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Back to SearchEmpires, States, Corporations: A Discussion with Historians Philip J. Stern and Quinn Slobodian
Episode 1376
Adam Smith wrote that, “Political economy belongs to no nation; it is of no country: it is the science of the rules for the production, the accumulat…
2 years, 7 months ago
Joseph Brady and Paul Ferguson, "Dublin: Mapping the City" (Birlinn, 2023)
Episode 51
Maps are essential tools in finding our way around, but they also tell stories and are great depositories of information. Until the twentieth century…
2 years, 7 months ago
Leonie Hannan, "A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 54
Leonie Hannan's book Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth Century Home (Manchester University Press, 2023) explores the practice of scient…
2 years, 7 months ago
Utsa Mukherjee, "Race, Class, Parenting and Children's Leisure: Children's Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle-Class British Indian Families" (Policy Press, 2022)
Episode 102
Children's leisure lives are changing, with increasing dominance of organised activities and screen-based leisure. These shifts have reconfigured par…
2 years, 7 months ago
Simone Varriale, "Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations: Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migration" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Episode 421
How do migrants make sense of migration? In Coloniality and Meritocracy in unequal EU migrations: Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migr…
2 years, 7 months ago
Luke Moffett, "Reparations and War: Finding Balance in Repairing the Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 52
For thousands of years, reparations have been used to secure the end of war and to alleviate its deleterious consequences. While human rights law est…
2 years, 7 months ago
Mariana-Cecilia Velazquez, "Cultural Representations of Piracy in England, Spain, and the Caribbean" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 53
Mariana-Cecilia Velazquez's book Cultural Representations of Piracy in England, Spain, and the Caribbean: Travelers, Traders, and Traitors, 1570 to 1…
2 years, 7 months ago
Rosie Harte, "The Royal Wardrobe: Peek into the Wardrobes of History's Most Fashionable Royals" (Headline, 2023)
Episode 1372
Fashion for the royal family has long been one of their most powerful weapons. Every item of their clothing is imbued with meaning, history and majes…
2 years, 7 months ago
Jeremy Land, "Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776)" (Brill, 2023)
Episode 82
Jeremy Land's book Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776) (Brill, 2023) takes a long-run view of the glob…
2 years, 7 months ago
Vikram Visana, "Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 197
Uncivil liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji's Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Vikram V…
2 years, 7 months ago