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Gregg Mitman, "Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Sc...
An interview with Greg Mitman
39 min
102
Lucia Sorbera, "Biography of a Revolution: The ...
40 min
103
Bettina Ng′weno, "No Place Like Home in a New C...
49 min
104
Mariam F. Ayad ed., "Coptic Culture and Communi...
76 min
105
Adam A. Blackler, "An Imperial Homeland: Forgin...
An interview with Adam A. Blackler
56 min
106
Nicholas P. Roberts, "A Sea of Wealth: The Oman...
49 min
107
Kevin P. Donovan, "Money, Value, and the State:...
58 min
108
Domale Dube, "Ogoni Women's Activism: The Trans...
31 min
109
Jonathan Fisher and Nina Wilén, "African Peacek...
An interview with Jonathan Fisher and Nina Wilén
51 min
110
Rita Kiki Edozie and Moses Khisa, "Africa's New...
111 min
111
Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria...
An interview with Megan Brown
62 min
112
Klaus Bachmann, "The Genocide in Rwanda in Comp...
77 min
113
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
114
M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Tra...
Oualdi explores the life and afterlife of one figure, the manumitted slave and Tunisian dignitary Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah...
38 min
115
Renay Richardson and Arisa Loomba, "Human Resou...
61 min
116
John Nott, "Between Feast Famine: Food, Health,...
99 min
117
Alpha Nkuranga, "Born to Walk: My Journey of Tr...
39 min
118
Judith Scheele, "Shifting Sands: A Human Histo...
An interview with Judith Scheele
62 min
119
Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathoge...
47 min
120
Tochi Onyebuchi, "Harmattan Season: A Novel" (T...
28 min
121
Ioana Emy Matesan, "The Violence Pendulum: Tact...
37 min
122
Emmanuel Akyeampong, "Independent Africa: The F...
77 min
123
Candace Lukasik, "Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic ...
47 min
124
Ulf Laessing, "Understanding Libya Since Gaddaf...
61 min
125
Jenn Hobbs, "Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and In...
56 min