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S. Burrows and G. Roe, "Digitizing Enlightenmen...
78 min
2502
Cristina A. Bejan, "Intellectuals and Fascism i...
Bejan asks how the far-right Iron Guard came to eclipse the appeal of liberalism for so many of Romania's intellectual elite, drawing on diaries, memoirs and other writings to examine the collision of culture and extremism in the interwar years....
50 min
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Antonia Bosanquet, "Minding their Place: Space ...
How was the relationship between Muslim and non-Muslim communities theologically and spatially imagined in the premodern world?
56 min
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Nicholas Guyatt, "Bind Us Apart: How Enlightene...
Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that “all men are created equal”?
66 min
2505
Andre E. Johnson, "No Future in This Country: T...
In this rhetorical history, Johnson contextualizes and analyzes some of Turner’s key speeches and writings delivered between 1896 and 1915 amid the rise of Jim Crow segregation and the first Great Migration...
72 min
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Daniela Vallega-Neu, "Heidegger's Poietic Writi...
Looking at Heidegger’s writing from 1936-1942, Vallega-Neu’s text is an excellent guide through this incredibly difficult period of Heidegger’s thinking...
63 min
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Saladin Ambar, "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Raci...
Ambar offers the first in-depth analysis of this important speech, illuminating its context and consequences.
88 min
2508
Marisa Anne Bass, "Insect Artifice: Nature and ...
At the book’s center is a neglected treasure of the late Renaissance: the Four Elements manuscripts of Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1600), a learned Netherlandish merchant, miniaturist, and itinerant draftsman...
49 min
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Jimena Canales, "Bedeviled: A Shadow History of...
Just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the scientific imagination itself....
42 min
2510
Vadim Shneyder, "Russia's Capitalist Realism: N...
Shneyder examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton Chekhov responded to the dangers and possibilities posed by Russia's industrial revolution....
37 min
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Charles L. Leavitt IV, "Italian Neorealism: A C...
Leavitt steps back from the micro-histories focusing more narrowly on, for example, Italian cinema so as to weave together divers cultural strands (literature, the visual arts, drama, journalism, poetry, essays) into a tapestry of historical practice....
63 min
2512
Michel Boivin, "The Sufi Paradigm and the Makin...
Boivin maps the construction of a vernacular knowledge (as opposed to colonial knowledge) of a complex Sufi paradigm in Sindh by both British Orientalists, such as Richard Burton, but also Sindhi intelligentsia, like Mirza Qalich Beg...
69 min
2513
T. C. F. Stunt, "The Life and Times of Samuel P...
Stunt shows how Tregelles moved from humble origins, overcoming educational barriers through ambition and determination, to become a serious rival to textual critics like Constantin von Tischendorf,..
36 min
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Richard Muller, "Grace and Freedom: William Per...
Muller argues that we need to re-think our understanding of the debate about “free will” – he prefers “free choice” – and divine sovereignty...
31 min
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Ken Tully and Chad Leahy, "Jerusalem Afflicted:...
On Good Friday, 1626, Franciscus Quaresmius delivered a sermon in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem calling on King Philip IV of Spain to undertake a crusade to 'liberate' the Holy Land...
87 min
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Joanne Paul, "Counsel and Command in Early Mode...
Tracing the changes and evolution of writings on political counsel during the “monarchy of counsel,” from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the end of the English Civil War, Joanne Paul examines English thought in its domestic and transnational context...
76 min
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Jeremy M. Glick, "The Black Radical Tragic: Per...
What if the Haitian Revolution, perhaps the only “successful” Black revolution in history, weren’t over?
85 min
2518
Jon Hoover, "Ibn Taymiyya" (Oneworld, 2020)
Ibn Taymiyya is one of the most prolific and influential Islamic thinkers to date, and was even the only pre-modern Muslim author cited in the 9/11 Report...
54 min
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R. H. Helmholz, "Natural Law in Court: A Histor...
Natural Law in Court (Harvard UP, 2015) serves as a guide to the uses of natural law in the past...
51 min
2520
Betty Rojtman, "The Fascination with Death in C...
Rojtman analyses a cultural phenomenon that goes to the very roots of Western civilization: the centrality of death in our sense of human existence...
39 min
2521
Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, "Between Fitness and Dea...
Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings...
42 min
2522
Uma Majmudar, “Gandhi and Rajchandra: The Makin...
This book traces the little-known yet unparalleled influence of Shrimad Rajchandra, Jain zaveri (jeweller)-cum-spiritual seeker, on Mahatma Gandhi...
55 min
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K. Yazdani and D. M. Menon, "Capitalisms: Towar...
"Capitalisms" aims to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue durée from the tenth century; at regions as diverse as Song China, South and South East Asia, Latin America and the Ottoman and Safavid Empires; and exploring the plurality of developments over this extended time and space...
84 min
2524
John Tolan, "Faces of Muhammad: Western Percept...
Tolan offers a fascinating and rich survey of the complex perceptions of Muhammad as understood by Christian Europeans..,
54 min
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N. Chare and D. Williams, "Testimonies of Resis...
Chare and Williams assemble careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented-by themselves and by others-both during and after the Holocaust.,.,
50 min