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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
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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
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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
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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
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Recording Global Diplomacy: Contextualizing Per...
An interview with Sam De Schutter
28 min
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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George Lawson, "Anatomies of Revolution" (Cambr...
What causes revolutions?
81 min
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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
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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
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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
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Lauren Turek, "To Bring the Good News to All Na...
Turek examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s...
39 min
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Begüm Adalet, "Hotels and Highways: The Constru...
Turkey was both a model case of elite-led modernization and a laboratory for development projects that could then be exported to other societies....
73 min
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Joyce E. Leader, "From Hope to Horror: Diplomac...
Among the many books that were published in the past year about the Rwandan Genocide, Joyce E. Leader's new book stands out...
76 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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Ilya Somin, "Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migrati...
Somin defends the idea that foot voting is an essential element of political freedom and democratic governance...
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Jane Gordon, "Statelessness and Contemporary En...
Gordon weaves together the complexities of statelessness, emphasizing that those who are often stateless are so within the nation in which they live, and contemporary enslavement,...
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