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Back to SearchDavid Karmon, "Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 60
Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience (Cambridge UP, 2021) is the first study of Renaissa…
4 years, 6 months ago
Warren E. Milteer Jr., "North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885" (LSU Press, 2020)
Episode 148
In this episode, Siobhan talks with Warren Eugene Milteer, Jr. about his book North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715-1885 (LSU Press, 2020). He …
4 years, 7 months ago
Trevor Burnard, "Jamaica in the Age of Revolution" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Episode 272
Between the start of the Seven Years' War in 1756 and the onset of the French Revolution in 1789, Jamaica was the richest and most important colony i…
4 years, 7 months ago
Dominique Townsend, "A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Episode 83
Founded in 1676 during a cosmopolitan early modern period, Mindröling monastery became a key site for Buddhist education and a Tibetan civilizational…
4 years, 7 months ago
Paul Bushkovitch, "Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia: The Transfer of Power 1450-1725" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 180
The transfer of power is something every must state attend to (and preferably by peaceful means). Remarkably, this fundamental aspect of statecraft w…
4 years, 7 months ago
E. Natalie Rothman, "The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 4
The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism (Cornell UP, 2021) is a fascinating study of a crucial early modern c…
4 years, 7 months ago
F. Bruce Gordon, "Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet" (Yale UP, 2021)
Episode 112
Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet (Yale, 2021) is a major new biography of Huldrych Zwingli--the warrior preacher who shaped the early Reformation. Zwingl…
4 years, 7 months ago
Luis Lobo-Guerrero et al., "Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
Episode 1123
Luis Lobo-Guerrero is one of the three editors of this volume—Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires—and one of the six contributi…
4 years, 7 months ago
Timothy D. Amos and Akiko Ishii, "Revisiting Japan's Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 59
Revisiting Japan's Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation (Routledge, 2021) presents the reader with thirty-one short c…
4 years, 7 months ago
Aurelia Campbell, "What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Episode 428
One of the most famous rulers in Chinese history, the Yongle emperor (r. 1402–24) gained renown for constructing Beijing’s magnificent Forbidden City…
4 years, 7 months ago