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Back to SearchJohn Goodlad, "The Salt Roads: How Fish Made a Culture" (Birlinn, 2022)
Episode 59
The Salt Roads: How Fish Made a Culture (Birlinn, 2022) by John Goodlad is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the s…
3 years, 6 months ago
Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 205
How were understandings of chance, luck, and fortune affected by early capitalist developments such as the global expansion of English trade and colo…
3 years, 6 months ago
Mary E. Sommar, "The Slaves of the Churches: A History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 228
In recent years, stories of religious universities and institutions grappling with their slave-owning past have made headlines in the news. People fi…
3 years, 6 months ago
Alan Verskin, "Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni Through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 362
In 1524, a man named David Reubeni appeared in Venice, claiming to be the ambassador of a powerful Jewish kingdom deep in the heart of Arabia. In thi…
3 years, 6 months ago
M. M. Silver, "The History of Galilee, 1538-1949" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Episode 51
This study of Galilee in modern times reaches back to the region's Biblical roots and points to future challenges in the Arab-Jewish conflict, Israel…
3 years, 6 months ago
Curtis Runstedler, "Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Episode 202
Curtis Runstedler's book Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) explores the different functions and me…
3 years, 6 months ago
Michael Lawrence Dickinson, "Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Episode 355
Beginning in the late seventeenth century and concluding with the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in t…
3 years, 6 months ago
War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence
Episode 23
Nicole Archambeau, associate professor of history at Colorado State University, talks about her book, Souls under Siege: Stories of War, Plague, and …
3 years, 6 months ago
Nicole von Germeten, "The Enlightened Patrolman: Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Episode 179
When late eighteenth-century New Spanish viceregal administrators installed public lamps in the streets of central Mexico City, they illuminated the …
3 years, 6 months ago
Angela Vanhaelen, "The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths" (Penn State UP, 2022)
Episode 29
Angela Vanhaelen's The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths (Penn State University Press, 2022)…
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