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Latin American Studies April 19, 2021

Fugitive Freedom

The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico

William B. Taylor

Hosted by Daniela Gutierrez
Though poverty and vagrancy as social phenomena greatly preoccupied authorities of Colonial Mexico, the social and individual lives of vagabonds and strangers of Spanish American early modernity remain elusive to the historian. In his …

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History April 14, 2021

A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021

From World Power to ?

Jeremy Black

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Jeremy Black, one of the most prolific and punchy of historians of modern Britain, has written a new account of a period on which he has previously published. A Brief …
Sports April 14, 2021

The Fastest Game in the World

Hockey and the Globalization of Sports

Bruce Berglund

Hosted by Bob D'Angelo
Today we are joined by Bruce Berglund, author of The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of Sports (University of California Press, 2020). In this sweeping look …
History April 14, 2021

Britain and Italy in the Era of the First World War

Defending and Forging Empires

Stefano Marcuzzi

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
This is a reassessment of British and Italian grand strategies during the First World War. Dr. Stefano Marcuzzi, Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, tries to shed new …
European Studies April 14, 2021

Belarus Under Lukashenka

Adaptive Authoritarianism

Matthew Frear

Hosted by Tim Jones
Often called “Europe’s last dictator”, Alexander Lukashenka has ruled Belarus – a land-locked European country of close to 10 million people bordered by Russia, Ukraine, Poland and two Baltic states …
European Studies April 12, 2021

The Legal History of the European Banking Union

How European Law Led to the Supranational Integration of the Single Financial Market

Pedro Gustavo Teixeira

Hosted by Tim Jones
Today I talked to Pedro Gustavo Teixeira about his new book The Legal History of the European Banking Union: How European Law Led to the Supranational Integration of the Single Financial Market …
History April 12, 2021

Mobilizing Black Germany

Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement

Tiffany N. Florvil

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
In this globe-spanning work, Florvil uncovers the manifold activities Black German women undertook in the 1980s and 1990s to resist and challenge racism, sexism, and homophobia at home and abroad …
History April 12, 2021

Ireland's New Traditionalists

Fianna Fáil Republicanism and Gender, 1926-1938

Kenneth Shonk

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today on New Books in History, a channel on the New Books Network we are joined by Kenneth L. Shonk, Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse to talk about …
Jewish Studies April 9, 2021

Don Issac Abravanel

An Intellectual Biography

Cedric Cohen-Skalli

Hosted by Makena Mezistrano
Don Isaac Abravanel (1437–1508) was an important forerunner of Jewish modernity. A merchant, banker, and court financier; a scholar versed in both Jewish and Christian writings; a preacher and exegete …
Geography April 9, 2021

The Death of Asylum

Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago

Alison Mountz

Hosted by D. Kadich
The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) arrives at an extraordinarily consequential moment for the future of asylum protections. Even as more and …
Philosophy April 9, 2021

Marcus Aurelius

John Sellars

Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations is one of the most popular philosophical works by sales to the public, while in academic philosophy he is considered somewhat of a philosophical lightweight. In Marcus …
History April 9, 2021

Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe

Mark A Waddell

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today on New Books in History, Mark A. Waddell, Associate professor of History, Philosophy & Sociology of Science in the Department of History at Michigan State University in beautiful East …
History April 7, 2021

State Formation and Shared Sovereignty

The Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, 1488–1690

Christopher W. Close

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today on the New Books in History, a channel on the New Books Network, we’re here today with Christopher Close, Associate Professor of History at St. Joseph’s University in the …
European Studies April 7, 2021

The Road to Monetary Union

Richard Pomfret

Hosted by Tim Jones
“Economics is the long-run driver” in the history of Europe’s monetary union, writes Richard Pomfret in the first of a new Cambridge Elements series on the Economics of European Integration: The …
Gender and Sexuality April 7, 2021

The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm

Intimate Citizenship Regimes in a Changing Europe

Sasha Roseneil and Isabel Crowhurst

Hosted by Jana Byars
Sasha Roseneil, Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science at the Institute of Advanced Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Studies at University College London joins today to …
Critical Theory April 2, 2021

Imperial Encore

The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire

Caroline Ritter

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
What role did culture play in the British Empire? In Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire (University of California Press, 2021), Caroline Ritter, an Assistant Professor of …
Japanese Studies April 1, 2021

The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900)

A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan

Christopher Joby

Hosted by Jingyi Li
In The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan (Brill, 2020), Christopher Joby offers the first book-length account of …
Eastern European Studies March 31, 2021

Gender, Pleasure, and Violence

The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland

Agnieszka Kościańska

Hosted by Jill Massino
Behind the Iron Curtain, the politics of sexuality and gender were, in many ways, more progressive than the West. While Polish citizens undoubtedly suffered under the oppressive totalitarianism of socialism …
History March 31, 2021

Roundtable on Medieval Conspiracy Theories

Michael T. Bailey, Miri Rubin, and Sean Field

Hosted by Jana Byars
Join us today for a roundtable conversation with three leading medieval scholars about the phenomenon of conspiracy theories in history.  Michael T. Bailey, professor of history at Iowa State University …
Eastern European Studies March 31, 2021

Historicizing Roma in Central Europe

Between Critical Whiteness and Epistemic Injustice

Victoria R. Shmidt and Bernadette N. Jaworsky

Hosted by Steven Seegel
In Central Europe, limited success in revisiting the role of science in the segregation of Roma reverberates with the yet-unmet call for contextualizing the impact of ideas on everyday racism …