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Alan Gallay, "Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empir...
Sir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her becoming empress of a universal empire. She gave him the opportunity to lead the way...
84 min
1402
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
1403
Jeremy Black, "Geographies of an Imperial Power...
A great deal of recent discussion among humanities scholars has focused on the possibility or even necessity of “de-colonising the curriculum.” But what does this project mean?
26 min
1404
William Callison and Zachary Manfredi, "Mutant ...
The neoliberal consensus, once thought to be undefeatable, seems to have been broken both in the wake of the fiscal crisis of 2008, as well as a series of surprise movements and elections throughout the world in the last several years...
120 min
1405
Global Governance “As It Was, Is and Ought to Be”
An interview with Stephen Gill
19 min
1406
Elizabeth Economy, "The Third Revolution: Xi Ji...
Elizabeth Economy explains the background to recent dramatic changes inside China...
27 min
1407
Alice Hill, "Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How...
Hill and Martinez-Diaz draw on their personal experiences as senior officials in the Obama Administration to tell behind-the-scenes stories of what it really takes to advance progress on climate change issues...
41 min
1408
Brendan Simms, "Hitler: A Global Biography" (Ba...
Simms argues that fears that Germany would lose the economic and demographic competition with Britain and especially the US sat at the heart of Hitler's world view...
26 min
1409
Raj Patel, "A History of the World in Seven Che...
Petel and Moore takes the reader through the long history of the search for lower production costs, extending from European colonial conquests in the fifteenth century up to present agroindustrial systems...
44 min
1410
Christopher A. Preble, "Fuel to the Fire: How T...
President Trump has shown little interest in maintaining the traditional form of American leadership of the liberal international order...
45 min
1411
The Treaty of Versailles On Hundred Years On
The Versailles Treaty of 1919, celebrates its one-hundred anniversary this year...
37 min
1412
M. Schneider-Mayerson and B. R. Bellamy, "An Ec...
"An Ecotopian Lexicon" explores dozens of possible loanwords from world cultures, activists subcultures, and speculative fiction that can inform novel quotidian practices, cosmological insights, and political orientations applicable to the age of the Anthropocene...
43 min
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Benjamin Breen, "The Age of Intoxication: Origi...
Focusing in on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen deftly explores the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed...
59 min
1414
James M. Vaughn, "The Politics of Empire at the...
Vaughn offers an powerful challenge to the received view that the Asian domains were acquired by accident and formed part of an empire of liberty.,,
39 min
1415
Beth Fischer, "The Myth of Triumphalism: Rethin...
Fischer argues that the military buildup was actually deeply counterproductive, frightening the Soviet leadership and delaying meaningful negotiations for several years...
40 min
1416
Matthew Lockwood, "To Begin The World Over Agai...
Lockwood shows that the war, whatever its debatable effects for the residents of the thirteen colonies, unleashed a whole host of catastrophes for people elsewhere...
64 min
1417
Julia Neuberger, "Antisemitism: What It Is, Wha...
Anti-Semitic incidents, ranging from vandalism through murder, are on the rise in Great Britain, and across Europe and North America...
46 min
1418
Audrey Kurth Cronin, "Power to the People: How ...
Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal..
45 min
1419
Victoria Reyes, "Global Borderlands: Fantasy, V...
Increasing levels of globalization have led to the proliferation of spaces of international exchange...
69 min
1420
Lesley Chamberlain, "Ministry of Darkness: How ...
Chamberlain delineates Uvarov's career and shows how one of the most cosmopolitan of men, became in the course of his official career the inventor of much that can be seen in to-day's xenophobic and nationalistic Russia of Vladimir Putin...
45 min
1421
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
1422
Kate O'Neill, "Waste" (Polity, 2019)
Waste is one of the planet’s last great resource frontiers..
42 min
1423
What Should We Think of the British Empire?
The British Empire at its greatest extent covered approximately twenty-five percent of the surface of the globe...
46 min
1424
Elizabeth Bernstein, "Brokered Subjects: Sex, T...
Bernstein provides an overview of feminist discourse on sex trafficking from its earliest incarnations,
75 min
1425
Pierre Asselin, "Vietnam’s American War: A Hist...
"Vietnam’s American War" is an iconoclastic revision of the history of the war...
69 min