Speculation Nation chronicles the “mania” for land speculation that swept the new United States, as the nation’s elite founders rushed to profit off Native American dispossession. It reveals how the American Revolution produced a republican “empire of liberty” with financial speculation at its core.

Standardizing Empire traces the rise of military-industrial capitalism. It explains how the US military’s overseas presence in places like South Korea during the Cold War led to a globalized economy, which facilitated both South Korea’s “economic miracle” and the decline of US industrial might.

Black Power, Inc. examines the transnational rise of Black empowerment politics from the 1960s through the early 2000s and from the United States to Africa, highlighting how various public and private actors reconciled American-style free enterprise with anti-apartheid politics at the local, national, and international level.

The Household War shows how the early modern English debate over what slavery was and how it ought to be practiced in the household resulted in the development of two distinct systems of bondage in colonial Massachusetts and Virginia, laying the foundation for a future house divided.

Cracked Foundations reveals that the postwar suburban boom was built on debt and speculation. Historian Michael R. Glass shows how home mortgages and municipal bonds made suburban life increasingly precarious and insecure, and how they established inequalities that have persisted to this day.

Focusing on the lived experiences of British colonists, Indigenous people, and enslaved Africans, The Invention of Rum shows how people engaged in making and consuming this commodity created a new means of profit that transformed the Atlantic world.

This volume asks how our understanding of business history changes when we take the emotional dynamics of intimacy to be foundational elements of commercial persuasion. It explores how feelings of personal familiarity, from face-to-face interactions to long-distance appeals, have been leveraged by marketers since the late nineteenth century.

Crusading for Globalization tells the story of an extraordinarily influential group of business executives at the helms of the largest US multinational corporations and their quest to drive globalization forward over the last eight decades, revealing the historical roots of today’s disparities in wealth and income distribution.

As the first book-length study of auctions in early America, America Under the Hammer follows this ubiquitous but largely overlooked institution to reveal how, across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, price became an accepted expression of value.

The first comprehensive study of self-purchase in the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil War, Freedom’s Currency reveals how enslaved people raised money, fostered connections, and made use of slavery’s systems of value and exchange to wrest control of their lives from those who owned them.