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Thomas S. Mullaney, “The Chinese Deathscape: Gr...
Contributors combine narrative analysis, visualized data, and dynamic maps with exceptional ease to introduce readers to infant burial practices in late imperial China, grave and cemetery relocation in Shanghai from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and grave relocation during the contemporary period...
70 min
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Mark Galeotti, “The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia”...
"The Vory" traces the development of the Russian underworld
71 min
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Jane Hooper, "Feeding Globalization: Madagascar...
Jane Hooper talks about Madagascar and its importance to the history of Indian Ocean trade and exploration...
29 min
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Aaron Rock-Singer, "Practicing Islam in Egypt: ...
Aaron Rock-Singer focuses on three principal characters to tell us the story of the Islamic revival: Salafis, the Muslim Brothers, and state institutions...
80 min
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Peter Guardino, "The Dead March: A History of t...
Peter Guardino argues that in order to understand the war’s beginnings, its course, and its legacy, both Mexico and the United States need to be considered as equal halves in the conflict’s history...
65 min
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Stephan Bullard, "A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the...
Why did Ebola, a virus so deadly that it killed or immobilized its victims within days, have time to become a full-blown epidemic?
26 min
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Jennifer Dixon, "Dark Pasts: Changing the State...
Dixon investigates the Japanese and Turkish states’ narratives of their “dark pasts,” the Nanjing Massacre (1937-38) and Armenian Genocide (1915-17), respectively...
59 min
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Daniel Hershenzon, "The Captive Sea: Slavery, C...
For hundreds of years, people living on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea enslaved one another...
56 min
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Manu Karuka, "Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Natio...
What does anti-imperialism look like from the vantage point of North America?
64 min
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Robbie Richardson, "The Savage and Modern Self:...
Richardson examines the cultural presence of Indians in the novels, poetry, plays and material culture of the eighteenth-century...
44 min
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Jennifer Helgren, "American Girls and Global Re...
Jennifer Helgren traces the creation of a new internationalist girl citizenship in the first two decades following World War II by uncovering the activism of girls organizations including Camp Fire Girls, YWCA Y-Teens, and the Girl Scouts...
59 min
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Demetra Kasimis, "The Perpetual Immigrant and t...
Kasimis focuses on three different presentations and discussions of the metics, in Euripides’ Ion, in Plato’s Republic, and in Demosthenes’ Against Euboulides. The metic, as Kasimis explores, is a classification of individuals within Athenian democracy for those who do not have Athenian blood—they are neither insiders nor outsiders...
49 min
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Scott Wallace, "The Unconquered: In Search of t...
Wallace talks about a 2002 FUNAI expedition to find the Arrow People, one of the last uncontacted tribes in the world.,,
32 min
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Cindy Yik-Yi Chu, "The Chinese Sisters of the P...
Cindy Yik-Yi Chu opens up an important new archive in Hong Kong to illuminate the complex and challenging story of the only entirely indigenous congregation of Chinese Catholic sisters...
38 min
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Christopher J. Galdieri, "Stranger in a Strange...
While the thrust of Stranger in a Strange State is on this topic of carpetbagging, our understanding of carpetbagging also brings forward considerations of representation, since the critique of the carpetbagger tends to be a disconnection from the citizens to be represented, especially for those running for the United States Senate...
47 min
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Mimi Hanaoka, "Authority and Identity in Mediev...
How do peripheral places assert the centrality of their identity?
51 min
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Norman Eisen, "The Last Palace: Europe's Turbul...
Eisen describes the cycles of democracy that occurred as public support waxed and waned over the years...
35 min
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Christopher Childers, "The Webster-Hayne Debate...
No, not the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Perhaps even more important than that Illinois contest of 1858 was the Webster-Hayne debate of 1830.
65 min
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Gregg Bocketti, "The Invention of the Beautiful...
Bocketti takes on the traditional nationalist narrative of Brazilian football, which suggests that their successful teams of the interwar and postwar era, which occurred following the shift from foot-ball to futebol in Brazil, arose from the countries specific cultural and racial heritage...
65 min
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Niall Geraghty, "The Polyphonic Machine: Capita...
What options for resistance are left to the author of fiction in a nation structured by totalizing political and economic violence?
33 min
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Veronica Hinke, "The Last Night on the Titanic:...
Hinke tells the stories of millionaires and pastry chefs, popcorn vendors, and perfume salesmen, all gathered aboard the gargantuan ship for its celebrated maiden voyage in 1912.
50 min
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Noam Maggor, "Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of ...
Maggor’s provocative history of the Gilded Age explores how the moneyed elite in Boston—the quintessential East Coast establishment—leveraged its wealth to forge transcontinental networks of commodities, labor, and transportation...
86 min
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John Etty, "Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union:...
John Etty explains how Krokodil magazine provided a venue in which the state, the the magazine’s editors, and readers all participated in defining what it was permissible to laugh at in the USSR...
41 min
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Barbara K. Gold, "Perpetua: Athlete of God" (Ox...
One of the first and most famous of Christian martyrs was Perpetua, who died in Carthage in the early 3rd century CE.
53 min
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Amy Murrell Taylor, "Embattled Freedom: Journey...
The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy...
58 min