New Books in Intellectual History
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Joshua Simon, "The Ideology of the Creole Revol...
Simon compares the political thought of three Creole revolutionary leaders: Alexander Hamilton, Simón Bolívar and Lucas Alamán...
65 min
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Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary...
Aronson gives us the life of a women’s rights activist, labor lawyer, radical pacifist, writer and co-founder of what became the Civil Liberties Union...
57 min
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Wilson Jeremiah Moses, "Thomas Jefferson: A Mod...
Moses dissects the corpus of Jefferson’s writings and examines the span of his activities...
63 min
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Afshin Matin-Asgari, "Both Eastern and Western:...
Matin-Asgari uncovers the intellectual “missing links” both within and without Iran concerning the formation of Iranian national identity...
39 min
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Chet Van Duzer, "Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta ...
Van Duzer presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography...
56 min
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Erin Schoneveld, "Shirakaba and Japanese Modern...
Schoneveld shows how Shirakaba arose in opposition to the statist art of the young Meiji state,..
68 min
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Lior Sternfeld, "Between Iran and Zion: Jewish ...
Sternfeld presents the first systematic study of the rich and variegated history of Jews in twentieth-century Iran...
45 min
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
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Lesley Chamberlain, "Ministry of Darkness: How ...
Chamberlain delineates Uvarov's career and shows how one of the most cosmopolitan of men, became in the course of his official career the inventor of much that can be seen in to-day's xenophobic and nationalistic Russia of Vladimir Putin...
45 min
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Philipp Stelzel, "History after Hitler: A Trans...
The decades following the end of World War II witnessed the establishment of a large and diverse German-American scholarly community studying modern German history...
57 min
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Christine D. Baker, "Medieval Islamic Sectarian...
How do contemporary events shape the ways in which we read, understand, and interpret historical processes of identity formation?
51 min
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James Gordon Finlayson, "The Habermas-Rawls Deb...
Finlayson traces their dispute from its inception in their earliest works to the 1995 exchange and its aftermath, as well as its legacy in contemporary debates...
121 min
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David Brandenberger, "Stalin's Master Narrative...
The Short Course was designed to be the definitive party narrative, but the party purges and Stalin’s own personal preferences led to him stripping out the traditional historical framework...
60 min
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Richard J. Bernstein, "Why Read Hannah Arendt N...
Nobody should feel excited about the renewed relevance of Hannah Arendt's work today...
56 min
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Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, "The Epistolary Art of Cat...
Rubin-Detlev evaluates the place that Catherine sought to occupy in the intellectual and cultural landscape of her time...
56 min
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Julian Havil, "Curves for the Mathematically Cu...
You don’t have to be mathematically curious to appreciate Julian’s talent for weaving mathematics and history together...
56 min
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David Hayton, "Conservative Revolutionary: The ...
Namier remains famous in academic circles for supposedly declaring that any reference to ideas in political discourse was nothing more than 'flapdoodle'...
75 min
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What are Empires and Why do they Matter?
You hear a lot about "empires," but what are they?
59 min
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Ian Parker, "Psychoanalysis, Clinic, and Contex...
Ian shares with us his encounter with British psychoanalysis’s “entangled world of personal-political relationships and rivalries"...
58 min
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Paul Mendes-Flohr, "Martin Buber: A Life of Fai...
Mendes-Flohr paints a detailed and compelling portrait of one of the twentieth century's most versatile and influential thinkers..,
47 min
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John Launer, "Sex Versus Survival: The Life and...
Spielrein's life resembles a nodal point; she stood at the crossroads of extraordinary changes in world politics and psychoanalysis...
56 min
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Han F. Vermeulen, "Before Boas: The Genesis of ...
Where did ethnography come from?
100 min
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Carlo Bonomi, "The Cut and the Building of Psyc...
Bonomi tackles what has often remained hidden both in the historical writing about psychoanalysis and in Freud's explicit account of castration...
54 min
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Najam Haider, "The Rebel and the Imam in Early ...
In the absence of any real certainty about the nature and intention of the early sources that tell us the story of the early Islamic period, how can we use them?
44 min
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Donald Ostrowski, "Europe, Byzantium, and the '...
Why did intellectual path of Medieval Russian culture differ so much from its counterparts in Western Europe?
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