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Back to SearchAudrey Truschke, "The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Episode 295
In her layered and theoretically astute new book The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule (Columbia UP, 2021), Audrey Truschk…
3 years, 4 months ago
Jessica Rosenberg, "Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Episode 207
Today’s guest is Jessica Rosenberg, who is the author of a new book titled Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print (U …
3 years, 4 months ago
Jacqueline Broad, "Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 80
This volume collects the private letters and published epistles of English women philosophers of the early modern period (c. 1650-1700). It includes …
3 years, 5 months ago
Clare Griffin, "Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Episode 227
Clare Griffin's book Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022) introduces the reader to the dynamic a…
3 years, 5 months ago
Ben Dodds, "Myths and Memories of the Black Death" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 27
Ben Dodds, of the University of Florida, talks with Jana Byars about his new book, Myths and Memories of the Black Death (Palgrave, 2022). This book …
3 years, 5 months ago
Shivan Mahendrarajah, "A History of Herat: From Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Episode 210
Shivan Mahendrarajah's A History of Herat: From Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) follows the history of the city, from it…
3 years, 5 months ago
Marcus Rediker, "The Slave Ship: A Human History" (Penguin, 2008)
Episode 64
In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the Britis…
3 years, 5 months ago
Geoffrey Parker and Colin Martin, "Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance In 1588" (Yale UP, 2022)
Episode 31
In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the Channel--and then a fierc…
3 years, 5 months ago
Marilyn Migiel, "Veronica Franco in Dialogue" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Episode 20
Since the late twentieth century, the Venetian courtesan Veronica Franco has been viewed as a triumphant proto-feminist icon: a woman who celebrated …
3 years, 5 months ago
Kenneth R. Stow, "Anna and Tranquillo: Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions" (Yale UP, 2016)
Episode 374
Today I talked to Kenneth R. Stow about his book Anna and Tranquillo: Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions (Yale UP, 2016).
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3 years, 5 months ago