The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account In the early 17th century, the Peruvian city of Potosí billed itself as the ...

“Any book about capitalism that begins almost 900 years ago in the port city of Aden, in what is now Yemen, promises a new story,” said Marcus Rediker in The New York Times. Harvard historian Sven ...

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In a bold new history, Sven Beckert traces the origins of our modern economy, from global port cities to the halls of power. Centuries ago, Beckert writes, investors traveled to remote corners of the ...

Sven-Goran Eriksson recalls how a “dream was ruined” in one of his last ever interviews. Former England boss Eriksson recounts his bizarre seven months at Notts County in one of football’s most ...

Ruth Elaine (Ambuehl) Otten, 93, of Cedar Rapids, IA, passed away peacefully on November 9, 2025, at Dennis & Donna Oldorf Hospice House after a fall. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, ...

As a finalist for the 2025 Chicago Bears Fan of the Year, Jonathan Otten thought he was being interviewed on a video call as a last step in the competition. But that wasn't the case. To Otten's ...

Paul Otten, Superintendent of Beavercreek City Schools, has been named the 2026 Ohio Superintendent of the Year by the American Association of School Administrators and the Buckeye Association of ...

Sven Dorkenwald never thought he’d be a biologist growing up. His first love was physics, where elegant equations can explain the precise movements of comets and electrons alike. But that changed when ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The family of Jenni Otten is still awaiting a trial date after her husband, Eric Otten, was accused of killing her and a friend back in 2023. Otten’s court date was scheduled to occur ...

Acclaimed Stockholm-based artist/producer/composer Joel Danell, who records as Sven Wunder, is rarely absent from his studio without good reason. But for the past several weeks, he’s dedicated nearly ...