Unique among business school libraries, Baker Library possesses remarkably comprehensive and diverse historical collections that offer a window on the development and growth of business and industry from the 15th through the 20th centuries. The following partial list of recent publications represents some of the varied uses of primary source materials held in Baker’s Historical Collections.

Sven Beckert
The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896

Elspeth Brown
The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884–1929

Sally Clarke   
Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market

Jeffrey L. Cruikshank   
A Delicate Experiment: The Harvard Business School, 1908–1945

Thomas Dublin   
Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution

Alice Kessler-Harris
In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America

Rakesh Khurana   
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: the Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession

Thomas N. Layton
The Voyage of the Frolic: New England Merchants and the Opium Trade

Stephen Mihm
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States

Laura Putnam
The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870–1960

Simon Schama
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

Susan Strasser
Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash

Andrea Tone
Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America

Juliet E. K. Walker
The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship