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Back to SearchHans-Lukas Kieser, "When Democracy Died: The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 228
The Treaty of Lausanne, signed in Switzerland in July 1923, officially settled the conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Allied forces. Not onl…
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Thomas Simpson, "The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 203
In The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge UP, 2021), Thomas Simpson provides an innovative acc…
3 years, 1 month ago
Don J. Wyatt, "Slavery in East Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 502
Today I talked to Don J. Wyatt about his book Slavery in East Asia (Cambridge UP, 2022).
In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the…
3 years, 1 month ago
Scott Skinner-Thompson, "Privacy at the Margins" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 352
Limited legal protections for privacy leave minority communities vulnerable to concrete injuries and violence when their information is exposed. In P…
3 years, 1 month ago
Yiwen Li, "Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges Between China and Japan, 839-1403 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 64
In her book, Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges Between China and Japan, 839-1403 CE (Cambridge UP, 2023), associate profe…
3 years, 2 months ago
Kris Marsh, "The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 303
Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, Kris Marsh's The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in…
3 years, 2 months ago
Jon Stewart, "A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century: Confrontations with Nothingness" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 191
Nihilism - the belief that life is meaningless - is frequently associated with twentieth-century movements such as existentialism, postmodernism and …
3 years, 2 months ago
Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan, "Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 194
Why do we protect free speech? What values does it serve? How has the Supreme Court interpreted the First Amendment? What has the Court gotten right …
3 years, 2 months ago
Robert Hellyer and Harald Fuess, "The Meiji Restoration: Japan as a Global Nation" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 128
In world history, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 ranks as a revolutionary watershed, on a par with the American and French Revolutions. In this volume…
3 years, 2 months ago
Richard C. Hoffmann, "The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 46
The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries (Cambridge UP, 2023) provides a comprehensive examination of European engagement w…
3 years, 2 months ago