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Back to SearchJohn Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 2
Today we have John Christopoulos, Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia, to talk about his new book, Abortion in Early…
2 years, 7 months ago
Jonathan Scott, "How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution, 1500-1800" (Yale UP, 2019)
Episode 32
Jonathan Scott is one of the most original interpreters of the early modern world. How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution, 1500…
2 years, 7 months ago
Gregg L. Frazer, "God against the Revolution: The Loyalist Clergy’s Case Against the American Revolution" (UP of Kansas, 2018)
Episode 77
Not everyone was convinced by the arguments of patriots during the American revolution. Among those who retained some degree of loyalty to the Britis…
2 years, 7 months ago
Michael Braddick, "The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Episode 33
As historical topics, political revolutions come in and out of fashion. At the moment the American Revolution as an ideological struggle engages the …
2 years, 7 months ago
Kristian Petersen, “Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Language, and Scripture in the Han Kitab” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Episode 113
In his monumental new book, Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Language, and Scripture in the Han Kitab (Oxford University Press, 2017), Kristi…
2 years, 7 months ago
Elena Schneider, "The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World" (UNC Press, 2018)
Episode 42
Histories of the British occupation of Havana in 1762 have focused on imperial rivalries and the actions and decisions of European planters, colonial…
2 years, 7 months ago
Timothy McCall, "Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Episode 60
Looking beyond the marble elegance of Michelangelo's David, the pugnacious, passionate, and--crucially--important story of Renaissance manhood.
Timot…
2 years, 7 months ago
Thomas Kelly, "The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 81
Why would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern Chinese writers did not limit themselves to working with brushes and ink, and their t…
2 years, 7 months ago
Philip Snow, "China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 1395
Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for four centuries. In …
2 years, 7 months ago
David M. Freidenreich, "Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 319
Uncovering the hidden history of Islamophobia and its surprising connections to the long-standing hatred of Jews.
Hatred of Jews and hatred of Muslims…
2 years, 7 months ago