Help Support H-Net! | Visit New Books Network en Español!

New Books Network
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
Music December 7, 2022

Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song

Mary Channen Caldwell

Hosted by David Kunsman
Mary Channen Caldwell in her new book Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song (Cambridge University Press 2022) opens up new avenues for investigation by centering the refrain as an area of focus …

Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast

Subscribe:

Interviews with Cambridge UP authors about their new books

Middle Eastern Studies December 3, 2022

Agents of the Hidden Imam

Forging Twelver Shi‘ism, 850-950 CE

Edmund Hayes

Hosted by Adam Bobeck
In 874 CE, the eleventh Imam died, and the Imami community splintered. The institutions of the Imamate were maintained by the dead Imam's agents, who asserted they were in contact …
Economic and Business History November 30, 2022

Impunity and Capitalism

The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690–1830

Trevor Jackson

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Whose fault are financial crises, and who is responsible for stopping them, or repairing the damage? Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) …
World Affairs November 29, 2022

Planet in Peril

Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them

Michael Bess

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Michael Bess is the Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His fifth and most recent book is Planet in Peril: Humanity’s Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them …
Intellectual History November 23, 2022

Liberal Freedom

Pluralism, Polarization, and Politics

Eric MacGilvray

Hosted by Keith Krueger
The liberalism that is defended here is therefore itself an object of political contestation, and not just the background against which such contestation takes place. If we can look to …
Religion November 23, 2022

The Secular Imaginary

Gandhi, Nehru and the Idea(s) of India

Sushmita Nath

Hosted by Tiatemsu Longkumer
Given the popularity and success of the Hindu-Right in India’s electoral politics today, how may one study ostensibly ‘Western’ concepts and ideas, such as the secular and its family of …
Middle Eastern Studies November 21, 2022

Nomads in the Middle East

Beatrice Forbes Manz

Hosted by Maggie Freeman
A history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East, Nomads in the Middle East by Beatrice Forbes Manz (Cambridge University Press, 2021) charts the rise of nomadic power from …
Middle Eastern Studies November 21, 2022

Assyrians in Modern Iraq

Negotiating Political and Cultural Space

Alda Benjamen

Hosted by Roberto Mazza
Today I talked to Alda Benjamen about his book Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Space (Cambridge UP, 2021) Examining the relationship between a strengthened Iraqi state under the Baʿth …
Disability Studies November 18, 2022

Disability in Contemporary China

Citizenship, Identity and Culture

Sarah Dauncey

Hosted by Shu Wan
In Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture (Cambridge UP, 2022), Sarah Dauncey offers the first comprehensive exploration of disability and citizenship in Chinese society and culture from 1949 to …
Economic and Business History November 16, 2022

Human Development and the Path to Freedom

1870 to the Present

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

Hosted by Javier Mejia
How has human development evolved during the last 150 years of globalization and economic growth? How has human development been distributed across countries? How do developing countries compare to developed …
Public Policy November 15, 2022

Mass Incarceration Nation

How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How it Can Recover

Jeffrey Bellin

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
The United States imprisons a higher proportion of its population than any other nation. Mass Incarceration Nation offers a novel, in-the-trenches perspective to explain the factors - historical, political, and …
Economics November 11, 2022

Divided Environments

An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security

Jan Selby, Gabrielle Daoust, and Clemens Hoffmann

Hosted by Sidney Michelini
What are the implications of climate change for twenty-first-century conflict and security? Rising temperatures, it is often said, will bring increased drought, more famine, heightened social vulnerability, and large-scale political …
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast November 10, 2022

The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy

A Story of Resistance, Courage, and Solidarity in a French Village

Stephen G. Rabe

Hosted by Mark Klobas
The fateful days and weeks surrounding 6 June 1944 have been extensively documented in histories of the Second World War, but less attention has been paid to the tremendous impact …
General History November 9, 2022

On a Knife Edge

How Germany Lost the First World War

Holger Afflerbach

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
In On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War (Cambridge UP, 2022), Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of the war was actually in the balance until relatively late …
Anthropology November 4, 2022

Subaltern Frontiers

Agrarian City-Making in Gurgaon

Thomas G. Cowan

Hosted by Garima Jaju
In urban and peri-urban areas across the Global South, politicians, planners and developers are engaged in a voracious scramble to refashion land for global real estate investment and transfer state …
General History November 3, 2022

The Soviet Myth of World War II

Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR

Jonathan Brunstedt

Hosted by Douglas Bell
In The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR (Cambridge UP, 2021), Jonathan Brunstedt examines how Soviet society, a community committed to the …
Indian Religions November 3, 2022

Identifying and Regulating Religion in India

Law, History and the Place of Worship

Geetanjali Srikantan

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Judicial debates on the regulation of religion in post-colonial India have been characterised by the inability of courts to identify religion as a governable phenomenon. Geetanjali Srikantan's book Identifying and Regulating …
Latino Studies November 1, 2022

The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature

Sarah Quesada

Hosted by Anna Lindner
The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2022) unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last fifty years. It challenges dominant narratives in World …
World Affairs October 27, 2022

The Age of Counter-Revolution

States and Revolutions in the Middle East

Jamie Allinson

Hosted by Geoffrey Gordon
The last two decades have witnessed an unprecedented amount of protests for far-reaching social change around the world – from the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street to the protests …
Eastern European Studies October 25, 2022

Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe

A Discussion with Monika Nalepa

Monika Nalepa

Hosted by Keith Krueger
An alienated society divided into groups and classes suspicious of one another does not pose an especially great problem for an authoritarian regime that does not legitimize itself through fair …