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The Ideology of Innovation in India
Episode 9
Science and Technologies scholar Lilly Irani talks her book, Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India, with Peoples & Thin…
3 years, 3 months ago
Holy Paradox and St. Teresa of Ávila: Mysticism in Sixteenth Century Spain
Season 1 Episode 18
Carlos Eire, author of The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila: A Biography (2019) and professor of medieval and early modern European history and religion…
3 years, 3 months ago
Book Talk 56: Roosevelt Montás on "Great Books"
Episode 127
Roosevelt Montás is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Columbia University. A specialist in Antebellum American literature and cultur…
3 years, 4 months ago
Lorraine Daston Rules the World (EF, JP)
Episode 96
Lorraine Daston, Rules: A Short History of What We Live by (Princeton UP, 2022).
Historian of science Lorraine Daston's wonderful new book, Rules: A S…
3 years, 4 months ago
Zachary Schrag, "The Princeton Guide to Historical Research" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 1292
The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first century The Princeton Guide to Historical Research (Princeton UP, 2021) prov…
3 years, 4 months ago
Tommie Shelby, "The Idea of Prison Abolition" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 303
By any reasonable metric, prisons as they exist in the United States and in many other countries are normatively unacceptable. What is the proper mor…
3 years, 4 months ago
Jed Rasula, "What the Thunder Said: How 'The Waste Land' Made Poetry Modern" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 54
When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty-four-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. "But," as …
3 years, 4 months ago
Sarah Zukerman Daly, "Violent Victors: Why Bloodstained Parties Win Postwar Elections" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 653
One of the great puzzles of electoral politics is how parties that commit mass atrocities in war often win the support of victimized populations to e…
3 years, 4 months ago
Dan Slater and Joseph Wong, "From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 53
Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’t Over the past century, Asia has been tran…
3 years, 4 months ago
Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 634
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton UP, 2022) explores why dictatorships born of social revolutio…
3 years, 4 months ago