Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRotem Geva, "Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 178
Delhi, one of the world's largest cities, has faced momentous challenges—mass migration, competing governing authorities, controversies over citizens…
3 years, 3 months ago
William Carruthers, "Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 144
Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology (Cornell UP, 2022) examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNE…
3 years, 3 months ago
Nicola Rollock, "The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival" (Penguin, 2022)
Episode 361
Why do racial inequalities persist? In The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival (Penguin, 2023), Nicola Rollock, a Professor of Social Polic…
3 years, 3 months ago
Caroline Rusterholz, "Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Episode 48
Who built the twentieth century birth control movement? In Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective,…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ben Davies et al., "Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 206
Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic (Ox…
3 years, 3 months ago
Hilbourne A. Watson, "Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Independence Period, 1966-1976" (U West Indies Press, 2020)
Episode 98
Hilbourne A. Watson's Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Independence Period, 1966-1976 (U West Indies Press, 2020) …
3 years, 3 months ago
Geoffrey Parker and Colin Martin, "Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance In 1588" (Yale UP, 2022)
Episode 31
In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the Channel--and then a fierc…
3 years, 3 months ago
Marcus Rediker, "The Slave Ship: A Human History" (Penguin, 2008)
Episode 64
In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the Britis…
3 years, 3 months ago
Elizabeth T. Hurren, "Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 78
In Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Dr. Elizabeth T. Hurren maps …
3 years, 3 months ago
Isabel Huacuja Alonso, "Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 176
From news about World War II to the broadcasting of music from popular movies, radio played a crucial role in an increasingly divided South Asia for …
3 years, 3 months ago