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New Books in History

New Books in History


New Books in History

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Interviews with Historians about their New Books
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Episodes1 - 10 of 482 episodes

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John O'Brien, "States of Intoxication: The Place of Alcohol in Civilisation" (Routledge, 2018)

Is alcohol a universal feature of human society? Why is problematic in some countries a...

48 minutes
Apr 29, 2024

Christopher Cameron, "Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism" (Northwestern UP, 2019)

Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism (Northwestern University P...

48 minutes
Apr 29, 2024

Ariella Aisha Azoulay, "Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism" (Verso, 2019)

Ariella Aisha Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives a...

52 minutes
Apr 28, 2024

Michael De Groot, "Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2024)

In Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War (Cor...

53 minutes
Apr 28, 2024

Sarah A. Bendall, "Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramati...

51 minutes
Apr 28, 2024

John H. Cable, "Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi" (UP of Kansas, 2023)

Historians of the American South have come to consider the mechanization and consolidat...

67 minutes
Apr 28, 2024

David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)

David Pozen is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and t...

58 minutes
Apr 28, 2024

Ross Perlin, "Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024)

Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and—because ...

64 minutes
Apr 27, 2024

John L. Sullivan, "Podcasting in a Platform Age: From an Amateur to a Professional Medium" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Podcasting in a Platform Age: From an Amateur to a Professional Medium (Bloomsbury, 202...

38 minutes
Apr 27, 2024

Andrés Reséndez, "Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery" (Mariner Books, 2022)

The Pacific Ocean is twice the size of the Atlantic, and while humans have been travers...

68 minutes
Apr 27, 2024