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Back to SearchAlan Marshall, "Intelligence and Espionage in the English Republic C. 1600-60" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 37
Alan Marshall's book Intelligence and Espionage in the English Republic C. 1600-60 (Manchester UP, 2023) is a richly detailed account of the ideas an…
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Sagang Sechen, "The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 495
Buddhist cosmological history of the universe, history of Chinggis Khan, history of China, and history of the Mongols — The Precious Summary, written…
3 years, 2 months ago
Rila Mukherjee, "India in the Indian Ocean World: From the Earliest Times to 1800 CE" (Springer, 2022)
Episode 60
India in the Indian Ocean World: From the Earliest Times to 1800 CE (Springer, 2022) integrates the latest scholarly literature on the entire Indian …
3 years, 2 months ago
Carlo Parisi, "Dagger Fencing: The Italian School" (Fallen Rook, 2016)
Episode 164
Today, fighting with dagger versus dagger, or with knife versus knife, is not a common scenario that people might expect to face. However, it was mor…
3 years, 2 months ago
Troy Bickham, "Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
Episode 85
When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco; when Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea; or when a Glasgow family ate a bowl…
3 years, 2 months ago
Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 260
Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (U California Press, 2023) explores the question of what it m…
3 years, 2 months ago
Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer, "The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 223
America’s religious and political public forum is no longer confined to debates between liberals (be they Catholics or Protestants) and socially cons…
3 years, 2 months ago
Andrew R. Casper, "An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
Episode 36
In 1578, a fourteen-foot linen sheet bearing the faint bloodstained imprint of a human corpse was presented to tens of thousands of worshippers in Tu…
3 years, 2 months ago
Christianity and the American Founding with Mark David Hall
Episode 75
Questions about the nature of the American founding undergird our fraught political discourse: was the American Revolution justified? How religious w…
3 years, 3 months ago
Christine Kooi, "Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 35
In this new history of the Reformation in the Netherlands, Christine Kooi synthesizes fifty years of scholarship provide a broad general history of t…
3 years, 3 months ago