Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnna Cichopek-Gajraj, "Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944–48" (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Episode 1149
Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944–48 (Cambridge UP, 2014) tells a story of Polish and Slovak Holocaust survivors returni…
1 year, 1 month ago
Kevin P. Donovan, "Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 219
In his book, Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2024), Kevin Donovan argues that Ea…
1 year, 2 months ago
Aviva Guttmann, "Operation Wrath of God: The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad's Assassination Campaign" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 117
In this unprecedented history of intelligence cooperation during the Cold War, Aviva Guttmann uncovers the key role of European intelligence agencies…
1 year, 2 months ago
Tatiana Bur, "Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1146
Tatiana Bur, Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion (Cambridge UP, 2025)
This open-access book investigates the ways that technolog…
1 year, 2 months ago
Jonathan Fisher and Nina Wilén, "African Peacekeeping" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 1176
In African Peacekeeping (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Dr. Jonathan Fisher and Dr. Nina Wilén explore the story of Africa's contemporary history…
1 year, 2 months ago
Eiko Maruko Siniawer, "Ten Moments that Shaped Tokyo" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 250
How did Tokyo—Japan’s capital, global city, tourist hotspot and financial center—get to where it is today? Tokyo–or then, Edo–had a rather unglamorou…
1 year, 2 months ago
Jean-Marc Coicaud, "The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1143
The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2025) examines the significance of the issue of political legitimacy at…
1 year, 2 months ago
Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Roman People" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 5
Julius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually successful republican leader who was measured against …
1 year, 2 months ago
Toby Lincoln, "An Urban History of China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 420
In An Urban History of China (Cambridge UP, 2021), Toby Lincoln offers the first history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present. Despite…
1 year, 2 months ago
Dan Reiter, "Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1140
How do states advance their national security interests? Conventional wisdom holds that states must court the risk of catastrophic war by “tying thei…
1 year, 2 months ago