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Back to SearchElizabeth T. Hurren, "Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 78
In Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Dr. Elizabeth T. Hurren maps …
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Thomas Kuehn, "Patrimony and Law in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 30
Thomas Kuehn, Professor Emeritus at Clemson University talks about his new book, Patrimony and Law in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge University Press, …
3 years ago
Mary Crossley, "Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 191
Black people and people with disabilities in the United States are distinctively disadvantaged in their encounters with the health care system. These…
3 years ago
Shannon Philip, "Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 222
Shannon Philip's book Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony (Cambridge UP, 2022) tells th…
3 years, 1 month ago
Pete Millwood, "Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 22
In 1971, Americans made two historic visits to China that would transform relations between the two countries. One was by US official Henry Kissinger…
3 years, 1 month ago
Joseph MacKay, "The Counterinsurgent Imagination: A New Intellectual History" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 174
Counterinsurgency, the violent suppression of armed insurrection, is among the dominant kinds of war in contemporary world politics. Often linked to …
3 years, 1 month ago
Risa J. Toha, "Rioting for Representation: Local Ethnic Mobilization in Democratizing Countries" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 120
Rioting for Representation: Local Ethnic Mobilization in Democratizing Countries (Cambridge UP, 2021) examines the conditions that inflame ethnic rio…
3 years, 1 month ago
Philip Gooding, "On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 56
On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890 (Cambridge UP, 2022) is the first interdisciplinary history of …
3 years, 1 month ago
H. Jefferson Powell, "The Practice of American Constitutional Law" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 179
What areas of our lives are governed by constitutional law? When asked about what constitutional law is, Americans tend to think of notable Supreme C…
3 years, 1 month ago
Amy S. Bruckman, "Should You Believe Wikipedia?: Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 335
As we interact online we are creating new kinds of knowledge and community. How are these communities formed? How do we know whether to trust them as…
3 years, 1 month ago