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6901
Scott Soames, "The World Philosophy Made: From ...
How has philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live in?
103 min
6902
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
6903
Stephen Riegg, "Russia’s Entangled Embrace: The...
Riegg traces the relationship between the Romanov state and the Armenian diaspora that populated Russia's territorial fringes and navigated the tsarist empire's metropolitan centers....
55 min
6904
Jessica Marie Johnson, "Wicked Flesh: Black Wom...
Johnson explores the nature of these complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world....
95 min
6905
J. E. Zelizer, "Burning Down the House: Newt Gi...
Trump is not the first Republican to rise to power by pushing incendiary policies and destroying opponents...
44 min
6906
Hideaki Suzuki, "Slave Trade Profiteers in the ...
Suzuki provides an insightful perspective to the growing scholarship on Indian Ocean slavery by shifting focus onto those who profited from the slave trade...
73 min
6907
Lisa Selin Davis, "Tomboy: The Surprising Histo...
Davis explores the evolution of tomboyism from a Victorian ideal to a twenty-first century fashion statement, honoring the girls and women-and those who identify otherwise-who stomp all over archaic gender norms...
65 min
6908
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
6909
Jeffery D. Long, "Hinduism in America" (Bloomsb...
Long explores the influence of concepts such karma, rebirth, meditation and yoga on the American consciousness, along with Hindu temples in America...
86 min
6910
Thomas A. Schwartz, "Henry Kissinger and Americ...
Over the past six decades, Henry Kissinger has been America's most consistently praised--and reviled--public figure...
42 min
6911
Lou Hernandez, "Bobby Maduro and the Cuban Suga...
Maduro was greatly responsible for the Cuban League’s recognition by professional baseball (in the US)....
50 min
6912
Molly Loberg, "The Struggle for the Streets of ...
In Germany, the First World War and 1918 Revolution transformed the city streets into the most important media for politics and commerce.
63 min
6913
M. R. Jackson Bonner, "The Last Empire of Iran"...
Despite the competition it posed to the Romans’ eastern empire and the longevity it enjoyed compared to its Iranian predecessors,..
68 min
6914
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
6915
Adam Broinowski, "Cultural Responses to Occupat...
Broinowski analyzes the emergence of Ankoku Butoh (dance of darkness) in the context of America’s de jure and then de facto occupation of Japan following the Second World War...
68 min
6916
Adam Teller, "Rescue the Surviving Souls: The G...
A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tens of thousands of Jews fled their homes, or were captured and trafficked across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa....
72 min
6917
William G. Pooley, "Body and Tradition in 19th-...
Pooley explores how these changes were experienced and negotiated by the people who lived there, drawing on the immense ethnographic archive of Felix Arnaudin (1844-1921)....
54 min
6918
Renisa Mawani, "Across Oceans of Law: The Komag...
The Komagata Maru's landing raised urgent questions regarding the jurisdictional tensions between the common law and admiralty law, and, ultimately, the legal status of the sea...
59 min
6919
David Eaton, "World History through Case Studie...
Eaton holds that mastering these concepts will build the critical thinking skills essential to a historian....
77 min
6920
Matthew Romaniello, "Enterprising Empires: Russ...
Romaniello examines the workings of the British Russia Company and the commercial entanglements of the British and Russian empires in the long eighteenth century...
57 min
6921
Philip Thai, "China's War on Smuggling: Law, Il...
Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China—its practice, suppression, and significance—to demonstrate the intimate link between illicit coastal trade and the amplification of state power...
16 min
6922
Zachary Valentine Wright, "Realizing Islam: The...
Wright maps the intellectual history of the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa, the Tijaniyya...
63 min
6923
David Moon, "The American Steppes: The Unexpect...
Beginning in the 1870s, migrant groups from Russia's steppes settled in the similar environment of the Great Plains. Many were Mennonites. They brought plants...
54 min
6924
Uzma Quraishi, "Redefining the Immigrant South"...
Quaraishi follows the Cold War-era journeys of South Asian international students from U.S. Information Service reading rooms in India and Pakistan, to the halls of the University of Houston, to the suburban subdivisions of Alief and Sugar Land....
67 min
6925
Guy Raffa, "Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented ...
Dante’s Bones is an academic mystery story, the “graveyard history” of Dante Alighieri, the master poet of what has come to be called The Divine Comedy. This book is about Dante’s literal remains and the where and how they’ve been kept...
72 min