Imperial Crucible: Alcoa and the Transimperial History of American Capitalism, 1888–1953
本书以美国铝业公司（Alcoa）为案例，揭示其作为跨帝国企业而非跨国公司的历史，串联起美国政治经济、工人阶级和帝国扩张的相互关联。
“Imperial Crucible” tells the story of the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) from the company’s founding in Pittsburgh in 1888 through the 1950s. Although scholars have long contended that American multinational corporations played a pivotal role in the industrialization of the United States, the building of a global working class, and the transformation of European empires, they have tended to see these stories as distinct, rather than interconnected. In contrast, Imperial Crucible focuses on a single firm to draw together the political-economic, working-class, and imperial history of American business. What the industrialists behind Alcoa built, I argue, was not a multinational but a transimperial corporation.