Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAngus Lockyer, "Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 168
From the second half of the nineteenth century, Japan has been a particularly enthusiastic user of exhibitions. Large-scale international exhibitions…
1 year, 2 months ago
Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship: A Discussion with Alexander Lee and Jack Paine
Episode 27
The debate about the impact of colonialism on the prospects for democracy and development continues to rage. Was the legacy of colonialism equally de…
1 year, 3 months ago
Miriam Haughton, "The Theatre of Louise Lowe" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 81
Louise Lowe is a theatre and performance director, writer, choreographer, dramaturge, and, more recently, a television director and short film writer…
1 year, 3 months ago
Tana Li, "A Maritime Vietnam: From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 157
When we think of Vietnamese history, we tend to think of plucky peasant guerillas fighting for their independence against French colonial rule or Ame…
1 year, 3 months ago
Sarah Bassett, "Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 40
How do we best see and understand the art of late antiquity? One of the perceived challenges of so doing is that this is a period whose visual produc…
1 year, 3 months ago
Philip Harling, "Managing Mobility: The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840-1860" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 166
Between 1840 and 1860 the British Empire expanded rapidly in scale, with rampant annexation of territory and ruthless suppression of rebellion. These…
1 year, 3 months ago
Azmeary Ferdoush, "Sovereign Atonement: Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 273
The former border enclaves of Bangladesh and India existed as extra-territorial spaces since 1947. They were finally exchanged and merged as host sta…
1 year, 3 months ago
Julia Jarcho, "Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 539
In Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism (Cambridge University Press, 2024), Julia Jarcho proposes that the desire to write is inextricably boun…
1 year, 3 months ago
Paul R. Laird and Elizabeth A. Wells, "The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 140
Over sixty years after its opening night, West Side Story is perhaps the most famous and beloved of twentieth-century musicals and stands as a coloss…
1 year, 3 months ago
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 245
Welcome to the Global Corporations Special Series on the Law Channel on the New Books Network. This Special Series is dedicated to interviews with sc…
1 year, 3 months ago