New Books in World Affairs
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Christopher Preston, "The Synthetic Age: Outdes...
Dr. Christopher Preston argues that what is most startling about the Anthropocene is not only how much impact humans have had, but how much deliberate shaping humans will do...
50 min
1627
Lukas Engelmann, "Mapping AIDS: Visual Historie...
What role do visual media play in establishing a medical phenomenon?
48 min
1628
Dilip Hiro, "Cold War in the Islamic World: Sau...
In recent years, the concept of a ‘Cold War’ has been revived to describe the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran...
65 min
1629
Christian Philip Peterson, "The Routledge Histo...
The collection of essays examines the varied and multifaceted scholarship surrounding the topic of peace and engages in a fruitful dialogue about the global history of peace since 1750...
51 min
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Elizabeth Schmidt, "Foreign Intervention in Afr...
Using a variety of different case studies, Schmidt illuminates some of the patterns that have informed western intervention in Rwanda, Somalia, and elsewhere, and the complicated role of international institutions in this process.
57 min
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Federico Varese, "Mafias on the Move: How Organ...
What's the connection between globalization and organized crime?
39 min
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Craig Benjamin, "Empires of Ancient Eurasia: Th...
In the late second century BCE, a series of trading route developed between China in the east and Rome’s empire in the west...
54 min
1633
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
1639
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
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Nico Slate, "Lord Cornwallis is Dead: The Strug...
Slate paints a picture of the two countries as learning perpetually from each other...
51 min
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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
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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
1643
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
1644
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
1645
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
1646
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, "The Ideas that Mad...
Ratner-Rosenhagen offers a sweeping examination of the key ideas that have infused American society...
62 min
1647
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
1648
Alfredo Toro Hardy, "The Crossroads of Globaliz...
Alfredo Toro Hardy analyzes the leadership of China and the economic strength of Asia...
74 min
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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
1650
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