Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBryce Traister, "American Literature and the New Puritan Studies" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 176
Bryce Traister has edited a collection of 13 original essays exploring the shifting landscape in the historiography of American Puritanism in America…
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Marina Zaloznaya, "The Politics of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-Transitional Eastern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 100
Using a mix of ethnographic, survey, and comparative historical methodologies, Marina Zaloznaya's The Politics of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-Tra…
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Stephen Pihlaja, "Talk about Faith: How Debate and Conversation Shape Belief" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 94
Religious people have a range of new media in which they can share their beliefs and reflect on what it means to believe, to act, and to be members o…
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Juan José Ponce Vázquez, "Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580–1690" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 933
Dr. Juan José Ponce Vázquez's new book, Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580-1690 (Cambridge UP, 2020) tracks t…
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Jonathan Herring, "Law and the Relational Self" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 123
The concept of the individual self - a being that is autonomous, rational and largely without vulnerability - shapes current legal frameworks, the po…
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Monica D. Fitzgerald, "Puritans Behaving Badly: Gender, Punishment, and Religion in Early America" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 175
The Puritans of Early America did not start out with gendered society and piety. Instead, Monica D. Fitzerald suggests, growing tensions between lay …
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Brian Cummings et al., "Memory and the English Reformation" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 139
The dramatic religious revolutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries involved a battle over social memory. On one side, the Reformation repu…
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Melissa Moschella, "To Whom Do Children Belong?: Parental Rights, Civic Education, and Children's Autonomy" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Episode 122
The Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton, which ruled that the Title VII prohibition on sex discrimination in employment extends to discrim…
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Alexander Morrison, "The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 20
Alexander Morrison’s study of the conquest of Central Asia offers new perspectives on a topic long obscured by misleading grand narratives. Based on …
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David Onnekink and Gijs Rommelse, "The Dutch in the Early Modern World: A History of a Global Power" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 921
David Onnekink, professor of early modern history at the University of Utrecht discusses his latest book, the delightful, The Dutch in the Early Mode…
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