Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRoluah Puia, "Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 196
Roluah Puia's book Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India (Cambridge UP, 2023) illuminates our unders…
2 years, 11 months ago
Nikki M. Taylor, "Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 10
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, 11 months ago
Sarah Federman and Ronald Niezen, "Narratives of Mass Atrocity: Victims and Perpetrators in the Aftermath" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 190
Individuals can assume—and be assigned—multiple roles throughout a conflict: perpetrators can be victims, and vice versa; heroes can be reassessed as…
2 years, 11 months ago
Callie Wilkinson, "Empire of Influence: The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 195
Indirect rule is widely considered as a defining feature of the nineteenth and twentieth century British Empire but its divisive earlier history rema…
2 years, 11 months ago
Hassan S. Khalilieh, "Islamic Law of the Sea: Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 68
The doctrine of the modern law of the sea is commonly believed to have developed in Renaissance Europe. The role of Islamic law of the sea and custom…
2 years, 11 months ago
Joëlle Rollo-Koster, "The Great Western Schism, 1378-1417: Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 245
The Great Schism divided Western Christianity between 1378 and 1417. Two popes and their courts occupied the see of St. Peter, one in Rome, and one i…
3 years ago
David Wenham, "Jesus in Context: Making Sense of the Historical Figure" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 243
Jesus changed our world forever. But who was he and what do we know about him? David Wenham's Jesus in Context: Making Sense of the Historical Figure…
3 years ago
Yue Du, "State and Family in China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 62
In Imperial China, the idea of filial piety not only shaped family relations but was also the official ideology by which Qing China was governed. In …
3 years ago
Alexandra 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 …
3 years 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 …
3 years ago