Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEzequiel 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 …
6 years, 3 months ago
Mathias 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months ago