Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 190
Running and securing an empire can get expensive–especially one known for its opulence, like the Mughal Empire, which conquered much of northern Indi…
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Michele Goodwin, "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 98
Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood (Cambridge University Press, 2020) a brilliant but shocking account of the c…
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Miles M. Evers and Eric Grynaviski, "The Price of Empire: American Entrepreneurs and the Origins of America's First Pacific Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 95
The United States was an upside-down British Empire. It had an agrarian economy, few large investors, and no territorial holdings outside of North Am…
2 years, 4 months ago
Naosuke Mukoyama, "Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 102
European colonialism was often driven by the pursuit of natural resources, and the resulting colonisation and decolonization processes have had a pro…
2 years, 4 months ago
M. Ramirez and D. Peterson, "Ignored Racism: White Animus Toward Latinos (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 71
Although Latinos are now the largest non-majority group in the United States, existing research on white attitudes toward Latinos has focused almost …
2 years, 4 months ago
Chris Haufe, "Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 365
There is in certain circles a widely held belief that the only proper kind of knowledge is scientific knowledge. This belief often runs parallel to t…
2 years, 4 months ago
Joanna Guldi, "The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 25
The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History (Cambridge UP, 2022) celebrates the bold new research now possible because of tex…
2 years, 4 months ago
Martin Dusinberre, "Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 152
In Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories (Cambridge UP, 2023), Martin Dusinberre follows the Yamashiro-maru steamship…
2 years, 5 months ago
Mona Simion, "Resistance to Evidence" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 456
We have increasingly sophisticated ways of acquiring and communicating knowledge, but efforts to spread this knowledge often encounter resistance to …
2 years, 5 months ago
Anna Brinkman, "Balancing Strategy: Sea Power, Neutrality, and Prize Law in the Seven Years' War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 237
What is the relationship between seapower, law, and strategy? In Balancing Strategy: Seapower, Neutrality, and Prize-Law in the Seven Years' War (Cam…
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