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New Books (March 2024)
Three Squares
Carroll, Abigail. Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal. New York: Basic Books, 2013.
Forging Modernity
Hutchison, Martin. Forging Modernity: Why and How Britain Got the Industrial Revolution. London: The Lutterworth Press, 2023.
To Have and Have Not
Black, Brian. To Have and Have Not: Energy in World History. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.
Endangered Maize
Curry, Helen Anne. Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022.
Dining Out
Rawson, Katie, and Elliott Shore. Dining out: A Global History of Restaurants. London: Reaktion Books, 2019.
Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas
Moreno, Aviad. Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2024.
Beyond Coal and Steel
Raphael, Lutz. Beyond Coal and Steel: A Social History of Western Europe after the Boom. Translated by Kate Tranter. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2023.
Sporen van het slavernijverleden in Groningen (4e herziene druk)
Barbara Henkes, Lieuwe Jongsma, and Margriet Fokken. Sporen van het slavernijverleden in Groningen. 4e herziene druk. Groningen: Uitgeverij Passage, 2024.
Jews in Muslim Lands, 1750-1830: Volume I
Tsur, Yaron. Jews in Muslim Lands, 1750-1830: Volume I: The Ottoman Middle East. Translated by Ursula Wokoeck. Liverpool: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2023.
New Books (January-February 2024)
Erinnerungskultur
Sonntag, Philipp. Erinnerungskultur: Die Gesellschaftliche Rolle von Zeitzeugen. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2023
A Land of Milk and Butter
Lampe, Markus, and Paul Sharp. A Land of Milk and Butter: How Elites Created the Modern Danish Dairy Industry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Handbook of Research on Cooperatives and Mutuals
Elliott, Matthew, and Michael Boland, eds. Handbook of Research on Cooperatives and Mutuals. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.
Powering American Farms
Hirsh, Richard F. Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
The World the Plague Made
Belich, James. The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.
The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business
Lopes, Teresa da Silva, Christina Lubinski, and Heidi Tworek, eds. The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2020
The Witches Almanac
Christian, Charles. The Witches Almanac: Sorcerers, Witches and Magic from Ancient Rome to the Digital Age. Canton, MI: Visible Ink Press, 2023.
Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants
Kandiyoti, Dalia, and Rina Benmayor, eds. Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants: Returning to the Jewish Past in Spain and Portugal. New York: Berghahn Books, 2023.
Economic War
Hess, Maximilian. Economic War: Ukraine and the Global Conflict between Russia and the West. London: Hurst & Company, 2023.
Unlocking the World
Darwin, John. Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930. London: Penguin Books, 2021.
The Vortex
Uekötter, Frank. The Vortex: An Environmental History of the Modern World. Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023.
Citizen Cash
Foley, Michael S. Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2021.
Liberalism against Itself
Moyn, Samuel. Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023.
New Books Shelf: Economic & Social History (December 2023)
Essays on Contemporary Dutch Literature
Prandoni, Marco. Essays on Contemporary Dutch Literature: Migration - Identity Negotiation - Cultural Memory. Bern: Peter Lang, 2022.
We weten hoe het moet
Kehnel, Annette. We weten hoe het moet: Een kleine geschiedenis van de duurzaamheid van de Middeleeuwen tot nu. Translated by Mara van Duijn and Ymke van der Staay. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, 2023.
New Books Shelf: Economic & Social History (November 2023)
Family Multinationals
Lubinski, Christina, Jeffrey R Fear, and Fernández Pérez Paloma, eds. Family Multinationals: Entrepreneurship, Governance, and Pathways to Internationalization. Routledge International Studies in Business History, 23. New York: Routledge, 2013.
Gender Queer
Kobabe, Maia and Phoebe Kobabe. Gender Queer: A Memoir. Deluxe edition. Portland, OR: Oni Press, 2022.
Handbook on Asian Public Administration
M. S Haque, Wilson Wong, and Kilkon Ko, eds. Handbook on Asian Public Administration. Elgar Handbooks in Public Administration and Management. Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.
Streets of Gold
Abramitzky, Ran, and Leah Platt Boustan. Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success. New York: PublicAffairs, 2022.
Stealth of Nations
Neuwirth, Robert. Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy. New York: Pantheon Books, 2011.
New Books Shelf: Economic & Social History (September-October 2023)
The Informal Economy in Developing Countries
Jean-Pierre Cling, Stéphane Lagrée, Mireille Razafindrakoto, François Roubaud (eds). The Informal Economy in Developing Countries. Routledge Studies in Development Economics, 112. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2015.
A Modern Guide to the Informal Economy
Williams, Colin C. A Modern Guide to the Informal Economy. Elgar Modern Guides. Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.
Prince Dracula
Baddeley, Gavin, and Paul Woods. Prince Dracula: The Bloody Legacy of Vlad the Impaler. London: Canelo Digital Publishing, 2022.
Is links gewoon slimmer?
Block, Andreas de. Is links gewoon slimmer? Ideologie aan onze universiteiten. Leuven: LannooCampus, 2023.
New Books Shelf: Economic & Social History (August 2023)
The Rights Track
Landman, Todd, and Christine Garrington. The Rights Track: Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery. Anthem Free Press. London: Anthem Press, 2022.
Ernst Cassirer on Form and Technology
Hoel, Aud Sissel, and Ingvild Folkvord, eds. Ernst Cassirer on Form and Technology: Contemporary Readings. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Before HIV
Doyle, Shane. Before HIV: Sexuality, Fertility, and Mortality in East Africa, 1900-1980. A British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
New Books Shelf: Economic & Social History (July 2023)
Black Skin, White Masks
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Richard Philcox. Get Political. New York: Grove Press, 2008.
Profit
Stoll, Mark. Profit: An Environmental History. Environmental History. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2023.
New Books Shelf: Economic & Social History (June 2023)
En toch zal ik
Tuma, Jaap. En toch zal ik: Marten Douwes Teenstra en zijn strijd. Edited by Ellen Gommers. Assen: Uitgeverij Koninklijke Van Gorcum, 2023.
Why Women Grow
Vincent, Alice. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival. Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2023.
Zwaaien, roepen, springen
Molema, Marijn. Zwaaien, roepen, springen: Naar een land waar elke regio telt. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Van Gennep, 2023.
Reading the New Global Order
Munro, John, and Kirrily Freeman, eds. Reading the New Global Order: Textual Transformations of 1989. London England: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
New Books Shelf: Economic & Social History (May 2023)
The Soviet Century
Schlögel Karl. The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World. Translated by Rodney Livingstone. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023.
The Personality of Paris
Baker, Alan R. H. The Personality of Paris: Landscape and Society in the Long-Nineteenth Century. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
The Big Con
Mazzucato, Mariana, and Rosie Collington. The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments and Warps Our Economies. London: Allen Lane, 2023.
New Books Shelf: Economic & Social History (April 2023)
In Verbinding
Ronald van der Wal and Otto Adang. In verbinding: Bondgenoten nader bekeken. The Hague: Boom Uitgevers Den Haag, 2022.
Rainforest Capitalism
Hendriks, Thomas. Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.
Tula
Dros, Lodewijk. Tula: Een beeld van de slavernij: Een halve eeuw herdenking tussen Willemstad en Winschoten. Bornmeer: Noordbroek, 2023.
New Books Shelf: Economic & Social History (March 2023)
Making the Public Service Millennial
Ireni Saban, Liza, Maya Sherman, and Keren Shlomi. Making the Public Service Millennial: Generational Diversity in Public Service. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2022.
Being Neighbours
Wilson, Catharine Anne. Being Neighbours: Cooperative Work and Rural Culture, 1830-1960. Mcgill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies Series, 16. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.
Seed Money
Elmore, Bartow J. Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future. W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
The Globalization of Wheat
Baranski, Marci. The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution. Intersections. Histories of Environment, Science, and Technology in the Anthropocene. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022.
The Revolution That Bit That Its Own Tail
Drukker, J. W. The Revolution That Bit Its Own Tail: How Economic History Changed Our Ideas on Economic Growth. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2006.