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Niklas Frykman, "The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the...
The 1790s were a decade of turmoil and strife across the West. With the French Revolution, a new era of wars began that invoked the language of equal rights...
47 min
1427
Billy Coleman, "Harnessing Harmony: Music, Powe...
Billy Coleman reveals an influential strand of conservative music-making that exerted influence on public life from the beginning of Washington’s government until the Civil War.
66 min
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Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, "Between Fitness and Dea...
Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings...
42 min
1429
Caroline Starkey, "Women in British Buddhism: C...
Based on detailed ethnographic research, this book explores the varied experiences of women who have converted to Buddhism in contemporary Britain....
66 min
1430
Agnès Delahaye, "Settling the Good Land: Govern...
Delahaye tells the story of John Winthrop’s tenure as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630’s...
53 min
1431
Chima J. Korieh, "Nigeria and World War II: Col...
Britain's declaration of war on Germany on 3 September, 1939, made Nigeria, like many other African societies, active participants in the war against the Axis powers...
75 min
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Erin A. McCarthy, "Doubtful Readers: Print, Poe...
McCarthy offers readings of work by Shakespeare, Lanyer, Donne and many other poets to show that early printings of their work organised their texts in order to make specific points about both poetry and poets...
29 min
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Sarah Longair, "Cracks in the Dome: Fractured H...
One of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from Zanzibar’s years as a British Protectorate is the distinctive domed building of the Zanzibar Museum...
55 min
1434
Ian Buruma, "The Churchill Complex" (Penguin Pr...
Buruma offers a brilliant, witty journey through the "Special Relationship" between Britain and America that has done so much to shape the world, from World War II to Brexit...
54 min
1435
Jonathan Schneer, "The Lockhart Plot: Love Betr...
Schneer's recounts the story of a young British diplomat, Bruce Lockhart, sent to Soviet Russia soon after the October Revolution in 1917...
52 min
1436
M. Sobolewska and R. Ford, "Brexitland: Identit...
What are the identity conflicts that define contemporary society?
44 min
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Hayden J. Bellenoit, "The Formation of the Colo...
Bellenoit digs beneath imperial formation on a macro level and looks at the fiscal management of empire....
30 min
1438
Lissette Lopez Szwydky, "Transmedia Adaptation ...
Szwydky explores a range of works by authors such as Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, John Keats and many more...
60 min
1439
Margrit Pernau, "Emotions and Colonial Modernit...
Pernau examines the varied and hugely consequential expressions of and normative investments in emotions in modern South Asian Muslim thought...
67 min
1440
Francesca Sobande, "The Digital Lives of Black ...
Sobande explores the experiences of Black women as producers and as consumers of digital media...
31 min
1441
James Simpson, "Permanent Revolution: The Refor...
In Simpson’s account, liberalism did not flow neatly from Protestant triumph. Liberalism and Protestantism are indeed intertwined, but in a much more violent, anguished way than we’re familiar with...
86 min
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Bernice Lerner, "All the Horrors of War: A Jewi...
Lerner describes their lives – one of them her mother, the other one of the people who helped save her – and how they intersected when British forces liberated Bergen-Belsen in April 1945...
42 min
1443
Stephen Wall, "Reluctant European: Britain and ...
What was at the core of the UK's semi-detachment to the EU?
37 min
1444
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
1445
Thomas Levenson "Money for Nothing" (Random Hou...
Modern finance isn't really all that modern...
63 min
1446
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
1447
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
1448
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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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
1450
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