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Back to SearchAndrew S. Berish, "Hating Jazz: A History of Its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 1544
Andrew S. Berish. 2025. Hating Jazz: A History of Its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse. (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
Some good words fr…
1 year, 3 months ago
Janet McIntosh, "Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1543
Even casual observers of the military will notice the unique ways that service members use language. With all of the acronyms and jargon, some even a…
1 year, 3 months ago
Myles Lennon, "Subjects of the Sun: Solar Energy in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2025)
Episode 1542
In the face of accelerating climate change, anticapitalist environmental justice activists and elite tech corporations increasingly see eye to eye. B…
1 year, 3 months ago
Genocide Studies International Partners with New Books Network
Episode 1541
Today I’m thrilled to announce a new partnership with Genocide Studies International. GSI is one of the preeminent journals in the field of Genocide …
1 year, 3 months ago
John Bardes, "The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930" (UNC Press, 2024)
Episode 1540
The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930 (UNC Press, 2024) reveals that Americans often assume that …
1 year, 3 months ago
Didi Kuo, "The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1539
As the crisis of democratic capitalism sweeps the globe, The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't (Oxford University…
1 year, 4 months ago
Zev Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)
Episode 1538
For centuries, scribes across East Asia used Chinese characters to write things down–even in languages based on very different foundations than Chine…
1 year, 4 months ago
Michael Cook, "A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 1537
A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity (Princeton UP, 2024) by Michael A. Cook
This book describes and explains the…
1 year, 4 months ago
Minxin Pei, "The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Episode 1536
Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party’s political monopoly endures. How? Minxin Pei looks to the survei…
1 year, 4 months ago
Jack Snyder, "Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 1535
Human rights are among our most pressing issues today. But rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve rights for all. Human …
1 year, 4 months ago