In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books

Books
History
Social Sciences
1126
Jonathan Rosa, "Looking like a Language, Soundi...
Rosa examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad..
61 min
1127
Eileen Boris, "Making the Woman Worker: Precari...
Eileen Boris illuminates the ILO's transformation in the context of the long fight for social justice...
41 min
1128
Elijah Millgram, "John Stuart Mill and the Mean...
Mill’s life was in many respects unsatisfying – riven with anxiety and trauma...
66 min
1129
W. Caleb McDaniel, "Sweet Taste of Liberty: A T...
Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848..
41 min
1130
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
1131
Julia Young, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles...
Young reframes the Cristero war as a transnational conflict...
49 min
1132
Catherine Clark, "Paris and the Cliché of Histo...
What’s the first image that comes to mind when you hear the words “Paris” and “photography”?
59 min
1133
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
1134
Benjamin Tausig, "Bangkok is Ringing: Sound, Pr...
The political protests of the “Red Shirts” movement in Thailand in April-May 2010 ended in tragedy...
39 min
1135
Robert M. Alexander, "Representation and the El...
Alexander frames the book with the theoretical conundrum of representation...
48 min
1136
Sara Georgini, "Household Gods: The Religious L...
Household Gods is a family biography that explores the Christian republicanism of John and Abigail Adams...
52 min
1137
Charlie Laderman, "Sharing the Burden: The Arme...
Laderman exposes the way that imperial ambitions suffused the ideas and practices of turn-of-century humanitarian intervention...
69 min
1138
Mark Burford, "Mahalia Jackson and the Black Go...
Mahalia Jackson, the great mid-twentieth century gospel singer, thought of herself as an embodiment of the history of African Americans in the United States...
57 min
1139
Larry E. Morris, "A Documentary History of the ...
The story of the creation of the Book of Mormon has been told many times, and often ridiculed...
48 min
1140
Elizabeth D. Carney, "Eurydice and the Birth of...
As the wife of a Macedonian king and the mother of three sons who would succeed him, Eurydice played an important role in Macedonia at an important moment in the kingdom’s history...
54 min
1141
Aaron Hale-Dorrell, "Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s...
Hale-Dorrell re-evaluates Khrushchev’s corn campaign as the cornerstone of his reformation programs...
74 min
1142
Amanda L. Tyler, "Habeas Corpus in Wartime: Fro...
"Habeas Corpus in Wartime" is a comprehensive history of the writ of habeas corpus in Anglo-America...
62 min
1143
E. H. Ecklund and D. R. Johnson, "Secularity an...
It is common to see science and religion portrayed as mutually exclusive and warring ways of viewing the world, but is that how actual scientists see it?
92 min
1144
Vincent DiGirolamo, "Crying the News: A History...
DiGirolamo looks at the legion of children and teenagers who sold newspapers on city streets, moving trains, and even Civil War battlefields in the 19th and early 20th centuries...
27 min
1145
Katie Jarvis, "Politics in the Marketplace: Wor...
The king’s guards became increasingly nervous as they watched nearly 7,000 individuals march on Versailles on October 5, 1789...
47 min
1146
Amy Olberding, "The Wrong of Rudeness: Learning...
The Wrong of Rudeness asks a key question for our times how do we interact with each other, especially in politically contentious situations?
53 min
1147
Bianca Premo, "The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordi...
Premo demonstrates a gradual shift from a justice-oriented system—focused on extralegal outcomes and casuistic jurisprudence—to a Enlightened law-oriented system...
68 min
1148
Niambi Michele Carter, "American While Black: A...
In American While Black, Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment,
31 min
1149
Brett Krutzsch, "Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyr...
Krutzsch argues that gay activists memorialized people like Shepard as part of a political strategy to present gays as similar to the country's dominant class of white, straight Christians...
43 min
1150
William M. Gorvine, "Envisioning A Tibetan Lumi...
Gorvine provides a multifaceted analysis of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934), one of the most prominent modern representatives of the Tibetan Bön tradition...
63 min