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Back to SearchJohn Samuel Harpham, "Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Episode 188
The period from 1550 to 1700 was critical in the development of slavery across the English Atlantic world. During this time, English discourse about …
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Moritz Föllmer, "The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century European History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 265
What does it mean to see oneself as free? And how can this freedom be attained in times of conflict and social upheaval? In this ambitious study, Mor…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Stuart Carroll, "Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 28
Stuart Carroll's Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2023) transforms our understanding of Europe between 1500 an…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Jessica Kelly and Neal Shasore, "Reconstruction: Architecture, Society and the Aftermath of the First World War" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 100
Reconstruction explores the impact of the First World War on the built environment - examining the immediate effects and aftermath of the Great War o…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Matt Dawson, "The Political Durkheim: Sociology, Socialism, Legacies" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 288
Matt Dawson's The Political Durkheim: Sociology, Socialism, Legacies (Routledge, 2023) presents Durkheim as an important political sociologist, inspi…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
Episode 1341
A fascinating exploration of George Orwell--and his body of work--by an award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, presenting the author anew to…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Andrew S. Curran, "Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson" (Other Press, 2026)
Episode 263
An engaging investigation of how 13 key Enlightenment figures shaped the concept of race, from the acclaimed author of Diderot and the Art of Thinkin…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Susan McCready, "Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of the Great War" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Episode 2477
Drawing on memory studies and theatrical history, Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of the Great War (University of Toronto Press, 20…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 129
What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important p…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Hans Kundnani, "Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 15
"Today’s 'pro-Europeans' would be horrified at the suggestion that their idea of Europe had anything to do with whiteness. In fact, many would find t…
9 months, 3 weeks ago