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Back to Search164 Maurice Samuels: Jewish Assimilation, Integration and the Dreyfus Affair (JP)
Episode 164
When it comes to the condition of Jews in Christian Europe, France was long known as the haven and heartland of integration and of toleration. And ye…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Andrew Billing, "Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-century Liberal Political Writing" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 2503
Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-century Liberal Political Writing: Political Zoologies of the French Enlightenment (Routledge, 2024…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
David McCrone, "Changing Scotland: Society, Politics and Identity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Episode 2502
Scotland is a nation that has undergone significant changes over the last 50 years or so. This is, of course, true of much of the Western world but, …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Peter H. Wilson, "Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 172
German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and th…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Peter Stansky, "The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 87
Few English writers wielded a pen so sharply as George Orwell, the quintessential political writer of the twentieth century. His literary output at o…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Tom Menger, "The Colonial Way of War: Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German and Dutch Empires, c. 1890-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 2499
The violence of colonial wars between 1890 and 1914 is often thought to have been uniquely shaped by the nature of each of the European empires. The …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Bram de Maeyer, "Building for Belgium: Belgian Embassies in a Globalising World (1945-2020)" (Leuven UP, 2025)
Episode 2498
Embassy buildings are the most tangible evidence of a state’s diplomatic presence abroad. State authorities have invested in the architectural concep…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Erika Quinn, "This Horrible Uncertainty: A German Woman Writes War, 1939-1948" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
Episode 2497
Through the diaries and personal papers of a German woman, Vera Conrad, This Horrible Uncertainty: A German Woman Writes War, 1939-1948 (Berghahn Boo…
9 months ago
Christian Raffensperger, "Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 37
What did medieval authors know about their world? Were they parochial and focused on just their monastery, town, or kingdom? Or were they aware of th…
9 months ago
Alison Rowlands, "Witchcraft Narratives in Germany: Rothenburg, 1561-1652" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Episode 2495
Alison Rowlands, professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Essex, joins Jana Byars to talk about her classic book, Witchcraft N…
9 months ago