Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlexandra Dane, "White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 7
Despite initiatives to 'diversify' the publishing sector, there has been almost no transformation to the historic racial inequality that defines the …
2 years, 9 months ago
Gabriel Schwake, "Dwelling on the Green Line" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 220
Today I talked to Gabriel Schwake about his book Dwelling on the Green Line (Cambridge UP, 2022).
Concealed within the walls of settlements along the …
2 years, 9 months ago
Margot Tudor, "Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945–1971" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 70
Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945–1971 (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Margot T…
2 years, 9 months ago
Susan McCall Perlman, "Contesting France: Intelligence and US Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 27
With the defeat of France in 1940 by the Germans during World War II, its status as a world power was deeply shaken. It wasn't until the liberation b…
2 years, 9 months ago
Alison S. Fell, "Warrior Women: The Cultural Politics of Armed Women, c.1850-1945" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 58
Alison S. Fell's book Warrior Women: The Cultural Politics of Armed Women, c.1850-1945 (Cambridge UP, 2023) examines women warriors as vehicles of mo…
2 years, 9 months ago
Simon Sharpe, "Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 9
We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to ris…
2 years, 9 months ago
Nicholas W. S. Smith, "Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 219
Today, the countries bordering the Red Sea are riven with instability. Why are the region's contemporary problems so persistent and interlinked? Thro…
2 years, 9 months ago
Osman Balkan, "Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 56
On any given day, the remains of countless deceased migrants are shipped around the world to be buried in ancestral soils. Others are laid to rest in…
2 years, 9 months ago
Xin Fan, "World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 61
Nationalism is pervasive in China today. Yet nationalism is not entrenched in China's intellectual tradition. Over the course of the twentieth centur…
2 years, 9 months ago
Adrian Masters, "We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 39
We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Adrian Masters challeng…
2 years, 9 months ago