Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJuan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Episode 113
Economic history has always emphasized the importance of long-distance trade in the emergence of modern financial markets, yet almost nothing is know…
1 year, 10 months ago
Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
Episode 82
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with MacArthur “Genius Prize” winning historian Pamela Long about her long career writing about the history …
1 year, 10 months ago
Serena Laiena, "The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy: Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing" (U Delaware Press, 2023)
Episode 81
Serena Laiena joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, The Theater Couple in Early Modern Italy: Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing (University…
1 year, 10 months ago
William Cook Miller, "The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 134
The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture (Cornell UP, 2023) tells the story of a character type that was develop…
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Paola Bertucci, "In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 80
How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science.
In 1749, the celeb…
1 year, 10 months ago
J. C. D. Clark, "The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 227
Enlightenment studies are currently in a state of flux, with unresolved arguments among its adherents about its dates, its locations, and the content…
1 year, 10 months ago
Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey, "Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Episode 317
How did Jane Austen become a cultural icon for fairy-tale endings when her own books end in ways that are rushed, ironic, and reluctant to satisfy re…
1 year, 10 months ago
Kerry Brown, "The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 205
In the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I tried to send several letters to her Chinese counterpart, the Wan Li Emperor. The letters tried to ask th…
1 year, 10 months ago
Charmian Mansell, "Female Servants in Early Modern England" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 79
Charmian Mansell joins Jana Byars to talk about Female Servants in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2024).
What was it like to be a wom…
1 year, 10 months ago
Alessandra Russo, "A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Episode 158
We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European sections of museums. In A …
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