"In Illusions of Progress, Brent Cebul traces the rise of what he terms "supply side liberalism," a powerful and enduring orientation toward politics and the economy, race and poverty, that united local chambers of commerce, liberal policymakers and economists, and urban and rural economic...

Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong-based Augustine Heard & Company, the most prominent American trading firm in treaty-port China, to explore the ways American elites at once made and were made by British colonial society

"Farmed Out uses U.S. agricultural policy as a vehicle to understand how the rapidly polarizing political environment has altered the role of interest groups in Washington. Often understudied, agricultural policy impacts the livelihood of millions, the success of thousands of companies, the...

"There was once a Tennessee whiskey that dwarfed Jack Daniel's, and a powerful man behind it: V.E. "Manny" Shwab. Until now, virtually nothing has been written about either. Their story is one of a Jewish Alsatian immigrant's dream of finding community and prosperity in the New world; of...