Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlastair McClure, "Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922 (Cambridge UP, 2024) offers the first legal histor…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 192
During the mid-1930s, Germans opposed to Adolf Hitler had only a limited range of options available to them for resisting the Nazi regime. One of the…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Riley Linebaugh, "Curating the Colonial Past: The 'Migrated Archives' and the Struggle for Kenya's History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 235
In the early 1960s, British colonial administrations in East Africa organized the systematic destruction and removal of secret documents from colonie…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Thomas Gidney, "An International Anomaly: Colonial Accession to the League of Nations" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 153
It is often assumed that only sovereign states can join the United Nations. But this was not always the case. At the founding of the United Nations, …
3 months ago
Maddalena Alvi, "The European Art Market and the First World War: Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910–1925" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
The outbreak of the First World War shattered the established European art market. Amidst fighting, looting, confiscations, expropriation fears and p…
3 months ago
Negar Mansouri and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín eds., "Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law" (Cambridge UP, 2025
For decades, the field of scholarship that studies the law and practice of international organisations -also known as 'international institutional la…
3 months, 1 week ago
Peter Newell, "States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
What is the role of the state in supporting transitions and deeper transformations towards a more sustainable world?
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3 months, 1 week ago
Colm Murphy, "Futures of Socialism: ‘Modernisation', the Labour Party, and the British Left, 1973–1997" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
The transformation of the Labour Party by 1997 is among the most consequential political developments in modern British history. Futures of Socialism…
3 months, 1 week ago
Kathryn Chelminski, "Governing Energy Transitions: A Study of Regime Complex Effectiveness on Geothermal Development in Indonesia and the Philippines" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
As the world moves with increasing urgency to mitigate climate change and catalyze energy transitions to net zero, understanding the governance mecha…
3 months, 1 week ago
Rachel Jean-Baptiste, "Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Despite increasingly hardened visions of racial difference in colonial governance in French Africa after World War I, interracial sexual relationship…
3 months, 1 week ago