These listings, compiled by the editor of The Exchange, provide information about books of interest to business and economic historians. Lists are updated annually.
Members of the BHC can suggest an addition to the list.
New and forthcoming books of interest for October through 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).
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])
This listing covers new-in-paperback books published from June through December 2017. For earlier listings, scroll down the page.
Pierpaolo Barbieri, Hitler's Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War (Harvard University Press, November 2017 [2015])
A (by no means all-inclusive) list of new and forthcoming books of interest to business and economic historians.
New and forthcoming books of interest to business and economic historians, October-December 2017 (and a few earlier titles we missed):
Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age(Simon & Schuster, November 2017)
A partial list of books of interest published or forthcoming in paperback from September through December (and a few we missed):
Richard Adelstein, The Rise of Planning in Industrial America, 1865-1914 (Routledge, December 2016 [2012])
Amy M. Froide, Silent Partners: Women as Public Investors during Britain's Financial Revolution, 1690-1750 (Oxford University Press, December 2016)
Following is a list of books published in December 2016. Books published earlier in the year follow below on the page.
Marie Anchordoguy, Reprogramming Japan: The High Tech Crisis under Communitarian Capitalism
(Cornell University Press, September 2015 [2005])
Jennifer L. Anderson, Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America
(Harvard University Press, April 2015 [2012])
David Grayson Allen, Investment Management in Boston: A History (University of Massachusetts Press, January 2015)
Scott W. Anderson, Auburn, New York: The Entrepreneurs' Frontier (Syracuse University Press, October 2015)
In addition to the recent books listed below, readers may wish to check out the new Princeton Legacy Library, announced in July 2014. The series is reprinting on demand a number of well-known books, including many business history titles—for example, by Hugh Aiken, Guy Alchon, Judith Coffin, Fred Carstensen, Daniel Nelson, Mark Summers, Eugene White, and James Harvey Young. See here for a full listing.
The following listing is intended to be suggestive rather than comprehensive. "New books" contain books from the current calendar year; books published earlier are located in the "Books of Interest" main section. Only reviews on ungated sites are listed.
Sean Patrick Adams, Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, March 2014)
The following listing is intended to be suggestive rather than comprehensive. "New books" contain books from the current calendar year; books published earlier are located in the "Books of Interest" main section. Only reviews on ungated sites are listed.
Sean Patrick Adams, Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, March 2014)
Ove Bjarnar and Matthias Kipping, eds., The Americanisation of European Business (Routledge, May 2013 [1998])
Youssef Cassis, Crises and Opportunities: The Shaping of Modern Finance (Oxford University Press, May 2013 [2011])
Sean Patrick Adams, The American Coal Industry, 1790-1902 (Pickering & Chatto, December 2013)
Dimitry Anastakis, Autonomous State: The Epic Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free Trade (University of Toronto Press, February 2013)
Richard Adelstein, The Rise of Planning in Industrial America, 1865-1914 (Routledge, March 2012)
Anna Bálint, Clariant Clareant: The Beginnings of a Specialty Chemicals Company (University of Chicago Press, for Campus Verlag, July 2012)
John Atkin, The Foreign Exchange Market of London: Development since 1900 (Routledge, October 2012 [2004])
Rosalind Beiler, Immigrant and Entrepreneur: The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650-1750 (Penn State University Press, April 2011 [2008])
Nick Bunker, Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World, A New History (Random House, April, 2011 [2010])
Franco Amatori and Andrea Colli, Business History: Complexities and Comparisons (Routledge, May 2011)
Franco Amatori, Robert Millward, and Pier Angelo Toninelli, eds., Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise: A Comparison of the UK and Italy (Routledge, March 2011)
Warren Belasco and Roger Horowitz, eds., Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010 [2008]
Geoffrey Jones, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (Oxford University Press, November 2011 [2010])
Joyce Appleby, The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism (W. W. Norton, January 2010)
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