Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBrian Villmoare, "The Evolution of Everything: The Patterns and Causes of Big History" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 2
Big History seeks to retell the human story in light of scientific advances by such methods as radiocarbon dating and genetic analysis. Brian Villmoa…
3 years, 6 months ago
Susan R. Grayzel, "The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 81
On this episode, we sit down with Dr. Susan R. Grayzel, Professor of History at Utah State University to discuss The Age of the Gas Mask: How British…
3 years, 6 months ago
Rose Parfitt, "The Process of International Legal Reproduction: Inequality, Historiography, Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 185
Rose Parfitt is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent and the author of The Process of International Legal Reproduction: Inequality, His…
3 years, 6 months ago
Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon, "After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 366
Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon's edited volume After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge UP, 2022) demonst…
3 years, 6 months ago
Gordon Barrett, "China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 488
During the early decades of the Cold War, the People’s Republic of China remained far outside mainstream international science — right?
Gordon Barret…
3 years, 6 months ago
Andrew Phemister, "Land and Liberalism: Henry George and the Irish Land War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 39
Andrew Phemister is Research Associate at Newcastle University. He has previously held postdoctoral positions in History at NUI Galway, the Universit…
3 years, 6 months ago
Marissa A. Harrison, "Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 8
You've heard of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. But have you heard of Amy Archer-Gilligan? Or Belle Gunness? Or Nannie Doss? Women have committed some…
3 years, 6 months ago
Hernán Flom, "The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 639
Political Scientist Hernán Flom has written a fascinating and nuanced analysis of how the criminal drug markets operate in Argentina and Brazil. Inst…
3 years, 6 months ago
Aya Homei, "Science for Governing Japan's Population" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 115
Aya Homei’s Science for Governing Japan’s Population (Cambridge UP, 2022) examines the science and policy of population in Japan, 1860s-1960s. As in …
3 years, 7 months ago
Elina Gertsman and Barbara H. Rosenwein, "The Middle Ages in 50 Objects" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 31
The extraordinary array of images included in The Middle Ages in 50 Objects (Cambridge UP, 2018) reveals the full and rich history of the Middle Ages…
3 years, 7 months ago