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Back to SearchTristan J. Rogers, "Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 2514
In Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 2025), Tristan J. Rogers argues that philosophical conservatism is a c…
7 months, 1 week ago
Jessica Clarke, "A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
Episode 2513
"Roman theatre" is a term often used to describe the theatre of ancient Italy during the second and third century BCE. Plautus and Terence are referr…
7 months, 1 week ago
Kim Bowes, "Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 2512
The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent (Princeton…
7 months, 1 week ago
Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Paul Poast, "Wheat at War: Allied Economic Cooperation in the Great War" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 2511
The battlefields were not the only places that threatened death during World War I. As conflict raged on and supply lines tightened, the allied power…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Todd H. Weir and Lieke Wijnia, eds., "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Heritage in Contemporary Europe" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 2510
The open access Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Heritage in Contemporary Europe (Bloomsbury, 2025) offers readers a state-of-the-art guide to the…
8 months ago
Good and Bad Palm Oil: Food Security, Paradigm Shift and Stakeholder Negotiations in Indonesia and the EU
Episode 2509
Entangled in a nexus of commerce, industry, food security, and environmental concerns, palm oil has become a prominent topic of controversy and debat…
8 months ago
How Corporate Lobbyists are Capturing EU Institutions
Episode 2508
Brussels is full of lobbyists. Over decades, big companies have been using their financial might not only to influence EU policies but even to shape …
8 months, 1 week ago
Manchán Magan, "Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape" (Chelsea Green, 2026)
Episode 92
Most people associate Britain and Ireland with the English language, a vast, sprawling linguistic tree with roots in Latin, French, and German, and b…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
A. Bagliani and N, Şenocak, "A People's Church: Medieval Italy and Christianity, 1050-1300" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 88
A People's Church brings together a distinguished international group of historians to provide a sweeping introduction to Christian religious life an…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Jacqueline Riding, "Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London" (Profile Books, 2025)
Episode 190
Welcome to the hard streets: working-class London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charl…
8 months, 2 weeks ago