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Back to SearchGavriel Rosenfeld, "The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 86
In his new book, The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Gavriel D. Rosenfeld re…
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Oliver Kaplan, "Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 418
Reporters and scholars often focus on violence and victimization: “if it bleeds, it leads.” But unarmed civilians around the world often protect them…
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Carole Fink, "West Germany and Israel: Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics and the Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 85
In her new book, West Germany and Israel: Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics and the Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Carole Fink exami…
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake, "Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities: Realizing the Right to Equal Recognition Before the Law" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 80
The right to decision making is important for all people. It allows us to choose how to we our lives – both on a daily basis, and also in terms of ho…
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Jon Piccini, "Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 718
After the Second World War, an Australian diplomat was one of eight people to draft the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. And in the years that follo…
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Jeff Forret, "William’s Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 715
Jeff Forret is the author of William’s Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts, published by Cambridge University Press in 202…
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C. Wolbrecht and J. K. Corder, "A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections Since Suffrage" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 416
Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder have a new book that builds on their previous work exploring women and suffrage in the United States, Countin…
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Christopher M. Blumhofer, "The Gospel of John and the Future of Israel" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 62
The Gospel of John presents many challenges for interpreters—how best should this book be read? How are we to understand issues like its unity or its…
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Ahmet T. Kuru, "Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 100
Ahmet T. Kuru’s new book Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment, A Global and Historical Comparison (Cambridge University Press, 2019) is a gro…
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Ezequiel Mercau, "The Falklands War: An Imperial History" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 709
The Falklands War was in many ways the defining event in the premiership of Margaret Thatcher. In many ways it was also the last roar of the British …
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