Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGina Anne Tam, "Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 334
The question of how a state decides what its official language is going to be, or indeed whether it even needs one, is never simple, and this may be …
5 years, 8 months ago
Hope M. Harrison, "After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 90
In her new book, After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Hope M. Har…
5 years, 8 months ago
Kevin W. Fogg, "Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 63
As Indonesia nears the 75th anniversary of its proclamation of independence this year, the socio-political debates surrounding her birth as a nation-…
5 years, 8 months ago
Ayesha Siddiqi, "In the Wake of Disaster: Islamists, the State and a Social Contract in Pakistan" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 102
Over the last couple of decades, a number of books written both by the academics and journalists have appeared on many dysfunctions of the Pakistani…
5 years, 8 months ago
A. de la Fuente and A. J. Gross, "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 203
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Cambridge U…
5 years, 8 months ago
George Lawson, "Anatomies of Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 35
The success of populist politicians and the emergence of social justice movements around the world, and the recent demonstrations against police viol…
5 years, 9 months ago
Ken O. Opalo, "Legislative Development in Africa: Politics and Postcolonial Legacies" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 70
Legislative Development in Africa: Politics and Postcolonial Legacies (Cambridge University Press, 2019) examines the development of African legislat…
5 years, 9 months ago
Paul D’Anieri, "Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 65
Paul D’Anieri’s Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War (Cambridge University Press, 2019) documents in a nuanced way the developme…
5 years, 9 months ago
Elizabeth Horodowich, "The Venetian Discovery of America" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 735
In this episode Jana Byars speaks with Elizabeth Horodowich, Professor of History at New Mexico State University, about her new book, The Venetian Di…
5 years, 9 months ago
Sherrow O. Pinder et al., "Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 446
Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2020) is a nuanced and long-needed anthology interrogates the …
5 years, 9 months ago