Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMax Skjönsberg, "The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 1039
Political parties are taken for granted today, but how was the idea of party viewed in the eighteenth century, when core components of modern, repres…
4 years, 11 months ago
David Veevers, "The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 124
This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. In The Origins of the British Empi…
4 years, 11 months ago
Theodore W. Cohen, "Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation after the Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 112
In Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation after the Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2020) Theodore Cohen examines the ways in which different p…
4 years, 11 months ago
Steven Klein, "The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 111
The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State (Cambridge University Press 2020) advances a new understanding of how democratic social movem…
4 years, 11 months ago
Nathan Kalmoe, "With Ballots and Bullets: Partisanship and Violence in the American Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 535
Political Scientist Nathan Kalmoe has written a fascinating historical and political exploration of the connections between violence and partisanship…
4 years, 11 months ago
Ruth Ahnert et al., "The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 7
We live in a networked world. Online social networking platforms and the World Wide Web have changed how society thinks about connectivity. Because o…
4 years, 11 months ago
Sebastian N. Page, "Black Resettlement and the American Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 190
Based on sweeping research in six languages, Sebastian N. Page's Black Resettlement and the American Civil War (Cambridge UP, 2021) offers the first …
4 years, 11 months ago
Young Richard Kim, "The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 173
Every Sunday, Christians all over the world recite the Nicene Creed as a confession of faith. While most do not know the details of the controversy t…
4 years, 11 months ago
Joshua P. Darr et al., "Home Style Opinion: How Local Newspapers Can Slow Polarization" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 56
The connection between local news and political polarization is a hot topic that scholars in political science, journalism, and other fields have exp…
4 years, 11 months ago
Shushma Malik, "The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 171
In The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm (Cambridge UP, 2020), Shushma Malik reconstructs the means by which the emperor Nero came …
4 years, 11 months ago