In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books

Books
History
Social Sciences
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J. C. D. Clark, "Thomas Paine: Britain, America...
There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark...
28 min
1177
Michael Lower, "The Tunis Crusade of 1270: A Me...
Why was a Crusade that was initially meant for Syria end up in Tunis?
62 min
1178
Philip Grant, "Chains of Finance: How Investmen...
The authors make points that professionals already know and that end-investors ought to know: that there are a lot of cooks in the investment kitchen...
46 min
1179
Samir Okasha, "Agents and Goals in Evolution" (...
Okasha explores the fascinating and complex links between evolutionary biology and rational choice theory...
56 min
1180
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, "Reciting the Godd...
This book represents the very first study of a fascinating Hindu phenomenon: the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), a sixteenth-century narrative textual tradition native to Nepal surrounding the Goddess, Svasthānī...
58 min
1181
Robert Crowcroft, "The End is Nigh: British Pol...
Crowcroft's is a tale of relentless intrigue, burning ambition, and the bitter rivalry in British politics during the years preceding the Second World War...
72 min
1182
William Gibbons, "Unlimited Replays: Video Game...
Gibbons examines the intersection between video games and classical music...
57 min
1183
Quassim Cassam, "Vices of the Mind: From the In...
Sometimes people are blameworthy or otherwise not admirable because of what they believe....
68 min
1184
Gabriela González, "Redeeming La Raza: Transbor...
Gonzalez strategies transborder activists used to redeem la raza from body politic exclusion happening in the U.S....
63 min
1185
Nolan McCarty, "Polarization: What Everyone Nee...
McCarty synthesizes what scholars know and don't know about the origins, development, and implications of rising political conflicts in the United States...
20 min
1186
Alex Broadbent, "Philosophy of Medicine" (Oxfor...
Philosophy of medicine itself has evolved in response to developments in the philosophy of science, especially with regard to epistemology, positioning it to make contributions that are medically useful...
25 min
1187
Marko Geslani, "Rites of the God-King: Śānti an...
Is “Vedic” fire sacrifice at odds with “Hindu” image worship?
56 min
1188
Hannah Weiss Muller, "Subjects and Sovereign: B...
There is no denying that the public remains fascinated with monarchy...
38 min
1189
Catherine Keyser, "Artificial Color: Modern Foo...
Keyser explores the ways that modern fiction writers responded to the theories and anxieties about race in the early twentieth century through related anxieties about modern industrial food...
71 min
1190
Seán Moore, "Slavery and the Making of Early Am...
Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade...
59 min
1191
Susanna Schellenberg, "The Unity of Perception:...
How does perception result in thoughts about items in the world (such as dogs or flowers) and in conscious states of many kinds (such as experiences of seeing red)?
65 min
1192
Sarah Anne Carter, "Object Lessons: How Ninetee...
Carter reveals that object lessons were a classroom exercise, in wide use during the nineteenth century...
59 min
1193
Diana Pasulka, "American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion...
More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life...
55 min
1194
Emily S. Johnson, "This Is Our Message: Women's...
Johnson examines the lives and work of four well-known women-evangelical marriage advice author Marabel Morgan, singer and anti-gay-rights activist Anita Bryant, author and political lobbyist Beverly LaHaye, and televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker...
47 min
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Petra Goedde, "The Politics of Peace: A Global ...
Earlier histories of the Cold War haven’t exactly been charitable toward the peace activists and pacifists who led peace initiatives...
51 min
1196
Jeremy F. Walton, "Muslim Civil Society and the...
Walton explores how members of three contemporary Muslim groups, the Nur community, the Gülen movement, and Alevis, articulate religiosity within the Turkish public sphere...
63 min
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Tobias Straumann, "1931: Debt, Crisis, and the ...
What can we learn from the financial crisis that brought Hitler to power?
59 min
1198
Morgan Marietta, "One Nation, Two Realities: Du...
They introduce the concept of ‘dueling fact perceptions’ based on years of research, and for our interview, Morgan Marietta explains how they arrived at such conclusions and their implications for our country’s future...
44 min
1199
Amy Lippert, "Consuming Identities: Visual Cult...
Lippert explores the significance of the pictorial revolution in one of its vanguard cities: San Francisco, the revolving door of the gold rush...
115 min
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Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Ornamentalism offers arguably the first sustained theory of the yellow woman...
65 min