Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLucia Motolinia, "Unity through Particularism: How Electoral Reforms Influence Parties and Legislative Behavior" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 14
Why do supposedly accountability-enhancing electoral reforms often fail in young democracies? How can legislators serve their constituents when parti…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Philip C. Almond, "Noah and the Flood in Western Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1225
In a world beset by climatic emergencies, the continuing resonance of the flood story is perhaps easy to understand. Whether in the tortured alpha ma…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Sidra Hamidi, "After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic Age" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1226
Nuclear status is typically treated as a stable feature of a state's capacity to possess, use, or build nuclear weapons. Challenging this view, After…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Geoffrey Jones and Sabine Pitteloud eds., "The Cambridge Companion to the History of Multinationals and Society" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1224
Geoffrey Jones and Sabine Pitteloud present the latest research on the global history of multinationals and their impact on society and the environme…
7 months ago
Leah Astbury, "Making Babies in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1223
Leah Astbury's new book, Making Babies in Early Modern England (Cambridge UP, 2025), explores the ideals and realities that governed generation in t…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Neilesh Bose, "Chips from a Calcutta Workshop: Comparative Religion in Nineteenth Century India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1222
Chips from a Calcutta Workshop: Comparative Religion in Nineteenth Century India (Cambridge University Press, 2025) explores the development and nat…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Vanessa Rampton, "Making Medical Progress: History of a Contested Idea" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1221
Answers to the question 'what is medical progress?' have always been contested, and any one response is always bound up with contextual ideas of pers…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Claire Morelon, "Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague, 1914–1920" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 1220
Prague entered the First World War as the third city of the Habsburg empire, but emerged in 1918 as the capital of a brand new nation-state, Czechosl…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo, "Governing Digital China" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1219
China's approach to digital governance has gained global influence, often evoking Orwellian 'Big Brother' comparisons. Governing Digital China (Cambr…
8 months ago
Florian Wagner, "Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 1229
Today I talked to Florian Wagner about his new book Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982 (Cambridge UP, 2022).
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8 months ago