Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLisa A. Kirschenbaum, "Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 267
In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000-mile American road trip from New York to Hollywood and back. They immor…
1 year, 10 months ago
Donald Stoker, "Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 542
In this provocative challenge to United States policy and strategy, former Professor of Strategy & Policy at the US Naval War College, and author or …
1 year, 10 months ago
Harris Mylonas and Maya Tudor, "Varieties of Nationalism: Communities, Narratives, Identities" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 93
Nationalism has long been a normatively and empirically contested concept, associated with democratic revolutions and public goods provision, but als…
1 year, 10 months ago
Markus Vinzent, "Resetting the Origins of Christianity: A New Theory of Sources and Beginnings" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 152
How do we know what we know about the origins of the Christian religion? Neither its founder, nor the Apostles, nor Paul left any written accounts of…
1 year, 10 months ago
Jaume Aurell, "What Is a Classic in History?: The Making of a Historical Canon" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 209
What is a classic in historical writing? How do we explain the continued interest in certain historical texts, even when their accounts and interpret…
1 year, 10 months ago
Natalia Grincheva and Elizabeth Stainforth, "Geopolitics of Digital Heritage" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 452
How are digital platforms transforming heritage? In Geopolitics of Digital Heritage (Cambridge UP, 2023), Dr Natalia Grincheva, Program Leader of the…
1 year, 10 months ago
Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 225
In this colorful book, historian Sudev Sheth traces how a family of diamond dealers deployed wealth to play off political leaders and survive the col…
1 year, 11 months ago
Asif Siddiqi on Rockets, Prisons, Pop Songs, and So Much More
Episode 70
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Asif Siddiqi, Professor of History at Fordham University, about the arc of his career and his wide-rang…
1 year, 11 months ago
Steven Nadler, "Spinoza: A Life" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 251
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also one of the most radical and controversial. The story o…
1 year, 11 months ago
Nicholas Terpstra, "Senses of Space in the Early Modern World" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 69
How did early moderns experience sense and space? How did the expanding cultural, political, and social horizons of the period emerge out of those ex…
1 year, 11 months ago