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Society & Culture
History
1351
Post Script: A Deep Dive on China
How should we understand what's going on in China? Listen in....
99 min
1352
Ananya Chakravarti, "The Empire of Apostles" (O...
Chakravarti recovers the religious roots of Europe's first global order, by tracing the evolution of a religious vision of empire through the lives of Jesuits working in the missions of early modern Brazil and India...
76 min
1353
Richard Breitman, "The Journal of Holocaust and...
"The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies" is turning twenty-five...
43 min
1354
John C. McManus, "Fire and Fortitude: The US Ar...
The men and women of the US Army were among the first to confront the Japanese military onslaught, most notably in the Philippines...
69 min
1355
W. J. Perry and T. Z. Collina, "The Button: The...
As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, American nuclear policy continues to be influenced by the legacies of the Cold War...
46 min
1356
Rebecca E. Karl, "China’s Revolutions in the Mo...
Karl argues that China’s contemporary emergence is best seen not as a “return,” but rather as the product of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary activity and imaginings...
78 min
1357
Laurie M. Wood, "Archipelago of Justice: Law in...
Wood recasts our view of France’s empire by evaluating the interwoven trajectories of the people, like itinerant ship-workers and colonial magistrates,..
34 min
1358
The Cold War as History
The Cold War was an event that has divided historians since the beginnings of serious historiography on the subject began in the mid-1960s...
36 min
1359
Thomas J. Donahue-Ochoa, "Unfreedom for All: Ho...
How should we understand and combat injustice? Is it only the responsibility of those who suffer the consequences or perpetrate the harm?
51 min
1360
Erik Grimmer-Solem, "Learning Empire: Globaliza...
Grimmer-Solem examines the process of German globalization that began in the 1870s, well before Germany acquired a colonial empire or extensive overseas commercial interests...
78 min
1361
Recording Global Diplomacy: Contextualizing Per...
An interview with Sam De Schutter
28 min
1362
Jeremy Black, "War in Europe: 1450 to the Prese...
Black offers a masterful overview of war and military development in Europe since 1450, bringing together the work of a renowned historian of modern European and military history in a single authoritative volume...
41 min
1363
Jeremy Black, "History of Europe: From Prehisto...
Jeremy Black presents a learned and yet entertaining exploration of the history: political, cultural and social of Europe from its prehistory to the 21st century.
39 min
1364
Lucy Delap, "Feminisms: A Global History" (U Ch...
Delap takes a thematic approach to the topic of global feminist history to provide a unified vision that maintains appropriate nuance...
49 min
1365
Eric Holthaus, "The Future Earth: A Radical Vis...
Holthaus offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades...
56 min
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Michael Schuman, "Superpower Interrupted: The C...
The biggest question of the twenty-first century is: What does China want?
50 min
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Alanna O’Malley, "The Diplomacy of Decolonisati...
In the summer of 1960, the Republic of the Congo won its independence from Belgium...
59 min
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Steven J. L. Taylor, "Exiles, Entrepreneurs, an...
Taylor explores the second wave of African American exiles or repatriates to Ghana in post-1980s...
54 min
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E. Bruce Geelhoed, "Diplomacy Shot Down: The U-...
What if the Soviets had not shot down the American U-2 spy plane and President Dwight D. Eisenhower had visited the Soviet Union in 1960 as planned?
51 min
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Catherine Belton, "Putin's People: How the KGB ...
The Russian state is back.
34 min
1371
George Lawson, "Anatomies of Revolution" (Cambr...
What causes revolutions?
81 min
1372
Micol Seigel, "Violence Work: State Violence an...
Recent calls for the defunding or abolition of police raise important questions about the legitimacy of state violence and the functions that police are supposed to serve...
67 min
1373
Thomas C. Field Jr. et al., "Latin America and ...
The Cold War is not exactly over in Latin America...
52 min
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Mona L. Siegel, "Peace on Our Terms: The Global...
Siegel explores the previously neglected history of a diverse group of women from around the world who fought for women’s rights as male politicians forged a new world order...
59 min
1375
Why Did the Allies Win World War One?
Perhaps nothing was as unexpected in this conflict as the sudden termination of the same in November 1918...
34 min