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European Studies
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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 …
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