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Interviews with Historians about their New Books
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Interviews with Sociologists about their New Books
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Interviews with Scholars of South Asia about their New Books
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Recent New Books Network Episodes
Publication Date | Jan 21, 2024
Duration | 01:27:35
Publication Date | Jan 21, 2024
Duration | 01:27:35
Andrekos Varnava's book Assassination in Colonial Cyprus in 1934 and the Origins of EOKA (Anthem Press, 2021) explores the assassination of Antonios Triantafyllides, a leading Cypriot lawyer and politician, in ...
Publication Date | Jan 21, 2024
Duration | 00:56:51
Publication Date | Jan 21, 2024
Duration | 00:56:51
Chelsea Schields's book Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean (U California Press, 2023) reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in t...
Publication Date | Jan 21, 2024
Duration | 01:00:25
Publication Date | Jan 21, 2024
Duration | 01:00:25
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are probably history’s most famous folklorists. Their collection of folk tales – the Children’s and Household Tales – is one of the world’s most translated literary works. Living in a ti...
Publication Date | Jan 21, 2024
Duration | 00:40:20
Publication Date | Jan 21, 2024
Duration | 00:40:20
Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic (LSU Press, 2023) by Dr. Cassander L. Smith examines the means through which people of African descent embodied tenets of respectability as a coping strategy t...
Publication Date | Jan 20, 2024
Duration | 00:58:16
Publication Date | Jan 20, 2024
Duration | 00:58:16
The invention of an easily learned Korean alphabet in the mid-fifteenth century sparked an "epistolary revolution" in the following century as letter writing became an indispensable daily practice for elite men...
Publication Date | Jan 20, 2024
Duration | 00:49:58
Publication Date | Jan 20, 2024
Duration | 00:49:58
There is a growing need across social, environmental, and policy challenges for richer, more nuanced, yet actionable and participatory understanding of the world. Complexity science and systems thinking offer h...
Publication Date | Jan 20, 2024
Duration | 00:41:29
Publication Date | Jan 20, 2024
Duration | 00:41:29
Since Simon Shuster's November 2023 Time cover story ("Nobody believes in our victory like I do - Nobody"), anyone with an interest in the war in Ukraine has been waiting for his fly-on-the-wall study of comman...
Publication Date | Jan 20, 2024
Duration | 00:35:00
Publication Date | Jan 20, 2024
Duration | 00:35:00
We are all familiar with the “march of progress” image - the representation of evolution that depicts a series of apelike creatures becoming progressively taller and more erect before finally reaching the uprig...
Publication Date | Jan 20, 2024
Duration | 01:04:26
Publication Date | Jan 20, 2024
Duration | 01:04:26
The Roman singer, courtesan, and writer Margherita Costa won prominence and fame across the courts of Italy and France during the mid-seventeenth century. She secured a steady stream of elite patrons – includin...
Publication Date | Jan 20, 2024
Duration | 00:35:00
Publication Date | Jan 20, 2024
Duration | 00:35:00
We are all familiar with the “march of progress” image - the representation of evolution that depicts a series of apelike creatures becoming progressively taller and more erect before finally reaching the uprig...