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Society & Culture
History
1301
Ravinder Kaur, "Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dr...
It is 21st century commonsense that India is an “emerging” economy. But how did this common sense itself emerge?
43 min
1302
Rogers M. Smith, "That Is Not Who We Are!: Popu...
Smith discusses connection between our understanding of peoplehood and community, and the contemporary growth of populism around the world...
55 min
1303
E. A. Alpers and C. Goswami, "Transregional Tra...
81 min
1304
Serena Parekh, "No Refuge: Ethics and the Globa...
Rarely does the discourse consider the role of wealthy Western countries in creating the conditions under which a refugee crisis emerges....
70 min
1305
Geoffrey Plank, "Atlantic Wars: From the Fiftee...
Plank uses war as a lens to examine the interactions of peoples who forged shared experiences amid endemic conflict...
26 min
1306
Lorenz M. Lüthi, "Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle E...
What was the Cold War that shook world politics for the second half of the twentieth century?
85 min
1307
Learning from Rwanda: How 100 Days of Mass Kill...
An interview with Philip Drew
20 min
1308
S. Lawreniuk and L. Parsons, "Going Nowhere Fas...
Lawreniuk and Parsons brings together more than a decade’s worth of research during one of the most consequential moments in Cambodian history.,,
79 min
1309
Thomas R. Metcalf, "Imperial Connections: India...
Metcalf offers an innovative remapping of empire...
46 min
1310
Kris Alexanderson, "Subversive Seas: Anticoloni...
Kris Alexanderson offers a revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic...
86 min
1311
Thea Riofrancos, "Resource Radicals: From Petro...
Riofrancos examines the deeper questions for democratic theory at stake in conflicts over resource extraction...
125 min
1312
S. J. Potter, "Wireless Internationalism and Di...
Potter describes the efforts to use radio to promote global harmony and how they were eclipsed by nationalism and the weaponization of broadcasting as a propaganda tool...
45 min
1313
Learning from Rwanda: How 100 Days of Mass Kill...
An interview with Philip Drew
16 min
1314
C. De Beukelaer and K. M. Spence, "Global Cultu...
How should we understand the role of cultural industries in contemporary society?
41 min
1315
Adam Hanieh, "Money, Markets, and Monarchies: T...
Hanieh shows that the economies of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, and Kuwait are about more than just the “black gold.”
72 min
1316
John Barton, "A History of the Bible: The Story...
How did the Bible become the Bible? It's a long story....
59 min
1317
Nicole Hassoun, "Global Health Impact: Expandin...
Every year nine million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day over 13,400 people are infected with AIDs, and every thirty seconds malaria kills a child...
36 min
1318
S. Grayzel and T. Proctor, "Gender and the Grea...
The centenary of the First World War from 2014 to 2018 offered an opportunity to reflect upon the role of gender history in shaping our understanding of this pivotal international event. From the moment of its outbreak...
36 min
1319
Oumar Ba, "States of Justice: The Politics of t...
Ba theorizes the ways in which states that are presumed to be weaker in the international system use the International Criminal Court (ICC) to advance their security and political interests....
54 min
1320
Bjorn Lomborg, "False Alarm: How Climate Change...
Dealing with climate change means trade offs. But which ones should we make?
51 min
1321
Renisa Mawani, "Across Oceans of Law: The Komag...
The Komagata Maru's landing raised urgent questions regarding the jurisdictional tensions between the common law and admiralty law, and, ultimately, the legal status of the sea...
59 min
1322
David Eaton, "World History through Case Studie...
Eaton holds that mastering these concepts will build the critical thinking skills essential to a historian....
77 min
1323
Lisa Levenstein, "They Didn’t See Us Coming: Th...
Levenstein shows how American feminists joined a global women’s movement for women’s rights as human rights....
58 min
1324
Ravi Palat, "The Making of an Indian Ocean Worl...
Palat counters eurocentric notions of long-term historical change by drawing upon the histories of societies based on wet-rice cultivation to chart an alternate pattern of social evolution and state formation...
30 min
1325
G. S. Rosenthal, "Beyond Hawai‘i: Native Labor ...
"Beyond Hawai'i" is the first book to argue that indigenous labor—more than the movement of ships and spread of diseases—unified the Pacific World....
60 min