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About Miranda Melcher
I have had the pleasure of interviewing over 600 authors on the New Books Network, on a range of topics! I tend to interview authors of books that seek to interrogate and subvert preconceptions about elements of history that have either been neglected in scholarship, or authors who are analysing history through a novel lens.I completed my PhD in Defense Studies at King's College London, where I researched how to negotiate and implement peace treaties. My book on the topic was released in April 2024 from Bloomsbury: Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique. Prior to my PhD, I earned an MA in Intelligence and International Security from the Department of War Studies at King's College London and a BA in Political Science from Yale University.
Dr. Miranda Melcher (Ph.D., Defense Studies, Kings College, London) studies post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with deep analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
NBN Episodes hosted by Miranda:
September 20, 2024
A Different Trek
A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near a postcolonial pla…
September 19, 2024
The Wagner Group
The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army (Reaktion, 2024) exposes the history and the future of the Wagner Group, Russia’s notorious and secre…
September 19, 2024
Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation
The achievement of Singapore’s national public housing program is impressive by any standard. Within a year of its first election victory in 1959, the…
September 18, 2024
Fixers
In Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Dr. Zrinka Stahuljak challenges schola…
September 16, 2024
Wales in England, 1914-1945
At the beginning of the twentieth century, for many English men and women of Welsh origin the idea of being in some part 'Welsh' reaffirmed their own …
September 15, 2024
Wicked Problems for Archaeologists
'Wicked Problems' are those problems facing the planet and its inhabitants, present and future, which are hard (if not impossible) to resolve and for …
September 14, 2024
How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator
Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple question, ‘What do you do?’, becomes the springboard for …
September 13, 2024
Rethinking the End of Empire
Why did a nation-state order emerge when nationalist activism was usually an elitist pursuit in the age of empire? Ordinary inhabitants and even most …
September 12, 2024
The Holy Alliance
The Holy Alliance is now most familiar as a label for conspiratorial reaction. In The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation (Prince…
September 3, 2024
Rubens in Repeat
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. Prints made after the Flemish…
September 3, 2024
Join the Conspiracy
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…
September 1, 2024
Unexpected Revolutionaries
In Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Manuela Moschella investiga…
September 1, 2024
Wood, Whiskey and Wine
Barrels – we rarely acknowledge their importance, but without them we would be missing out on some of the world’s finest wines and spirits. For over t…
August 31, 2024
Mango
Mango: A Global History (Reaktion, 2024) by Constance L. Kirker & Dr Mary Newman is a beautifully illustrated book that takes us on a tour through the…
August 30, 2024
Journalism and the Metaverse
Journalism has been in a state of disruption since the development of the Internet. The Metaverse, or what some describe as the future of the Internet…
August 30, 2024
Write like a Man
In the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country. Although mostly m…
August 29, 2024
The Opening of the Protestant Mind
During the mid-seventeenth century, Anglo-American Protestants described Native American ceremonies as savage devilry, Islamic teaching as violent chi…
August 26, 2024
Disarming Apartheid
South Africa remains the only state that developed a nuclear weapons capability, but ultimately decided to dismantle existing weapons and abandon the …
August 24, 2024
Answers to the Labour Question
Since the mid-nineteenth century, public officials, reformers, journalists, and other elites have referred to “the labour question.” The labour questi…
August 23, 2024
Liberating Fat Bodies
Using a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach, Liberating Fat Bodies: Social Media Censorship and Body Size Activism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024…
August 23, 2024
Twist in the Tail
A Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine (Hurst, 2024) by Christopher Beckman takes readers on a tantalising voyage throu…
August 22, 2024
Brotherhood of Barristers
How did ideas of masculinity shape the British legal profession and the wider expectations of the white-collar professional? Brotherhood of Barristers…
August 21, 2024
The Silver Empire
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…
August 20, 2024
The Power to Persuade
The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization (University of Toronto Press, 2024) by Dr. Angela Geck provides an innovative…