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1576
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
1577
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
1578
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
1579
Jessica Hinchy, "Governing Gender and Sexuality...
Hinchy documents the ability many Hijras have to preserve in spite of systematic policing and criminalization...
60 min
1580
Maria Nugent, "Captain Cook Was Here" (Cambridg...
Nugent talks about Aboriginal Australians first encounter with Captain Cook at Botany Bay,..
33 min
1581
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
1582
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
1583
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
1584
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
1585
Tyson Reeder, "Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots...
Reeder delineates the differences between the British and Portuguese empires as they struggled with revolutionary tumult...
74 min
1586
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
1587
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
1588
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
1589
Gregg L. Frazer, "God against the Revolution: T...
Not everyone was convinced by the arguments of patriots during the American revolution...
34 min
1590
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
1591
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
1592
Stephen Alan Bourque, "Beyond the Beach: The Al...
Did the Allied bombing plan for the liberation of France follow a carefully orchestrated plan, or was it executed on an ad-hoc basis with little concern or regard for collateral damage?
63 min
1593
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
1594
David Philip Miller, "The Life and Legend of Ja...
For all of his fame as one of the seminal figures of the Industrial Revolution, James Watt is a person around whom many misconceptions congregate...
68 min
1595
Robert Crowcroft, "The End is Nigh: British Pol...
Crowcroft's is a tale of relentless intrigue, burning ambition, and the bitter rivalry in British politics during the years preceding the Second World War...
72 min
1596
Tita Chico, "The Experimental Imagination: Lite...
Chico’s new book upends the traditional, modern dichotomies which enforce strict separations between literature and science...
65 min
1597
Hannah Weiss Muller, "Subjects and Sovereign: B...
There is no denying that the public remains fascinated with monarchy...
38 min
1598
Sasha D. Pack, "The Deepest Border: The Strait ...
Pack considers the Strait of Gibraltar as an untamed in-between space—from “shatter zone” to borderland...
57 min
1599
Tim Bouverie, "Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler...
Bouverie's book is a groundbreaking history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that help to make Hitler’s domination of Europe possible...
37 min
1600
Kimberly Alexander, "Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stor...
A shoe molds to the foot and captures a facet of the physical characteristics of its wearer, as well as, by extension, an element of his or her personal history...
61 min