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Peoples & Places
History
March 3, 2021
King of the World
The Life of Louis XIV
Philip Mansel
Hosted by Ian Drake
Philip Mansel, a trustee of the Society for Court Studies and President of the Research Center of the Chateau de Versailles, has written a one-volume biography of the life and …
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Middle Eastern Studies
March 3, 2021
Islam, réforme et colonisation
une histoire de l'ibadisme en Algérie (1882-1962)
Hosted by Julian Weideman
Islam, réforme et colonisation: une histoire de l'ibadisme en Algérie (1882-1962) by Augustin Jomier is an important study of colonial North Africa, Islamic reform, and Ibadi Islam. Jomier, a professor …
Anthropology
March 3, 2021
Ethnography #9
Alan Klima
Hosted by Lachlan Summers
Alan Klima’s Ethnography #9 (Duke University Press, 2019) was co-written by a ghost. And that’s just the start of what’s going on in this eerie, singular book. It’s a discussion …
South Asian Studies
March 3, 2021
Slave in a Palanquin
Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka
Nira Wickramasinghe
Hosted by Samee Siddiqui
For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also …
Military History
March 3, 2021
Forging the Trident
Theodore Roosevelt and the United States Navy
John B. Hattendorf and William P. Leeman
Hosted by Scott Lipkowitz
Theodore Roosevelt was a titan of American politics, society, and culture. Rarely soft spoken, always eager to brandish a big stick, and animated by an inexhaustible energy, Roosevelt used his …
History
March 2, 2021
Strategic Imaginations
Women and the Gender of Sovereignty in European Culture
Anke Gilleir and Aude Defurne
Hosted by Jana Byars
This episode of New Books in History features an interview with Anke Gilleir, professor of Modern German Literature at KU Leuven, about her new edited volume, Strategic Imaginations: Women and the …
History
March 2, 2021
Calhoun
American Heretic
Robert Elder
Hosted by Lane Davis
In Calhoun: American Heretic (Basic Books, 2021), historian Robert Elder documents the life and thought of one of America's most controversial statesman, John C. Calhoun. A congressman, a vice president, and …
History
March 2, 2021
The Dutch in the Early Modern World
A History of a Global Power
David Onnekink and Gijs Rommelse
Hosted by Jana Byars
David Onnekink, professor of early modern history at the University of Utrecht discusses his latest book, the delightful, The Dutch in the Early Modern World: History of a Global Power …
Military History
March 2, 2021
Robert E. Lee and Me
A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
Ty Seidule
Hosted by Bob Wintermute
Almost right after the guns fell silent, a counter-factual and ultimately pernicious narrative of the Civil War took shape that proved to be one of the longest lasting and most …
Central Asian Studies
March 2, 2021
The Russian Conquest of Central Asia
A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914
Alexander Morrison
Hosted by Nicholas Seay
Alexander Morrison’s study of the conquest of Central Asia offers new perspectives on a topic long obscured by misleading grand narratives. Based on years of research in several countries, The Russian …
Indian Religions
March 2, 2021
Yoga in Jainism
Christopher Chapple
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Jaina Studies is a relatively new and rapidly expanding field of inquiry for scholars of Indian religion and philosophy. In Jainism, "yoga" carries many meanings, and this book explores the …
Christian Studies
March 2, 2021
Duty and Destiny
The Life and Faith of Winston Churchill
Gary Scott Smith
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Though Churchill harbored intellectual doubts about Christianity throughout his life, he nevertheless valued it greatly and drew on its resources, especially in the crucible of war. In Duty and Destiny …
Israel Studies
March 2, 2021
Zion
The Israeli Diaspora in Europe
David Stavrou
Hosted by Yakir Englander
The meaning of being an immigrant has changed significantly in the 21st century. The internet, social media and networks, cost of travels, homeland products of food that one can find …
American West
March 2, 2021
The Port of Missing Men
Billy Gohl, Labor, and Brutal Times in the Pacific Northwest
Aaron Goings
Hosted by Ryan Tate
In the early twentieth century so many dead bodies surfaced in the rivers around Aberdeen, Washington, that they were nicknamed the "floater fleet." When Billy Gohl (1873-1927), a powerful union …
Sociology
March 1, 2021
What the Signs Say
Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn
Shonna Trinch and Edward Snajdr
Hosted by Richard Ocejo
Two stores sit side-by-side. One with signage overflowing with text: a full list of business services (income tax returns, notary public, a variety of insurance) on the storefront, twenty-two words …
East Asian Studies
March 1, 2021
Eating Wild Japan
Tracking the Culture of Foraged Foods, with a Guide to Plants and Recipes
Winifred Bird
Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Winifred Bird’s Eating Wild Japan: Tracking the Culture of Foraged Foods, with a Guide to Plants and Recipes (Stone Bridge Press, 2021) is more than just a look at the culture and …
Biography
March 1, 2021
The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn
Representations of Anne Boleyn in Fiction and on the Screen
Stephanie Russo
Hosted by Mark Klobas
In the centuries since her execution in 1536, Anne Boleyn’s presence in Western culture has grown to extraordinary proportions. In The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn: Representations of Anne Boleyn in …
Popular Culture
March 1, 2021
Damaged
Musicality and Race in Early American Punk
Evan Rapport
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) is the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed …
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast
March 1, 2021
#WeToo Reader
Journal of Asian American Studies 24:1 (February 2021)
erin Khuê Ninh and Shireen Roshanravan
Hosted by Christopher Patterson
In this inaugural episode, we discuss a unique special issue of The Journal of Asian American Studies: #WeToo, a reader of Art, Poetry, Fiction, and Memoir, that seeks to answer …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
March 1, 2021
Heirlooms
Memory and Cherished Objects
J. Jay Garfinkel
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Everyone will lose someone they love at some point in their life; a spouse, a parent, or a child. Having to deal with the clothes or personal effects that remain …
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