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About Joshua Tham
Joshua is a host on New Books in History
NBN Episodes hosted by Joshua:
History
February 22, 2021
London and the Seventeenth Century
The Making of the World's Greatest City
Margarette Lincoln
Hosted by Joshua Tham
Margarette Lincoln's London and the Seventeenth Century (Yale University Press, 2021) explores the ups and downs of life in Stuart London through the eyes of those who lived through it. The Gunpowder Plot, the …
History
February 10, 2021
The Boundless Sea
A Human History of the Oceans
David Abulafia
Hosted by Joshua Tham
Building on his 2011 work The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, David Abulafia's latest book, The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans (Penguin, 2019), traces the history of …
History
January 25, 2021
Bread Winner
An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy
Emma Griffin
Hosted by Joshua Tham
Emma Griffin's Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy (Yale UP, 2020) offers a refreshingly different take on the age of national prosperity in Britain from the 19th to early …
History
November 23, 2020
The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland
Dale Kedwards
Hosted by Joshua Tham
The Icelandic mappae mundi were a series of maps produced in the late medieval period (c. 1225 - c. 1400) that bore witness to fundamental changes in the landscape of …
World Affairs
October 15, 2020
On the Judgment of History
Joan Scott
Hosted by Joshua Tham
Joan Scott’s groundbreaking work in gender and French history is essential reading for any aspiring historian. Indeed, she last joined us on New Books in French Studies to talk about …
Food
September 23, 2020
The Chile Pepper in China
A Cultural Biography
Brian R. Dott
Hosted by Joshua Tham
In China, chiles are everywhere. From dried peppers hanging from eaves to Mao’s boast that revolution would be impossible without chiles, Chinese culture and the chile pepper have been intertwined …
Literary Studies
August 31, 2020
A History of the Bible
The Story of the World's Most Influential Book
John Barton
Hosted by Joshua Tham
John Barton is no stranger to Holy Scripture. Having spent much of his academic career as a chaplain and professor of theology at the University of Oxford, his latest book …
European Studies
August 19, 2020
Rulers, Religion, and Riches
Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not
Jared Rubin
Hosted by Joshua Tham
Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not (Cambridge University Press, 2017) addresses one of the big questions in economics and economic history …