Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDivya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 316
In her formidable and fiercely well-argued new book Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (U Califo…
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David Simpson, "Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 254
Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives. But, while …
2 years, 10 months ago
Deanne Williams, "Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy" (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)
Episode 49
Deanne Williams's newest book, Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy (Bloombury, 2023), is a groundbreaking study…
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Lenora Hanson, "The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 252
Lenora Hanson's The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation (Stanford UP, 2022) provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Roman…
2 years, 10 months ago
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 97
The East India Company is remembered as the world's most powerful, not to say notorious, corporation. But for many of its advocates from the 1770s to…
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Edgar Garcia, "Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 251
Today’s guest is Edgar Garcia. Garcia’s new book Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Emergency …
2 years, 10 months ago
Rebecca Kingston, "Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 249
Throughout the early modern period, political theorists in France and England drew on the works of Plutarch to offer advice to kings and princes. Eli…
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Neil Tarrant, "Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 49
Neil Tarrant challenges conventional thinking by looking at the longer history of censorship, considering a five-hundred-year continuity of goals and…
2 years, 10 months ago
A Better Way to Buy Books
Episode 109
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alrea…
2 years, 10 months ago
Padraic X. Scanlan, "Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain" (Robinson, 2021)
Episode 403
The British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was 'free' an…
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