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General History September 23, 2022

The World the Plague Made

The Black Death and the Rise of Europe

James Belich

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering, but it also brought …

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Russian and Eurasian Studies September 23, 2022

Knowledge and the Ends of Empire

Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917

Ian W. Campbell

Hosted by Maggie Freeman
In Knowledge and the Ends of Empire: Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917 (Cornell University Press, 2017), Ian W. Campbell investigates the connections between knowledge production and …
Economic and Business History September 22, 2022

Beyond Patriotic Phobias

Connections, Cooperation, and Solidarity in the Peruvian-Chilean Pacific World

Joshua Savala

Hosted by Luka Haeberle
The War of the Pacific (1879–1883) looms large in the history of Peru and Chile. Upending the prevailing historiographical focus on the history of conflict, Beyond Patriotic Phobias: Connections, Cooperation …
Law September 21, 2022

Servants of the Damned

Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

David Enrich

Hosted by William Domnarski
In his acclaimed #1 bestseller Dark Towers, David Enrich presented the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality. Now Enrich turns his …
World Affairs September 21, 2022

The Meddlers

Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance

Jamie Martin

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance (Harvard University Press, 2022) presents a pioneering history that traces the origins of global economic governance—and the political conflicts …
Eastern European Studies September 20, 2022

Capitalism in Chaos

How the Business Elites of Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War

Máté Rigó

Hosted by Roland Clark
Capitalism in Chaos: How the Business Elites of Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War (Cornell UP, 2022) explores an often-overlooked consequence and paradox of the First World …
Environmental Studies September 19, 2022

Sixty Harvests Left

How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future

Philip Lymbery

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
From the United Kingdom to Italy, from Brazil to the Gambia to the USA, Philip Lymbery, the internationally acclaimed author of Farmageddon, goes behind the scenes of industrial farming and …
Performing Arts September 14, 2022

Working Backstage

A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor

Christin Essin

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor (University of Michigan Press, 2021) by Dr. Christin Essin illuminates the work of New York City’s theater technicians, shining …
Food September 13, 2022

Asian-Cajun Fusion

Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou

Carl A. Brasseaux and Donald W. Davis

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Shrimp is easily America’s favorite seafood, but its very popularity is the wellspring of problems that threaten the shrimp industry’s existence. Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou …
Women's History September 12, 2022

Workers Like All the Rest of Them

Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile

Elizabeth Quay Hutchison

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Leah Cargin (Ph.D student, University of Oklahoma) speaks with Elizabeth Quay Hutchison (Professor, University of New Mexico) about Hutchison’s recent book, Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight September 8, 2022

How Antitrust Failed Workers

Eric A. Posner

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Eric Posner about his book How Antitrust Failed Workers (Oxford UP, 2021). When anti-trust cases are brought forward, typically they involve monopolies exercising undue power in regards to …
American West September 6, 2022

Brewing a Boycott

How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism

Allyson P. Brantley

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Before the craft beer revolution, Coors was a hot commodity. Impossible to find outside a few states in the West, the beer had a level of "cool" that only comes …
General History September 5, 2022

The Triumph of Broken Promises

The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism

Fritz Bartel

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal economics sweep across the world in the late twentieth century? In this pathbreaking study, Fritz Bartel …
Writ Large September 5, 2022

On John Maynard Keynes’ "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money"

A Discussion with Larry Summers

Larry Summers

Hosted by Zachary Davis
John Keynes’ book, General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, was published in England at the tail end of the Great Depression. This text is responsible for a massive shift …
Economic and Business History September 5, 2022

Slouching Towards Utopia

An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

J. Bradford DeLong

Hosted by Javier Mejia
From one of the world's leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfied Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty …
Darts & Letters September 5, 2022

Truck Nuts

The Political History of Trucks and Trucking

Matt Christman

Hosted by Gordon Katic
The pickup truck is the symbol of rural conservative masculinity. So, it often takes centre stage in the tired culture wars between reactionary neo-populists and liberal moralists. Like today, with …
Food September 2, 2022

Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World

William Alexander

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
The tomato gets no respect. Never has. Stored in the dustbin of history for centuries, accused of being vile and poisonous, appropriated as wartime propaganda, subjected to being picked hard-green …
Popular Culture September 1, 2022

Buy Black

How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture

Aria S. Halliday

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture (University of Illinois Press, 2022), Aria Halliday negotiates the line between "sell out" and "for us, by us," exploring how Black women cultural …
Economic and Business History August 31, 2022

Are We Rich Yet?

The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain

Amy Edwards

Hosted by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo
In this podcast, Amy Edwards, author of Are We Rich Yet?: The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain (U California Press, 2022), provides a fascinating journey into her own research and how …
Early Modern History August 31, 2022

Bought & Sold

Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery

Kate Phillips

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery (Luath Press, 2022) by Kate Phillips traces the story of how and why thousands of Scots made money from buying and selling humans... a …