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Back to SearchNandi Timmana, "Theft of a Tree" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 141
Legend has it that the sixteenth-century Telugu poet Nandi Timmana composed Theft of a Tree, or Pārijātāpaharaṇamu, which he based on a popular mille…
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Edward Jones Corredera, "The Diplomatic Enlightenment: Spain, Europe, and the Age of Speculation" (Brill, 2021)
Episode 136
The Diplomatic Enlightenment: Spain, Europe, and the Age of Speculation (Brill, 2021) reconfigures the study of the origins of the Enlightenment in t…
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Brian Ogren, "Kabbalah and the Founding of America: The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World" (NYU Press, 2021)
Episode 273
In his fascinating survey Kabbalah and the Founding of America: The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World (NYU Press, 2021), Brian Ogren…
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Dennis Duncan, "Index, a History of The: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age" (W.W. Norton, 2022)
Episode 136
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book--it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in Index, a History o…
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Lu Ann Homza, "Village Infernos and Witches' Advocates: Witch-hunting in Navarre, 1608-1614" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
Episode 6
Today we talk to Lu Ann Homza about her new book, Village Infernos and Witches' Advocates: Witch-Hunting in Navarre, 1608-1614 (Penn State Press, 202…
4 years, 5 months ago
Erin Drew, "The Usufructuary Ethos: Power, Politics, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century" (UVA Press, 2021)
Episode 97
Would a claim that human possession and property rights as merely temporary seem outlandish to a 21st-century thinker? How would this idea be receive…
4 years, 5 months ago
Joseph J. Krulder, "The Execution of Admiral John Byng As a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 48
Admiral John Byng’s execution for failing to “do his utmost” to relieve the British garrison on Minorca in 1756 is remembered today mainly for Voltai…
4 years, 5 months ago
Paul M. Dover, "The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 1154
In The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Dr. Paul Dover argues that changes in the generation, preser…
4 years, 5 months ago
Exploring Autonomy: A History of Jewish Self-Governance in Eastern Europe
Episode 38
The emergence of self-government in the Jewish community in Eastern Europe has been a slow process, often encouraged by invitations of existing regim…
4 years, 5 months ago
Michelle Christine Smith, "Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
Episode 1151
Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age (Southern Illinois UP, 2021) focuses on three prominent yet understudied …
4 years, 5 months ago