Hennie van Vuuren, "Apartheid Guns and Money: A...
This war machine, as van Vuuren describes it, remains a largely hidden aspect of South Africa’s past – until now...
41 min
1502
Patrick Sharma, "Robert McNamara’s Other War: T...
Robert McNamara is best remembered today for his momentous term as Secretary of Defense in the 1960s. Often overlooked because of this is his even longer tenure as president of the World Bank...
55 min
1503
Kathleen Burk, "The Lion and the Eagle: The Int...
Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in hand with common interests...
70 min
1504
Kevin T. Smiley, "Market Cities, People Cities:...
Are market cities better than people cities? Does the satisfaction that residents take in their city vary from market city to people city?
40 min
1505
Deborah E. Lipstadt, "Antisemitism: Here and No...
Over the past decade, and especially in the last several years, anti-Semitic crimes have increased significantly...
51 min
1506
Tom Wheeler, "From Gutenberg to Google: The His...
Wheeler is a former President of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and former CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association...
56 min
1507
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
1508
Nico Slate, "Lord Cornwallis is Dead: The Strug...
Slate paints a picture of the two countries as learning perpetually from each other...
51 min
1509
Kate Ervine, "Carbon" (Polity, 2018)
Kate Ervine provides an accessible and trenchant introduction to the severity of our situation and the international climate politics of the past 30 years...
48 min
1510
Natalie Koch, "Critical Geographies of Sport: S...
In Critical geographies, Koch joins other scholars to address a wide range of sports issues, including the demolition of South Korea’s Dongdaemun baseball stadium, professional wrestling in the territorial era in the United States, and the identity politics of the Gaelic Athletic Association...
66 min
1511
Daniel Immerwahr, "How to Hide an Empire: The H...
“Is America an Empire?” is a popular question for pundits and historians, likely because it sets off such a provocative debate...
75 min
1512
Scott Mobley, "Progressives in Navy Blue: Marit...
This episode of the New Books in Military History podcast is something of a sea change, so to speak, as we turn our attention to naval policy and strategy...
63 min
1513
Chet Van Duzer, "Henricus Martellus’s World Map...
The 1491 world map by Henricus Martellus has long been deemed “an essentially unstudiable object"...
58 min
1514
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, "The Ideas that Mad...
Ratner-Rosenhagen offers a sweeping examination of the key ideas that have infused American society...
62 min
1515
Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the E...
In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.
58 min
1516
Alfredo Toro Hardy, "The Crossroads of Globaliz...
Alfredo Toro Hardy analyzes the leadership of China and the economic strength of Asia...
74 min
1517
Janne Lahti, "The American West and the World: ...
One of the enduring questions in American historiography is: just where exactly is the West?
52 min
1518
Sarah Stockwell, "The British End of the Britis...
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Great Britain was forced to give up the bulk of its vast, globe-spanning empire...
54 min
1519
Nicholas Breyfogle, "Eurasian Environments: Nat...
The focus of the volume is contextualizing and “de-exceptionalizing” Russia and the USSR by placing Russian and Soviet environmental history in a global context...
42 min
1520
Fred S. Naiden, "Soldier, Priest, and God: A Li...
Alexander’s religious practices were a vital part of his legitimacy as a ruler of his people, and were interwoven into his daily activities...
46 min
1521
Danyel Reiche, "Success and Failure of Countrie...
In Success and Failure, Reiche provides a playbook for National Committees that want to win more medals...
59 min
1522
Matthew Longo, "The Politics of Borders: Sovere...
The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) is not simply about the border because, as the book makes clear, borders are in no way simple...
52 min
1523
Peter Hopsicker and Mark Dyreson, "A Half Centu...
The Super Bowl is a singular spectacle in American culture. More than just a championship football game...
36 min
1524
John Torpey, "The Three Axial Ages: Moral, Mate...
29 min
1525
Brannon D. Ingram, "Revival from Below: The Deo...
Through careful analysis of historical textual discourses, Ingram carefully guides his readers through important polemics that manifested amongst the Deoband ‘ulama...