Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchN. J. Enfield, "The Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 93
Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the most fascinating and complex cultural and linguistic areas in the world. This book provides a rich and comprehe…
4 years, 2 months ago
Gideon Sapir and Daniel Statman, "State and Religion in Israel: A Philosophical-Legal Inquiry" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 66
Mahatma Gandhi said, “Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.”
The relationship between religion and state p…
4 years, 2 months ago
David Karmon, "Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 60
Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience (Cambridge UP, 2021) is the first study of Renaissa…
4 years, 2 months ago
Thomas Schmidt, "The Book of Revelation and Its Eastern Commentators: Making the New Testament in the Early Christian World" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 188
In The Book of Revelation and Its Eastern Commentators (Cambridge UP, 2021), T. C. Schmidt offers a new perspective on the formation of the New Testa…
4 years, 2 months ago
Tobias F. Rötheli, "The Behavioral Economics of Inflation Expectations: Macroeconomics Meets Psychology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 86
Inflation expectations – their formation, predictive accuracy, and influence on business price-setting and household consumption – remain one of the …
4 years, 2 months ago
Paul Bushkovitch, "Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia: The Transfer of Power 1450-1725" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 180
The transfer of power is something every must state attend to (and preferably by peaceful means). Remarkably, this fundamental aspect of statecraft w…
4 years, 2 months ago
Jeffrey Brooks, "The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 179
Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks (Cambridge UP, 2019) by Jeffrey Brooks, Professor of History at Johns Hopkins Univer…
4 years, 3 months ago
Megan Stewart, "Governing for Revolution: Statebuilding in Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 1122
In Governing for Revolution: Social Transformation in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2021) Dr. Megan Stewart argues that despite significant …
4 years, 3 months ago
Henry Redwood, "The Archival Politics of International Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 52
The archives produced by international courts have received little empirical, theoretical or methodological attention within international criminal j…
4 years, 3 months ago
Avner Wishnitzer, "As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 156
In a world that is constantly awake, illuminated and exposed, there is much to gain from looking into the darkness of times past. Avner Wishnitzer's …
4 years, 3 months ago