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Jeremy Black, "England in the Age of Shakespear...
This book draws together Black’s expansive reading in Shakespeare’s contexts with extensive knowledge of the canon of his plays...
34 min
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Evan N. Dawley, "Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenes...
Dawley traces the waves of newcomers to Taiwan beginning with Qing dynasty transplants from the southeastern coast of China...
65 min
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Slavery and Islam
A Conversation with Prof. Jonathan Brown
34 min
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Nicholas Walton, "Singapore Singapura: From Mir...
Part travelogue, part history, Walton charts the opportunities and pitfalls confronting small states that have become particularly acute in an era of identity politics and civilizational leadership...
60 min
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Yan Li, “China’s Soviet Dream: Propaganda, Cult...
Li offers a sophisticated argument that this all fed into an entire framework for socialist modernity which China sought to adopt at this crucial period in its history...
63 min
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Geoffrey Parker, "Emperor: A New Life of Charle...
The Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), ruler of Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued many scholars of early modern Europe...
51 min
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Nora Jaffary, "Reproduction and its Discontents...
Jaffary tracks how medical ideas, practices, and policies surrounding reproduction changed between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mexico...
67 min
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Tyson Reeder, "Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots...
Reeder delineates the differences between the British and Portuguese empires as they struggled with revolutionary tumult...
74 min
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Jonathan Sarna, "American Judaism: A History" (...
Sarna chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America...
53 min
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Humphrey Davies and Lesley Lababid, "A Field Gu...
Guides have been written to the city of Cairo for generations...
56 min
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Christopher E. Mauriello, "Forced Confrontation...
Mauriello attempts to recreate the emotional and traumatic reactions these men had when confronted with the worst of Nazi Germany...
38 min
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David A. F. Sweet, "Three Seconds in Munich: Th...
Sweet relates the horror of terrorism, the pain of losing the most controversial championship game in sports history to a hated rival, and the consequences of the players’ decision to shun their Olympic medals to this day...
37 min
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Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, "Race, Class, and Camp...
Threatening Property examines the campaigns for residential segregation in early-20th century North Carolina...
35 min
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Benjamin Kahan, "The Book of Minor Perverts: Se...
The conversation covers major changes in the cultural discourse around sexual identity, but still makes time for conversation about sexual magicians and wanderlust...
42 min
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Matthew Hughes, "Britain's Pacification of Pale...
Hughes shows how the British Army was so devastatingly effective against colonial rebellion in the mid to late 1930s by the Palestinian Arabs...
51 min
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Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of Italy" (Robin...
The birthplace of the Renaissance and the place where the Baroque was born, Italy has always been a hotbed of culture...
55 min
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Claudia Leal, "Landscapes of Freedom: Building ...
Leal narrates the unknown history of the transition from slavery to freedom in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia...
63 min
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Alexander Rocklin, "The Regulation of Religion ...
Beginning in the mid 19th century, thousands of indentured laborers traveled from India to the Caribbean, and many settled in Trinidad...
42 min
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Emily Skidmore, "True Sex: The Lives of Trans M...
Skidmore weaves in a vibrant discussion on how trans men created community and crafted their lives in rural America at the turn of the twentieth century...
60 min
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Mark Roseman, "Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Resc...
What makes some people aid the persecuted while others just stand by?
62 min
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Jasper Heinzen, "Making Prussians, Raising Germ...
How does civil war shape state building and national identity over the long term?
77 min
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Melissa E. Sanchez, "Queer Faith: Reading Promi...
Sanchez provides an overview of feminist discourse on sex trafficking...
64 min
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Scott Heerman, "The Alchemy of Slavery: Human B...
Heerman examines how slavery and emancipation developed in the Illinois Country from the 18th Century through the 19th Century...
52 min
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Charlie Laderman, "Sharing the Burden: The Arme...
Laderman exposes the way that imperial ambitions suffused the ideas and practices of turn-of-century humanitarian intervention...
69 min
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Milton Gaither, "Homeschool: An American Histor...
With around two million children currently enrolled in home schools in the USA, no-one can doubt that the subject of Milton Gaither’s new book is timely...
27 min