Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTaylor C. Sherman, "Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 182
Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths (Princeton UP, 2022) brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early inde…
3 years, 1 month ago
Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil, "Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 180
How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countrysid…
3 years, 1 month ago
Margaret Chowning, "Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 183
Historians have long looked to networks of elite liberal and anti-clerical men as the driving forces in Mexican history over the course of the long n…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Future of Genes and Equality: A Discussion with Kathryn Paige Harden
Episode 55
If your genes make you better suited to succeed, is that fair? And if not, can anything be done about it? Kathryn Paige Harden – professor psychology…
3 years, 1 month ago
Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden, "Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000–1800" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 66
During the Middle Ages, the Netherlands played a significant role in the emergence of capitalism, which led to the impressive Dutch Golden Age and pa…
3 years, 1 month ago
Sarah Iles Johnston, "Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 59
Gripping tales that abound with fantastic characters and astonishing twists and turns, Greek myths confront what it means to be mortal in a world of …
3 years, 1 month ago
Hilary Falb Kalisman, "Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 211
Today, it is hard to imagine a time and place when public school teachers were considered among the elite strata of society. But in the lands control…
3 years, 1 month ago
Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 143
Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English l…
3 years, 2 months ago
Xin Wen, "The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 125
Many of us–who maybe aren’t historians–have an image of the Silk Road: merchants who carried silk from China to as far as ancient Rome, in one of the…
3 years, 2 months ago
Rohit De, "A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Episode 182
Rohit De examines four important cases that set legal precedents: a Parsi journalist’s contestation of new alcohol prohibition laws, Marwari petty tr…
3 years, 2 months ago