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Back to SearchKatie J. Wells et al., "Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 161
The first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was defeated. It was here that the company…
2 years, 7 months ago
Christopher Paul Harris, "To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 71
When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, …
2 years, 7 months ago
Emilee Booth Chapman, "Election Day: How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 671
Emilee Booth Chapman, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, has a new book that examines the idea of the vote, and what th…
2 years, 7 months ago
Peter K. Andersson, "Fool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 70
The first biography of Henry VIII’s court fool William Somer, a legendary entertainer and one of the most intriguing figures of the Tudor age
In some …
2 years, 8 months ago
Sarah R. Coleman, "The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 669
Sarah Coleman, an historian at Texas State University, is the author of an important and topical book about immigration policy in the United States. …
2 years, 8 months ago
Asad L. Asad, "Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 307
Because immigration is such a recurring-and divisive-topic in the United States, it is easy to assume that we understand what it means for an immigra…
2 years, 8 months ago
Outside the Box: The History and Future of Globalization
Episode 57
Economist, historian, and author Marc Levinson talks about his book, Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas …
2 years, 8 months ago
Steve Nicholls, "Alien Worlds: How Insects Conquered the Earth, and Why Their Fate Will Determine Our Future" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 69
Life on Earth depends on the busy activities of insects, but global populations of these teeming creatures are currently under threat, with grave con…
2 years, 8 months ago
How Uber Disrupted Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh
Episode 56
Katie Wells, a Postdoctoral Fritz Fellow with Georgetown University's Tech and Society Initiative, and Kafui Attoh, Associate Professor of Urban Stud…
2 years, 8 months ago
Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 97
Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In Praise of Good Bookstores (Princeton UP, 2022), Jeff Deutsch--the…
2 years, 9 months ago