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Back to SearchScott Gac, "Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 13
Scott Gac's Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America (Cambridge UP, 2023) investigates one of history's most violent undertakings: The Unite…
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Paul Gowder, "The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 184
Governments and consumers expect internet platform companies to regulate their users to prevent fraud, stop misinformation, and avoid violence. Yet, …
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Rishad Choudhury, "Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture After the Mughals, 1739-1857" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 82
In Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture After the Mughals, 1739-1857 (Cambridge UP, 2023), Rishad Choudhury presents a new history o…
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Jacob L. Wright, "Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 142
Why did no other ancient society produce something like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way community could have created a literary corpus so dete…
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Matthew Romaniello, "Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 69
In his new book Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia (Cambridge University Press), Matthew Romaniello examines the …
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Gary Shiffman, "The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 75
Dr. Gary Shiffman’s book The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism (Cambridge UP, …
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Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim, "Decolonizing Human Rights" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 55
In his extensive body of work, Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim challenges both historical interpretations of Islamic Sharia and neo-colonial unders…
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Max Deardorff, "A Tale of Two Granadas: Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 204
In 1570's New Kingdom of Granada (modern Colombia), a new generation of mestizo (half-Spanish, half-indigenous) men sought positions of increasing po…
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Roman Politics, Familiar Yet Foreign: A Conversation with Jed Atkins
Episode 93
How are Roman political assumptions similar to versus different from our own? What did the Founding Fathers get right and wrong about the Ancients? H…
2 years, 2 months ago
Kathleen Klaus, "Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 79
Kathleen Klaus, Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco has written a terrific book, Political Violence in Kenya: Land, El…
2 years, 2 months ago