Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMathias Haeussler, "Helmut Schmidt and British-German Relations: A European Misunderstanding" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 707
The former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt grew up as a devout Anglophile, yet he clashed heavily and repeatedly with his British counterparts …
6 years ago
Sumit K. Mandal, "Becoming Arab: Creole Histories and Modern Identity in the Malay World" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 60
In the wake of the so-called war on terror we’ve become accustomed to racialized portrayals of the Arab as an inflexible and threatening other to the…
6 years ago
Kareem Khalifa, "Understanding, Explanation and Scientific Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 213
What is the relation between understanding and knowledge in science? Can we understand a scientific theory if it is false? Do we understand a scienti…
6 years ago
Jonathan Hopkin, "Anti-System Politics: The Crisis of Market Liberalism in Rich Democracies" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 409
Should we understand the rise of Trump or the success of Brexit in terms of populism? Culture? Xenophobia? Do the same political forces produce Sande…
6 years ago
Aimee Fox, "Learning to Fight: Military Innovation and Change in the British Army, 1914-1918" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 699
Learning, innovation and adaptation are not concepts that we necessarily associate with the British Army of the First World War. Yet the need to lear…
6 years ago
Rebecca E. Zietlow, "The Forgotten Emancipator: James Mitchell Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 163
Though the story of emancipation is well known in American history, the roles of many of the key figures involved in it are often overlooked. Among t…
6 years ago
Sohaira Siddiqui, "Law and Politics Under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
In her intimidatingly brilliant new book Law and Politics Under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni (Cambridge University Press, 201…
6 years, 1 month ago
Sarah Stockwell, "The British End of the British Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 694
How did de-colonialization impact the United Kingdom itself? That is a topic that Professor of Imperial & Commonwealth History at King’s College, Lon…
6 years, 1 month ago
Ayelet Hoffmann Libson, "Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 45
Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud (Cambridge University Press, 2018) examines the emergence of self-knowledge as a determining legal consideration…
6 years, 1 month ago
Andrew J. Byers, "Ecclesiology and Theosis in the Gospel of John" (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Episode 59
For the author of the fourth Gospel, there is neither a Christless church nor a churchless Christ. In his book Ecclesiology and Theosis in the Gospel…
6 years, 1 month ago