Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEmily Joan Ward, "Royal Childhood and Child Kingship: Boy Kings in England, Scotland, France and Germany, c. 1050–1262" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 10
Royal Childhood and Child Kingship: Boy Kings in England, Scotland, France and Germany, c. 1050–1262 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) refines adult…
3 years, 9 months ago
Patrick O. Cohrs, "The New Atlantic Order: The Transformation of International Politics, 1860-1933" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 14
The New Atlantic Order: The Transformation of International Politics, 1860-1933 (Cambridge UP, 2022) elucidates a momentous transformation process th…
3 years, 9 months ago
On Hope in a Secular Age
Season 1 Episode 188
David Newheiser is a research fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. His first book, Hope in a …
3 years, 9 months ago
Dylan Baun, "Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920–1958" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 191
By the mid-twentieth century, youth movements around the globe ruled the streets. In Lebanon, young people in these groups attended lectures, sang so…
3 years, 10 months ago
Kelly McCormick, "The Problem of Blame: Making Sense of Moral Anger" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 293
Blame seems both morally necessary and morally dicey. Necessary, because it appears to be a central part of holding others to account for wrongdoing.…
3 years, 10 months ago
Meighen McCrae, "Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War: The Supreme War Council and War Planning, 1917-1918" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 122
When the Germans requested an armistice in October 1918, it was a shock to the Allied political and military leadership. They had been expecting, and…
3 years, 10 months ago
Sarah Neville, "Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 173
Over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, works of botany underwent a radical change in the English book trade. A genre that was on…
3 years, 10 months ago
Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, "Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Episode 37
This comprehensive three-volume reference work collects and summarizes the wealth of information available in the field of transitional justice. Tran…
3 years, 10 months ago
Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere, "Global China as Method" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 145
Is China part of the world? Based on much of the political, media, and popular discourse in the West the answer is seemingly no. Even after four deca…
3 years, 10 months ago
Johan Fourie, "Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom: Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 40
In Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom: Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History (Cambridge UP, 2022), Johan Fourie gives a new look to economic his…
3 years, 10 months ago