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International bestselling author
@DouglasKMurray
's new book takes on some of the twenty-first century's most divisive issues RE: sexuality, gender, technology, and race. 🎙️Listen in as he joins
@KirkMeighoo
to give us his take on today's culture wars ↙️
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How did trade routes across the Sahara facilitate the movement of people, ideas, and objects from the 8th-16th centuries? Kathleen Bickford Berzock discusses the book and exhibition CARAVANS of GOLD, FRAGMENTS in TIME (
@PrincetonUPress
) w/
@NAMansour26
👇
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The New Books Network (NBN) is home to a vast library of author-interview podcasts covering a wide a range of subjects, interests and genres. If you've written a new book and would like to appear as a guest on one of our episodes, you can pitch us HERE ↙️
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In EVERYTHING MAN: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson (
@DukePress
),
@ShanaRedmond
explores the ways in which afrofuturist Robeson, silenced by state repression in his lifetime, still speaks to us. Learn more as Redmond joins Andy Boyd on the podcast ↙️
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THE BLACK REPUBLIC (
@PennPress
) provides keen insights into the ways in which African Americans viewed Haiti as a symbol of Black sovereignty and self-determination.
@bronaldbyrd
joins
@TheTattooedGrad
for this episode. Give their conversation a listen ⤵️
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Congrats to
@KeishaBlain
& Anna-Lisa Cox on making
@SmithsonianMag
's Best History Books of 2018! Both authors were kind enough to join us on the NBN.
SET THE WORLD ON FIRE:
THE BONE AND SINEW OF THE LAND:
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While Tibetan Buddhism continues to face restrictions in contemporary China, it has in fact entered mainstream Chinese society with a growing middle-class and celebrity following. Joshua Esler discusses TIBETAN BUDDHISM among HAN CHINESE (
@RLPGBooks
) ↙️
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Asking “why magical stories are written for some people and not for others," THE DARK FANTASTIC (
@NYUpress
) explores narratives of magical and fantastical stories that currently dominate our Anglo-American cultural landscape.
@Ebonyteach
joins
@gorenlj
⤵️
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THE FIUME CRISIS (
@Harvard_Press
) recasts what we know about fascism, nationalism and the fall of empire after WWI by focusing on the 3-year period when the Adriatic city of Fiume generated an international crisis. 🎙️
@DominiqueReill
joins
@steven_seegel
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Deeply researched and theorized, THE SMELL of SLAVERY (
@cambUP_History
) presents a deeper historical understanding of the senses and the legacy that olfactory racism still has on Atlantic societies.
🎙️Andrew Kettler joins
@KleiserGrant
on the podcast👇
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ACROSS OCEANS of LAW (
@DukePress
) take us to 1914, when the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Learn more as Renisa Mawani joins
@Ahmed_Yaqoub
on the podcast ↙️
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Drawing on interviews, participant observation and deep readings of texts, HACKING DIVERSITY (
@PrincetonUPress
) shows how the problem-solving ethos of
#OpenTech
fails to meet the challenge of structural social problems.
@scrivenix
joins
@JasmineMcNealy
👇
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PEARLS, PEOPLE, and POWER (
@OhioUnivPress
) examines the trade, distribution, production, and consumption of pearls and mother-of-pearl in the global Indian Ocean over more than five centuries. Co-editor Pedro Machado joins the
#IndianOceanWorld
podcast ↙️
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The (white) women's movement wasn't enough to secure black women the vote. For these women, it took a movement of their own.
🗣️Listen in as
@marthasjones_
discusses her new book, VANGUARD (
@BasicBooks
), with
@CulturedModesty
on the the podcast ↙️
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THE WOLLSTONECRAFTIAN MIND (
@Routledge_Phil
) is an extensive compendium of Mary Wollstonecraft as a writer, interlocutor, philosopher, political theorist, and as a feminist thinker. Editors
@AlanMSJCoffee
,
@BottingHunt
and
@sandrineankara
join
@gorenlj
👇
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On this episode of the podcast
@profmikedavis
, author of MAKING HONG KONG CHINA(
@ColumbiaUP
), joins
@JaneRichardsHK
. Listen in as he breaks down the political, legal, and informal events that have shaped
#HongKong
under China’s ever expanding controls ⬇️
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The "datafication" of more and more aspects of our lives requires analysis of the systems of power surrounding it. In DATA FEMINISM (
@mitpress
),
@laurenfklein
and
@kanarinka
use intersectional feminism to rethink
#DataEthics
. They join
@JasmineMcNealy
↙️
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IN PRAISE of BLOOD (
@randomhouse
) gives us the most in-depth account yet of suspected crimes committed by Paul Kagame and the Rwandan Patriotic Front, before, during, and after the genocide in Rwandan against the Tutsi's.
@JudiRever
joins
@jeff_bachman
⬇️
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Black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. BEING PROPERTY ONCE MYSELF (
@Harvard_Press
) delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience.
@SirJoshBennett
joins us ↙️
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When are borders justified?
ON BORDERS (
@OUPPolitics
) argues that we shouldn't see territories as property, but as as interconnected systems where institutions, people, biota, and land create overlapping civic duties.
@POchoaEspejo
joins
@geofflgordon
👇
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@NYUpress
@Ebonyteach
@nicoleannysse
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas is Associate Professor in the Literacy, Culture & International Educational Division at
@PennGSE
. A former
#DetroitK12
teacher, she is an expert on diversity in
#ChildrensLiterature
,
#YouthMedia
and
#FanStudies
.
#SpeculativeFiction
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HOW TO BE TRUSTWORTHY (
@OUPPhilosophy
) explores many of the central questions about trust and trustworthiness, offering an account according to which being trustworthy is a matter of avoiding unfulfilled commitment.
@HawleyKatherine
joins
@RobertTalisse
👇
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In the 1870s migrant groups from Russia’s steppes settled in the similar environment of the Great Plains. Listen in as David Moon joins
@steven_seegel
to discuss THE AMERICAN STEPPES: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s-1930s👇
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DOPESICK (
@littlebrown
) tells a familiar story of economic distress in Appalachia, only, instead of focusing on the coal industry, the book homes in on pharmaceutical companies selling large quantities of Rx opioids.
@papergirlmacy
joins
@chelseaajack
👇
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Exploring unexamined episodes in the Frankfurt School's history, SPLINTERS in YOUR EYE (
@VersoBooks
) illustrates the abiding relevance of Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Löwenthal and Kracauer in our troubled times. Martin Jay discusses the book 👇
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The NBn is a non-profit; our hosts & editors are volunteers. We do what we do because we believe in public education. But despite growing incredibly large (4,000+ episodes!), the NBn continues to operate on a shoestring budget. Please consider a donation.
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David Courtwright, leading expert on the history of drugs &
#addiction
, is
@LucRichert
's guest on the
#podcast
. ☑️ out their conversation on the global nature of pleasure, vice, capitalism & Courtwright's new book, THE AGE OF ADDICTION (
@Harvard_Press
) ↙️
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Drawing on interviews with artists, dealers, and curators, LATINX ART (
@DukePress
) is at once an introduction to contemporary Latinx art and a call to decolonize art practices that erase and whitewash Latinx artists. 🎙️
@arlenedavila1
joins
@djgonzoPhD
↙️
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.
@samueljredman
on PROPHETS and GHOSTS (
@Harvard_Press
), a searching account of 19th-century salvage
#anthropology
--an effort to preserve the culture of “vanishing” Indigenous peoples via dispossession of the very communities it was meant to protect. 👂⤵️
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🎙️
@steven_seegel
interviews cartographic cogitator Mark Monmonier, author of CONNECTIONS and CONTENT (
@EsriPress
), which uses historical maps to explore triangulation,survey, transportation, postal, electric, topological networks, GPS constellations, etc.
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What do university presses do?
Niko Pfund, president of
@aupresses
and
@OxUniPress
head, discusses the work of UPs and their value to the production of knowledge and a vibrant exchange of ideas with Marshall Poe on the podcast ⤵️
#ReadUP
#RaiseUP
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Working as merchants, tradesmen, clerks, lawyers, and journalists, Indians formed the economic and administrative middle class in colonial Kenya. Learn more as Sana Aiyar discusses INDIANS in KENYA (
@Harvard_Press
) on the podcast ↙️
#IndianOceanWorld
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We live in a culture that associates thinking with uselessness and idleness. Why? 💭LOST IN THOUGHT (
@PrincetonUPress
) makes the case that learning is a characteristically human activity essential for a fulfilled life. 🎙️
@zenahitz
joins
@RobertTalisse
👇
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AN ECOLOGY of KNOWLEDGES (
@DukePress
) offers a rich ethnography of knowledge-making practices in
#Guatemala
's Maya Biosphere Reserve, the largest nature reserve in
#CentralAmerica
. Listen in as
@MichaRahder
discusses her research on the podcast👇
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We also extend our congratulations to Ula Yvette Taylor, who took home the Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for the best book on the civil rights struggle for THE PROMISE OF PATRIARCHY (
@uncpressblog
). She spoke w/
@CulturedModesty
👇
#OAH18
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Jingdezhen porcelains are coveted worldwide.
In THE CITY of BLUE and WHITE (
@CUPAcademic
),
@gerritsen_anne
asks how this kiln complex could manufacture such quality, quantity, and variety, shedding light on the early modern world economy. Listen in ↙️
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In a time of contentious debate over Confederate monuments,
@nmaurantonio
provides an intriguing look into how revisionist ideas of the Confederacy have seeped into the mainstream. She discusses CONFEDERATE EXCEPTIONALISM (
@Kansas_Press
) w/
@SusanLiebell
👇
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🎙️
@Guthfana
's interview with
@ut_english
professor Geraldine Heng on the long history of race featured in today's
@nytimes
. Give it a listen if you haven't already ➡️
#Twitterstorians
#CriticalRaceTheory
#IntHist
#MedievalHistory
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The nostalgic mist surrounding farms can make it hard to write their history, encrusting them with stereotypical rural virtues. THE NATURE of the FUTURE (
@UChicagoPress
) aims to remake this staid vision.
🎙️
@emilypawley
@brianfhamilton
on the podcast👇
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Intertwining histories of racism and ableism, BETWEEN FITNESS and DEATH (
@IllinoisPress
) examines the representations and realities of disability in the context of Atlantic slavery. Listen in as
@stefanieHuntke1
discusses her research w/
@CulturedModesty
👇
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#UniversityPresses
provide a base of fundamental research to the public. And they do a great job of it.
#ListenUP
as
@azkat
, president of
@aupresses
, talks with
@marshallpoe
about the work of UPs, their challenges, and new directions they're headed in👇
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Robert Darnton's new book, PIRATING and PUBLISHING: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment (
@OUPHistory
), offers a sweeping view of the world of writing, publishing, and especially bookselling in pre-Revolutionary France. Learn more on the podcast 👇
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ICYMI: Drawing on archival research that spans centuries & nations,
@ProfMSinha
's THE SLAVE's CAUSE (
@yalepress
) paints a complex picture of the transnational & radical movement to end slavery in the US from the 1500s to the Civil War.
#Twitterstorians
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How might the modern Maghreb might look if we didn't perceive it solely through the prism of European colonization?
🎙️Listen in as M’hamed Oualdi discusses A SLAVE BETWEEN EMPIRES (
@ColumbiaUP
) with Nancy Ko on the podcast👇
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THE SECULAR ENLIGHTENMENT (
@PrincetonUPress
) offers a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. Tune in as historian Margaret Jacob discusses the book on the podcast👇
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How should we think about the relationship between subjectivity and experience? ANAESTHETICS of EXISTENCE (
@DukePress
) approaches this question by interrogating the apparent limits of experience found in unconsciousness. Cressida Heyes joins
@s_k_tyson
👇
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THE THINGS of LIFE (
@CornellPress
) traces the biographies Soviet things, examining how the material world of the late Soviet period influenced gender roles, habits, social trajectories, and imaginary aspirations. 🎙️
@alexei_golubev
joins
@steven_seegel
👇
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Thomas Piketty, author of CAPITAL in the 21st CENTURY, is our guest on the podcast. 🎙️Listen in as he discusses CAPITAL and IDEOLOGY (
@Harvard_Press
), an expanded interdisciplinary contribution to comparative political economy six years in the making ↙️
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DOUBTFUL READERS offers readings of early modern poets to show that early printings of their work organized their texts in order to make specific points. Find out how poetry was transformed in and sometimes by the move to print as
@erinannmcc
joins us↙️
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IMPERIAL CREATURES (
@NUS_Press
) explores the more-than-human entanglements between empires and the creatures they govern in the context of a Southeast Asian colonial city. Listen in as Timothy Barnard discusses the book w/
@laurelinarien
on the podcast ⤵️
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@NYUpress
@Ebonyteach
@gorenlj
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas is Associate Professor in the Literacy, Culture, and International Educational Division at
@PennGSE
. She is an expert on diversity in
#ChildrensLiterature
,
#YouthMedia
, and
#FanStudies
.
#AfricanAmericanStudies
#LiteraryCriticism
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HITLER'S NORTHERN UTOPIA (
@PrincetonUPress
) tells the story of a broad range of completed and unrealized architectural and infrastructure projects built on Norway’s Atlantic coast. Tune in as Despina Stratigakos discusses her research w/
@craig_sorvillo
↙️
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🎙️
@Tyler_The_Girl
talks to
@DrSashaTurner
about CONTESTED BODIES: PREGNANCY, CHILD REARING &
#SLAVERY
IN
#JAMAICA
(
@PennPress
)--a fresh account of how the end of the slave trade changed the bodily experiences of enslaved Jamaicans.
#twitterstorians
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Centering the experiences and stories of Black women as political protagonists, REIMAGINING LIBERATION (
@IllinoisPress
) considers questions of race, gender, and political agency in the French Empire. 🎙️
@AnnetteJosephG
joins
@clubatomique
on the podcast ⤵️
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In STALIN'S NINOS (
@utpress
),
@prof4russia
analyzes archives, letters, oral histories, and memoirs to tell the little-known story of how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly 3,000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War. He joins
@steven_seegel
↙️
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BADGES WITHOUT BORDERS (
@ucpress
) traces how police bureaucrats and the global security apparatus brought their munitions, methods and money to precincts at home and abroad, dissolving the divide between foreign and domestic policy.
@stschrader1
joins us↙️
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Daniel Q. Gillion’s new book, THE LOUD MINORITY (
@PrincetonUPress
), is an incredibly topical and important analysis of the connection between protests and the influence this public activism has on the voting electorate. Tune in as Gillion joins
@gorenlj
👇
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🎙️
@drashleyfarmer
joins
@CulturedModesty
to reflect on her groundbreaking
@BlkPerspectives
piece, Archiving While Black. Listen in as she shares her own experiences in the archives & how they inform her classroom teaching & mentoring of new historians ⤵️
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🏆
@frenchcolonial
's Heggoy Book Prize "recognizes the best book dealing with the French colonial experience from 1815 to the present" & this year it goes to CATASTROPHE AND CITIZENSHIP (
@UnivNebPress
) author
@church_c
!
@alebronf
spoke w/him for the NBN 👇
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In a very useful new📘, philosopher
@QCassam
exposes the inherent propaganda function of many mainstream CONSPIRACY THEORIES (
@politybooks
). Find out why such conspiracy theories are not the same as "theories about conspiracies" as he joins
@marshallpoe
👇
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In SMELLOSOPHY (
@Harvard_Press
), cognitive scientist, philosopher & historian of science, technology and the senses,
@smellosopher
, asks a deceptively simple question: What does the nose tell the brain, and how does the brain understand it?
Find out 👇
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Building on the political economy principles of Hayek, Buchanan, and Vincent & Elinor Ostrom, PUBLIC GOVERNANCE and the CLASSICAL LIBERAL PERSPECTIVE (
@OUPEconomics
) challenges the technocratic-epistocratic perspective.
@PeterBoettke
joins
@Bernardi_UK
↙️
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IMPERIAL CONNECTIONS (
@ucpress
) offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the
#BritishEmpire
when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration.
🎙️Thomas R. Metcalf joins
@Ahmed_Yaqoub
↙️
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"Smart cities" have captured the imaginations of policymakers, scholars and urbanites. But what are the drawbacks of living in an environment that is constantly collecting data?
@benzevgreen
discusses THE SMART ENOUGH CITY (
@mitpress
) w/
@JasmineMcNealy
👇
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How did the war against Nazi Germany influence the white American public’s racial policy opinions?
@notstevenwhite
has written a deeply researched new book, WORLD WAR II and AMERICAN RACIAL POLITICS (
@CUP_PoliSci
). ☑️out his NBN interview w/
@heathbrown
↙️
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An essential work of American civil rights history, TINDERBOX (
@LiverightPub
) reconstructs the 1973 fire that took the lives of thirty-one men and one woman at a New Orleans bar. Listen in as
@wordbobby
joins
@voices_south
hosts
@marsjf3
&
@morrisardoin
👇
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In her new book, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE POST-SOVIET (
@dukepress
), Madina Tlostanova shows how the possible way out of a sense of futurelessness lies in the engagement with activist art.
🎙️Listen in as Tlostanova joins
@steven_seegel
on the podcast👇
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Exploring the estrangement of young Jewish women from traditional Judaism in Habsburg Galicia, THE REBELLION of the DAUGHTERS (
@PrincetonUPress
) brings to light a forgotten yet significant episode in Eastern European history. 🎙️Rachel Manekin joins us 👇
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The British colonial state in India was defined as much by bureaucracies as it was by military power--ruled not but soldiers but by scribes. 🎙️Hayden J. Bellenoit discusses THE FORMATION of the COLONIAL STATE in INDIA (
@RoutledgeHist
) w/
@treatiedspaces
👇
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On this installment of the
@PrincetonUPress
#IdeasPodcast
,
@EddieRCole
, author of THE CAMPUS COLOR LINE, joins Marshall Poe to discuss college presidents and the struggle for integration between 1948 and 1968. Give their conversation a listen ⤵️
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PRESUMED CRIMINAL (
@NYUPress
) brings to light the long history of the policies and strategies that tethered the lives of black youths to the justice system indefinitely. Listen in as
@Prof_Suddler
discusses the book with
@CulturedModesty
on the podcast ⤵️
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Questioning narratives that have portrayed
#Colombia
as an inherently violent, FORGOTTEN PEACE (
@ucpress
) explores how Colombians grappled with violence and peace during "La Violencia, ca. 1946-mid-1960s.
🎙️
@RAKarl
joins
@LisetteVaron
on the podcast ↙️
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🌏
@RichardHaass
's new book, THE WORLD: A Brief Introduction (
@PenguinBooks
), is an easily digestible guide, for the novice and expert, to the history of international relations from the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 through today. Haass joins Ian Drake ↙️
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In response to rising tensions with the US and USSR, a top-secret military industrial complex in the mountains of inland China was built.
@cfmeyskens
discusses MAO's THIRD FRONT (
@cambUP_History
) and the militarization of Cold War China on the podcast ↙
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THE BLOOMSBURY RESEARCH HANDBOOK of INDIAN PHILOSOPHY of LANGUAGE (
@BloomsburyAcad
) spans over 2,000 years of inquiry into language in the Indian subcontinent. Learn more as Alessandro Graheli discusses the project with
@cmalcolmkeating
on the podcast ⤵️
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We're thrilled to be included among
@CallFromPaul
,
@FnFtalk
,
@SoManyDamnBooks
,
@otherppl
,
@thereadingwomen
,
@LiteraryDisco
, and The Maris Review on the newly-launched
#LitHubRadio
network.
Check it ouuuut. 👀
Some personal news (for real this time)!
We redesigned Lit Hub, added a podcast network, and launched a blog (which, we regret to inform you, is not called Hott Goss with the Litt Hubb Gangg).
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How did the US transform from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receives more immigrants from Asia than anywhere else in the world?
@janehongphd
discusses OPENING the GATES to ASIA (
@uncpressblog
) w/
@SiobhanBarco
👇
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ON HUMANITY: Dehumanization and How to Resist It (
@OUPPhilosophy
) analyzes what dehumanization is, why are we prone to dehumanize, and how we might resist dehumanizing others. David Livingstone Smith discusses the book with Carrie Figdor on the podcast👇
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Edmund Fawcett has written CONSERVATISM: The Fight for a Tradition, an absorbing, original history of the Right that portrays a movement as much at war with itself as with its opponents.
Fawcett joins Marshall Poe on the
@PrincetonUPress
Ideas Podcast👇
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BEATRIZ ALLENDE (
@uncpressblog
), explores how a young Chilean woman pursued her political commitments and navigated patriarchal strictures as a militant leftist.
🎙️Listen in as
@TanyaHarmer
discusses the biography with
@rachelgnew
on the podcast ↙️
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Why do some countries pass legislation regulating carbon or protecting the environment while others don't? Listen in as
@mmildenberger
joins
@SusanLiebell
to discuss his new 📘-CARBON CAPTURED: How Business and Labor Control Climate Politics (
@mitpress
)👇
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👂Listen in as Marion Turner joins the
@PrincetonUPress
Ideas Podcast to fill us in on CHAUCER: A European life, her
#biography
that uncovers important new information about Chaucer’s travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings. 🎧↙️
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The third volume of
@HistPhilosophy
's History of Philosophy series, PHILOSOPHY in the ISLAMIC WORLD (
@OUPHistory
/
@OUPPhilosophy
) takes us on a vivid journey through the philosophical world of Islam. Listen in as Adamson joins
@DandiaAsad
on the podcast ↙️
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How can we make sense of the intensification of the
#NetNeutrality
controversy, the advocacy and protests, and the political and corporate wrangling involved? 🎙️
@ranewm
, author of THE PARADOXES OF NETWORK NEUTRALITIES (
@mitpress
), joins
@JasmineMcNealy
↙️
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When Britain went to war in 1914, its policemen were given a range of new tasks that reflected the expanded power of the British state in wartime. Mary Fraser discusses POLICING the HOME FRONT, 1914-1918 (
@RoutledgeHist
) with Mark Klobas on the
#podcast
👇
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DISCOGNITION (
@RepeaterBooks
) looks at
#SciFi
narratives--in some cases reading philosophical or scientific literature as speculative fiction--to raise important questions about consciousness & sentience. Don't miss
@CarlaNappi
's interview with
@shaviro
👇
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Composed of a variety of activists & intellectuals, Socialist Lebanon attempted to adapt Marxist thought for its own particular context. 🎙️Listen in as Fadi A. Bardawil discusses REVOLUTION and DISENCHANTMENT (
@DukePress
) with
@LDiakena
on the podcast ⤵️
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Don't miss
@CarlaNappi
's podcast w/anthropologist Hélène Mialet, whose HAWKING INCORPORATED (
@UChicagoPress
) is conceptually robust ethnography that looks at the machines, bodies, inscriptions, images, & movements that constitute
#StephenHawking
.
#ReadUP
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Critics have characterized
#RussianFuturism
as utopian daydreaming by young artists who were unrealistic in their visions of Soviet society. In THE FUTURIST FILES (
@NIUPress
/
@CornellPress
),
@IvaGlisic
challenges this view.
Check out her NBN interview ↙️
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Instead of focusing on the "how" and "why" of far-right radicalization,
@milleridriss
' work addresses the "where." Listen in as the HATE in the HOMELAND (
@PrincetonUPress
) author breaks down the surprisingly mainstream settings where extremists recruit👇
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Weaving together histories of computing and social movements with modern theories of the mind, society, and self, FUTURE HISTORIES (
@VersoBooks
) constructs a “usable past” that help us determine our digital future.
@Lizzie_OShea
joins us on the podcast ⤵️
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Why do even successful clean energy policies fail to create momentum for renewable energy? In her new book, SHORT CIRCUITING POLICY,
@leahstokes
analyzes policy-making in 4 states to understand the dynamics of
#CleanEnergyPolicy
. She joins
@SusanLiebell
👇
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On this episode of the
#podcast
,
@MiraSiegelberg
sits down with
@SPatrickRod
to discuss STATELESSNESS: A Modern History (
@Harvard_Press
), which traces the history of the concept of statelessness in the years following the First and Second World Wars. 👂👇
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Focusing on women of African descent in Córdoba,
#Argentina
, HIDING in PLAIN SIGHT (
@UnivofALPress
) reveals how these women reclassified themselves racially to improve their lives and that of their children.
🎙️
@Prof_Edwards
joins
@CulturedModesty
⤵️
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The New Books Network is home to over 80 subject-specific
#podcast
channels. If you've written a new book & would like to appear on one of these podcasts, simply pitch us via the link below. The NBN reaches 25,000+ listeners & book buyers on a daily basis.
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Todd McGowan's CAPITALISM AND DESIRE: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (
@ColumbiaUP
) is a perennial hit on the NBN. If you haven't heard the
#podcast
yet, give it a whirl 👉
#Psychoanalysis
#Lacan
#Freud
#IntHist
#CriticalTheory
#CritiqueofCapital
#ReadUP
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📽️ Behind the braided wigs, buckskins, and bronzer that typified the mid-century "filmic Indian" lies a far richer history of Indigenous labor, survival, and agency.
🎙️Listen in as
@_Liza_Black
discusses PICTURING INDIANS (
@UnivNebPress
) with
@labrcq
↙️
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Digging into transatlantic relations, PRIVACY & POWER (
@PrincetonUPress
) shows how American and European businesses, activists and policymakers have fought over and decided security and data policy. Hear
@DexterFergie
in conversation w/
@ANewman_forward
⤵️
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