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1526
Jacob Johanssen, "Psychoanalysis and Digital Cu...
How can insights from psychoanalysis help us understand digital culture?
34 min
1527
Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the E...
In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.
58 min
1528
Matthew Bingham, "Orthodox Radicals: Baptist Id...
Bingham argues against several centuries of historical interpretation of the new religious movement that emerged in London in the late 1630s and now numbers around 35 million adherents worldwide...
35 min
1529
Sarah Stockwell, "The British End of the Britis...
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Great Britain was forced to give up the bulk of its vast, globe-spanning empire...
54 min
1530
Jeremy Black, "Britain and Europe: A Short Hist...
The current debate about Brexit has shown how important historical arguments can be in public discourse
34 min
1531
Debra Thompson, "The Schematic State: Race, Tra...
This book, which unpacks the census itself, leads the reader to consider how this mundane tool actually translates the abstraction of the state into a concrete entity...
50 min
1532
Andrew R. Holmes, "The Irish Presbyterian Mind:...
Andrew surveys the period in which Irish Presbyterians came together as a community, to debate different ways of being conservative...
34 min
1533
Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison, "The Class Ce...
Who gets in to top professions? Find out...
36 min
1534
George R. Boyer, "The Winding Road to the Welfa...
The creation of the postwar welfare state in Great Britain did not represent the logical progression of governmental policy over a period of generations...
63 min
1535
Philip Zelikow and Ernest May, "Suez Deconstruc...
Experiencing a major crisis from different viewpoints, step by step: the Suez crisis of 1956— one of the major crises of the 1950s offers a potential master class in statecraft and the politics of strategy.
68 min
1536
Hidetaka Hirota, "Expelling the Poor: Atlantic ...
Dr. Hirota’s book focuses on state legislation policies of immigration control in New York and Massachusetts...
32 min
1537
Marcia Morgan, "Black Women Prison Employees: T...
This book offers added insight into not only the prison system as a place of employment, but also for any white-male-dominated organization...
46 min
1538
Katie Beswick, "Social Housing In Performance: ...
How has the council estate been represented on stage?
40 min
1539
William Kelso, "Jamestown: The Truth Revealed" ...
Unpersuaded by the common assumption that James Fort had long ago been washed away by the James River, William Kelso and his collaborators...
69 min
1540
Christopher Gerrard, "Lost Lives, New Voices: U...
In November 2013, two mass burials were discovered unexpectedly on a construction site in the city of Durham in northeast England....
86 min
1541
Onur Ulas Ince, "Colonial Capitalism and the Di...
This text brings together a number of lenses through which to consider the writings and ideas of British liberal thinkers, especially John Locke, Edmund Burke, and Edward Gibbon Wakefield...
59 min
1542
Jesse A. Zink, "Christianity and Catastrophe in...
Zink’s book is an outstanding account of the growth and evolution of Anglican Christianity among the Dinka people of what is now South Sudan...
38 min
1543
Suzanne Schneider, "Mandatory Separation: Relig...
The history of Palestine is overly political; most studies, especially of the Mandate period, when the British effectively colonized Palestine, focus on the political actors...
48 min
1544
Victoria Brownlee, "Biblical Readings and Liter...
Victoria Brownlee is the author of an exciting new contribution to discussions of early modern religion and literature...
35 min
1545
Rory Cormac, "Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special ...
In the decades following the Second World War, the British government increasingly turned to covert operations as a means of achieving their foreign policy goals...
43 min
1546
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
1547
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
1548
Peter Hitchens, "The Phoney Victory: The World ...
Was World War II really the 'Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations, especially the United Kingdom....
43 min
1549
Andrew Roberts, "Churchill: Walking With Destin...
For all of the books written about Winston Churchill, much remains to be said about his extensive life and career...
46 min
1550
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One ...
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...
61 min