New Books in World Affairs
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1451
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
1452
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
1453
Kate O'Neill, "Waste" (Polity, 2019)
Waste is one of the planet’s last great resource frontiers..
42 min
1454
Elizabeth Bernstein, "Brokered Subjects: Sex, T...
Bernstein provides an overview of feminist discourse on sex trafficking from its earliest incarnations,
75 min
1455
Appeasement Eighty Years On
What was "Appeasement," and What Is It Today?
50 min
1456
Pierre Asselin, "Vietnam’s American War: A Hist...
"Vietnam’s American War" is an iconoclastic revision of the history of the war...
69 min
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Michael Khodarkovsky, "Russia's 20th Century: A...
Khodarkovsky has taken a novel approach to charting the century by crafting one hundred vignettes, one for each year of the century...
68 min
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Helen Rozwadowski, "Vast Expanses: A History of...
Rozwadowski talks about the history of the oceans and how these oceans have shaped human history in profound ways...
30 min
1459
J. Yates and C. N. Murphy, "Engineering Rules: ...
Standards are crucial to the way we live—just look around you. A no. 2 pencil, perhaps?
49 min
1460
Margaret E. Schotte, "Sailing School: Navigatin...
Schotte charts more than two hundred years of navigational history as she investigates how mariners solved the challenges of navigating beyond sight of land...
54 min
1461
What are Empires and Why do they Matter?
You hear a lot about "empires," but what are they?
59 min
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Eyal Mayroz, "Reluctant Interveners: America's ...
Why don’t governments do more to prevent genocide?
58 min
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Iain MacGregor, "Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold W...
There is perhaps no more iconic symbol of the Cold War than the Berlin Wall...
68 min
1464
Sara Lorenzini, "Global Development: A Cold War...
The idea of economic development was a relatively novel one even as late as the 1940s...
48 min
1465
Stuart Schrader, "Badges Without Borders: How ...
Stuart Schrader makes the compelling case that the growth of carceral state is just one front of a “discretionary empire” that persists today...
71 min
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Cara New Daggett, "Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuel...
Daggett suggests that reassessing our relationships with fossil fuels in the face of climate change also requires that we rethink the concept of energy itself...
40 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
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Julia Nicholls, "Revolutionary Thought after th...
NIcholls offers the first comprehensive account of French revolutionary thought in the years between the crushing of France's last nineteenth-century revolution and the re-emergence of socialism as a meaningful electoral force,..
56 min
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Jeremy Black, "Maps of War: Mapping Conflict th...
Black covers the history of the mapping of land wars, and shows the way in which maps provide a guide to the history of war...
61 min
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Andrea Pitzer, "One Long Night: A Global Histor...
While concentration camps may not seem to have much to do with travel and exploration, travel and forced detention are joined in strange and important ways...
36 min
1471
Michael Mandelbaum, "The Rise and Fall of Peace...
In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history...
52 min
1472
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
1473
Rachel Laudan, "Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in ...
In her book she describes the development and decline of cuisines throughout world history over 20,000 years...
42 min
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Ricky W. Law, "Transnational Nazism: Ideology a...
Law examines the cultural context of Tokyo and Berlin’s political rapprochement in 1936...
72 min
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Henning Melber, "Dag Hammarskjöld, the United N...
Dag Hammarskjold was such a dynamic secretary-general that for years, the motto about him was simply “Leave it to Dag.”
72 min