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Society & Culture
Places & Travel
526
Jeremy Best, "Heavenly Fatherland: German Missi...
An interview with Jeremy Best
56 min
527
Joshua Cole, "Lethal Provocation: The Constanti...
An interview with Joshua Cole
60 min
528
Jonathan S. Holloway, "The Cause of Freedom: A ...
An interview with Jonathan S. Holloway
45 min
529
John M. Janzen, "Health in a Fragile State. Sci...
An interview with John M. Janzen
67 min
530
Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, "Decolonizing Dias...
An interview with Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez
67 min
531
Nicholas Jepson, "In China's Wake: How the Comm...
An interview with Nicholas Jepson
61 min
532
Jelmer Vos, "Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1...
An interview with Jelmer Vos
78 min
533
Juliane Okot Bitek, "100 Days" (U Alberta Press...
An interview with Juliane Okot Bitek
28 min
534
Łukasz Stanek, "Architecture in Global Socialis...
An interview with Łukasz Stanek
41 min
535
Tiffany N. Florvil, "Mobilizing Black Germany: ...
An interview with Tiffany N. Florvil
52 min
536
Steven Press, "Rogue Empires: Contracts and Con...
Interview with Steven Press
59 min
537
Matthew Gavin Frank, "Flight of the Diamond Smu...
An interview with Matthew Gavin Frank
54 min
538
Becky L. Schulthies, "Channeling Moroccanness: ...
An interview with Becky L. Schulthies
56 min
539
C. Decker and E. McMahon, "The Idea of Developm...
An interview with Corrie Decker and Elisabeth McMahon
67 min
540
Steven Serels, "The Impoverishment of the Afric...
An Interview with Steven Serels
57 min
541
Tara McIndoe-Calder, "Hyperinflation in Zimbabw...
An interview with Tara McIndoe-Calder
45 min
542
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, "Genocide in Libya: Shar...
An interview with Ali Abdullatif Ahmida
61 min
543
Narrating Africa in South Asia
An interview with Mahmood Kooria, Khatija Khader, and Sofia Péquignot
98 min
544
Anne Garland Mahler, "From the Tricontinental t...
An interview with Anne Garland Mahler
31 min
545
Constance Smith, "Nairobi in the Making: Landsc...
An interview with Constance Smith
64 min
546
Beatrice Nicolini, "Land and Maritime Empires i...
An interview with Beatrice Nicolini and Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
54 min
547
Ana Beatriz Ribeiro, "Modernization Dreams, Lus...
What history and motivations make up the discourses we are taught to hold, and spread, as common sense?
53 min
548
Brandon Mills, "The World Colonization Made: Th...
Mills explores the beginnings and ends of the colonization movement from the late-18th century to the coming of the Civil War...
44 min
549
Steven Fabian, "Making Identity on the Swahili ...
Fabian combines extensive archival sources from African and European archives alongside fieldwork in Bagamoyo to move beyond the category of 'Swahili' as it has been traditionally understood....
102 min
550
Antoinette Burton, "Africa in the Indian Imagin...
An interview with Antoinette Burton
41 min