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What Should We Think of the British Empire?
The British Empire at its greatest extent covered approximately twenty-five percent of the surface of the globe...
46 min
1452
Appeasement Eighty Years On
What was "Appeasement," and What Is It Today?
50 min
1453
David Hayton, "Conservative Revolutionary: The ...
Namier remains famous in academic circles for supposedly declaring that any reference to ideas in political discourse was nothing more than 'flapdoodle'...
75 min
1454
Ian Parker, "Psychoanalysis, Clinic, and Contex...
Ian shares with us his encounter with British psychoanalysis’s “entangled world of personal-political relationships and rivalries"...
58 min
1455
Paula McQuade, "Catechisms and Women’s Writing ...
McQuade opens up an entirely new field for the study of early modern women’s writing,..
32 min
1456
Trevor Thompson, "Playing for Australia: The Fi...
In "Playing for Australia," Thompson investigates the Asian context of some of Australia’s earliest international soccer matches...
57 min
1457
Carlton F. W. Larson, "The Trials of Allegiance...
"The Trials of Allegiance" looks at the law of treason during the American Revolution, showing just how central treason is to understanding the course of the Revolution...
38 min
1458
Russell Potter, "Finding Franklin: The Untold S...
In 1845, two British naval ships left England with 129 men in search of the Northwest Passage...
41 min
1459
Elijah Millgram, "John Stuart Mill and the Mean...
Mill’s life was in many respects unsatisfying – riven with anxiety and trauma...
66 min
1460
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
1461
Andrew Hobbs, "A Fleet Street In Every Town: Th...
The dominance of the London press in the British national media has long overshadowed the presence of local newspapers in Great Britain...
43 min
1462
Jessica Hinchy, "Governing Gender and Sexuality...
Hinchy documents the ability many Hijras have to preserve in spite of systematic policing and criminalization...
60 min
1463
Maria Nugent, "Captain Cook Was Here" (Cambridg...
Nugent talks about Aboriginal Australians first encounter with Captain Cook at Botany Bay,..
33 min
1464
Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres, "Black British Mig...
Giovannetti-Torres focuses on the workers and their interactions with British colonial officials, American landowners and sugar producers, and local and national-level members of the Cuban government...
50 min
1465
Remi Joseph-Salisbury, "Black Mixed-Race Men: T...
Joseph-Salisbury explores the double consciousness of black mixed-race men in America and the UK...
44 min
1466
Kim A. Wagner, "The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Lif...
How did a Danish historian wind up with a human skull from colonial India in his University of London office
58 min
1467
Jeremy Black, "England in the Age of Shakespear...
This book draws together Black’s expansive reading in Shakespeare’s contexts with extensive knowledge of the canon of his plays...
34 min
1468
Tyson Reeder, "Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots...
Reeder delineates the differences between the British and Portuguese empires as they struggled with revolutionary tumult...
74 min
1469
Matthew Hughes, "Britain's Pacification of Pale...
Hughes shows how the British Army was so devastatingly effective against colonial rebellion in the mid to late 1930s by the Palestinian Arabs...
51 min
1470
Alexander Rocklin, "The Regulation of Religion ...
Beginning in the mid 19th century, thousands of indentured laborers traveled from India to the Caribbean, and many settled in Trinidad...
42 min
1471
Charlie Laderman, "Sharing the Burden: The Arme...
Laderman exposes the way that imperial ambitions suffused the ideas and practices of turn-of-century humanitarian intervention...
69 min
1472
Gregg L. Frazer, "God against the Revolution: T...
Not everyone was convinced by the arguments of patriots during the American revolution...
34 min
1473
Amanda L. Tyler, "Habeas Corpus in Wartime: Fro...
"Habeas Corpus in Wartime" is a comprehensive history of the writ of habeas corpus in Anglo-America...
62 min
1474
Arik Moran, "Kingship and Polity on the Himalay...
Arik Moran examines three Rajput kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories and court intrigues.
51 min
1475
J. C. D. Clark, "Thomas Paine: Britain, America...
There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark...
28 min