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Back to SearchChristopher Munn, "Penalties of Empire: Capital Trials in Colonial Hong Kong" (Hong Kong UP, 2025)
Episode 1757
Who bore the burdens of empire?
Christopher Munn's Penalties of Empire: Capital Trials in Colonial Hong Kong (Hong Kong UP, 2025) explores how judg…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Antwain K. Hunter, "A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715-1865" (UNC Press, 2025)
Episode 1756
Spanning the 1720s through the end of the Civil War, A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715-1865 (UNC Press, 202…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Susannah B. Mintz, "Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story" (Reaktion, 2026)
Episode 1755
Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story (Reaktion, 2026) proposes a bold reimagining of a frequently dismissed condition. Dr. Susannah B. Mintz refram…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown, "Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 1754
How the urban-rural divide drives partisan polarization Why have Americans living in different places come to experience politics as a battle between…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Understanding Iran Under Attack: A Discussion with Author Vali Nasr
Episode 1753
Eleven days into the attack on Iran by the United States and Israel, starting on Feb. 28, 2026, I speak with Vali Nasr, a renowned analyst of Iran. H…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Wendy Brown, "States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 1752
A sympathetic critique that attempts to free Left politics from its own snares, States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton Univ…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Mike Pitts, "Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 1751
Rapa Nui, known to Western cultures as Easter Island for centuries, has long been a source of mystery. While the massive stone statues that populate …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Pablo Zavala, "Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917-1968" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
Episode 1750
Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917–1968 (University of Arizona Press, 2026) shows how illus…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Maud Anne Bracke, "Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Feminism, Contraception, and Abortion, 1950-1980 (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1749
The introduction of the principle of women's reproductive liberty in France, tentatively by the family planning movement after 1960 and explicitly by…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Guoqi Xu, "The Idea of China: A Contested History" (Harvard UP, 2026)
Episode 1748
What counts as China, and who counts as Chinese?
China became a capitalist superpower by investing in globalization. Now that it has established its …
7 months, 4 weeks ago