Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSwati Srivastava, "Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 679
The idea of “hybrid sovereignty” describes overlapping relations between public and private actors in important areas of global power, such as contra…
2 years, 5 months ago
Books in Early Modern Europe
Episode 51
If you are reading this, it’s probably hard—nearly impossible—to imagine a world without writing—without print, books, newspapers, signs, graffiti, a…
2 years, 5 months ago
Laura Gowing, "Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 100
Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London (Cambridge University Press, 2021) by Dr. Laura Gowing recovers the intricate stories o…
2 years, 5 months ago
James N. Druckman and Elizabeth A. Sharrow, "Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 258
The year 1972 is often hailed as an inflection point in the evolution of women's rights. Congress passed Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972…
2 years, 5 months ago
Katrin Nahidi, "The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran: Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 150
Modernist Iranian art represents a highly diverse field of cultural production deeply involved in discussing questions of modernity and modernization…
2 years, 5 months ago
Rik Peels, "Life without God: An Outsider's Look at Atheism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 209
In Life without God: An Outsider's Look at Atheism (Cambridge UP, 2023), Rik Peels explores atheism from a new perspective that aims to go beyond the…
2 years, 5 months ago
Sumit Chakrabarti, "Local Selfhood, Global Turns: Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 192
Sumit Chakrabarti's book Local Selfhood, Global Turns: Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal (Cambridge UP, 2023) examin…
2 years, 5 months ago
Peter Reed, "Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 411
American culture maintained a complicated relationship with Haiti from its revolutionary beginnings onward. In Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century Am…
2 years, 5 months ago
Sarah Sunn Bush and Lauren Prather, "Monitors and Meddlers: How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 675
Foreign influences on elections are widespread. Although foreign interventions around elections differ markedly-in terms of when and why they occur, …
2 years, 5 months ago
Michael Wheeler, "The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 99
What was special about 1845 and why does it deserve particular scrutiny? In The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845 …
2 years, 5 months ago