Economic History
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Lost Omaha
$31.99 Add to cartThe landmarks of Omaha’s past reveal a history of industry, innovation and change. The Hotel Fontenelle, the Omaha Athletic Club and the Medical Arts Building disappeared in the wake of changes remaki… [more below]
- Author: Bednarek, Janet R. Daly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: April 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1540228649
- Language: English
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Logging in Wisconsin
$24.99 Add to cartLogging in Wisconsin explores the 70 years when logging ruled the state, covering the characters who worked in forests and on rivers, the tools they used, and the places where they lived and worked.
Wi
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Peterson, Diana L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1467125326
- Language: English
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Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
$17.95 Add to cartFrom an economist who warned of the global financial crisis, a new warning about the continuing peril to the world economy
Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financi- Author: Rajan, Raghuram G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0691152632
- Language: English
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Finns of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$24.99 Add to cartExplore the lasting influence of the Finnish people in the Upper Peninsula.
At the time, Hancock consisted of nothing more than a small cluster of humble buildings, but it was here, on the outskirts of
- Series: Images of America
- Author: The Finnish American Heritage Center
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 19 2018
- ISBN10: 146712978X
- Language: English
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A History of the United States in Five Crashes
$18.99 Add to cartIn this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history, Scott Nations, a longtime trader, financial engineer, and CNBC contributor, takes us on a journey through the five sign
- Author: Nations, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 006246728X
- Language: English
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
$29.95 Add to cartCombining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formativ… [more below]
- Author: Roediger, David R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1839768304
- Language: English
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Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler: The Astonishing True Story of the American Financiers Who Bankrolled the Nazis
$25.00 Add to cart“The contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations can only be described as phenomenal. It was certainly crucial to German military capabilities…. Not only was an influential s… [more below]
- Author: Sutton, Antony C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 29 2010
- ISBN10: 1905570279
- Language: English
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How Rich Countries Got Rich … and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor
$19.99 Add to cartA maverick economist explains how protectionism makes nations rich, free trade keeps them poor—and how rich countries make sure to keep it that way.
Throughout history, some combination of government… [more below]- Author: Reinert, Erik S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1541762894
- Language: English
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The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern Work Was Created
$36.00 Add to cart“Compact and immensely readable . . . a tour de force. Prepare to be amazed.” — John C. Bogle, Founder and Former CEO, The Vanguard Group
“Vital–a cogent, timely journey through the economic histor
- Author: Bernstein, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0071747044
- Language: English
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The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
$24.00 Add to cartA classic examination of the roots of corporate culture, newly revised and updated for the twenty first century
Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in t- Author: Trachtenberg, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0809058286
- Language: English
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The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
$21.99 Add to cartAt the height of the roaring ’20s, Swedish ‘migr’ Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success… [more below]
- Author: Partnoy, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 1586488120
- Language: English
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
$21.99 Read moreAn award-winning historian’s “searing” (Wall Street Journal) account of America’s internal slave trade–and its role in the making of America
Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of- Author: Rothman, Joshua D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 154161660X
- Language: English
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The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
$22.95 Add to cartA sweeping history of the drama, intrigue, and rivalry behind the creation of the postwar economic order
When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for ‘a new B- Series: Council on Foreign Relations Books (Princeton University Press)
- Author: Steil, Benn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 23 2014
- ISBN10: 0691162379
- Language: English
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The Land of Enterprise
$19.99 Add to cartThis groundbreaking account of the development of American business from the colonial period to the present explains that the history of the United States can best be understood not as a search for fr… [more below]
- Author: Waterhouse, Benjamin C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1476766657
- Language: English
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Catastrophe Time!
$21.95 Read moreA collection of essays, fictions, and interviews exploring the weird temporalities of finance and catastrophe.
Once, financial practitioners plied a hybrid trade as hydrologists, star-gazers, and weat- Author: Zhang, Gary Zhexi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1913689670
- Language: English
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The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
$21.99 Add to cartThe creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West
- Author: Wyman, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1538701197
- Language: English
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The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
$28.95 Add to cartToday’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a glo
- Author: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0231193742
- Language: English
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
$18.95 Add to cartThe Protestant ethic — a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organization of one’s life in the service of God — was made famous by sociologist and political economist M… [more below]
- Series: Economy Editions
- Author: Weber, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 04 2003
- ISBN10: 048642703X
- Language: English
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America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
$19.00 Add to cartA tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserv… [more below]
- Author: Lowenstein, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0143109847
- Language: English
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The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
$19.95 Add to cartAn expanded new edition of the classic, pithy account of capitalism’s origins–“a must read” for students of political theory and anyone interested in economic thought (Choice)
How did the dynamic eco- Author: Wood, Ellen Meiksins
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1786630680
- Language: English
