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About Charles Coutinho
Dr. Charles Coutinho is the Managing Director of Coutinho Properties since 2001, a family-owned and operated, multi-family residential and commercial properties company in existence since 1974 in the New York City area, as well as the president of the Sutton Area Community (since 2017), Sutton Place’s leading neighborhood organization. He began his professional career as a lecturer in history at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Coutinho pursued an education at New York University, where he attained a Ph. D. in History. Having worked with McGeorge Bundy, Tony Judt and Stewart Stehlin. He was on the board of the Apartment Owners Advisory Council from 2001 to 2006 and is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York. A book reviewer in the field of history, Dr. Coutinho has written for the 'Journal of Intelligence History', Chatham House's 'International Affairs', as well as the online publications 'Reviews in History' and 'Cercles'. An Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is affiliated with the Metropolitan Opera Club, the Amateur Comedy Club, the National Arts Club, the Royal United Services Institute, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, The Foreign Policy Association and the Lotos Club. He also hosts his own podcasts, on the “New Book Network.” He is married with one son and resides in the Sutton Place section of Manhattan.Charles Coutinho, PH. D., Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, received his doctorate from New York University. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written for Chatham House’s International Affairs, the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History and the University of Rouen's online periodical Cercles.
NBN Episodes hosted by Charles:
November 9, 2024
Introduction to Global Military History
Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day (Routledge, 2018) provides a lucid and comprehensive account of military developments…
October 6, 2024
The Eastern Front
Writing in the 1920s, Winston Churchill argued that the First World War on the Eastern Front was "incomparably the greatest war in history. In its sca…
October 4, 2024
To Overthrow the World
When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is clear that it was not. While Russia …
September 24, 2024
From Tudor to Stuart
From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I (Oxford UP, 2024) tells the story of the troubled accession of England's first Sco…
September 17, 2024
Arise, England
Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State (Faber & Faber, 2024) offers a lively, new and sweeping history of the rise of the state…
September 2, 2024
The Zinoviev Letter
The Zinoviev Affair is a story of one of the most long-lasting and enduring conspiracy theories in modern British politics, an intrigue that still res…
August 27, 2024
The Last Treaty
In The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023), Michelle Tusan profoundly reshapes the story …
August 25, 2024
Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War
Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War: Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare (Cambridge UP, 2023) introduces a much-needed theory of tactica…
August 17, 2024
Rethinking Geopolitics
Amid the bloody Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2021 and the escalating tensions across the Taiwan Strait, the geopolitical balance of power has change…
August 13, 2024
The First Cold War
Britain and Russia maintained a frosty civility for a few years after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. But, by the 1820s, their relations degenerated into c…
August 4, 2024
Histories of War
A global account of histories of war, from Antiquity to the present day, Histories of War (Pen & Sword Military, 2024) shows how the varied modes of r…
July 20, 2024
The New Roman Empire
In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated mo…
July 6, 2024
A World History of Rail
There were 20,000 miles of railways in 1865 and about a million by 2020. Scale has always been a key theme in railway history. In the First World War,…
July 5, 2024
Defoe's Britain
The Weight of Words Series continues with Defoe's Britain (St. Augustine's Press, 2023), as historian Jeremy Black uses this writer to interpret Brita…
June 26, 2024
Sing As We Go
Simon Heffer's book Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars (Penguin, 2024) is an astonishingly ambitious overview of the political, social and cultur…
May 22, 2024
Triumph Regained
Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968 (Encounter, 2023) is the long-awaited sequel to the immensely influential Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam W…
May 21, 2024
In Fielding's Wake
In the second volume of The Weight of Words Series, In Fielding's Wake (St. Augustine's Press, 2022), Jeremy Black continues his efforts to present an…
May 10, 2024
Victory to Defeat
The British Army won a convincing series of victories between 1916 and 1918. But by 1939 the British Army was an entirely different animal. The hard-w…
May 8, 2024
Modern Warfare
The foremost authority on modern war in the English-speaking world examines Europe's most important conflict since World War II. More than any other …
May 5, 2024
Why America Loses Wars
In this provocative challenge to United States policy and strategy, former Professor of Strategy & Policy at the US Naval War College, and author or e…
April 20, 2024
Paris
Once described as "that metropolis of dress and debauchery" by the Scottish poet David Mallet, Paris has always had a reputation for a peculiar joie d…
April 17, 2024
Who Is Big Brother?
An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the state--our foremost political essayist and author of Animal Farm and Ninetee…
April 14, 2024
The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History
In The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History (Routledge, 2024), Jeremy Black presents a compact yet comprehensive survey of slavery and its impact on …
March 22, 2024
Ancestral Voices in Irish Politics
The story of Charles Stewart Parnell, one of the greatest Irish leaders of the nineteenth century and also one of the most renowned figures of the 188…