Podcast Episodes

Florian Wagner, "Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Episode 1229

Today I talked to Florian Wagner about his new book Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982 (Cambridge UP, 2022).

From its founding in 1893, to its decline in the 1970s,…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Leila Neti, "Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Episode 157

Situated at the intersection of law and literature, nineteenth-century studies and post-colonialism, Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination (Cambridge UP, 2021) draws on original archiva…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Sushmita Pati, "Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Episode 153

We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. What does such transformation of rural spaces mean for cities and vice-versa? Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politic…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Annie Tracy Samuel, "The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Episode 274

The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (Cambridge UP, 2021) represents a fascinating and carefully documented intellectual history of how Iran’…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Scott Gehlbach, "Formal Models of Domestic Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Episode 108

Formal mathematical models have provided tremendous insights into politics in recent decades. Formal Models of Domestic Politics (Cambridge UP, 2021) is the leading graduate textbook covering the cru…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

James Stafford, "The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Episode 20

James Stafford teaches at Columbia University, where he specializes in the political and intellectual history of Ireland, Britain and Western Europe since 1750, with a particular interest in question…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Bradford P. Wilson and Carson Holloway, eds., "The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

Episode 146

How much does the average person know about Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757 – 1804)? Would we have guessed that this hero of many fiscal conservatives wrote, “A national debt, if it is not excessive…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Michael Hannah, "Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Episode 9

Today I talked to Michael Hannah about his book Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error (Cambridge UP, 2021).

Are we now entering a mass extinction event? What can mass extinctions in Ear…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Nathan A. Kurz, "Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Episode 296

In Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust (Cambridge UP, 2020), Nathan A. Kurz charts the fraught relationship between Jewish internationalism and international rights protectio…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

David M. Greer, "Successful Leadership in Academic Medicine" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Episode 161

Good leadership in medicine is crucial, but unfortunately, often woefully inadequate. Those chosen to lead often have limited experience in leadership themselves, or worse, are appointed because of a…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago