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Matthew Spady, "The Neighborhood Manhattan Forg...
Spady traces the complex path by which woodlands became a multi-ethnic big-city neighborhood...
45 min
6602
Jiří Hutečka, "Men Under Fire: Motivation, Mora...
In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men...
58 min
6603
Eric Zolov, "The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in ...
Zolov retells the history of 1960s Mexico by focusing on the way that Mexican political leaders pursued a paradoxical foreign policy agenda...
53 min
6604
Jack Meng-Tat Chia, "Monks in Motion: Buddhism ...
Chia explores the transnationally connected history of modern Buddhist communities in China and Southeast Asia...
66 min
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Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz, "Asian Place, Filipin...
Aboitiz reconnects the Philippine Revolution to the histories of Southeast and East Asia through an innovative consideration of its transnational political setting and regional intellectual foundations....
57 min
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Lloyd Bowen, "John Poyer, the Civil Wars in Pem...
Bowen shows how John Poyer played a critical role in the civil wars...
40 min
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Nimisha Barton, "Reproductive Citizens: Gender,...
Barton shows how France welcomed foreign-born men and women, mobilizing naturalization, family law, social policy, and welfare assistance to ensure they would procreate, bearing French-assimilated children...
60 min
6608
Rana Mitter, "China's Good War: How World War I...
Mitter traces this transformation in the Chinese interpretations of the war from one marked by humiliation to one that celebrates victory...
59 min
6609
Lessie Jo Frazier, "Desired States: Sex, Gender...
Lessie Jo Frazier contends that desire played a central role in the political culture of the modern Chilean state.,,,
72 min
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Lia Paradis, "Imperial Culture and the Sudan: A...
Paradis explores the myriad ways in which the Sudan, whose internal politics were influenced and shaped by Britain...
30 min
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Anthony A. Barrett, "Rome Is Burning: Nero and ...
Barrett sets the record straight, providing a comprehensive and authoritative account of the Great Fire of Rome,..
51 min
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L. Benton and N. Perl-Rosenthal, "A World at Se...
The past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of scholarship in maritime history, including new research on piracy, long-distance trade, and seafaring cultures....
75 min
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Quito J. Swan, "Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Intern...
Swan illuminates the social life of Black Power politics across the African diaspora from the 1950s through the 1980s...
95 min
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Carolyn Conley, "Debauched, Desperate, Deranged...
Conely examines the over 1400 trials of women accused of homicide in London from 1674-1913,..
31 min
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Mike Shanahan, "Ladders to Heaven: How Figs Sha...
Figs are trees of life and trees of knowledge...
31 min
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D. T. Lawrence and E. J. Lawless, "When They Bl...
However, in 2011, after heavy rains and historic flooding, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decided to breach the Birds Point levee. Pinhook, directly in the flood zone, was completely destroyed...
64 min
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Diana Darke, "Stealing from the Saracens: How I...
Darke investigates the Islamic origins of Gothic architecture, tracing its history through pre-Islamic Syria through the Islamic empires to the tall European cathedrals between the 12th and 17th centuries...
34 min
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Mark Somos, "American States of Nature: The Ori...
When we think of early American political thought, we tend to overlook the powerful influence of the natural environment on the formation of settlement in both theory and practice...
24 min
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Michael Brenes, "For Might and Right: Cold War ...
Brenes argues that after the beginning of the Cold War, defense spending became an important part of the federal social safety net...
61 min
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Anne K. Bang, "Islamic Sufi Networks in the Wes...
In the period c. 1880-1940, organized Sufism spread rapidly in the western Indian Ocean. New communities turned to Islam, and Muslim communities turned to new texts, practices, and religious leaders...
94 min
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Dominique Kirchner Reill, "The Fiume Crisis: Li...
Reill recasts what we know about the birth of fascism, the rise of nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I...
57 min
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M. T. Mulder and G. Marti, "The Glass Church: R...
Mulder and Marti offer a compelling look at the rise and fall of one of the most popular and influential Christian evangelists of the twentieth century,..
53 min
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Amanda L. Scott, "The Basque Seroras: Local Rel...
Scott explores the lives of the devout laywomen who cared for and maintained churches and shrines in the Basque country...
49 min
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Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: T...
By 1935 William Faulkner was well established as an author of critically praised novels, yet the low volume of his sales forced him to seek work in Hollywood....
50 min
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College Presidents and the Struggle for Black F...
Focusing on the period between 1948 and 1968, Eddie Cole shows how college presidents, during a time of violence and unrest, strategically, yet often silently, initiated and shaped racial policies and practices inside and outside of the educational sphere...
52 min