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Back to SearchEiko Maruko Siniawer, "Ten Moments that Shaped Tokyo" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 250
How did Tokyo—Japan’s capital, global city, tourist hotspot and financial center—get to where it is today? Tokyo–or then, Edo–had a rather unglamorou…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Jean-Marc Coicaud, "The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2025) examines the significance of the issue of political legitimacy at…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Roman People" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 5
Julius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually successful republican leader who was measured against …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Toby Lincoln, "An Urban History of China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 420
In An Urban History of China (Cambridge UP, 2021), Toby Lincoln offers the first history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present. Despite…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Dan Reiter, "Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
How do states advance their national security interests? Conventional wisdom holds that states must court the risk of catastrophic war by “tying thei…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Jeremy DeWaal, "Geographies of Renewal: Heimat and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1990" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
The term “Heimat,” referring to a local sense of home and belonging, has been the subject of much scholarly and popular debate following the fall of …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Matthew V. Novenson, "Paul and Judaism at the End of History" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
The apostle Paul was a Jew. He was born, lived, undertook his apostolic work, and died within the milieu of ancient Judaism. And yet, many readers ha…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Jessica Ratcliff, "Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain's Second Scientific Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2025))
In the book Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain’s Second Scientific Revolution (Cambridge UP, 2025), author Jessica Ratcliff t…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Christopher Ocker, "Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Martin Luther - monk, priest, intellectual, or revolutionary - has been a controversial figure since the sixteenth century. Most studies of Luther st…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 182
Challenging the geographical narrative of the history of Islam, Chiara Formichi’s new book Islam and Asia: A History (Cambridge University Press, 202…
7 months, 3 weeks ago