Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLaurien Vastenhout, "Between Community and Collaboration: 'Jewish Councils' in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 544
The first comprehensive, comparative study of the 'Jewish Councils' in the Netherlands, Belgium and France during Nazi rule. In the postwar period, t…
1 year, 10 months ago
Ren Pepitone, "Brotherhood of Barristers: A Cultural History of the British Legal Profession, 1840–1940" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 131
How did ideas of masculinity shape the British legal profession and the wider expectations of the white-collar professional? Brotherhood of Barrister…
1 year, 10 months ago
Rama Sundari Mantena, "Provincial Democracy: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire in Twentieth-century South India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 238
Provincial Democracy: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire in Twentieth-century South India (Cambridge UP, 2023) delves into the period between…
1 year, 10 months ago
Isabel Bramsen, "The Micro-Sociology of Peace and Conflict" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 730
How do micro-interactions of resistance, fighting and dialogue shape larger patterns of peace and conflict? How can nonviolent resistance, conflict t…
1 year, 10 months ago
James Madison and the Spirit of Self-Government: A Conversation with Colleen Sheehan
Episode 114
Who was James Madison? Why were his Notes on Government so valuable to the American founding? Did James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washi…
1 year, 10 months ago
David L. Hoffmann, "The Stalinist Era" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 81
In his new book The Stalinist Era(Cambridge University Press, 2018), David L. Hoffmann focuses on the myriad ways in which Stalinist practices had th…
1 year, 10 months ago
Spencer Piston, “Class Attitudes in American Politics: Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 65
It has long been a truism that Americans’ disdain for poor people–our collective sense that if they only worked harder or behaved more responsibly th…
1 year, 10 months ago
Alan C. Love, "Evolution and Development: Conceptual Issues" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 349
It was an astounding discovery in the early 1980's that the same genetic sequence, the homeobox, controlled the development of basic body plans acros…
1 year, 10 months ago
Catherine Boone, "Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 195
Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design (Cambridge University Press, 2024) by Dr. Catherine Boone integrates African count…
1 year, 10 months ago
Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 75
In his compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines (Cambridge UP, 2020), Gr…
1 year, 10 months ago