Monday, March 23, 2015

Some new stuff

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Cohen and Mandler on silent changes to the History Manifesto. The preliminary program for BHC EBHA is up. Lindert and Williamson...
Friday, March 20, 2015

Open Access and Predatory Publishing

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LSE Impact Blog has an essay by Monica Berger  and  Jill Cirasella   on Open Access: “ Although predatory publishers predate open ac...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

More on The History Manifesto

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American Historical Review has Cohen and Mandler’s critique of The History Manifesto and Armitage and Guldi’s reply. Cohen and Mandler...
Saturday, March 14, 2015

More on the "new history of capitalism"

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The U.S. Intellectual History Blog has published an interesting essay by James Livingston on the new history of capitalism and Walter John...

More on the recession of the early 1920s

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I saw the other day that James Grant’s The Forgotten Depression had received an award from the Manhattan Institute. The book argues tha...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

The History of Corporations and Securities Markets

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Leslie Hannah’s keynote address to the Economic and Business History Society, “The Origins, Characteristics and Resilience of the “Anglo...
Friday, March 6, 2015

A Tale of Two Plantations

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I have recently written about some new books on the history of slavery that I did not like. I just finished one that I really did like: ...
Thursday, March 5, 2015

Burnard and Baptist on the History of Slavery

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I posted a link to Trevor Burnard’s review of The Half Has Never Been Told in Slavery and Abolition. The review raises many of the issu...