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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
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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
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
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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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Larry Diamond, "Ill Winds: Saving Democracy fro...
Larry Diamond joins us this week to talk about the threat China’s model of authoritarian capitalism...
40 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
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Eric D. Weitz, "A World Divided: The Global Str...
Who has the right to have rights?
45 min
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Wendy Brown, "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: Th...
Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...
40 min
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Thomas Hager, "Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, ...
Behind every landmark drug is a story...
59 min
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Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of Spain" (Robin...
A leitmotif running from Columbus's first voyage in 1492 was Spain's trans-oceanic empire which was central to the country's global impact and to a degree self-understanding...
49 min
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C. Strachan and L. Poloni-Staudinger, "Why Don′...
"Why Don′t Women Rule the World?" is a comprehensive and useful addition to the established literature on women and politics...
37 min
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Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, "No Path Home: Humanitar...
"No Path Home" is the engaging result of more than sixteen years of fieldwork in Georgian IDP camps.
36 min
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Kim A. Wagner, "The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Lif...
How did a Danish historian wind up with a human skull from colonial India in his University of London office
58 min
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Timothy LeCain, "The Matter of History: How Thi...
LeCain presents a path-breaking approach to the study of the environment and history...
64 min
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Seth J. Frantzman, "After Isis: America, Iran a...
Frantzman spent months traveling throughout the Middle East to get a first-hand view of the region, its people and politics in war’s aftermath...
57 min
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Joy McCann, "Wild Sea: A History of the Souther...
McCann discusses the great circumpolar ocean that surrounds Antarctica...
32 min
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Keir Giles, "Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia t...
From Moscow, the world looks different...
31 min
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Jay Sexton, "A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New A...
A popular myth in the American nationalist imaginary is that the country has been on a continued path of progress...
54 min
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Michael Kodas, "Megafire: The Race to Extinguis...
In the 1980s, fires burned an average of two million acres per year. Today the average is eight million acres and growing...
50 min
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James Tharin Bradford, "Poppies, Power, and Pol...
Afghanistan and the United States have a complicated relationship. And poppies have often been at the center of the problem between the two countries...
31 min
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Mike Jay, "Mescaline: A Global History of the F...
Psychedelics are not terribly new. And the drug mescaline is certainly not new...
26 min
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Michael Beckley, "Unrivaled: Why America Will R...
Is the era of American hegemony over? Is America finished as a superpower?
45 min