Podcast Episodes

Jonathan Fisher and Nina Wilén, "African Peacekeeping" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Episode 1176

In African Peacekeeping (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Dr. Jonathan Fisher and Dr. Nina Wilén explore the story of Africa's contemporary history and politics through the lens of peacekeeping. Th…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Eiko Maruko Siniawer, "Ten Moments that Shaped Tokyo" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Episode 250

How did Tokyo—Japan’s capital, global city, tourist hotspot and financial center—get to where it is today? Tokyo–or then, Edo–had a rather unglamorous start, as a backwater on Japan’s eastern coast b…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Jean-Marc Coicaud, "The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2025) examines the significance of the issue of political legitimacy at the international level, focusing on internationa…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Roman People" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Episode 5

Julius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually successful republican leader who was measured against the Republic's traditions and its greatest heroes …

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Toby Lincoln, "An Urban History of China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Episode 420

In An Urban History of China (Cambridge UP, 2021), Toby Lincoln offers the first history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present. Despite being an agricultural society for thousands of ye…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Dan Reiter, "Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

How do states advance their national security interests? Conventional wisdom holds that states must court the risk of catastrophic war by “tying their hands” to credibly protect their interests. Dan …

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Jeremy DeWaal, "Geographies of Renewal: Heimat and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1990" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

The term “Heimat,” referring to a local sense of home and belonging, has been the subject of much scholarly and popular debate following the fall of the Third Reich. Countering the persistent myth th…

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

Matthew V. Novenson, "Paul and Judaism at the End of History" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

The apostle Paul was a Jew. He was born, lived, undertook his apostolic work, and died within the milieu of ancient Judaism. And yet, many readers have found, and continue to find, Paul's thought so …

Published on 5 months ago

Jessica Ratcliff, "Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain's Second Scientific Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2025))

In the book Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain’s Second Scientific Revolution (Cambridge UP, 2025), author Jessica Ratcliff traces the changing practices of knowledge accumula…

Published on 5 months ago

Christopher Ocker, "Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

Martin Luther - monk, priest, intellectual, or revolutionary - has been a controversial figure since the sixteenth century. Most studies of Luther stress his personality, his ideas, and his ambitions…

Published on 5 months ago