New Books with Miranda Melcher

New Books with Miranda Melcher

episodes

A special series of interviews hosted by Dr. Miranda Melcher.

Jonathan Butler, "Join the Conspiracy: How a Brooklyn Eccentric Got Lost on the Right, Infiltrated the Left and Brought Down the Biggest Bombing Network in New York" (Fordham UP, 2024)

September 3, 2024

Join the Conspiracy

Jonathan Butler
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy: How a Brooklyn Eccentric Got Lost on the Right, Infiltrated the Left and Brought Down the Bigges…

Aaron M. Hyman, "Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America" (Getty, 2021)

September 3, 2024

Rubens in Repeat

Aaron M. Hyman
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. Prints made after the Flemish…

Robin E. Möser, "Disarming Apartheid: The End of South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme and Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1968–1991" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

August 26, 2024

Disarming Apartheid

Robin E. Möser
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

South Africa remains the only state that developed a nuclear weapons capability, but ultimately decided to dismantle existing weapons and abandon the …

Gary Mucciaroni, "Answers to the Labour Question: Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880–1945" (U Toronto Press, 2024)

August 24, 2024

Answers to the Labour Question

Gary Mucciaroni
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Since the mid-nineteenth century, public officials, reformers, journalists, and other elites have referred to “the labour question.” The labour questi…

Bessie N. Rigakos and Wesley R. Bishop, "Liberating Fat Bodies: Social Media Censorship and Body Size Activism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

August 23, 2024

Liberating Fat Bodies

Bessie N. Rigakos and Wesley R. Bishop
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Using a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach, Liberating Fat Bodies: Social Media Censorship and Body Size Activism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024…

Christopher Beckman, "Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine" (Hurst, 2024)

August 23, 2024

Twist in the Tail

Christopher Beckman
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

A Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine (Hurst, 2024) by Christopher Beckman takes readers on a tantalising voyage throu…

Ren Pepitone, "Brotherhood of Barristers: A Cultural History of the British Legal Profession, 1840–1940" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

August 22, 2024

Brotherhood of Barristers

Ren Pepitone
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

How did ideas of masculinity shape the British legal profession and the wider expectations of the white-collar professional? Brotherhood of Barristers…

Oliver Volckart, "The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency" (Oxford UP, 2024)

August 21, 2024

The Silver Empire

Oliver Volckart
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

The problems that gave rise to the widespread desire to introduce a common currency were myriad. While trade was able to cope with-and even to benefit…

Angela Geck, "The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization" (U Toronto Press, 2024)

August 20, 2024

The Power to Persuade

Angela Geck
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization (University of Toronto Press, 2024) by Dr. Angela Geck provides an innovative…

Stephanie L Canizales, "Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States" (U California Press, 2024)

August 18, 2024

Sin Padres, Ni Papeles

Stephanie L Canizales
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pur…

Farshid Emami, "Isfahan: Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran" (Penn State UP, 2024)

August 17, 2024

Isfahan

Farshid Emami
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

A vibrant urban settlement from mediaeval times and the royal seat of the Safavid dynasty, the city of Isfahan emerged as a great metropolis during th…

Isabel Bramsen, "The Micro-Sociology of Peace and Conflict" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

August 17, 2024

The Micro-Sociology of Peace and Conflict

Isabel Bramsen
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

How do micro-interactions of resistance, fighting and dialogue shape larger patterns of peace and conflict? How can nonviolent resistance, conflict tr…

Shaun S. Yates, "Over-Efficiency in the Lower Criminal Courts: Understanding a Key Problem and How to Fix it" (Policy Press, 2024)

August 17, 2024

Over-Efficiency in the Lower Criminal Courts

Shaun S. Yates
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In our pursuit of efficiency in the lower criminal courts, have we lost sight of quality justice? Through the critical examination of original stenogr…

Abbey Stockstill, "Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib" (Penn State UP, 2024)

August 16, 2024

Marrakesh and the Mountains

Abbey Stockstill
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Over the course of the Almoravid (1040–1147) and Almohad (1121–1269) dynasties, mediaeval Marrakesh evolved from an informal military encampment into …

Miguel Montalva Barba, "White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space" (Policy Press, 2024)

August 14, 2024

White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America

Miguel Montalva Barba
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space (Policy Press, 2024) examines the connections between race, place, and space…

Tehila Sasson, "The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)

August 14, 2024

The Solidarity Economy

Tehila Sasson
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through nongovernmental aid organisations. Utilising existi…

Heather Murray, "Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

August 13, 2024

Asylum Ways of Seeing

Heather Murray
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) by Dr. Heather Murray is a cultura…

Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, "Movies Under the Influence" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

August 13, 2024

Movies Under the Influence

Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Movies under the Influence (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) by Dr. Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece charts the entangled histories of moviegoing and m…

Aimee Louise Middlemiss, "Invisible Labours: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England" (Berghahn Books, 2024)

August 12, 2024

Invisible Labours

Aimee Louise Middlemiss
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Tracing women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events a…

Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

August 12, 2024

The Medieval Scriptorium

Sara J. Charles
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Sara J. Charles takes the reader on an immersive journey through mediaev…