New Books in Intellectual History
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Muhammed Fraser-Rahim, "America’s Other Muslims...
Fraser-Rahim explores the oldest and perhaps the most important Muslim community in America, whose story has received little attention in the contemporary context...
65 min
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Jessica Whyte, "Morals of the Market: Human Rig...
Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society....
68 min
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Joshua B. Freeman, "Behemoth: A History of the ...
Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has reflected both our dreams and our nightmares of industrialization and social change...
58 min
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Iain Murray, "The Socialist Temptation" (Regner...
Just thirty years ago, socialism seemed utterly discredited. An economic, moral, and political failure, socialism had rightly been thrown on the ash heap of history after the fall of the Berlin Wall...
62 min
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Sandra Young, "The Early Modern Global South in...
Young proposes a new set of terms with which to understand the racialized imaginary inscribed in the scholarly texts that presented the peoples of the south as objects of an inquiring gaze from the north...
70 min
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Behnaz A. Mirzai, "A History of Slavery and Ema...
Mirzai offers the first history of slavery in modern Iran from the early nineteenth century to emancipation in the mid-twentieth century...
61 min
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Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Rivier...
Joan Riviere (1883-1962) is best known for her role in promoting the ideas of others. She came to prominence in the world of psychoanalysis as Freud’s favorite translator and Melanie Klein’s earliest and most loyal supporter...
54 min
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Crawford Gribben, "An Introduction to John Owen...
Gribben details his subject’s conception of the roles that belief and doctrine should play in the lives of Christians....
33 min
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Richard G. Moore, "The Writings of Oliver Olney...
Oliver H. Olney, an early convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fled to Nauvoo, Illinois, following persecution in Missouri...
32 min
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Charisse Burden-Stelly, "W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life...
Why is the scholarship and advocacy work of W.E.B. Du Bois so relevant for 21st century politics?
65 min
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Richard van Leeuwen, "The Thousand and One Nigh...
Leeuwen thoroughly examines an array of intricate ways in which the Thousand and One Nights shaped the developments of literatures across the world...
58 min
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Scott Soames, "The World Philosophy Made: From ...
How has philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live in?
103 min
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Martin Gansten, "The Jewel of Annual Astrology:...
Gansten offers the first-ever scholarly volume on Sanskritized Perso-Arabic (Tājika) astrology...
92 min
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Shankar Nair, "Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim...
Nair offers intellectually daring and dazzlingly imaginative study of scholarly interactions, made visible through translation, between Sanskrit and Arabo-Persian philosophical traditions in premodern South Asia...
60 min
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Dan Edelstein, "On the Spirit of Rights" (U Chi...
By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did “rights” come to justify such measures?
82 min
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Andrew S. Ballitch, "The Gloss and the Text: Wi...
Throughout the seventeenth century, and on both sides of the Atlantic, William Perkins exercised enormous influence on the ways in which protestants approached the reading of the Bible and thought about the practice of preaching...
32 min
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Adam Rutherford, "How to Argue With a Racist" (...
Rutherford emphatically dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics actually can and can’t tell us about human difference....
75 min
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Steven Shapin, "The Scientific Revolution" (U C...
“There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins...
71 min
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Marc Sidwell, "The Long March: How the Left won...
How does culture shape political power?
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N. Detering and I. Walser-Bürgler, "Contesting ...
While the term ‘Europe’ was used sporadically in ancient and medieval times, it proliferated between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and gained a prevalence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which it did not possess before...
73 min
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Margaret Jacob, "The Secular Enlightenment" (Pr...
Jacob offers a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau...
69 min
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Jennie C. Ikuta, "Contesting Conformity: Democr...
It's good to buck the trend, right? Well, maybe...
55 min
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Valerie Wayne, "Women’s Labour and the History ...
Wayne reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books...
47 min
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Lisa Levenstein, "They Didn’t See Us Coming: Th...
Levenstein shows how American feminists joined a global women’s movement for women’s rights as human rights....
58 min
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Lucas E. Morel, "Lincoln and the American Found...
Morel tells us which of the founders Lincoln particularly admired, why the Declaration was of greater import to Lincoln’s political thinking than the Constitution and how Lincoln turned to the Declaration again and again throughout his adult life....
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