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When did the word “robot” enter the English language? When did the famous Sears catalogue finally bid us all adieu? On ‘This Week in Business History,’ host Scott Luton connects the dots as he leads us down memory lane, shining a light on some of the most significant leaders, companies, innovations – and even lessons learned – from our collective business history. Tune in for some of the most relevant business and global supply chain events from years past. You never know when the events of ...
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Reggie And Royal Perspectives, on Economy, History, Cryptocurrency, Business Podcast
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Old School Meets New School! Somewhat recently, the Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffett was forced to finally admit that he was not well-connected to the tech boom to fully profit from that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He just didn't get it. Many of the discussions relative to current day economics, business, history, cryptocurrency are quite often constrained by the perspectives of the participants. Younger participants are more attuned to the world into which they have grown and are now curr ...
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TBH explores how tech businesses got started, how they succeeded or failed and what it was like to work in them. Presenter Charles Miller is a former BBC producer who specialised in documentaries about technology and business. In TBH he continues his research, meeting key people whose stories tell us how technology found its way into our lives. In this first series, he talks to those behind the dot com boom and bust in the UK in the late 1990s.
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Reggie And Royal Perspectives on Economy, History, Cryptocurrency, Business Podcast
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Old School Meets New School! Somewhat recently, the Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffett was forced to finally admit that he was not well-connected to the tech boom to fully profit from that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He just didn't get it. Many of the discussions relative to current day economics, business, history, cryptocurrency are quite often constrained by the perspectives of the participants. Younger participants are more attuned to the world into which they have grown and are now curr ...
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The VINTAGE HOUSE Show Podcast On Air & On-Line | Business, Culture, History of House Music
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Vintage House on WNUR is the premiere on-air radio show and podcast dedicated to illuminating and preserving the lives, music, and careers of #HouseMusic legends. Join us Every Wednesday on WNUR.org 89.3 or Stream. Powered by the Modern Dance Music Research and Archiving Foundation - www.DanceMusicFoundation.org is the ONLY repository in the United States dedicated solely to the study, preservation and celebration of the House and Dance Music Genres. Hosted by House Music Pioneers DJ Lori Br ...
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History Business: A Guide to Being a Historian for Hire
History Business: A Guide to Being a Historian for Hire
From organisational tips to how to promote your work, hosts Lucy Jane Santos and Laura Fitzachary are joined by guests to take an honest look at building a freelance career in history.
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Sneaker History Podcast - Sneakers, Sneaker Culture and the Business of Footwear
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A show about sneakers for sneakerheads, by sneakerheads. We're not here to bring people down or play gatekeeper, we are here to show the positive side of sneakers and connect with like-minded sneakerheads. We talk about sneakers and the footwear industry, interview footwear industry professionals, designers, and creatives that share our passion for sneakers. Opinions not paid for by the corporate sponsors like the other guys. Hosted by... Nick Engvall, Footwear Consultant and former StockX D ...
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Ancient Solutions. Modern Consequences. Join three business geeks and history junkies as they explore the twisty and unexpected history of business. From midwives in Colonial America to percussion manufacturers in modern Japan, from KFC to African empires, and from the Epic of Gilgamesh to modern irrigation systems in Peru — we’ll explore together how ancient solutions have modern consequences for anyone willing to see them. Join your hosts: Dr. Frank E. Hutchison, CQM/OE; Meredith Hutchison ...
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Joshua D. Rothman, "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America" (Basic Book, 2021)
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Joshua Rothman’s The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America was published by Basic Books in 2021, and tells a sprawling history of slave traders in America. Often presented as outcasts and social pariahs, slave traders were often instead wealthy and respected members of their communities. Rothman explores the lives and care…
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Meet The Collab Connoisseur Making Sneakerheads Think - Bimma Williams Intereview
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On this episode of the Sneaker History Podcast, Mike interviews Bimma Williams, a prominent figure in the sneaker industry known for his honest insights and collaborative marketing expertise. They discuss Bimma's journey from working with major brands like Nike and adidas to becoming an independent entrepreneur. The conversation covers the importan…
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Donald Crossley was a change-maker in the history of House Music. Learn How with Host Kevin McFall
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You think you know house music history? Donald Crossley shares his Chicago story which reveals the people, places, discos, underground parties and controversies that created House Music!! He is one of the stars of the new documentary House Music: A Cultural Revolution currently shown on WTTW.com. Learn more and share your thoughts...then share with…
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Condensed Episodes 10 & 11 - Artificial Intelligence_ Transforming Our World
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Reggie and Royal Podcast Briefing Doc: Episodes 10 & 11 Main Themes: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a dominant technological force, surpassing even cryptocurrency in its potential impact. LLMs (Large Language Models) like GPT-3 and GPT-4 represent a significant breakthrough in AI, enabling a range of applications. AI presents both…
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Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym, "Twitter: A Biography" (NYU Press, 2020)
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As Twitter enters its own adolescence, both the users and the creators of this famous social media platform find themselves engaging with a tool that certainly could not have been imagined at its inception. In their engaging book Twitter: A Biography (NYU Press, 2020), Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym (@nancybaym) tell the fascinating and surprising …
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Benjamin T. Smith, "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
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For over a century Mexico has been embroiled in a drug war dictated by the demands of their neighbor to the north. In The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade (W. W. Norton, 2021), Benjamin T. Smith offers a history of the trade and its effects upon the people of Mexico. As he reveals, at the start of the 20th century drugs such as mari…
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Shannan Clark, "The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and 20th-Century Consumer Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the production of America’s consumer culture was centralized in New York to an extent unparalleled in the history of the United States. Every day tens of thousands of writers, editors, artists, performers, technicians, and secretaries made advertisements, produced media content, and designed the s…
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Randy M. Browne, "The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve their fundamental problem: how to extract labor from captive workers who had every reason to resist. In this system, enslaved Black drivers were tasked with supervising and punishing other enslaved…
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Robert Darnton, "Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" — countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland — pirated the works of prominent (and often banned) French writers and distributed them in France, where laws governing piracy were in flux and any notion o…
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John Eglin, "The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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John Eglin talks with Jana Byars about The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency (Oxford UP, 2023). Gambling captures as nothing else the drama of the "long eighteenth century" between the age of religious wars and the age of revolutions. The society that was confronted with games of chance pursued as commercial…
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Rebecca Ball, "A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
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How do ordinary people write the stories of their lives? In A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024), Rebecca Ball, a lecturer in history at Manchester Metropolitan University, presents the microhistory of a series of working-class autobiographies. Ranging from childhood experiences, through education, work, marri…
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Juan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
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Many authors have written about the Manila Galleons, the massive ships that took goods back and forth between Acapulco and Manila, ferrying silver one way, and Chinese-made goods the other. But how did the Galleons actually work? Who paid for them? How did buyers and sellers negotiate with each other? Who set the rules? Why on earth did the shipper…
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Marianne Kamp, "Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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In this episode, Alisa interviews Dr. Marianne Kamp to celebrate the release of her new book, Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan, recently published by Cornell University Press. Collectivization Generation is a history of agricultural collectivization in Soviet Uzbekistan that relies on oral history acc…
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Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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How the creation of money and monetary policy can be more democratic. The power to create money is foundational to the state. In the United States, that power has been largely delegated to private banks governed by an independent central bank. Putting monetary policy in the hands of a set of insulated, nonelected experts has fueled the popular reje…
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Lisa Sheryl Jacobson. "Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey After Prohibition" (U California Press, 2024)
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In popular memory the repeal of US Prohibition in 1933 signaled alcohol’s decisive triumph in a decades-long culture war. But as Dr. Lisa Jacobson reveals in Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey after Prohibition (University of California Press, 2024), alcohol’s respectability and mass market success were neither sudde…
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Christine M. Larson, "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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As writers, musicians, online content creators, and other independent workers fight for better labor terms, romance authors offer a powerful example—and a cautionary tale—about self-organization and mutual aid in the digital economy. In Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success (Princeton Univ…
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The Sneaker History Nice List of 2024
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In this episode of the Sneaker History Podcast, the hosts discuss their favorite sneakers of 2024, emphasizing the importance of storytelling in sneaker design and the impact of collaborations on sneaker culture. They reflect on the resurgence of retro sneakers and share diverse perspectives on upcoming releases, while also looking ahead to what th…
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Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, "The Unequal Effects of Globalization" (MIT, 2023)
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The recent retreat from globalization has been triggered by a perception that increased competition from global trade is not fair and leads to increased inequality within countries. Is this phenomenon a small hiccup in the overall wave of globalization, or are we at the beginning of a new era of deglobalization? Former Chief Economist of the World …
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Theresa Flanigan, "The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Politics, and Civic Identity in Late Medieval Florence" (Brepols, 2024)
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Famous today for the shops lining its sloped street, the Ponte Vecchio is the last premodern bridge spanning the Arno River at Florence and one of the few remaining examples of the once more prevalent urbanized bridge type. Drawing from early Florentine chronicles and previously unpublished archival documents, The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Polit…
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Bob Kuska, "Balls of Confusion: Pro Baskelball Goes to War (1965-1970)" (From Way Downtown, 2024)
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Balls of Confusion: Pro Basketball Goes to War(1965-70) is the first of a two-part story about one of the most transformative events inpro basketball history: the war between the National Basketball Association and its challenger the American Basketball Association (ABA).From this nine-year battle for the heart of the game, modern pro basketball em…
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Community and Inclusivity in Sneaker Culture With Mr. Miller [Interview]
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In this episode of the Sneaker History Podcast, Mike interviews Mr. Miller, a prominent figure in sneaker culture known for including his family in his content. They discuss the importance of family in sneaker collecting, the evolution of sneaker prices, and the joy of hunting for sneakers. Mr. Miller shares insights on teaching kids about sneakers…
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Sara Cantillon et al., "Feminist Political Economy: A Global Perspective" (Agenda, 2023)
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Challenging mainstream narratives in political economy, the new book Feminist Political Economy: A Global Perspective (Agenda Publishing, 2023) serves as an introduction to a new era of critical research. It is written by Prof. Sara Cantillon, Dr. Sara Stevano and Prof. Odile Mackett, who have carried out incredible work to deconstruct gender-blind…
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Alissa Klots, "Domestic Service in the Soviet Union; Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Domestic Service in the Soviet Union: Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor (Cambridge University Press, 2024) by Dr. Alissa Klots is the first to explore the evolution of domestic service in the Soviet Union, set against the background of changing discourses on women, labour, and socialist living. Even though domestic service co…
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Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman, "Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie®" (MIT Press, 2024)
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The engaging story of Intellivision, an overlooked videogame system from the late 1970s and early 1980s whose fate was shaped by Mattel, Atari, and countless others who invented the gaming industry. Astrosmash, Snafu, Star Strike, Utopia—do these names sound familiar to you? No? Maybe? They were all videogames created for the Intellivision videogam…
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Carrie M. Lane, "More Than Pretty Boxes: How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn't Working" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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This study of organizing and decluttering professionals helps us understand—and perhaps alleviate—the overwhelming demands society places on our time and energy. For a widely dreaded, often mundane task, organizing one’s possessions has taken a surprising hold on our cultural imagination. Today, those with the means can hire professionals to help s…
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Condensed Episodes 13 & 14 Riding The Wave_ Navigating the First Institutional Bitcoin Bull Market
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Crypto Briefing Document: Navigating the Bitcoin Bull Market Executive Summary: This briefing document reviews various sources discussing the current state and potential future of the cryptocurrency market, particularly Bitcoin. The sources analyze current market indicators, historical trends, the impact of institutional involvement, the role of al…
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Condensed Episodes 8 9 & 12 - Carbon Credits & Crypto_ A Deep Dive
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Reggie and Royal Podcast Briefing Doc: Carbon Credits and Cryptocurrencies Main Themes: Carbon Credits: Understanding what carbon credits are, how they work, and their potential for mitigating climate change. Cryptocurrency and Carbon Markets: Exploring the intersection of cryptocurrency and carbon markets, focusing on crypto-carbon credits and the…
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Condensed Episodes 4 & 6 - Global Central Banking in Crisis
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Reggie and Royal Podcast Briefing Doc: Global Central Bank Dilemma Main Theme: This briefing doc summarizes key points from episodes 4 and 6 of the Reggie and Royal podcast. The central theme revolves around the unprecedented actions taken by global central banks, particularly the Federal Reserve, ECB, and Bank of Japan, and the potential long-term…
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Condensed Episodes 3 & 5 - From Skeptics to Supporters_ Big Finance's Embrace of Cryptocurrency
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Institutional Adoption of Cryptocurrency: A Seismic Shift in Finance This briefing document analyzes two podcast episodes from the Reggie and Royal podcast, focusing on the changing attitudes of major financial institutions towards cryptocurrency. Key Themes: The Institutional Tide is Turning: Once dismissive of cryptocurrencies, major financial in…
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Reggie and Royal Podcast: Deep Dive into Bitcoin and the Crypto Ecosystem Episode 1: The Seventh Layer: Unraveling Cryptocurrency Introduction: This episode establishes the conceptual framework of cryptocurrency as the seventh layer in the evolution of information technology, emphasizing its dependence on previous layers and its potential as a tran…
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DJ Lori Branch and DJ Dana Powell on House Music from the Generator, to the Warehouse to NOW!
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Listen and Learn from DJ Dana Powell whose friendship with the greats including Frankie Knuckles is amazing. He questions the current state of House Music and comments on the future. WHAT HAPPENED FROM DISCO TO HOUSE MUSIC...let's discuss why this question is important! From the Generator to the Warehouse to today's sounds and spaces...this episode…
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Ana Lucia Araujo, "Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, more than twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas in cramped, inhumane conditions. Many of them died on the way, and those who survived had to endure further suffering in the violent conditions that met them onshore. Covering more than three hundred years, Humans in Shac…
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Meredith McKittrick, "Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed that rainfall was dwindling, while nineteenth-century missionaries and explorers had found riverbeds, seashells, and other evidence of a verdant past deep in the Kalahari Desert. Government experts insisted, however, that the rains weren’t disappearing; the land, long sus…
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Reem Hilu, "Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s: The Intimate Life of Computers" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
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Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s: The Intimate Life of Computers (U Minnesota Press, 2024) shows how the widespread introduction of home computers in the 1980s was purposefully geared toward helping sustain heteronormative middle-class families by shaping relationships between users. Moving beyond the story of male-dominated computer culture, th…
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Tiger Woods First Shoes After Leaving Nike - Behind The Design With Charlie Hudak and Tyler Pinkos of Sun Day Red
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In this episode of the Sneaker History Podcast, host Nick Engvall speaks with Charlie Hudak and Tyler Pinkos, the creators behind the new Sun Day Red shoes designed for Tiger Woods. They discuss their backgrounds in footwear design, the intense development process, and the unique challenges of creating a high-performance golf shoe for one of the gr…
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Benjamin J. Shestakofsky on How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Benjamin Shestakofsky about his book, Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality (U California Press, 2024). Shestakofsky is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is affiliated with AI at Wharton and the Center on Digital Culture …
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Susan Gaunt Stearns. "Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
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Shortly after the ratification of the US Constitution in 1789, twenty-two-year-old Andrew Jackson pledged his allegiance to the king of Spain. Prior to the Louisiana Purchase, imperial control of the North American continent remained an open question. Spain controlled the Mississippi River, closing it to American trade in 1784, and western men on t…
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Jeffrey M. Pilcher, "Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Today I’m speaking with Jeffrey Pilcher, Professor of Food History at the University of Toronto. We are discussing his new book, Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity (Oxford University Press, 2024). While beer, or even alcohol for that matter, is not consumed in many parts of the world, its near universality is still…
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Toby Bennett, "Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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How does the music industry actually work? In Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out Toby Bennett, a Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture & Organisation in the School of Media and Communications at the University of Westminster offers a deep ethnography of everyday life in a contemporary recor…
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The Worst of Sneakers 2024 aka The Sneaker History Naughty List
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It's that time of year where we are all bombarded by "best of the year" lists from anyone and everyone who has access to the internet. Instead of giving you another list, we're starting a new tradition and breaking down this year's sneaker releases into our own version of Santa's "Naughty & Nice" list. Today's episode we cover the naughty side of s…
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Steven King et al., "In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)
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Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions - from penny-pinching Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse -…
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Adrian Tinniswood, "The Power and the Glory: Life in the English Country House Before the Great War" (Basic Books, 2024)
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In the decades before the First World War, the owners of the nation’s stately homes revelled in a golden age of glory and glamour. Nothing lay beyond their reach in a world where privilege and hedonism went hand-in-hand with duty and honour. This was a time when the ancestral seats of ancient nobility stood side-by-side with the fabulous palaces of…
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Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain, "How Government Built America" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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How Government Built America (Cambridge UP, 2024) challenges growing, anti-government rhetoric by highlighting the role government has played in partnering with markets to build the United States. Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain explore how markets can harm and fail the country, and how the government has addressed these extremes by restorin…
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James T. White and John Punter, "Condoland: The Planning, Design, and Development of Toronto's CityPlace" (UBC Press, 2023)
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Casting an eye toward the frantic vertical urbanization of Toronto, Condoland: The Planning, Design, and Development of Toronto’s CityPlace (UBC, 2023) traces the forty-year history of the city’s largest residential megaproject. James T. White and John Punter summarize the tools used to shape Toronto’s built environment and critically explore the u…
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Ken Wilcox, "The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice" (John Wiley & Sons, 2024)
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The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice (Wiley, 2024) describes former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) Ken Wilcox's firsthand challenges he encountered in four years “on the ground” trying to establish a joint venture between SVB and the Chinese government to fund local innovation design―and th…
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Karen Lystra, "Love and the Working Class: The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Love and the Working Class: The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Karen Lystra is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. These laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay connected to tho…
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Maria Adamopoulou, "The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974)" (de Gruyter, 2024)
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Was migration to Germany a blessing or a curse? The main argument of this book is that the Greek state conceived labor migration as a traineeship into Europeanization with its shiny varnish of progress. Jumping on a fully packed train to West Germany meant leaving the past behind. However, the tensed Cold War realities left no space for illusions; …
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Ryan Moran, "Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Ryan Moran’s Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance (Cornell UP, 2023) is a history of the life insurance industry in Japan from its origins in the early 1880s to Japan’s surrender in 1945. Moran shows how both private and public insurers exploited a mix of “certainty, fear, and optimism” to …
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The Warehouse is a Chicago Landmark! The Dancers, Workers and Those who experienced tell their stories!!
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The Warehouse was dedicated as a Chicago Landmark October 5, 2024!! 206 South Jefferson memories are spiritual and emotional. The LOVE spread throughout the block party and VHS Host Kevin McFall spoke to many of the Frankie Knuckles lovers that actually partied inside of the Warehouse. Some from the beginning...some from the end...all with fond mem…
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Brian Donahue, "Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests" (Yale UP, 2024)
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In Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests (Yale UP, 2024), environmental historian Brian Donahue advances a radical proposal for healing the relationship between humans and forests through responsible, sustainable use of local and regional wood in home building. American homes are typically made of lumber and plywood delivered by a global s…
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