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Society & Culture
History
4201
Monika Nalepa, "After Authoritarianism: Transit...
An interview with Monika Nalepa
50 min
4202
Ian Macpherson McCulloch, "John Bradstreet's Ra...
An interview with Ian Macpherson McCulloch
85 min
4203
Timothy McCall, "Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning C...
An interview with Timothy McCall
52 min
4204
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink, "Fierce an...
An interview with Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink
59 min
4205
The Cataclysmic Collapse of Abitibi Power and P...
A Discussion with Barry E. C. Boothman
36 min
4206
Natalie J. Goodison, "Introducing the Medieval ...
An interview with Natalie J. Goodison
49 min
4207
Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek...
An interview with Sarah F. Derbew
61 min
4208
Cinema’s First Nasty Women
A Discussion with Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi
73 min
4209
Alison Melnick Dyer, "The Tibetan Nun Mingyur P...
An interview with Alison Melnick Dyer
35 min
4210
The Psychedelic World of Hollywood Hospital
A Discussion with Erika Dyck
32 min
4211
Ion Popa, "The Romanian Orthodox Church and the...
An interview with Ion Popa
118 min
4212
Jenny C. Mann, "The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, ...
An interview with Jenny C. Mann
45 min
4213
Sarah Colvin, "Shadowland: The Story of Germany...
An interview with Sarah Colvin
39 min
4214
Technocracy Now! Part 1: Noam Chomsky on Intell...
63 min
4215
Christopher Goscha, "The Road to Dien Bien Phu:...
An interview with Christopher Goscha
64 min
4216
Bob Brier, "Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Chang...
An interview with Bob Brier
40 min
4217
R. E. Evans and B. E. Kinnear, "'Richard Eager'...
An interview with Barbara Evans Kinnear
56 min
4218
NBN Classic: Peter Hitchens, "The Phoney Victor...
Was World War II really the 'Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations, especially the United Kingdom....
43 min
4219
NBN Classic: Susan Jaques, "The Caesar of Paris...
Jaques offers up a richly detailed and researched account of Napoleon’s fascination with ancient Rome,..
41 min
4220
NBN Classic: Jeremy Black, "War and its Causes"...
Black argues for an important new typology of conflict between and within civilisations, cultures and states, and, while addressing the limitations of commentary and analysis, observes patterns across history that make sense of recent conflicts – and those that may be about to begin...
36 min
4221
NBN Classic: Tim Bouverie, "Appeasement: Chambe...
Bouverie's book is a groundbreaking history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that help to make Hitler’s domination of Europe possible...
37 min
4222
Sean Brennan, "The KGB and the Vatican: Secrets...
An interview with Sean Brennan
54 min
4223
Juliane Noth, "Transmedial Landscapes and Moder...
An interview with Juliane Noth
59 min
4224
Aviva Ben-Ur, "Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Socie...
An interview with Aviva Ben-Ur
50 min
4225
Usha Iyer, "Dancing Women: Choreographing Corpo...
An interview with Usha Iyer
62 min