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Stephen Wall, "Reluctant European: Britain and ...
What was at the core of the UK's semi-detachment to the EU?
37 min
1327
Matthew S. Hopper, "Slaves of One Master: Globa...
In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S. Hopper examines the interconnected themes of enslavement, globalization, and empire and challenges previously held conventions regarding Middle Eastern slavery and British imperialism...
64 min
1328
Thomas Levenson "Money for Nothing" (Random Hou...
Modern finance isn't really all that modern...
63 min
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Harrison Perkins, "Catholicity and the Covenant...
Historians of early modern religion recognise the importance of the development of covenant theology in the formation of Calvinism...
28 min
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Stephen C. Kepher, "COSSAC: Lt. Gen. Sir Freder...
D-Day, June 6, 1944, looms large in both popular and historical imaginations as the sin qua non, or single defining moment, of the Second World War....
59 min
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Ian Kumekawa, "The First Serious Optimist: A. C...
Over the course of his long career, Pigou advanced ideas that remain very relevant today...
42 min
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D. Benge and N. Pickowicz, "The American Purita...
The authors present nine mini-biographies that outline key events in the lives of individuals including Anne Bradstreet, John Eliot, John Cotton and Cotton Mather...
30 min
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Jessica Martell, "Farm to Form: Modernist Liter...
In Farm to Form, Martell contextualizes some familiar texts of British Literary Modernism, into a history that recognizes the role of food and agriculture...
73 min
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Alison Games, "Inventing the English Massacre: ...
Alison Games shows how the English East India Company transformed that conspiracy into a massacre through printed works, both books and images, which ensured the story's tenacity over four centuries...
90 min
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Justin Q. Olmstead, "The United States' Entry i...
Why did America enter the First World War? The author presents a new theory...
38 min
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Debjani Bhattacharyya, "Empire and Ecology in t...
What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta?
61 min
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Zachary Dorner, "Merchants of Medicine: The Com...
Dorner unravels the intertwined history of financial markets, health concerns, and colonial warfare...
58 min
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Thomas R. Metcalf, "Imperial Connections: India...
Metcalf offers an innovative remapping of empire...
46 min
1339
S. J. Potter, "Wireless Internationalism and Di...
Potter describes the efforts to use radio to promote global harmony and how they were eclipsed by nationalism and the weaponization of broadcasting as a propaganda tool...
45 min
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Jeremy Black, "A History of Britain: 1945 to Br...
According to the influential French commentator and scholar, Raymond Aron, one the great un-answered questions of the post-1945 period is how and why the British went from being ‘Romans to Italians’...
68 min
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Wendy Moore, "No Man’s Land: The Trailblazing W...
A hospital run by two suffragette doctors, Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray...
54 min
1342
Charles Allan McCoy, "Diseased States: Epidemic...
McCoy provides a blueprint for managing pandemics in the twenty-first century...
47 min
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Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Rivier...
Joan Riviere (1883-1962) is best known for her role in promoting the ideas of others. She came to prominence in the world of psychoanalysis as Freud’s favorite translator and Melanie Klein’s earliest and most loyal supporter...
54 min
1344
Eryn M. White, "The Welsh Methodist Society: Th...
White focuses on the movement that became known as the Calvinistic Methodists, a community that emerged under the leadership of outstanding organisers, orators and hymnwriters....
29 min
1345
Crawford Gribben, "An Introduction to John Owen...
Gribben details his subject’s conception of the roles that belief and doctrine should play in the lives of Christians....
33 min
1346
Alicia Turner, "The Irish Buddhist: The Forgott...
This is the story of U Dhammaloka, an Irishman who “went native” and became a Buddhist monk in British Burma at the turn of the twentieth century...
48 min
1347
Paul Moyer, "Detestable and Wicked Arts: New En...
Witch hunts. Not the metaphorical kind. Real witch hunts. Learn all about it here...
43 min
1348
Andrew S. Ballitch, "The Gloss and the Text: Wi...
Throughout the seventeenth century, and on both sides of the Atlantic, William Perkins exercised enormous influence on the ways in which protestants approached the reading of the Bible and thought about the practice of preaching...
32 min
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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
1350
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