Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGaby Mahlberg, "The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 853
The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 changed the lives of English republicans for good. Despite the Declaration of Breda, where Charles II promised to forgive those who had acted against hi…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
David Newheiser, "Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology and the Future of Faith" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 47
In his new book, Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2020), David Newheiser argues that hope is the indispensable preconditi…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Jeppe Mulich, "In a Sea of Empires: Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 851
Jeppe Mulich's new book, In A Sea of Empires: Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean (Cambridge University Press, 2020) highlights the revolutionary fervor, political turmoil, conflict…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
David Tobin, "Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 359
Greater interest in what is happening in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang in recent years has generated a proportional need for context, and especially insights into the politics and polic…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
S. F. C. Daly, "A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 88
The Republic of Biafra lasted for less than three years, but the war over its secession would contort Nigeria for decades to come. A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Ci…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Anne Gerritsen, "The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 360
We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African coasts, the Americas and Europe, consumers desired Ch…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Joanne Paul, "Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 842
While it has often been recognized that counsel formed an essential part of the political discourse in early modern England, the precise role that it occupied in the development of political thinking…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Julie Gibbings, "Our Time is Now: Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 102
Our Time is Now: Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala (Cambridge University Press, 2020) is an ambitious exploration of modernity, history, and time in post-colonial Guatemala. Set in the Q’e…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Chima J. Korieh, "Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 87
Reading the petitions that resident of colonial Nigeria submitted to the government during World War II, Marquette University historian, Prof. Chima J. Korieh found a unique source for African politi…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
M. Sobolewska and R. Ford, "Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 192
What are the identity conflicts that define contemporary society? In Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics (Cambridge UP, 2020) Maria Sobolewska and Robert Ford, profe…
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago