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Back to SearchMaaheen Ahmed, "The Cambridge Companion to Comics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 260
Today’s guest is Maaheen Ahmed, who has edited a new collection of essays, The Cambridge Companion to Comics (Cambridge University Press, 2023). This…
2 years, 4 months ago
Carson Bay, "Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 134
In this volume entitled Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity (Cambridge UP, 2023), Carson Bay focuses on an important bu…
2 years, 4 months ago
Claire Jean Kim, "Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 682
Where do Asian Americans fit into the U.S. racial order? How do we understand anti-Asian racism in relation to structural anti-Blackness? Are Asian A…
2 years, 4 months ago
Nikki M. Taylor, "Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 424
From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voic…
2 years, 4 months ago
Adam Bisno, "Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy: Liberalism and the Grand Hotels of Berlin, 1875-1933" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 151
Through the colorful world of Berlin’s grand hotels, this book charts a new history of German liberalism and explores the changing relationships amon…
2 years, 4 months ago
From the Invention of the Passport to the Golden Passport
Episode 128
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Kristin Surak, professor at the London School of Economics, about her …
2 years, 5 months ago
Vikram Visana, "Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 197
Uncivil liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji's Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Vikram V…
2 years, 5 months ago
Parks M. Coble, "The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 72
Parks M. Coble's book The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War (Cambridge UP, 2023) revisits one of the most stu…
2 years, 5 months ago
Benoît Challand, "Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 235
Providing a longue durée perspective on the Arab uprisings of 2011, Benoît Challand narrates the transformation of citizenship in the Arab Middle Eas…
2 years, 5 months ago
Aurelian Craiutu, "Why Not Moderation?: Letters to Young Radicals" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 11
Moderation is often presented as a simple virtue for lukewarm and indecisive minds, searching for a fuzzy center between the extremes. Not surprising…
2 years, 5 months ago