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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 …
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French Studies
March 29, 2021
Capitals of Punk
DC, Paris, and Circulation in the Urban Underground
Tyler Sonnichsen
Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi
This one's personal. Tyler Sonnichsen's Capitals of Punk: DC, Paris, and Circulation in the Urban Underground (Palgrave, 2019) was an amazing book for me to read and speak with its …
History
March 29, 2021
The Time of Enlightenment
Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One
William Max Nelson
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France. With the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering, the future transformed from being predetermined and beyond significant human …
World Affairs
March 29, 2021
Trouble of the World
Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital
Zach Sell
Hosted by Geoffrey Gordon
The middle decades of the 19th century witnessed the expansion of slavery and white settlement and dispossession of Indigenous lands west of the Mississippi River, the abolition of slavery in …
Caribbean Studies
March 26, 2021
Haiti's Paper War
Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954
Chelsea Stieber
Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
Picking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti’s post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and republic. What transpired was a war of …
History
March 25, 2021
The Politics of Wine in Early Modern France
Religion and Popular Culture in Burgundy, 1477-1630
Mack P. Holt
Hosted by Jana Byars
Todays’ guest is Mack P. Holt, Professor Emeritus of History at George Mason University in Virginia, talking about his recent book, The Politics of Wine in Early Modern France: Religion …
History
March 24, 2021
The Scent of Empire
Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow
Karl Schlögel
Hosted by Jana Byars
Today New Books in History features Karl Schlogel, Professor Emeritus at the Europa Universitat Viadrina, Frankfort to talk about his new book, The Scent of Empires: Chanel no. 5 and …
French Studies
March 17, 2021
Lethal Provocation
The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria
Joshua Cole
Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi
Joshua Cole's Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria (Cornell University Press, 2019) appeals to a few of the different readers in my head: the one who admires …
European Studies
March 16, 2021
The Last Neoliberal
Macron and the Origins of France's Political Crisis
Stefano Palombarini and Bruno Amable
Hosted by Tim Jones
Emmanuel Macron “has shown a genuine ability to strategize politically, determinedly and clear-sightedly [in] occupying the space of the bourgeois bloc. This is a space that France’s political crisis has …
Middle Eastern Studies
March 3, 2021
Islam, réforme et colonisation
une histoire de l'ibadisme en Algérie (1882-1962)
Augustin Jomier
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 …
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 …
Music
February 8, 2021
Resonant Recoveries
French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars
Jillian C. Rogers
Hosted by Kristen Turner
Understanding how people cope with large-scale traumatic events has become more urgent as we continue to cope with the effects of the pandemic. In Resonant Recoveries: French Music and Trauma …
History
February 2, 2021
Rogue Empires
Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa
Steven Press
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Steven Press is an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. His marvelous first book, Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe’s Scramble for Africa (Harvard University Press, 2017), is …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
February 1, 2021
The Idea of Freedom and Race
A Discussion with Tyler Stovall
Tyler Stovall
Hosted by Marshall Poe
The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on …
Celebration Studies
January 19, 2021
City of a Million Dreams
A History of New Orleans at Year 300
Jason Berry
Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
In City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300 (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), Jason Berry delivers a history of New Orleans at its tricentennial. Beyond …
History
January 13, 2021
Albert Camus
A Very Short Introduction
Oliver Gloag
Hosted by Michael Vann
Albert Camus, one of the most famous French philosophers and novelists, has a diverse fan base. British alternative rockers The Cure sang about The Stranger in their first big hit …
French Studies
December 29, 2020
Vénus Noire
Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
Robin Mitchell
Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi
The preface to Robin Mitchell's new book, Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France (University of Georgia Press, 2020) moves me. In it, the author tells the story of her …
African American Studies
December 28, 2020
The Haitians
A Decolonial History
Jean Casimir
Hosted by Adam McNeil
In The Haitians: A Decolonial History (UNC Press, 2020), leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as …
French Studies
December 23, 2020
The Afterlives of the Terror
Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France
Ronen Steinberg
Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi
How did the "Reign of Terror" end? In his new book, The Afterlives of Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France (Cornell University Press, 2019), Ronen Steinberg explores the end …
European Studies
December 15, 2020
Project Europe
A History
Kiran Klaus Patel
Hosted by Tim Jones
Project Europe made waves when it was published in German in 2018 (CH Beck) and was soon translated into English as Project Europe: A History (Cambridge UP, 2020). A clue to …
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