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Katherine K. Preston, "Opera for the People: En...
Katherine Preston’s new book, Opera for the People: English-Language Opera & Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America (Oxford University Press, 2017) is the first complete overview of the repertoire, companies, performers, and managers that provided English-language opera to Americans after the Civil War...
59 min
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Brian Crim, "Our Germans: Project Paperclip and...
In his new book, Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), Brian Crim, Associate Professor of History at the University of Lynchburg, looks at the controversial program to bring German scientist to the United States after World War II...
57 min
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Matthew Gabriele, "Apocalypse and Reform from L...
Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Routledge, 2018) is a rich, comparative study, drawing on the scholarship of eleven authors who discuss topics in medieval cultural, intellectual, and ecclesial history...
38 min
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Margot Finn, "Discriminating Taste: How Class A...
50 min
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Judd C. Kinzley, "Natural Resources and the New...
As public knowledge grows of the Chinese state’s subjugation of the central Asian region of Xinjiang, many may find themselves wondering what Beijing’s interest in this distant region is in the first place.
56 min
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Harry O. Maier, "New Testament Christianity in ...
Maier’s study steps away from debates about the formation of early Christian belief to reconstruct the social world in which the new religious movement emerged and began to take shape...
37 min
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A. G. Holloway and J. W. White, "Our Little Mon...
Ever since their famous naval encounter in 1862, the Monitor and Merrimack (a.k.a., C.S.S. Virginia) have been part of American Civil War lore...
45 min
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K. Fullagar and M. A. McDonnell, "Facing Empire...
Kate Fullagar's and Michael A. McDonnell's edited volume Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018) reimagines the Age of Revolution from the perspective of indigenous peoples...
68 min
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Ayça Çubukçu, "For the Love of Humanity: The Wo...
Harkening back to the tribunal on Vietnam once convened by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre, the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) emerged in 2003 from the global antiwar movement that had mobilized against the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq by a US-led coalition....
46 min
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Suman Seth, "Difference and Disease: Medicine, ...
Suman Seth's new book Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2018) provides a new angle on the formation of modern ideas of race through the formation of the British Empire....
40 min
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Joshua Reid, "The Sea is My Country: The Mariti...
In 1999, the Makahs went out on the Pacific for their first whale hunt in over seventy years. The event drew protests from animal rights activists and local (mostly white) Washingtonians...
48 min
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Ian D. Gow and Stuart Kells, "The Big Four: The...
You mean accounting has a history? Yes, it does, and it should matter to you, because the accounting profession, and the audit function that it serves, affects all the companies in your 401(k) program...
47 min
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Seth Anziska, "Preventing Palestine: A Politica...
The question of Palestinian autonomy has been a key element of Middle Eastern and Arab politics for much of the last century...
49 min
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Howard Chiang, "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicin...
Howard Chiang’s new book is a masterful study of the relationship between sexual knowledge and Chinese modernity...
66 min
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Hannah Holleman, "Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperia...
None of the climate news that we’re getting is good right now, especially now that a number of governments are reversing or failing to meet commitments they made as part of the Paris Climate Accord...
56 min
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R. David Cox, "The Religious Life of Robert E. ...
Professor Cox’s book presents his perennially controversial subject was a consistently religious thinker, working from the deist and evangelical influences of Lee’s parents towards the religious convictions and commitments of his maturity...
40 min
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Jinping Wang, "In the Wake of the Mongols: The ...
On the background of widespread portrayals of China as a monolithic geographical and political entity...
72 min
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Noah Benezra Strote, "Lions and Lambs: Conflict...
It has long been assumed that stability was imposed on Germany after World War II; that the United States in particular taught Germans, among other things, how to be “good democrats” and to value cultural pluralism....
76 min
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James R. Rush, "Hamka's Great Story: A Master W...
From Indonesia’s declaration of independence in 1945 up until today, the relationship between Indonesian nationalism, Islam, and modernity has been a key subject of debate...
42 min
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Ana Paulina Lee, "Mandarin Brazil: Race, Repres...
In her new book, Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory (Stanford University Press, 2018), Ana Paulina Lee (Columbia University) analyzes representations of the Chinese in Brazilian culture...
68 min
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Brenden W. Rensink, "Native but Foreign: Indige...
Brenden Rensink asks the question "How do national borders affect and react to Native identity?"
56 min
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Robert C. Trumpbour and Kenneth Womack, "The Ei...
t rose against the Texas sun in all its architectural audacity: a domed stadium big enough to cover a baseball field...
53 min
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Jessica Trounstine, "Segregation by Design: Loc...
Segregation by Design draws on a century of data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments design policies that create race and class segregation...
22 min
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Chad R. Diehl, "Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstr...
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki both play a central role in any narrative of the end of the East Asia-Pacific War...
71 min
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Victoria Smolkin, "A Sacred Space Is Never Empt...
The specter of the “Godless” Soviet Union haunted the United States and continental Western Europe throughout the Cold War...
57 min