially for authors who will be in attendance at the meeting. We do an e-mailing to exhibit managers of publishers with large business history lists, but the display of a particular title may require direct intervention by authors. Particularly if your book is a recent paperback, ...

New Books, Fall 2019 Ai Hisano's Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat (Harvard University Press) is out. Elisabeth Köll's new book Railroads and the Transformation of China (Harvard University Press), is available.  Diebolt, Claude, Haupert, Michael (Eds.)  Handbook of Cliometrics  (Springer)  Adelman, Joseph M. Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789  (Johns Hopkins University Press) For an  interview with the author in the  Ben Franklin’s World 's show, click  here .  Parker, Traci.  Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s (University of North Carolina Press). Pérez, Louis A. Jr. Rice in the Time of Sugar. The Political Economy of Food in Cuba   (University of North Carolina Press) Lewis, Courtney. Sovereign Entrepreneurs: Cherokee Small-Business Ow...

Dear subscribers of The Exchange, Below are newly published books since the Spring, and also titles that were not included then. I hope this list is right on time for your new syllabi or for your end of the summer break reading. For previous books of 2019 check Spring. Stephen W. Campbell's  The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America , (University of Kansas Press, 9780700627448) came out at the beginning of 2019. Stephen Campbell was interviewed about his book  The Age of Jackson Podcast  last June 2019. The episode can be accessed here . And the University Press of Kansas blog featured Stephen Campbell's book and interviewed him in January. Click on  this link  to access the transcripts.  Graham D. Taylor's Imperial Standard: Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian Oil Industry from 1880 came out last April 2019. (University of Calgary; and the book is fully accessib...

Dear subscribers to The Exchange, 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 ...

The latest group of on-line, freely available book reviews of interest: Margot Finn and Kate Smith, eds.,  The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 ,  reviewed by  Rila Mukherjee for H-Asia. James Freeman and Vern McKinley,  Borrowed Time: Two Centuries of Booms, Busts, and Bailouts at Citi ,  reviewed by  Thomas L. Hogan for EH.Net. Katherine Rye Jewell, Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century , reviewed by  Gavin Wright for EH.Net. Beverly Lemire,  Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures: The Material World Remade, c.1500–1820 ,  reviewed by  Shami Ghosh for  Reviews in History . Gregory May,  Jefferson’s Treasure: How Albert Gallatin Saved the New Nation from Debt ,  reviewed by  Robert E. Wright for EH.Net; and  Response  from May. Jamie L. Pietruska,  Looking Forward: Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America ,...

New and forthcoming books of interest for October through December 2018 and January-February 2019 (for bibliographic purposes, the list is divided between 2018 and 2019 titles): October-December 2018 Stuart Aveyard, Paul Corthorn, and Sean O'Connell, The Politics of Consumer Credit in the UK, 1938-1992 (Oxford University Press, November 2018). Matthias Blum and Christopher R. Colvin, eds.,  An Economist's Guide to Economic History  (Palgrave Macmillan, December 2018). Bradley J. Borougerdi, Commodifying Cannabis: A Cultural History of a Complex Plant in the Atlantic World (Lexington Books, November 2018). Youssef Cassis and Giuseppe Telesca, eds.,  Financial Elites in European Banking: Historical Perspectives  (Oxford University Press, October 2018). Huw David,  Trade, Politics, and Revolution: South Carolina and Britain's Atlantic Commerce, 1730-1790  (University of South Carolina Press, November 2018). Hannah Catherine Davies,  Tra...

The Hagley Prize in Business History is awarded annually to the best book in business history, broadly defined. The prize committee encourages the submission of books from all methodological perspectives. It is particularly interested in innovative studies that have the potential to expand the boundaries of the discipline. Scholars, publishers, and other interested parties may submit nominations. Eligible books can have either an American or an international focus. They must be written in English and be published during the two years (2017 or 2018 copyright) prior to the award.     The Ralph Gomory Prize , made possible by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, recognizes historical work on the effects of business enterprises on the economic conditions of the countries in which they operate. A prize of $5,000 is awarded annually for a book published in the two years prior to the year of the award (2017 and 2018). Book nominations are accepted from publishers.    ...

Reviews of interest, mostly ungated, published over the summer: Edward Balleisen,  Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff ,  reviewed by  Cristie Ford for Jotwell. Hartmut Berghoff, Jan L. Logemann, and Felix Römer, eds.,  The Consumer on the Home Front: Second World War Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective ,  reviewed by  Manuel Schramm for H-German. Fahad Ahmad Bishara,  A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 ,  reviewed by  Johan Mathew for H-IslamInAfrica. Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus,  The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica , and Paul Cheney,  Cul-de-Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue , jointly  reviewed by  Andy Cabot for Books and Ideas. William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo, eds.,  Enterprising America: Businesses, Banks, and Credit Markets in Historical Persp...

A (by no means complete) listing of new and forthcoming books of interest for this summer, covering late May-September 2018: Bernardo Batiz-Lazo,  Cash and Dash: How ATMs and Computers Changed Banking  (Oxford University Press, September 2018) Michael Bliss,  Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business  (new ed., ed. John Turley-Ewart) (Rock's Mills Press, August 2018) [no publisher page]. William D. Bryan,  The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South  (University of Georgia Press, August 2018) John W. Chaffee,  The Muslim Merchants of Premodern China: The History of a Maritime Asian Trade Diaspora, 750–1400  (Cambridge University Press, August 2018) Nicholas Crafts,  Forging Ahead, Falling Behind and Fighting Back: British Economic Growth from the Industrial Revolution to the Financial Crisis  (Cambridge University Press, September 2018) Ben Dew,  Commerce, Finance, and Statecraft: Histor...

A selection of (ungated) reviews of books in business and economic history: Charles O'Kelley reviews Naomi Lamoreaux and William Novak, eds., Corporations and American Democracy , for Jotwell. Loïc Bonneval reviews Alexia Yates, Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Capital in the Fin-de-Siècle Capital , for Books and Ideas. J. W. Mason reviews Mark R. Wilson, Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II , for Dissent . Jason DeParle reviews Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America , for the New York Review of Books . Diane Coyle reviews William Deringer, Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age , for her "Enlightened Economist" blog. Chris Corker reviews Paolo Di Martino, Andrew Popp and Peter Scott, eds., People, Places and Business Cultures: Essays in Honour of Francesca Carnevali , for EH.Net. Gail Triner reviews Kurt Mettenheim, Monetary St...

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 Cap...

The last "new in paperback" listing covered publications through June 2017, so we are well behind. This listing covers books published from June through December 2017. A following post will cover books published from January through May 2018. The listing does not include books published simultaneously in hardcover and paper. Pierpaolo Barbieri,  Hitler's Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War  (Harvard University Press, November 2017 [2015]) Daina Ramey Berry,  The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved from Womb to Grave in the Building of a Nation  (Beacon Press: December 2017 [January 2017]) Mansel G. Blackford,  Columbus, Ohio: Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change  (Ohio State University Press, July 2017 [2016]) Christy Ford Chapin,  Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System  (Cambridge University Press, July 2017 [2015]) Wendy Gamber,  ...

New and forthcoming, April and May 2018 (plus a few we missed from March): Cornelia Aust,  The Jewish Economic Elite: Making Modern Europe  (Indiana University Press, February 2018) Gavin Benke,  Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism  (University of Pennsylvania Press, May 2018) Regina Lee Blaszczyk and Véronique Pouillard, eds., European Fashion: The Creation of a Global Industry (Manchester University Press, March 2018) Regina Lee Blaszczyk and Ben Wubs, eds.,  The Fashion Forecasters: A Hidden History of Color and Trend Prediction  (Bloomsbury, March 2018) John R. Bockstoce,  White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic: The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century  (Yale University Press, March 2018) Chris Briggs and Jaco Zuijderduijn, eds.,  Land and Credit: Mortgages in the Medieval and Early Modern European Countryside  (Palgrave Macmillan, April 2018) Richard Lym...