Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKen Hyland, "Second Language Writing" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 21
Listen to this interview of Ken Hyland, Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education at the University of East Anglia, UK. We talked about his book …
5 years, 1 month ago
A. Dirk Moses, "The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 139
Genocide is not only a problem of mass death, but also of how, as a relatively new idea and law, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian de…
5 years, 1 month ago
John Wong, "Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Episode 4
In Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System (Cambridge University Press, 2016), John D. Wong examines the Ca…
5 years, 1 month ago
Daniel Herskowitz, "Heidegger and His Jewish Reception" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 28
In this episode, I interview Daniel Herskowitz, Career Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, about his first book, Heidegger and …
5 years, 2 months ago
Erik Grimmer-Solem, "Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 970
The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s, well before Germany acquired a colonial empire…
5 years, 2 months ago
Ali Raza, "Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 119
In this engaging and innovative history of the communist movement in colonial India, Ali Raza reveals the lives, geographies, and anti-colonial strug…
5 years, 2 months ago
Richard Hammond, "Strangling the Axis: The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean during the Second World War" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 968
In his new book, Strangling the Axis: The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean during the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2020) , Dr.…
5 years, 2 months ago
Teri L. Caraway and Michele Ford, "Labor and Politics in Indonesia" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 78
How did Indonesia’s labour movement go from being small and divided at the demise of the New Order regime in 1998 to play lead parts in politics some…
5 years, 2 months ago
Stefano Marcuzzi, "Britain and Italy in the Era of the First World War: Defending and Forging Empires" (Cambridge UP, 2020).
Episode 960
This is a reassessment of British and Italian grand strategies during the First World War. Dr. Stefano Marcuzzi, Max Weber Fellow at the European Uni…
5 years, 2 months ago
Mark A. Waddell, "Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 65
Today on New Books in History, Mark A. Waddell, Associate professor of History, Philosophy & Sociology of Science in the Department of History at Mic…
5 years, 2 months ago