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Donald Reid, "Opening the Gates: The Lip Affair...
Throughout the book, Don plays close attention the interplay between the local story of Lip and the broader national and international contexts of the era...
59 min
7927
Seán Moore, "Slavery and the Making of Early Am...
Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade...
59 min
7928
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of ...
Wilken offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire...
59 min
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Jonathan Gienapp, "The Second Creation: Fixing ...
Gienapp revisits the Founding Era to retell the story of America’s favorite document...
60 min
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Douglas Sheflin, "Legacies of Dust: Land Use an...
Sheflin takes a closer look at the Dust Bowl’s long-term legacy in the often overlooked Colorado plains that border Kansas and Oklahoma...
49 min
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Sarah Anne Carter, "Object Lessons: How Ninetee...
Carter reveals that object lessons were a classroom exercise, in wide use during the nineteenth century...
59 min
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Richard Foltz, "History of the Tajiks: Iranians...
Foltz provides a comprehensive cultural, political, and linguistic history of the Tajik people...
66 min
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Pankaj Sekhsaria, "Islands in Flux: The Andaman...
Sekhsaria is a compilation of Sekhsaria's writings on key issues in the Islands over this period and provides an important, consolidated account...
56 min
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Sergei Zhuk, "Soviet Americana: The Cultural Hi...
Zhuk offers an insightful investigation of the development of American studies in the Soviet Union, with a specific emphasis on Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine...
78 min
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Lina del Castillo, "Crafting a Republic for the...
Lina del Castillo’s book explores scientific, geographic, and historiographic inventions in nineteenth-century Colombia...
63 min
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Lynn Downey, "Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Bl...
Nearly every consumer today is familiar with the name Levi Strauss thank to the jeans that bear his name...
50 min
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Emily S. Johnson, "This Is Our Message: Women's...
Johnson examines the lives and work of four well-known women-evangelical marriage advice author Marabel Morgan, singer and anti-gay-rights activist Anita Bryant, author and political lobbyist Beverly LaHaye, and televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker...
47 min
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Genevieve Carpio, "Collisions at the Crossroads...
Carpio considers tensions around mobility and settlement in the 19th- and 20th-century American West, especially California’s Inland Empire....
68 min
7939
Caroline Boggis-Rolfe, "The Baltic Story: A Tho...
The story of the littoral nations of the Baltic Sea is like a saga, that genre perfected by those tenacious inhabitants of the rocky shores of this ancient trading corridor...
51 min
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Melvin C. Johnson, "Life and Times of John Pier...
Hawley was an active member of several Latter Day Restoration denominations in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, Texas, the Indian Nations of Oklahoma, and Utah Territory from 1838 to 1909...
76 min
7941
Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov, "Partitions: A Tr...
Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov uncover the collective history of the concept of partition and locate its genealogy in the politics of twentieth-century empire and decolonization...
46 min
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M. L. Mitma and J. P. Heilman, "Now Peru is Min...
This book tells the remarkable story of a campesino and indigenous political activist whose career spanned much of Peru’s twentieth century and whose achievements at the local and national level transformed Peruvian peasant politics...
48 min
7943
Lorenzo Andolfatto, "Hundred Days’ Literature: ...
Andolfatto explores the landscape of early modern Chinese fiction through the lens of the utopian novel, casting new light on some of its most peculiar yet often overshadowed literary specimens...
64 min
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Yuko Miki, "Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black a...
"Frontiers of Citizenship" is a beautifully written book that integrates quite seamlessly the history black and indigenous peoples in 19th century Brazil.
64 min
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Bennett Gilbert, "A Personalist Philosophy of H...
Bennett Gilbert identifies our affection of and affliction by history. As he argues, we are connected by moral responsibility to the past in a way that elicits both our attention and our compassion...
59 min
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Richard Vague, "A Brief History of Doom: Two Hu...
Vague sees the rise and fall of private sector debt as the key factor explaining the cycle of economic crises experienced by developed and major developing economies over the past two centuries...
33 min
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Greta LaFleur, "The Natural History of Sexualit...
The book effectively historicizes categories that are often take for granted (sex, race, vice, habit), and shows us not only their temporal contingency, but by inviting the reader to delve into the strangeness of early modern ontologies and epistemologies...
77 min
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Ashley Thompson, "Engendering the Buddhist Stat...
Thanks to the international tourism industry most people are familiar with the spectacular ruins of Angkor, the great Cambodian empire that lasted from about the 9th to the early 15th century...
40 min
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Robin Scheffler, “A Contagious Cause: The Ameri...
Could cancer be a contagious disease? Although this possibility might seem surprising to many of us, it has a long history...
38 min
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Anna Rose Alexander, "City on Fire: Technology,...
Alexander examines the approaches to dealing with the ever-present threat of fire in Mexico City in an era in which technology and modernity were transforming the city in fundamental ways...
37 min