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Laura J. Arata, "Race and the Wild West" (U Okl...
Arata provides a compelling biography of Sarah Bickford and the larger story of black life in the rural West....
42 min
6802
David Tavárez, "The Invisible War: Indigenous D...
Tavárez guides his readers through four centuries of the Mexican Inquisition in the episcopal sees of México and Oaxaca...
58 min
6803
John Connelly, "From Peoples into Nations: A Hi...
Connelly traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War...
53 min
6804
Andrew C. Isenberg, "The Destruction of the Bis...
In 1800, tens of millions of bison roamed the North American Great Plains...
37 min
6805
Sam van Schaik, "Buddhist Magic: Divination, He...
As far back as we can see in the historical record, Buddhist monks and nuns have offered services including healing, divination, rain making, aggressive magic, and love magic to local clients..,,
45 min
6806
Geoffrey Plank, "Atlantic Wars: From the Fiftee...
Plank uses war as a lens to examine the interactions of peoples who forged shared experiences amid endemic conflict...
26 min
6807
Damien Lewis, "Churchill's Hellraisers: The Sec...
On the night of March 27, 1945, a small group of partisans and British soldiers from the elite Special Air Service (SAS) stormed two villas in northern Italy that were serving as the headquarters of the German 14th Army....
45 min
6808
Ariella Rotramel, "Pushing Back: Women of Color...
Rotramel explores women of color’s grassroots leadership in organizations that are not singularly identified with feminism....
94 min
6809
Laura Briggs, "Taking Children: A History of Am...
Weaving together histories of Black communities (in the US and the Americas more broadly), Native Americans, and multiple Latin Americans countries, Briggs tells us how taking of children has been used as a strategy to terrorize communities that demand social justice and change...
75 min
6810
Bruce Isaacs, "The Art of Pure Cinema: Hitchcoc...
Isaacs offers the first book-length study to examine the historical foundations and stylistic mechanics of pure cinema...
66 min
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Ronit Ricci, "Banishment and Belonging: Exile a...
Ricci suggests that the island served as a concrete exilic site as well as a metaphor for imagining exile across religions, languages, space and time...
90 min
6812
Ziad Fahmy, "Street Sounds: Listening to Everyd...
As the twentieth century roared on, transformative technologies—from trains, trams, and automobiles to radios and loudspeakers—fundamentally changed the sounds of the Egyptian streets....
30 min
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François-Xavier Fauvelle, "The Golden Rhinocero...
What are the African Middle Ages? A place, certainly, and a time period, evidently. But also a “documentary regime,” argues François-Xavier Fauvelle...
59 min
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Lorenz M. Lüthi, "Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle E...
What was the Cold War that shook world politics for the second half of the twentieth century?
85 min
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Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gende...
Daddis explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam...
54 min
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Karl Gerth, "Unending Capitalism: How Consumeri...
Gerth details how the state created brands, promoted and advertised particular products, set up department stores, and facilitated the promotion of certain luxury consumer products in the Mao era....
80 min
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Donald Ostrowski, "Who Wrote That?: Authorship ...
Ostrowski offers a sustained reflection on what we can learn from comparison of authorship controversies...
70 min
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Giorgio Bertellini, "The Divo and the Duce: Pro...
In 1927, the Hollywood stars (and spouses), Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr stood outside their California home, arms raised in fascist salute...
55 min
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James L. Nolan, Jr., "Atomic Doctors: Conscienc...
After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather’s role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project...
38 min
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Stephanie Newell, "Histories of Dirt: Media and...
Newell, along with a team of researchers across a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, explore this idea of “dirt” across the long 20th century...
44 min
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Alison Games, "Inventing the English Massacre: ...
Alison Games shows how the English East India Company transformed that conspiracy into a massacre through printed works, both books and images, which ensured the story's tenacity over four centuries...
90 min
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Chhaya Goswami, "Globalization Before Its Time:...
How did the Kachchhi traders build on the Gujarat Advantage?
60 min
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Edgardo Pérez Morales, "No Limits to Their Sway...
Morales investigates the hemispheric connections between the Spanish American colony of New Granada (or Colombia) and the greater Caribbean in the wake of the Haitian Revolution...
71 min
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James Carter, "Champions Day: The End of Old Sh...
Shanghai’s status as a bustling, international place both now and in the past hardly needs much introduction, although the centrality of horse racing to the earlier incarnation of the city’s cosmopolitanism is less known...
61 min
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Brian R. Dott, "The Chile Pepper in China: A Cu...
Chinese culture and the chile pepper have been intertwined for centuries. Yet, this was not always the case...
78 min