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Back to SearchDalpat Rajpurohit, "Sundar's Dreams: Ārambhik Ādhunikatā, Dādūpanth and Sundardās's Poetry" (Rajkamal, 2022)
Episode 238
Dalpat Rajpurohit's book Sundar's Dreams: Ārambhik Ādhunikatā, Dādūpanth and Sundardās's Poetry (Rajkamal, 2022) explores the making and lifespan of …
1 year, 11 months ago
Maria Taroutina and Allison Leigh, "Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 276
Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940 (Manchester UP, 2023) features new research on Russia's …
1 year, 11 months ago
Farshid Emami, "Isfahan: Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Episode 77
A vibrant urban settlement from mediaeval times and the royal seat of the Safavid dynasty, the city of Isfahan emerged as a great metropolis during t…
1 year, 11 months ago
Lauren Benton, "They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 222
A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires.
Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slav…
1 year, 11 months ago
James Madison and the Spirit of Self-Government: A Conversation with Colleen Sheehan
Episode 114
Who was James Madison? Why were his Notes on Government so valuable to the American founding? Did James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washi…
1 year, 11 months ago
Marissa Nicosia, "Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 76
Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 (Oxford University Press, 2023) argues that dramatic narratives about mon…
1 year, 11 months ago
Murad Khan Mumtaz, "Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500-1800" (Brill, 2023)
Episode 347
Islamic art is often misrepresented as an iconophobic tradition. As a result of this assumption, the polyvalence of figural artworks made for South A…
2 years ago
Roger Crowley, "Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 197
The spice islands: Specks of land in the Indonesian archipelago that were the exclusive home of cloves, commodities once worth their weight in gold. …
2 years ago
Richard D. Oram, "Where Men No More May Reap Or Sow: The Little Ice Age: Scotland 1400-1850" (Birlinn, 2024)
Episode 75
Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland …
2 years ago
Tim Cooper, "When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter" (Crossway, 2024)
Episode 273
Our current culture seems to be increasingly divided on countless issues, including those affecting the church. But for centuries, theological disagr…
2 years ago