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Back to SearchSimon Ville and David Merrett, "International Business in Australia before World Shaping a Multinational Economy" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 75
This episode features Professor Simon Ville talking about his latest book with David Merrett International Business in Australia Before World War One…
3 years, 5 months ago
Christina Gerhardt, "Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 155
Atlases are being redrawn as islands are disappearing. What does an island see when the sea rises? Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean …
3 years, 5 months ago
Elizabeth Elbourne, "Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842" (Cambridge UP., 2022)
Episode 83
Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842 (Cambridge University Press, 2022)…
3 years, 6 months ago
Lachlan McNamee, "Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 1312
Over the past few centuries, vast areas of the world have been violently colonized by settlers. But why did states like Australia and the United Stat…
3 years, 7 months ago
Peter Meihana, "Privilege in Perpetuity: Exploding a Pākehā Myth" (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)
Episode 84
'The idea of Māori privilege continues to be deployed in order to constrain Māori aspirations and maintain the power imbalance that colonisation achi…
3 years, 7 months ago
Max Kaiser, "Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 383
Max Kaiser's book Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) takes a timely look at histories of radi…
3 years, 7 months ago
Ronald L. Trosper, "Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands" (U Arizona Press, 2022)
Episode 88
What does “development” mean for Indigenous peoples? Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands (U Arizona Press, 2022) lays out an alt…
3 years, 8 months ago
Anatoly Liberman, "Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 109
Three centuries of English idioms—their unusual origins and unexpected interpretations.
To pay through the nose. Raining cats and dogs. By hook or by …
3 years, 10 months ago
The Future of Global Trade: A Discussion with Shannon K. O'Neil
Episode 159
Critics of globalisation come in many forms from environmentalists to trade unionists and many others in between. In the midst of all the controversy…
3 years, 10 months ago
Quito J. Swan, "Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism, and the African World" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 344
Oceania is a vast sea of islands, large scale political struggles and immensely significant historical phenomena. Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colon…
3 years, 10 months ago