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Back to SearchAndrew Denning, "Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 194
In Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Andrew Denning uncovers how road…
1 year, 10 months ago
The GiveWell Method
Episode 1
In this episode, Caleb Zakarin and Uri Bram dive into the world of effective charitable giving through the lens of GiveWell, an organization known fo…
1 year, 10 months ago
Thomas A. Kerns and Kathleen Dean Moore, "Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change" (Oregon State UP, 2021)
Episode 53
Bringing together philosophy, jurisprudence, and a deep concern for the environment, Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Clim…
1 year, 10 months ago
Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 162
In The People of the Ruins (originally published in 1920), Edward Shanks imagines England in the not-so-distant future as a neo mediaeval society who…
1 year, 10 months ago
Mark Walker, "Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 1465
Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards?
Examin…
1 year, 10 months ago
Jeremy Black, "Histories of War" (Pen & Sword Military, 2024)
Episode 242
A global account of histories of war, from Antiquity to the present day, Histories of War (Pen & Sword Military, 2024) shows how the varied modes of …
1 year, 10 months ago
Edward Kaplan, "The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 40
Waging and winning a nuclear war have been called “thinking about the unthinkable” but that’s exactly what Edward Kaplan and I discussed in our inter…
1 year, 10 months ago
Mitchel P. Roth and Mahmut Cengiz, "Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Episode 111
Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Mitchel P. Roth and Dr. Mahmut Cengiz unfolds the gripping history of wea…
1 year, 10 months ago
Monica Berger, "Predatory Publishing and Global Scholarly Communications" (ACRL, 2024)
Episode 63
Predatory publishing is a complex problem that harms a broad array of stakeholders and concerns across the scholarly communications system. It shines…
1 year, 10 months ago
Kate McDonald on Asian Mobility History as Labor History
Episode 77
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Kate McDonald, Associate Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara, about her fasci…
1 year, 11 months ago