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Music October 22, 2021

Major Labels

A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres

Kelefa Sanneh

Hosted by Franz Nicolay
Kelefa Sanneh was born in England, and lived in Ghana and Scotland before moving with his parents to the United States in the early 1980s. He was a pop music …

Economic and Business History

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Interviews with scholars of economic and business history about their new books.

Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel October 21, 2021

Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)

Sam Wineburg

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of …
General History October 20, 2021

Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean

Maritime Marauders in the Greek and Ottoman Aegean

Leonidas Mylonakis

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Dr. Leonidas Mylonakis (PhD in History from the University of California, San Diego) is the author of Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean: Maritime Marauders in the Greek and Ottoman Aegean (Bloomsbury …
Chinese Studies October 19, 2021

Newborn Socialist Things

Materiality in Maoist China

Laurence Coderre

Hosted by Julia Keblinska
Laurence Coderre’s Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China (Duke UP, 2021) is an exciting book that considers Chinese socialist culture seriously in terms of materiality and theory by tracing the contours …
East Asian Studies October 15, 2021

Green with Milk and Sugar

When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups

Robert Hellyer

Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Robert Hellyer’s Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups (Columbia UP, 2021) is a tale of American and Japanese teaways, skillfully weaving together stories of Midwesterners …
Journalism October 15, 2021

The American Newsroom

A History, 1920-1960

Will Mari

Hosted by Jenna Spinelle
The story of the American newsroom is that of modern American journalism. In The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960 (University of Missouri Press, 2021), Will Mari documents a time of great change …
Latin American Studies October 15, 2021

Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs

Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835-1946

Rocio Gomez

Hosted by Rachel Newman
In Mexico environmental struggles have been fought since the nineteenth century in such places as Zacatecas, where United States and European mining interests have come into open conflict with rural …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast October 15, 2021

Career and Family

Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity

Claudia Goldin

Hosted by Marshall Poe
A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college …
Geography October 15, 2021

Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature of this era reckoned with a new …
Film October 13, 2021

Engineering Hollywood

Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System

Luci Marzola

Hosted by Joel Tscherne
Luci Marzola's book Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building Studio System (Oxford University Press, 2021) tells the story of the formation of the Hollywood studio system not as the …
Food October 11, 2021

Feeding the People

The Politics of the Potato

Rebecca Earle

Hosted by Daniela Gutierrez
Potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Rebecca Earle, Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato (Cambridge …
Digital Humanities October 7, 2021

Along Came Google

A History of Library Digitization

Deanna Marcum and Roger C. Schonfeld

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
When Google announced that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowledge accessible to all, questions were raised about the roles and responsibilities of libraries, the rights of …
Asian Review of Books October 7, 2021

The Shogun's Silver Telescope

God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-1625

Timon Screech

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
An English mission to Japan arrives in 1613 with all the standard English commodities, including wool and cloth: which the English hope to trade for Japanese silver. But there’s a …
Economic and Business History October 1, 2021

Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882-1955

Ying Jia Tan

Hosted by Ghassan Moazzin
In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955 (Cornell University Press, 2021), Ying Jia Tan explores the fascinating politics of Chinese power consumption as electrical industries developed during seven decades of …
General History September 29, 2021

Trading with the Enemy

Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order

John Shovlin

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
Britain and France waged war eight times in the century following the Glorious Revolution, a mutual antagonism long regarded as a "Second Hundred Years' War." Yet officials on both sides …
General History September 24, 2021

Big and Little Histories

Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography

Marnie Hughes-Warrington and Anne Martin

Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography (Routledge, 2021) introduces students to ethics in historiography through an exploration of how historians in different times and places have explained …
General History September 21, 2021

Insurance Era

Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America

Caley Horan

Hosted by Ashton Merck
Actuarial thinking is everywhere in contemporary America, an often unnoticed byproduct of the postwar insurance industry’s political and economic influence. Calculations of risk permeate our institutions, influencing how we understand …
Medieval History September 20, 2021

Cross-cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204-1669

Whose Mediterranean Is It Anyway?

Angeliki Lymberopoulou

Hosted by Evan Zarkadas
The early modern Mediterranean was an area where many different rich cultural traditions came in contact with each other, and were often forced to co-exist, frequently learning to reap the …
Critical Theory September 15, 2021

Trade and Nation

How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought

Emily Erikson

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How can ideas from sociology help us understand history and economics? In Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought (Columbia UP, 2021), Emily Erikson, Associate Professor of …
Film September 15, 2021

Engulfed

The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood

Bernard F. Dick

Hosted by Joel Tscherne
From Double Indemnity to The Godfather, the stories behind some of the greatest films ever made pale beside the story of the studio that made them. In the golden age …