The Cultural Life of Risk and Innovation: Imagining New Markets from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

This volume provides the first historical examination of how innovations are conceived, marketed, navigated and legitimated from a global perspective that highlights contrasting experiences which range from ＂projecting＂ in the Dutch New Netherlands to the checkered success of bitcoin technology.

Chia Yin Hsu is Associate Professor of History at Portland State University, USA.

Thomas M. Luckett is Associate Professor of History at Portland State University, USA.

Erika Vause is an Assistant Professor of European History at St. John’s University, USA.