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Back to SearchKenneth Aizawa, "Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation: A Granular Approach" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 379
How do scientists reason when they posit unobservables to explain their observed results? For example, how did Watson and Crick reason that DNA had a…
9 months ago
Moritz Föllmer, "The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century European History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 265
What does it mean to see oneself as free? And how can this freedom be attained in times of conflict and social upheaval? In this ambitious study, Mor…
9 months ago
T. R. Johnson, "New Orleans: A Writer's City" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 7
New Orleans is an indispensable element of America's national identity. As one of the most fabled cities in the world, it figures in countless novels…
9 months, 1 week ago
Dejan Djokić, "A Concise History of Serbia" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 190
Dejan Djokić's book A Concise History of Serbia (Cambridge UP, 2023) covers the full span of Serbia's history – from the sixth-century Slav migration…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Matthew Pawlak, "Sarcasm in Paul's Letters" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 123
In this recent monograph Sarcasm in Paul's Letters (Cambridge University Press 2023, Matthew Pawlak offers the first treatment of sarcasm in New Test…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Alastair McClure, "Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 1194
Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922 (Cambridge UP, 2024) offers the first legal histor…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 192
During the mid-1930s, Germans opposed to Adolf Hitler had only a limited range of options available to them for resisting the Nazi regime. One of the…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Riley Linebaugh, "Curating the Colonial Past: The 'Migrated Archives' and the Struggle for Kenya's History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 235
In the early 1960s, British colonial administrations in East Africa organized the systematic destruction and removal of secret documents from colonie…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Thomas Gidney, "An International Anomaly: Colonial Accession to the League of Nations" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 153
It is often assumed that only sovereign states can join the United Nations. But this was not always the case. At the founding of the United Nations, …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Maddalena Alvi, "The European Art Market and the First World War: Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910–1925" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1190
The outbreak of the First World War shattered the established European art market. Amidst fighting, looting, confiscations, expropriation fears and p…
9 months, 4 weeks ago