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Mark Somos, Matthew Cleary, Pablo Dufour, Edward Jones Corredera, and Emanuele Salerno, "The Unseen History of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jun 17 • 1h 5m
Andreas Beyer, "Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist" (Reaktion, 2025)
Jun 17 • 46m
Enrique Fernández and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, "Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2024)
Jun 13 • 45m
David de Boer and Geert H. Janssen eds.,"Refugee Politics in Early Modern Europe" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024)
Jun 7 • 34m
Quinn Slobodian and Philip J. Stern on Political Economy
Jun 5 • 1h 3m
Kathleen Miller, ed., "Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World" (Penn State UP, 2025)
Jun 3 • 36m
Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter" (MIT Press, 2025)
May 29 • 45m
Julia McClure, "Empire of Poverty: The Moral-Political Economy of the Spanish Empire" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 28 • 42m
Yosie Levine, "Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate" (Littman Library, 2024)
May 27 • 41m
Dan Sperrin, "State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 26 • 53m
Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
May 25 • 57m
Camilla Annerfeldt, "Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
May 24 • 30m
Hannah Jeans, "Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England" (U London Press, 2025)
May 23 • 50m
Alan Strathern, "Converting Rulers: Global Patterns, 1450-1850" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
May 22 • 1h 21m
Kirsten Macfarlane, "Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 21 • 45m
Richard Calis, "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius" (Harvard UP, 2025)
May 20 • 1h 1m
Jody Benjamin, "The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850" (Ohio UP, 2024)
May 19 • 1h 17m
Ben Jackson, "Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England" (Manchester UP, 2025)
May 18 • 58m
Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Diaz, "Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
May 17 • 48m
Rochelle Rojas, "Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525–1675" (Cornell UP, 2025)
May 16 • 45m
Anna Wainwright, "Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance" (U Delaware Press, 2025)
May 15 • 55m
Andrea Pappas, "Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740-1770" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
May 14 • 48m
Claire McNulty, "Edinburgh's Unruly Women: Gender, Discipline, and Power, 1560-1660" (Routledge, 2024)
May 13 • 36m
Andrew Griebeler, "Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
May 12 • 1h 4m
Maïa Pal, "Jurisdictional Accumulation: An Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
May 9 • 45m
Astrid von Schlachta, "Anabaptists: From the Reformation to the 21st Century" (Pandora Press, 2024)
May 8 • 1h 5m
Marc Jaffré, "The Courtiers and the Court of Louis XIII, 1610-1643" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 7 • 1h 2m
Stephanie Schmidt, "Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain: Missionary Narratives, Nahua Perspectives" (U Texas Press, 2025)
May 6 • 51m
Timothy Twining, "The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
May 4 • 1h 10m
Jeremy Black, "Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of George I, 1714-1727" (Routledge, 2016)
May 3 • 40m
Jeremy Black, "British Politics and Foreign Policy, 1727-44" (Routledge, 2014)
May 3 • 35m
Miles Pattenden, "Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700" (Oxford UP, 2017)
May 2 • 54m
Judith Vitale, "The Historical Writing of the Mongol Invasions in Japan" (Harvard UP, 2024)
May 1 • 1h 3m
Matthew Daniel Eddy, "Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Apr 30 • 56m
Donald S. Prudlo, "Stimulus Pastorum: A Charge to Pastors" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
Apr 29 • 30m
Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Apr 24 • 56m
Margherita Zanasi, "Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Apr 21 • 1h 29m
Faith Tibble, "Crown of Thorns: Humble Gods and Humiliated Kings" (T&T Clark, 2025)
Apr 18 • 41m
Titas Chakraborty, "Empire of Labor: How the East India Company Colonized Hired Work" (U California Press, 2025)
Apr 15 • 1h 30m
Katherine Ngo, "Unlocking the Treasury: Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China" (Lever Press, 2025)
Apr 11 • 1h 10m
Bin Yang, "Discovered But Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, C. 1100-1620" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Apr 10 • 41m
Roland Mayer, "The Ruins of Rome: A Cultural History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Apr 9 • 1h 16m
Richard Alfred Muller, "Predestination in Early Modern Reformed Theology" (Reformation Heritage Books, 2024)
Apr 8 • 31m
Loretta Vandi, "Eufrasia Burlamacchi" (Getty Publications, 2025)
Apr 7 • 47m
Eli Rubin, "Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Apr 6 • 1h 16m
Patrick Wallis, "The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship and Economic Growth in Early Modern England" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Apr 5 • 59m
Sinem Arcak Casale, "Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Mar 31 • 1h 11m
Yaron Ayalon, "Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy" (Brill, 2024)
Mar 30 • 43m
Rune Nyord, "Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Mar 29 • 52m
Bin Yang, "Discovered But Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, C. 1100-1620" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Mar 28 • 50m
Kiyokazu Okita, "The Building of Vṛndāvana: Architecture, Theology, and Practice in an Early Modern Pilgrimage Town" (Brill, 2023)
Mar 27 • 42m
Kiran Mehta, "To Detain or to Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750–1840" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
Mar 25 • 1h 10m
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 24 • 51m
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, "The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It" (Basic Books, 2024)
Mar 19 • 1h 2m
Alexandra Verini, "English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Mar 19 • 31m
Colby Gordon, "Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Mar 18 • 56m
Ariel Evan Mayse, "Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Mar 17 • 53m
Anne Greenwood Mackinney, "Nature on Paper: Documenting Science in Prussia, 1770-1850" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2024)
Mar 16 • 42m
Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem, "Serving Aristocracy: Negotiation, Learning, and Mobility in an Early Modern Knowledge Community" (Routledge, 2025)
Mar 15 • 52m
Gregory Soderberg, "John Brown of Haddington on Frequent Communion" (Wipf & Stock, 2024)
Mar 11 • 34m
Kristin A. Olbertson, "The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Mar 9 • 46m
Anthony Grafton, "Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Mar 8 • 31m
Jørgen Møller and Jonathan Doucette, "The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 8 • 51m
Anna Lise Seastrand, "Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Mar 6 • 44m
John Coakley ed et al., "The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World: Maritime Predation, Empire, and the Construction of Authority at Sea" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
Mar 4 • 48m
Jenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)
Feb 23 • 54m
Megan Moran, "Gender and Family Networks in Early Modern Italy" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
Feb 23 • 50m
Noa Shashar, "The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
Feb 21 • 42m
Lindsay O'Neill, "The Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey Into and Out of Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Feb 21 • 49m
Martyn Percy, "The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England" (Hurst, 2025)
Feb 21 • 49m
Mario Cams and Elke Papelitzky, "Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the 'Ricci Maps'" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Feb 20 • 50m
Asheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)
Feb 19 • 56m
Kathryn Taylor, "Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice" (U Delaware Press, 2023)
Feb 18 • 43m
Adam R. Nelson, "Exchange of Ideas: The Economy of Higher Education in Early America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Feb 18 • 1h 7m
Ruby Lowe on John Milton’s Definition of Free Speech
Feb 17 • 1h 24m
Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Feb 16 • 26m
Adam Pennington, "Henry VIII and the Plantagenet Poles: The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty" (Pen and Sword History, 2024)
Feb 15 • 48m
Pamela Allen Brown, "The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 14 • 1h 1m
Ada Palmer, "Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Feb 13 • 54m
Sophia Rosenfeld, "The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Feb 5 • 35m
Whitney Dirks, "Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
Feb 3 • 1h 1m
Blessin Adams, "Thou Savage Woman: Female Killers in Early Modern Britain" (HarperCollins, 2025)
Feb 2 • 32m
Jorge Flores, "Empire of Contingency: How Portugal Entered the Indo-Persian World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Jan 29 • 56m
Vera Keller, "Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jan 27 • 51m
Adam Jortner, "A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 25 • 1h 3m
Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, "America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Jan 24 • 44m
Matthew McCormack, "Shoes and the Georgian Man" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Jan 24 • 39m
Michelle D. Brock, "Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and Covenanting in a Seventeenth-Century Scottish Town" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Jan 22 • 1h 3m
Steven King, "Fraudulent Lives: Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present" (McGill Queen's UP, 2024)
Jan 19 • 49m
Elizabeth King and W. David Todd, "Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend" (Getty, 2023)
Jan 19 • 50m
Byron Ellsworth Hamann, "The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781–1844" (Getty, 2022)
Jan 18 • 52m
Andrew Laird, "Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 18 • 43m
Melissa B. Reynolds, "Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jan 17 • 1h 9m
Dayne C. Riley, "Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751" (Bucknell UP, 2024)
Jan 10 • 47m
Edward Jones Corredera, "Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 10 • 48m
Sixiang Wang, "Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Chosŏn Diplomacy with Ming China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jan 9 • 1h 16m
Aurelia Campbell, "What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Jan 6 • 1h 3m
Ilanit Loewy Shacham, "Empire Inside Out: Religion, Conquest, and Community in Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Āmuktamālyada" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 5 • 1h 15m
Adam Zucker, "Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 3 • 1h 7m
Eric Storm, "Nationalism: A World History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jan 1 • 50m
Donna Tesiero, "A Revolutionary Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Abolition of Slavery in the North" (McFarland, 2024)
Jan 1 • 1h 33m
Randy M. Browne, "The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Dec 31, 2024 • 1h 7m
Richard Blakemore, "Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Piracy" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
Dec 30, 2024 • 1h 38m
Nicholas R. Jones, "Cervantine Blackness" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Dec 30, 2024 • 56m
Robert Darnton, "Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 29, 2024 • 54m
Giovanna Ceserani, "A World Made by Traval: A Digital Grand Tour" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Dec 27, 2024 • 46m
John Eglin, "The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 27, 2024 • 56m
Juan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Dec 26, 2024 • 55m
Hartley Lachter, "Kabbalah and Catastrophe: Historical Memory in Premodern Jewish Mysticism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Dec 21, 2024 • 45m
Chelsea Berry, "Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Dec 20, 2024 • 43m
Jan Machielsen, "The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dec 20, 2024 • 50m
Ariel Evan Mayse, "Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Dec 19, 2024 • 1h 16m
Herald van der Linde, "Majapahit: Intrigue, Betrayal and War in Indonesia's Greatest Empire" (Monsoon Books, 2024)
Dec 12, 2024 • 47m
Marissa Greenberg and Rachel Trubowitz, "Milton's Moving Bodies" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
Dec 10, 2024 • 1h 26m
Susan Gaunt Stearns. "Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
Dec 9, 2024 • 1h 3m
Marlene L. Daut, "The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe" (Knopf, 2025)
Dec 8, 2024 • 1h 10m
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, "Women and the Reformations: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)
Dec 6, 2024 • 1h 14m
Cindy Ermus, "The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Dec 3, 2024 • 53m
Andrew Hui, "The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Dec 1, 2024 • 30m
Micah Alpaugh, "The People's Revolution of 1789" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Nov 29, 2024 • 54m
Denys Turner, "Dante the Theologian" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 27, 2024 • 1h 23m
Leila K. Norako, "Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Nov 22, 2024 • 1h 27m
Dennis Romano, "Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 20, 2024 • 1h 8m
Ramie Targoff, "Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance" (Knopf, 2024)
Nov 20, 2024 • 39m
D. Andrew Johnson, "Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Nov 18, 2024 • 41m
A. D. Bergin, "The Wicked of the Earth" (Northodox, 2024)
Nov 17, 2024 • 38m
Lucian Staiano-Daniels, "The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Nov 15, 2024 • 54m
Mary Lindemann and Deanna Shemek, "Redreaming the Renaissance: Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero" (U Delaware Press, 2024)
Nov 10, 2024 • 45m
Sharonah Esther Fredrick, "An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
Nov 10, 2024 • 59m
Filippo Gianferrari, "Dante's Education: Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Poetics" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 6, 2024 • 51m
Mark Stoyle, "A Murderous Midsummer: The Western Rising of 1549" (Yale UP, 2022)
Nov 3, 2024 • 46m
Nicholas Spencer, "Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion" (Oneworld, 2024)
Nov 1, 2024 • 55m
Alistaire Tallent, "Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France" (U Delaware Press, 2023)
Oct 31, 2024 • 49m
Friederike Baer, "Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 30, 2024 • 1h 3m
Nicolas Delsol, "Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study" (UP of Florida, 2024)
Oct 28, 2024 • 59m
Deborah Valenze, "The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History" (Yale UP, 2023)
Oct 24, 2024 • 1h 11m
Seth Kimmel, "The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Oct 23, 2024 • 47m
S4E11 Religion and Republic: A Conversation with Miles Smith
Oct 23, 2024 • 52m
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, "Sea Level: A History" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Oct 21, 2024 • 52m
Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson, "Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century" (U Delaware Press, 2024)
Oct 19, 2024 • 52m
Christopher Smith, "Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
Oct 18, 2024 • 42m
Anne Higonnet, "Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution" (Norton, 2024)
Oct 18, 2024 • 47m
Christopher Smith, "Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
Oct 17, 2024 • 42m
Suganya Anandakichenin, "The Monsoon Cloud: Poet Kāḷamēkam and His Irreverent Poetry" (Primus, 2024)
Oct 17, 2024 • 35m
Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, "Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad Ibn Qasim Al-Hajari Between Europe and North Africa" (U California Press, 2023)
Oct 16, 2024 • 1h 6m
Rochelle Gurstein, "Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art" (Yale UP, 2024)
Oct 13, 2024 • 1h 5m
Helena Taylor, "Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Oct 13, 2024 • 1h 1m
Michael Tilton Williams, "Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta: Vyāsatīrtha's Defence of Realism in the Nyāyāmṛta" (de Gruyter, 2024)
Oct 10, 2024 • 32m
Luke Clossey, "Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520" (Open Book, 2024)
Oct 9, 2024 • 34m
Juan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Oct 7, 2024 • 53m
Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
Oct 7, 2024 • 1h 11m
Serena Laiena, "The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy: Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing" (U Delaware Press, 2023)
Oct 5, 2024 • 47m
William Cook Miller, "The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Oct 3, 2024 • 59m
Paola Bertucci, "In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Oct 1, 2024 • 1h 10m
J. C. D. Clark, "The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 28, 2024 • 31m
Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey, "Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Sep 28, 2024 • 47m
Kerry Brown, "The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power" (Yale UP, 2024)
Sep 26, 2024 • 39m
Charmian Mansell, "Female Servants in Early Modern England" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 26, 2024 • 49m
Alessandra Russo, "A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Sep 26, 2024 • 1h 3m
Joseph Harley, "At Home with the Poor: Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, c.1650-1850" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Sep 25, 2024 • 50m
Susan Doran, "From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 24, 2024 • 1h 3m
Michael Livingston, "Agincourt: Battle of the Scarred King" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Sep 20, 2024 • 1h 7m
Caroline Burt and Richard Partington, "Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State" (Faber & Faber, 2024)
Sep 17, 2024 • 1h 11m
Whitney Barlow Robles, "Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History" (Yale UP, 2023)
Sep 13, 2024 • 54m
Michael Gavin, "Literary Mathematics: Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Sep 9, 2024 • 54m
Yaacob Dweck, "Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Sep 8, 2024 • 54m
Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023)
Sep 7, 2024 • 44m
Aaron M. Hyman, "Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America" (Getty, 2021)
Sep 3, 2024 • 1h 0m
Andrea Moudarres, "The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso" (U Virginia Press, 2019)
Sep 3, 2024 • 1h 1m
Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
Sep 2, 2024 • 1h 6m
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, "Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia" (NYU Press, 2019)
Sep 1, 2024 • 51m
Aleksander Pluskowski, "The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation" (Reaktion, 2024)
Aug 30, 2024 • 56m
Mark Valeri, "The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 29, 2024 • 49m
Christopher Lovins, "King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea" (SUNY Press, 2019)
Aug 27, 2024 • 1h 12m
Adam Zamoyski, "Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess" (William Collins, 2024)
Aug 24, 2024 • 56m
Edward Pearson, "The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670-1825" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Aug 22, 2024 • 1h 6m
Oliver Volckart, "The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Aug 21, 2024 • 53m
Dalpat Rajpurohit, "Sundar's Dreams: Ārambhik Ādhunikatā, Dādūpanth and Sundardās's Poetry" (Rajkamal, 2022)
Aug 19, 2024 • 1h 9m
Maria Taroutina and Allison Leigh, "Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Aug 17, 2024 • 42m
Farshid Emami, "Isfahan: Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Aug 17, 2024 • 53m
Lauren Benton, "They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Aug 16, 2024 • 51m
James Madison and the Spirit of Self-Government: A Conversation with Colleen Sheehan
Aug 14, 2024 • 55m
Marissa Nicosia, "Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 11, 2024 • 46m
Murad Khan Mumtaz, "Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500-1800" (Brill, 2023)
Aug 8, 2024 • 32m
Roger Crowley, "Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2024)
Aug 1, 2024 • 54m
Tim Cooper, "When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter" (Crossway, 2024)
Jul 30, 2024 • 35m
Richard D. Oram, "Where Men No More May Reap Or Sow: The Little Ice Age: Scotland 1400-1850" (Birlinn, 2024)
Jul 30, 2024 • 1h 13m
Kristie Flannery, "Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Jul 28, 2024 • 59m
Anton Howes, "Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jul 22, 2024 • 1h 10m
Pekka Hämäläinen, "Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power" (Yale UP, 2019)
Jul 20, 2024 • 40m
Michael J. Douma, "The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York: A Cultural, Economic, and Demographic History, 1700-1827" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jul 20, 2024 • 51m
Laura Moretti and Satō Yukiko, "Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi" (Brill, 2024)
Jul 19, 2024 • 1h 3m
Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, "The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Jul 17, 2024 • 1h 0m
Emily Wilbourne, "Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 16, 2024 • 1h 7m
Jacob Lee, "Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions Along the Mississippi" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jul 16, 2024 • 1h 33m
Toby Green, "A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Jul 15, 2024 • 49m
Mark Peterson, "The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Jul 14, 2024 • 2h 23m
James D. Fisher, "The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jul 12, 2024 • 56m
Ed Simon, "Devil's Contract: A History of the Faustian Bargain" (Melville House, 2024)
Jul 9, 2024 • 50m
Tabitha Stanmore, "Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic" (Bloombury, 2024)
Jul 7, 2024 • 33m
Elizabeth Storr Cohen and Marlee J. Couling, "Non-Elite Women's Networks Across the Early Modern World" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Jul 6, 2024 • 47m
Timothy Grieve-Carlson, "American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jul 6, 2024 • 1h 5m
Jeremy Black, "Defoe's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2023)
Jul 5, 2024 • 24m
Denva Gallant, "Illuminating the Vitae Patrum: The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Jun 29, 2024 • 52m
Matthew Goldmark, "Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Jun 28, 2024 • 39m
Nicola Clark, "The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens" (Norton, 2024)
Jun 28, 2024 • 59m
Matthijs Lok, "Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jun 24, 2024 • 56m
Henry Reece, "The Fall: The Last Days of the English Republic" (Yale UP, 2024)
Jun 23, 2024 • 36m
Judith Vitale et al., "Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan" (Brill, 2023)
Jun 22, 2024 • 1h 13m
Genji Yasuhira, "Catholic Survival in the Dutch Republic: Agency in Coexistence and the Public Sphere in Utrecht, 1620-1672" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
Jun 21, 2024 • 1h 4m
Harry R. McCarthy, "Boy Actors in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jun 17, 2024 • 44m
Carlos M. N. Eire, "They Flew: A History of the Impossible" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jun 16, 2024 • 53m
Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jun 13, 2024 • 52m
Chloe Wigston Smith, "Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Yale UP, 2024)
Jun 12, 2024 • 51m
Bronagh Ann McShane, "Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
Jun 11, 2024 • 37m
Joseph A. Skloot, "First Impressions: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
Jun 8, 2024 • 56m
Vince Brown, Caribbean Vectors (EF, JP)
Jun 6, 2024 • 45m
Stephanie Joy Mawson, "Incomplete Conquests: The Limits of Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jun 1, 2024 • 49m
Matthew Kadane, "The Enlightenment and Original Sin" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jun 1, 2024 • 55m
Iris Moon, "Melancholy Wedgwood" (MIT Press, 2024)
May 26, 2024 • 1h 12m
Yehonatan Eybeshitz, "Pearls of Wisdom from Rabbi Yehonatan Eybeshitz: Torah Giant, Preacher & Kabbalist" (Gerber's Miracle Publishers, 2021)
May 24, 2024 • 31m
Jason A. Kerr, "Milton's Theological Process: Reading de Doctrina Christiana and Paradise Lost" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 21, 2024 • 32m
Assaf Tamari, "God as Patient: The Medical Discourse of Lurianic Kabbalah" (Magnes Press, 2023)
May 20, 2024 • 40m
Priya Satia, "Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
May 18, 2024 • 53m
Ambereen Dadabhoy, "Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds" (Routledge, 2023)
May 17, 2024 • 1h 5m
Lauren Horn Griffin, "Fabricating Founders in Early Modern England: History, Rhetoric, and the Origins of Christianity" (Brill, 2023)
May 14, 2024 • 32m
Scott W. Gregory, "Bandits in Print: The Water Margin and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel" (Cornell UP, 2023)
May 13, 2024 • 52m
Joanne Edge, "Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death" (York Medieval Press, 2024)
May 11, 2024 • 1h 7m
Lucy Barnhouse, "Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
May 7, 2024 • 1h 9m
Francesca Trivellato, "The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society" (Princeton UP, 2019)
May 5, 2024 • 1h 2m
Nancy M. Martin, "Mirabai: The Making of a Saint" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 2, 2024 • 47m
Victoria Sparey, "Shakespeare's Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Early Modern Culture" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Apr 30, 2024 • 57m
Sheilagh Ogilvie, "The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Apr 29, 2024 • 1h 0m
Sarah A. Bendall, "Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Apr 28, 2024 • 51m
Andrés Reséndez, "Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery" (Mariner Books, 2022)
Apr 27, 2024 • 1h 8m
Nicholas Popper, "The Specter of the Archive: Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Apr 26, 2024 • 1h 2m
Stefanos Geroulanos on "The Invention of Prehistory"
Apr 26, 2024 • 1h 8m
Juliet B. Wiersema, "The History of a Periphery: Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific Lowlands" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Apr 26, 2024 • 56m
Alexander Statman, "A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Apr 25, 2024 • 50m
Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 24, 2024 • 1h 12m
Michael Scott and Michael Collins, "Christian Shakespeare?: A Collection of Essays on Shakespeare in His Christian Context" (Vernon Press, 2022)
Apr 23, 2024 • 48m
Steven Nadler, "Spinoza: A Life" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Apr 22, 2024 • 35m
Julie Peakman, "Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis" (Reaktion, 2024)
Apr 22, 2024 • 40m
Amanda Wunder, "Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV" (Yale UP, 2024)
Apr 20, 2024 • 52m
Nicholas Terpstra, "Senses of Space in the Early Modern World" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 19, 2024 • 1h 0m
Debby Koren, "Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities Through 16th- And 17th-Century Responsa" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
Apr 18, 2024 • 49m
Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo, "How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History" (Reaktion, 2024)
Apr 16, 2024 • 1h 1m
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, "Puerto Rico: A National History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Apr 16, 2024 • 46m
Jeremy Black, "The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History" (Routledge, 2015)
Apr 14, 2024 • 41m
Adam Kabat, "The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Apr 14, 2024 • 1h 3m
Hume, the Epicureans, and the Origins of Liberalism
Apr 10, 2024 • 1h 0m
Christopher Michael Blakley, "Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World" (Louisiana State UP, 2023)
Apr 8, 2024 • 58m
Claudio Ferlan, "The Jesuits: A Thematic History" (Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2023)
Apr 6, 2024 • 57m
Paola Tartakoff, "Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
Apr 2, 2024 • 53m
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, "Merits of the Plague" (Penguin, 2023)
Apr 2, 2024 • 1h 9m
Marie de Vignerot, Richelieu's Forgotten Advisor and Heiress
Apr 2, 2024 • 54m
Katie Barclay, "Caritas: Neighbourly Love and the Early Modern Self" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 1, 2024 • 17m
Huaping Lu-Adler, "Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Apr 1, 2024 • 36m
W. B. Allen, "Montesquieu's 'The Spirit of the Laws': A Critical Edition" (Anthem Press, 2023)
Mar 31, 2024 • 55m
Oliver Wunsch, "A Delicate Matter: Art, Fragility, and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century France" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Mar 31, 2024 • 52m
Thomas Lockley, "A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth’s Court" (Hanover Square Press, 2024)
Mar 30, 2024 • 37m
Jamie Goodall, "Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy: From Cape Cod to the Caribbean" (History Press, 2023)
Mar 28, 2024 • 42m
David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023)
Mar 28, 2024 • 1h 11m
Colleen Taylor, "Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 26, 2024 • 1h 3m
William Bain, "Political Theology of International Order" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 26, 2024 • 1h 39m
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, "Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Mar 26, 2024 • 44m
John William Nelson, "Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent" (UNC Press, 2023)
Mar 23, 2024 • 1h 22m
Thomas D. Conlan, "Kings in All But Name: The Lost History of Ouchi Rule in Japan, 1350-1569" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 17, 2024 • 43m
Victoria Perry, "A Bittersweet Heritage: Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape" (Hurst, 2022)
Mar 14, 2024 • 54m
Legal Cultures in the Russian Empire
Mar 13, 2024 • 1h 13m
Surya Parekh, "Black Enlightenment" (Duke UP, 2023)
Mar 12, 2024 • 1h 8m
Sean M. Kelley, "American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865" (Yale UP, 2023)
Mar 10, 2024 • 1h 5m
Jeremy Black, "The Age of Nightmare: The Gothic and British Culture, 1750-1900" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
Mar 9, 2024 • 41m
Carmen Fracchia, "'Black But Human': Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Mar 8, 2024 • 1h 19m
Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Mar 5, 2024 • 52m
Joanna Crosby, "Apples and Orchards Since the Eighteenth Century: Material Innovation and Cultural Tradition" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Mar 5, 2024 • 46m
Cristina Brito, "Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Mar 4, 2024 • 36m
Roseen Giles, "Monteverdi and the Marvellous: Poetry, Sound, and Representation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 4, 2024 • 59m
Jennifer Evans, "Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Mar 2, 2024 • 48m
Fynn Holm, "The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600-2019" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Feb 29, 2024 • 51m
Christian R. Burset, "An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy" (Yale UP, 2023)
Feb 29, 2024 • 44m
Stanley Wells, "What Was Shakespeare Really Like?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Feb 26, 2024 • 36m
Michael Johnston, "The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350-1500" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 24, 2024 • 43m
Till Van Rahden, "Multiplicity: Jewish History and the Ambivalences of Universalism" (Hamburger Editionen, 2022)
Feb 24, 2024 • 53m
Isabella Alexander, "Copyright and Cartography: History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Feb 22, 2024 • 43m
Harriet Lyon, "Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Feb 22, 2024 • 59m
Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian E. Ahnert, "Tudor Networks of Power" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 21, 2024 • 41m
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)
Feb 20, 2024 • 1h 2m
Isabel B. Taylor, "The Crown and Its Records: Archives, Access, and the Ancient Constitution in Seventeenth-Century England" (De Gruyter, 2023)
Feb 19, 2024 • 45m
Tom Hamilton, "A Widow's Vengeance After the Wars of Religion: Gender and Justice in Renaissance France" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 19, 2024 • 56m
Matthew C. Ward, "Making the Frontier Man: Violence, White Manhood, and Authority in the Early Western Backcountry" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
Feb 18, 2024 • 1h 16m
Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss, "The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France" (Getty, 2022)
Feb 17, 2024 • 48m
Ian Saxine, "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (NYU Press, 2019)
Feb 16, 2024 • 1h 26m
Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Feb 15, 2024 • 57m
Laura Flannigan, "Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Feb 13, 2024 • 50m
Ana Lucia Araujo, "The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Feb 11, 2024 • 48m
Matthew Kruer, "Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Feb 7, 2024 • 1h 39m
Beatrice Heuser, "War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 3, 2024 • 1h 4m
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Feb 1, 2024 • 38m
Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy" (Legenda, 2022)
Jan 25, 2024 • 53m
James R. Fichter, "Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773–1776" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 24, 2024 • 1h 3m
Nicholas Radburn, "Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jan 24, 2024 • 1h 15m
Camillo Leonardi, "Speculum Lapidum: A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones" (Penn State UP, 2023)
Jan 23, 2024 • 52m
Catherine Powell-Warren, "Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science: Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch 17th Century" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Jan 22, 2024 • 49m
Cassander L. Smith, "Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic" (LSU Press, 2023)
Jan 21, 2024 • 40m
Jane Ohlmeyer, "Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 20, 2024 • 1h 0m
Hwisang Cho, "The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Jan 20, 2024 • 58m
Jessica Goethals, "Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Jan 20, 2024 • 1h 4m
Lewis Wade, "Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France: Marine Insurance, War and the Atlantic Empire Under Louis XIV" (Boydell Press, 2023)
Jan 19, 2024 • 54m
Emma Gleadhill, "Taking Travel Home: The Souvenir Culture of British Women Tourists, 1750-1830" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Jan 16, 2024 • 1h 2m
Karen C. Pinto, "Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Jan 16, 2024 • 53m
Miles P. Grier, "Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Jan 15, 2024 • 1h 23m
Elisabeth Gernerd, "The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the Late 18th-Century Atlantic World" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jan 14, 2024 • 1h 35m
Rishad Choudhury, "Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture After the Mughals, 1739-1857" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 14, 2024 • 1h 27m
Michael Quinn Dudley, "The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy" (Cambridge Scholars, 2023)
Jan 13, 2024 • 56m
Aviva Ben-Ur and Wim Klooster eds., "Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Jan 13, 2024 • 45m
Stéphane Jettot, "Selling Ancestry: Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 13, 2024 • 55m
Matthew Romaniello, "Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jan 12, 2024 • 1h 0m
Robert Michael Morrissey, "People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Jan 10, 2024 • 1h 8m
Matthew Carr, "Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614" (Hurst, 2017)
Jan 8, 2024 • 1h 51m
Eileen Botting, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (Routledge, 2019)
Jan 6, 2024 • 1h 8m
Colin Jones, "The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jan 5, 2024 • 56m
Marcy Norton, "The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Jan 4, 2024 • 1h 0m
Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jan 4, 2024 • 39m
Noel Malcolm, "Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jan 3, 2024 • 1h 4m
Max Deardorff, "A Tale of Two Granadas: Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 2, 2024 • 1h 38m
Ronen Steinberg, "The Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Jan 1, 2024 • 1h 1m
Jonathan Scott, "How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution, 1500-1800" (Yale UP, 2019)
Dec 31, 2023 • 27m
Gregg L. Frazer, "God against the Revolution: The Loyalist Clergy’s Case Against the American Revolution" (UP of Kansas, 2018)
Dec 31, 2023 • 36m
Michael Braddick, "The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Dec 30, 2023 • 28m
Elena Schneider, "The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World" (UNC Press, 2018)
Dec 27, 2023 • 50m
Timothy McCall, "Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Dec 25, 2023 • 1h 4m
Thomas Kelly, "The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 23, 2023 • 1h 36m
Philip Snow, "China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord" (Yale UP, 2023)
Dec 22, 2023 • 53m
Brian Jeffrey Maxson, "Early Modern Europe: Facts and Fictions" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dec 21, 2023 • 50m
David M. Freidenreich, "Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy" (U California Press, 2023)
Dec 21, 2023 • 58m
Katlyn Marie Carter, "Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions" (Yale UP, 2023)
Dec 19, 2023 • 51m
Kathy Stuart, "Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Dec 13, 2023 • 1h 6m
Tristan G. Brown, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Dec 11, 2023 • 57m
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval Anti-Racist
Dec 10, 2023 • 52m
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5: Picturing Race in Colonial Mexico
Dec 9, 2023 • 1h 0m
Our Lady of Guadalupe and Aztec True Myth
Dec 9, 2023 • 1h 8m
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 4: Jamestown and the Myth of the Sovereign Family
Dec 8, 2023 • 45m
Hannah Carlson, "Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close" (Algonquin Books, 2023)
Dec 6, 2023 • 48m
Lawrence Zhang, "Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Dec 4, 2023 • 59m
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
Dec 2, 2023 • 58m
Jeff Jarvis, "The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dec 1, 2023 • 1h 3m
D. L. d'Avray, "The Power of Protocol: Diplomatics and the Dynamics of Papal Government, c. 400-c.1600" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Nov 30, 2023 • 1h 21m
Richard Schoch, "Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Nov 29, 2023 • 59m
Rebecca Simon, "The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Nov 28, 2023 • 42m
Henrietta Harrison, "The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Nov 28, 2023 • 1h 1m
Roslyn Weiss, "Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writings" (Library of the Jewish People, 2023)
Nov 27, 2023 • 1h 11m
Tabitha Stanmore, "Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 24, 2023 • 53m
Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 24, 2023 • 1h 10m
Amy Harris, "Being Single in Georgian England: Families, Households, and the Unmarried" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 21, 2023 • 1h 10m
Joe Lane, "Networks, Innovation, and Knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851" (U of London, 2023)
Nov 20, 2023 • 49m
Joeri Teeuwisse, "Fake History: 101 Things That Never Happened" (Ebury Press, 2022)
Nov 18, 2023 • 37m
Kai Jun Chen, "Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Nov 13, 2023 • 1h 7m
Writing the History of Money and Monetary Policy
Nov 8, 2023 • 1h 1m
David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023)
Nov 4, 2023 • 1h 20m
Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Nov 3, 2023 • 1h 1m
Empires, States, Corporations: A Discussion with Historians Philip J. Stern and Quinn Slobodian
Nov 3, 2023 • 1h 5m
Joseph Brady and Paul Ferguson, "Dublin: Mapping the City" (Birlinn, 2023)
Oct 31, 2023 • 1h 5m
Marion Gibson, "Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials" (Scribner, 2023)
Oct 31, 2023 • 49m
Leonie Hannan, "A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Oct 30, 2023 • 57m
Chet Van Duzer, "Frames That Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps" (Brill, 2023)
Oct 29, 2023 • 41m
James White, "Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century: Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Oct 29, 2023 • 1h 10m
James V. Fenelon, "Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492-1790" (Routledge, 2023)
Oct 28, 2023 • 40m
David C. Atherton, "Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Oct 23, 2023 • 51m
Mariana-Cecilia Velazquez, "Cultural Representations of Piracy in England, Spain, and the Caribbean" (Routledge, 2023)
Oct 23, 2023 • 45m
Rosie Harte, "The Royal Wardrobe: Peek into the Wardrobes of History's Most Fashionable Royals" (Headline, 2023)
Oct 22, 2023 • 50m
Grant H. Kester, "The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde" (Duke UP, 2023)
Oct 21, 2023 • 1h 17m
Shannon McHugh, "Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
Oct 20, 2023 • 53m
Elena Serrano, "Ladies of Honor and Merit. Gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
Oct 18, 2023 • 44m
Paul Clammer, "Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom" (Hurst, 2023)
Oct 18, 2023 • 55m
Jeremy Land, "Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776)" (Brill, 2023)
Oct 18, 2023 • 43m
Colin Dickey, "Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy" (Viking, 2023)
Oct 17, 2023 • 31m
Onyeka Nubia, "England’s Other Countrymen: Black Tudor Society" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Oct 17, 2023 • 1h 7m
Branko Milanovic, "Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Oct 16, 2023 • 36m
A. Katie Harris, "The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha: Forgery, Theft, and Sainthood in the Seventeenth Century" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)
Oct 16, 2023 • 48m
John D. Garrigus, "A Secret Among the Blacks: Slave Resistance Before the Haitian Revolution" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Oct 15, 2023 • 59m
Peter Stark, "Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation" (Random House, 2023)
Oct 14, 2023 • 1h 20m
Andrea Celli, "Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy: From Muslim Spain to Post-Colonial Italy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Oct 11, 2023 • 48m
The History of Liberalism: A Conversation with Alan Kahan ‘80
Oct 10, 2023 • 1h 2m
Julian Goodare and Martha McGill, "The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Oct 9, 2023 • 39m
Books in Early Modern Europe
Oct 7, 2023 • 1h 3m
Laura Gowing, "Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Oct 5, 2023 • 41m
Adrian Chastain Weimer, "A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Oct 3, 2023 • 35m
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean" (Robinson, 2023)
Oct 2, 2023 • 46m
Claudine Chavannes-Mazel and Linda Ijpelaar, "The Green Middle Ages: The Depiction and Use of Plants in the Western World 600-1600" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Oct 2, 2023 • 35m
Martina Mampieri, "Living Under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah Ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (Brill, 2019)
Sep 30, 2023 • 1h 25m
Debapriya Sarkar, "Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Sep 27, 2023 • 1h 5m
Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023)
Sep 25, 2023 • 1h 18m
Tracy Rutler, "Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature" (Oxford UP/Liverpool UP, 2021)
Sep 23, 2023 • 56m
Martyn C. Rady, "The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe" (Basic Books, 2023)
Sep 23, 2023 • 1h 29m
Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 22, 2023 • 57m
David Simpson, "Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Sep 19, 2023 • 35m
Lenora Hanson, "The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Sep 18, 2023 • 1h 9m
Deanne Williams, "Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy" (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)
Sep 18, 2023 • 56m
Edgar Garcia, "Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Sep 16, 2023 • 1h 14m
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Sep 16, 2023 • 40m
Rebecca Kingston, "Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Sep 14, 2023 • 47m
Neil Tarrant, "Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Sep 13, 2023 • 1h 9m
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023 • 34m
Padraic X. Scanlan, "Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain" (Robinson, 2021)
Sep 11, 2023 • 1h 26m
Alistair Moffat, "War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans" (Birlinn, 2023)
Sep 10, 2023 • 56m
Divya Cherian, "The Owl and the Occult: Popular Politics and Social Liminality in Early Modern South Asia" (2023)
Sep 9, 2023 • 55m
Prachi Deshpande, "Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India" (Permanent Black, 2023)
Sep 9, 2023 • 59m
Teresa Michals, "Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy" (U Virginia Press, 2021)
Sep 9, 2023 • 21m
Steven Veerapen, "The Wisest Fool: The Life of James VI and I" (Birlinn, 2023)
Sep 7, 2023 • 53m
Maximillian Mørch, "Plains of Discontent: A Political History of Nepal’s Tarai (1743-2019)" (FinePrint, 2023)
Sep 7, 2023 • 47m
Taylor Cowdery, "Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Sep 6, 2023 • 1h 22m
James Newlin and James W. Stone, "New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains" (Routledge, 2023)
Sep 6, 2023 • 1h 1m
Endre Sashalmi, "Russian Notions of Power and State in a European Perspective, 1462-1725: Assessing the Significance of Peter's Reign" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
Sep 4, 2023 • 1h 2m
Yanna Yannakakis, "Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico" (Duke UP, 2023)
Sep 4, 2023 • 1h 2m
Peter K. Andersson, "Fool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Sep 2, 2023 • 24m
Aaron Kunin, "Character as Form" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Sep 1, 2023 • 1h 36m
Annie Rachel Royson, "Texts, Traditions, and Sacredness: Cultural Translation in Kristapurana" (Routledge, 2023)
Aug 31, 2023 • 53m
Una McIlvenna, "Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 31, 2023 • 52m
Bonnie Gordon, "Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Aug 31, 2023 • 57m
David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)
Aug 28, 2023 • 1h 9m
Jeremy Black, "Why the Industrial Revolution Happened in Britain" (Amberley Publishing, 2023)
Aug 26, 2023 • 25m
Stephanie Barczewski, "How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023)
Aug 23, 2023 • 57m
Adam Jasienski, "Praying to Portraits: Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World" (Penn State UP, 2023)
Aug 21, 2023 • 50m
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Aug 21, 2023 • 40m
Peter Moore, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776)" ( FSG, 2023)
Aug 20, 2023 • 1h 10m
Conor Lucey, "House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life" (Four Courts Press, 2022)
Aug 19, 2023 • 33m
Diane Purkiss, "English Food: A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables (William Collins, 2022)
Aug 18, 2023 • 1h 4m
Hans Kundnani, "Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project" (Hurst, 2023)
Aug 17, 2023 • 48m
Nicholas Hoover Wilson, "Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Aug 17, 2023 • 46m
Christopher D. Bahl and Stefan Hanß, "Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Aug 16, 2023 • 52m
Yehuda Halper, "Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age Without Plato: Permitting and Forbidding Open-Inquiry in 12-15th Century Europe and North Africa" (Brill, 2021)
Aug 15, 2023 • 1h 0m
Al Coppola, "The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2016)
Aug 15, 2023 • 50m
Sara Beam, "Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Aug 14, 2023 • 53m
Jeremy Black, "Smollett's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
Aug 14, 2023 • 22m
Simon Mills, "A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Aug 13, 2023 • 52m
Andrii Portnov, "Dnipro: An Entangled History of a European City" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
Aug 9, 2023 • 1h 0m
Christine Schott, "Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
Aug 4, 2023 • 52m
Share and Share Alike: Researching Sibling Relationships in Eighteenth-Century England
Aug 3, 2023 • 1h 21m
Finola O'Kane, "Landscape Design and Revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688-1815" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2023)
Jul 30, 2023 • 57m
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke
Jul 28, 2023 • 52m
Eric Van Young, "Stormy Passage: Mexico from Colony to Republic, 1750-1850" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Jul 27, 2023 • 1h 32m
Lucy Moffat Kaufman, "A People’s Reformation: Building the English Church in the Elizabethan Parish" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2023)
Jul 27, 2023 • 1h 15m
Kathleen Lubey, "What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jul 24, 2023 • 1h 11m
Stefan Rinke, "Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 22, 2023 • 1h 6m
Owen Stanwood, "The Global Refuge: Huguenots in an Age of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jul 22, 2023 • 52m
Heidi Hausse, "The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Jul 21, 2023 • 52m
"Companionable Thinking: Spenser With..." Spencer Studies, Volume 37 (2023)
Jul 21, 2023 • 1h 15m
Hassan S. Khalilieh, "Islamic Law of the Sea: Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jul 12, 2023 • 48m
Liana Saif et al., "Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice" (Brill, 2020)
Jul 10, 2023 • 1h 2m
Kevin Killeen, "The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Jul 9, 2023 • 1h 13m
Nile Green, "How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jul 8, 2023 • 1h 39m
Nicole Bauer, "Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Jul 8, 2023 • 1h 23m
Marco Caboara, "Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735" (Brill, 2022)
Jul 6, 2023 • 42m
David Tavárez, "Rethinking Zapotec Time: Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Jul 5, 2023 • 1h 16m
Adhaar Noor Desai, "Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Discomposition" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jul 4, 2023 • 1h 11m
Rose Marie San Juan, "Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)
Jul 3, 2023 • 58m
Katie Kadue, "Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jul 3, 2023 • 50m
Greg A. Salazar, "Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England: The Theology and Career of Daniel Featley" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jul 1, 2023 • 37m
Yael Rice, "The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Jun 30, 2023 • 59m
Kaya Sahin, "Peerless Among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 29, 2023 • 1h 6m
Joëlle Rollo-Koster, "The Great Western Schism, 1378-1417: Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jun 29, 2023 • 1h 14m
Rebecca Whiteley, "Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jun 26, 2023 • 38m
Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Jun 26, 2023 • 54m
Mongol Nomadism, Mongol Identity, and the Fall of the Mongol Empire
Jun 25, 2023 • 53m
Jean Pfaelzer, "California, a Slave State" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jun 23, 2023 • 54m
David Cressy, "Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jun 21, 2023 • 55m
The Environmental Unconscious
Jun 20, 2023 • 21m
Rachel E. Walker, "Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jun 19, 2023 • 51m
Simon Dreher and Wolfgang Mueller, "Foreigners in Muscovy: Western Immigrants in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Russia" (Routledge, 2023)
Jun 18, 2023 • 1h 8m
Vera Keller, "The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Jun 17, 2023 • 1h 9m
Simon Paul Cox, "The Subtle Body: A Genealogy" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jun 15, 2023 • 56m
Michael B. Gill, "A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Jun 14, 2023 • 1h 7m
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, "Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Jun 12, 2023 • 1h 1m
Robert Aldrich and Andreas Stucki, "The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jun 12, 2023 • 1h 30m
Jacqueline Beatty, "In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America" (NYU Press, 2023)
Jun 11, 2023 • 51m
Peter H. Wilson, "Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Jun 10, 2023 • 1h 0m
Anne L. Murphy, "Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jun 8, 2023 • 51m
Felipe Valencia, "The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Jun 5, 2023 • 35m
Jonathan Abel, "Guibert's General Essay on Tactics" (Brill, 2021)
Jun 4, 2023 • 48m
Adrian Masters, "We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jun 3, 2023 • 1h 9m
Anne Gerritsen and Burton Cleetus, "Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
May 29, 2023 • 54m
Strategy and Saratoga: A Conversation with Kevin Weddle
May 27, 2023 • 56m
Nicholas Scott Baker, "In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
May 26, 2023 • 58m
Alan Marshall, "Intelligence and Espionage in the English Republic C. 1600-60" (Manchester UP, 2023)
May 24, 2023 • 36m
Suzanne Sutherland, "The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur: War, Diplomacy, and Knowledge in Habsburg Europe" (Cornell UP, 2022)
May 24, 2023 • 58m
Sagang Sechen, "The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty" (Columbia UP, 2023)
May 22, 2023 • 50m
Rila Mukherjee, "India in the Indian Ocean World: From the Earliest Times to 1800 CE" (Springer, 2022)
May 21, 2023 • 46m
Carlo Parisi, "Dagger Fencing: The Italian School" (Fallen Rook, 2016)
May 20, 2023 • 55m
Troy Bickham, "Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
May 19, 2023 • 1h 10m
Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2023)
May 18, 2023 • 54m
Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer, "The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 16, 2023 • 1h 18m
Andrew R. Casper, "An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
May 11, 2023 • 56m
Christianity and the American Founding with Mark David Hall
May 9, 2023 • 56m
Christine Kooi, "Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 6, 2023 • 1h 11m
Emma Hagström Molin, "Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries" (Brill, 2023)
May 5, 2023 • 57m
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
May 5, 2023 • 46m
Francis Xavier Clooney, "Saint Joseph in South India: Poetry, Mission and Theology in Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi's Tēmpāvaṇi" (Brill, 2022)
May 4, 2023 • 1h 2m
Nicole von Germeten, "Death in Old Mexico: The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 30, 2023 • 1h 12m
Maura Dykstra, "Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Apr 30, 2023 • 1h 3m
All Men Are Created Equal: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo
Apr 28, 2023 • 1h 5m
Corrado Confalonieri, "Torquato Tasso and the Desire for Unity: 'Jerusalem Delivered' and a New Theory of the Epic" (Carocci editore, 2022)
Apr 27, 2023 • 1h 13m
Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America: A Conversation with Michael Breidenbach
Apr 25, 2023 • 50m
Benjamin L. Carp, "The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution" (Yale UP, 2023)
Apr 25, 2023 • 1h 3m
Ana Schwartz, "Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America" (UNC Press, 2022)
Apr 23, 2023 • 51m
Mònica Calabritto, "Murder and Madness on Trial: A Tale of True Crime from Early Modern Bologna" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)
Apr 23, 2023 • 52m
Scott Newstok, "How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Apr 23, 2023 • 47m
Vanessa Wilkie, "A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England" (Atria Books, 2023)
Apr 22, 2023 • 1h 21m
Elizabeth Elbourne, "Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842" (Cambridge UP., 2022)
Apr 21, 2023 • 1h 8m
Ângela Barreto Xavier, "Religion and Empire in Portuguese India: Conversion, Resistance, and the Making of Goa" (SUNY Press, 2022)
Apr 20, 2023 • 44m
Benjamin E. Park, "American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783-1833" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Apr 18, 2023 • 1h 6m
Timothy Sean Quinn, "Apiqoros: The Last Essays of Salomon Maimon" (Hebrew Union College Press, 2021)
Apr 18, 2023 • 1h 35m
George Washington and American Honor: A Conversation with Craig Bruce Smith
Apr 14, 2023 • 54m
Christopher S. Celenza, "The Italian Renaissance and the Origin of the Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Apr 13, 2023 • 59m
The Roots of Equity and Equality: A Conversation with Teresa Bejan
Apr 11, 2023 • 1h 1m
Dror Goldberg, "Easy Money: American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Apr 9, 2023 • 46m
This is My Body: Communion and Cannibalism in Colonial New England and New France
Apr 7, 2023 • 23m
Tony K. Stewart, "Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination" (U California Press, 2019)
Apr 6, 2023 • 47m
God, The Founders, and Natural Law: A Conversation with Phil Muñoz
Apr 5, 2023 • 33m
Greta LaFleur et al., "Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Apr 5, 2023 • 53m
Katherine Johnston, "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 3, 2023 • 1h 3m
Andrew D. Berns, "The Land Is Mine: Sephardi Jews and Bible Commentary in the Renaissance" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Apr 2, 2023 • 1h 5m
David Lester and Marcus Rediker, "Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, a Graphic Novel" (Beacon Press, 2023)
Mar 31, 2023 • 1h 7m
School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education
Mar 30, 2023 • 1h 0m
School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education
Mar 30, 2023 • 1h 0m
Joshua D. Schendel, "The Necessity of Christ's Satisfaction: A Study of the Reformed Scholastic Theologians William Twisse (1578-1646) and John Owen (1616-1683)" (Brill, 2022)
Mar 27, 2023 • 37m
Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)
Mar 24, 2023 • 1h 12m
Aaron Spencer Fogleman and Robert Hanserd, "Five Hundred African Voices: A Catalog of Published Accounts by Africans Enslaved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1586-1936" (APS, 2022)
Mar 22, 2023 • 38m
Woody Holton, "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Mar 21, 2023 • 53m
Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden, "Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000–1800" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Mar 18, 2023 • 56m
Laura Kolb, "Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 14, 2023 • 54m
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran, "Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Mar 14, 2023 • 1h 1m
Illuminations Episode 1: Experimental Methods
Mar 12, 2023 • 35m
Richard Thompson Ford, "Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History" (Simon & Schuster, 2021)
Mar 11, 2023 • 1h 3m
A Yankee Rebellion? The Regulators, New England, and the New Nation
Mar 10, 2023 • 34m
Audrey Truschke, "The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Mar 10, 2023 • 1h 4m
Jessica Rosenberg, "Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Mar 10, 2023 • 1h 4m
Jacqueline Broad, "Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Mar 8, 2023 • 1h 5m
Ben Dodds, "Myths and Memories of the Black Death" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Mar 6, 2023 • 39m
Clare Griffin, "Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Mar 6, 2023 • 50m
Shivan Mahendrarajah, "A History of Herat: From Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Mar 5, 2023 • 1h 11m
Marcus Rediker, "The Slave Ship: A Human History" (Penguin, 2008)
Mar 3, 2023 • 56m
Geoffrey Parker and Colin Martin, "Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance In 1588" (Yale UP, 2022)
Mar 3, 2023 • 1h 7m
Marilyn Migiel, "Veronica Franco in Dialogue" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Mar 2, 2023 • 1h 18m
Kenneth R. Stow, "Anna and Tranquillo: Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions" (Yale UP, 2016)
Feb 28, 2023 • 1h 26m
Thomas Kuehn, "Patrimony and Law in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Feb 27, 2023 • 48m
Caroline Dodds Pennock, "On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe" (Knopf, 2023)
Feb 26, 2023 • 1h 0m
Anthony Bale, "Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Feb 25, 2023 • 1h 21m
Chris Bongie, trans. and ed., "The Colonial System Unveiled by Baron de Vastey" (Liverpool UP, 2014)
Feb 21, 2023 • 1h 40m
Nathan Vedal, "The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Feb 21, 2023 • 1h 3m
Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Feb 19, 2023 • 44m
Justin W. Henry, "Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 16, 2023 • 25m
Bewitchment, Possession, and the Diabolical Arts: Daily Life in New France
Feb 15, 2023 • 31m
Golda Akhiezer, "Historical Consciousness, Haskalah, and Nationalism Among the Karaites of Eastern Europe" (Brill, 2017)
Feb 11, 2023 • 1h 30m
Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 10, 2023 • 1h 12m
John Goodlad, "The Salt Roads: How Fish Made a Culture" (Birlinn, 2022)
Feb 10, 2023 • 1h 6m
Mary E. Sommar, "The Slaves of the Churches: A History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 9, 2023 • 49m
Alan Verskin, "Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni Through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Feb 6, 2023 • 1h 13m
M. M. Silver, "The History of Galilee, 1538-1949" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Feb 4, 2023 • 1h 57m
Curtis Runstedler, "Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Feb 3, 2023 • 59m
Michael Lawrence Dickinson, "Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Feb 2, 2023 • 1h 2m
War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence
Jan 31, 2023 • 1h 6m
Nicole von Germeten, "The Enlightened Patrolman: Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Jan 31, 2023 • 1h 17m
Angela Vanhaelen, "The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths" (Penn State UP, 2022)
Jan 30, 2023 • 49m
Mark A. Schneegurt, "Anthology of Religious Poetry from the Mexican Inquisition Trials of 16th-Century CryptoJews" (2020)
Jan 30, 2023 • 1h 20m
Apocalypse Past, Present, and Future: Thinking about the End in History and Culture
Jan 29, 2023 • 1h 3m
Elizabeth Kelly Gray, "Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 27, 2023 • 59m
Igor H. De Souza, "Rewriting Maimonides: Early Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed" (de Gruyter, 2018)
Jan 27, 2023 • 1h 29m
Shaping Civilisations: The Sea in Asian History
Jan 26, 2023 • 24m
Stealing the Canon: Who Should Be In and Who Should Be Out?
Jan 24, 2023 • 31m
Podcast Series: Hell on Earth--The 30 Years War and the Violent Birth of Capitalism
Jan 22, 2023 • 1h 26m
Wolfgang P. Müller, "Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jan 21, 2023 • 53m
Robert Ovetz, "We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Jan 18, 2023 • 1h 11m
Stuart Carroll, "Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 16, 2023 • 52m
Holy Paradox and St. Teresa of Ávila: Mysticism in Sixteenth Century Spain
Jan 15, 2023 • 54m
Miguel Valerio, "Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jan 14, 2023 • 41m
Vincent Phillip Muñoz, "Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jan 11, 2023 • 1h 21m
Robin Vose, "The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle Over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God" (Reaktion, 2022)
Jan 9, 2023 • 53m
Rousseau's Ideas About Censorship in the Arts
Jan 9, 2023 • 1h 40m
Urvashi Chakravarty, "Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Jan 7, 2023 • 1h 7m
Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, "She Is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jan 3, 2023 • 49m
Paul Nelles and Rosa Salzberg, "Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World: The Practice and Experience of Movement" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
Jan 2, 2023 • 33m
Zachary Schrag, "The Princeton Guide to Historical Research" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Dec 31, 2022 • 42m
Garritt van Dyk, "Commerce, Food, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England and France" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
Dec 26, 2022 • 1h 12m
Tzafrir Barzilay, "Poisoned Wells: Accusations, Persecution, and Minorities in Medieval Europe, 1321-1422" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Dec 24, 2022 • 57m
Stephen Dobranski, "Reading John Milton: How to Persist in Troubled Times" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Dec 24, 2022 • 36m
Noémie Ndiaye, "Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Dec 21, 2022 • 1h 17m
John Stratton Hawley, "A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement" (Harvard UP, 2015)
Dec 20, 2022 • 52m
Carl Griffin, "The Politics of Hunger: Protest, Poverty and Policy in England, 1750-1840" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Dec 19, 2022 • 1h 7m
Pamela H. Smith, "From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Dec 19, 2022 • 1h 1m
On William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
Dec 19, 2022 • 28m
On Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote"
Dec 16, 2022 • 31m
Elizabeth N. Ellis. "The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Dec 14, 2022 • 59m
On Voltaire's "Candide"
Dec 14, 2022 • 27m
Leigh T. I. Penman, "The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism: The Early Modern Origins of the Intellectual Ideal" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Dec 11, 2022 • 1h 31m
Jane Stevenson, "Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2022)
Dec 10, 2022 • 55m
Ayelet Zohar, "The Curious Case of the Camel in Modern Japan: (De)Colonialism, Orientalism, and Imagining Asia" (Brill, 2022)
Dec 7, 2022 • 1h 39m
Jay Michaelson, "The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 6, 2022 • 1h 5m
Cathy McClive, "The Art of Childbirth: A Seventeenth-Century Midwife's Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant" (Iter Press, 2022)
Dec 5, 2022 • 54m
Huw J. Davies, "The Wandering Army: The Campaigns That Transformed the British Way of War" (Yale UP, 2022)
Dec 1, 2022 • 1h 13m
Nathanael Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff, "The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe" (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021)
Nov 30, 2022 • 1h 0m
On Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy"
Nov 30, 2022 • 41m
Trevor Jackson, "Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 30, 2022 • 1h 7m
Wei Yu Wayne Tan, "Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Nov 29, 2022 • 1h 1m
Jennifer Eun-Jung Row, "Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022 • 49m
Kwasi Konadu, "Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire" (Hurst, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022 • 1h 55m
Darra Goldstein, "The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food" (U California Press, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022 • 1h 17m
Kathryn Dickason, "Ringleaders of Redemption: How Medieval Dance Became Sacred" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 25, 2022 • 43m
Kees Boterbloem, "Russia and the Dutch Republic, 1566–1725: A Forgotten Friendship" (Lexington Books, 2021)
Nov 24, 2022 • 47m
Michael A. Verney, "A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Nov 23, 2022 • 51m
Paul Barba, "Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Nov 22, 2022 • 1h 1m
On Matteo Maria Boiardo's "Orlando Innamorato"
Nov 21, 2022 • 27m
Beatrice Forbes Manz, "Nomads in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Nov 21, 2022 • 47m
Erin Alice Cowling, "Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Nov 21, 2022 • 45m
Antonio T. Bly, "Escaping Slavery: A Documentary History of Native American Runaways in British North America" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Nov 21, 2022 • 1h 28m
Alexander Des Forges, "Testing the Literary: Prose and the Aesthetic in Early Modern China" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Nov 18, 2022 • 58m
Mary Dunn, "Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See: Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 17, 2022 • 55m
Guido Ruggiero, "Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Nov 16, 2022 • 54m
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Nov 15, 2022 • 15m
Kedar Arun Kulkarni, "World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India: Poetry, Drama, and Print Culture 1790-1890" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 14, 2022 • 51m
Sara Rich, "Shipwreck Hauntography: Underwater Ruins and the Uncanny" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
Nov 14, 2022 • 54m
Jeremy Bangs, "New Light on the Old Colony: Plymouth, the Dutch Context of Toleration, and Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration" (Brill, 2019)
Nov 11, 2022 • 39m
David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 10, 2022 • 1h 5m
Morgan Pitelka, "Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 8, 2022 • 57m
On "The U.S. Constitution"
Nov 7, 2022 • 42m
On John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
Nov 4, 2022 • 31m
Erin Webster, "The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 4, 2022 • 1h 13m
On Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "The Social Contract"
Nov 3, 2022 • 36m
Joanna Ebenstein, "Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 2, 2022 • 54m
Timothy Murtagh, "Irish Artisans and Radical Politics, 1776-1820: Apprenticeship to Revolution" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
Nov 1, 2022 • 31m
Ksenia Chizhova, "Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Nov 1, 2022 • 59m
Yuhua Wang, "The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 1, 2022 • 55m
Victor Stater, "Hoax: The Popish Plot That Never Was" (Yale UP, 2022)
Oct 31, 2022 • 47m
Mackenzie Cooley, "The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Oct 31, 2022 • 56m
Sam W. Haynes, "Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas" (Basic Books, 2022)
Oct 31, 2022 • 1h 14m
Nancy November, "String Quartets in Beethoven's Europe" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
Oct 31, 2022 • 30m
Benjamin Parris, "Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Oct 28, 2022 • 1h 9m
John Jeffries Martin, "A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2022)
Oct 27, 2022 • 58m
Ron E. Hassner, "Anatomy of Torture" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022 • 1h 28m
Leonardo da Vinci and Vassari’s "Lives of the Painters"
Oct 25, 2022 • 1h 3m
Jennifer Lillian Lodine-Chaffey, "A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle: Women and Public Execution in Early Modern England" (U Alabama Press, 2022)
Oct 25, 2022 • 41m
Kenyon Gradert, "Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Oct 25, 2022 • 39m
Michael Francis Laffan, "Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Oct 24, 2022 • 2h 6m
Michael Francis Laffan, "Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Oct 24, 2022 • 2h 6m
Yohanan Friedmann, "Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam" (Oneworld Academic, 2022)
Oct 22, 2022 • 59m
Thomas E. Burman et al., "The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650" (U California Press, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022 • 1h 0m
Camilla Russell, "Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy: Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022 • 55m
Tracy Adams and Christine Adams, "The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry" (Penn State UP, 2020)
Oct 21, 2022 • 1h 0m
Eric Jay Dolin, "Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution" (Liveright, 2022)
Oct 20, 2022 • 44m
Eden Collinsworth, "What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait" (Doubleday Books, 2022)
Oct 20, 2022 • 49m
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism" (U California Press, 2021)
Oct 20, 2022 • 58m
Jeffers Lennox, "North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution" (Yale UP, 2022)
Oct 19, 2022 • 50m
Jakob Feinig, "Moral Economies of Money: Politics and the Monetary Constitution of Society" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Oct 17, 2022 • 42m
Leslie A. Geddes, "Watermarks: Leonardo Da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Oct 17, 2022 • 1h 7m
On Immanuel Kant's "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals"
Oct 17, 2022 • 32m
Evan Haefeli, "Accidental Pluralism: America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Oct 17, 2022 • 40m
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley et al., "Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022 • 1h 4m
On Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan"
Oct 13, 2022 • 30m
On Niccolò Machiavelli's "The Prince"
Oct 12, 2022 • 28m
Alexander Mikaberidze, "Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 10, 2022 • 1h 10m
S. Karly Kehoe, "Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780–1850" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Oct 7, 2022 • 56m
Daniel B. Rowland, "God, Tsar, and People: The Political Culture of Early Modern Russia" (Northern Illinois UP, 2020)
Oct 6, 2022 • 1h 4m
Timothy McCall, "Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
Oct 5, 2022 • 56m
On Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust"
Oct 5, 2022 • 33m
Ian Macpherson McCulloch, "John Bradstreet's Raid 1758: A Riverine Operation in the French and Indian War" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
Oct 5, 2022 • 1h 29m
Alison Melnick Dyer, "The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Oct 4, 2022 • 38m
Jenny C. Mann, "The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Oct 3, 2022 • 49m
On Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
Oct 3, 2022 • 29m
Maria Berbara, "Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 30, 2022 • 49m
On David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature"
Sep 30, 2022 • 25m
Aviva Ben-Ur, "Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Sep 30, 2022 • 54m
Noah Shusterman, "Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
Sep 30, 2022 • 1h 24m
Robert P. Watson, "George Washington's Final Battle: The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital City and a Nation" (Georgetown UP, 2021)
Sep 29, 2022 • 43m
Kathryn Harkup, "Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Sep 26, 2022 • 38m
Anthony Sattin, "Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World" (Norton, 2022)
Sep 26, 2022 • 54m
David Max Moerman, "The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
Sep 23, 2022 • 1h 23m
James Belich, "The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Sep 23, 2022 • 1h 10m
Charles Devellenes, "Positive Atheism: Bayle, Meslier, D'Holbach, Diderot" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
Sep 23, 2022 • 1h 7m
Ian W. Campbell, "Knowledge and the Ends of Empire: Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917" (Cornell UP, 2017)
Sep 23, 2022 • 47m
Andrey V. Ivanov, "A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia, 1700–1825" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
Sep 22, 2022 • 46m
Andrew Hadfield, "Literature and Class: From the Peasants’ Revolt to the French Revolution" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Sep 20, 2022 • 1h 9m
On Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"
Sep 20, 2022 • 33m
Mohamed Adhikari, "Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples" (Hackett, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022 • 1h 2m
On Giovanni Boccaccio’s "The Decameron"
Sep 16, 2022 • 28m
On Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Confessions"
Sep 15, 2022 • 34m
Michael S. Allen, "The Ocean of Inquiry: Niscaldas and the Premodern Origins of Modern Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Sep 15, 2022 • 1h 4m
Caleb Swift Carter, "A Path Into the Mountains: Shugendō and Mount Togakushi" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Sep 13, 2022 • 57m
Murray Pittock, "Scotland: The Global History, 1603 to the Present" (Yale UP, 2022)
Sep 12, 2022 • 51m
Elizabeth Andrews Bond, "The Writing Public: Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Sep 12, 2022 • 1h 13m
Sarah Craze, "Atlantic Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Shocking Story of the Pirates and the Survivors of the Morning Star" (Boydell Press, 2022)
Sep 9, 2022 • 58m
Josep M. Fradera, "The Imperial Nation: Citizens and Subjects in the British, French, Spanish, and American Empires" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Sep 9, 2022 • 55m
On Maciej Miechowita's "Treatise on the Two Sarmatias"
Sep 9, 2022 • 30m
On Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"
Sep 7, 2022 • 25m
Morgan Pitelka and Reiko Tanimura, "Letters from Japan's Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" (IEAS, 2021)
Sep 7, 2022 • 49m
The Future of the Jesuits: A Discussion with Markus Friedrich
Sep 6, 2022 • 48m
Michael Engel, "Elijah Del Medigo and Paduan Aristotelianism: Investigating the Human Intellect" (Bloomsbury, 2016)
Sep 5, 2022 • 1h 19m
Marcus Nevius on Becoming a Historian, Marronage, Slave Resistance, and More!
Sep 3, 2022 • 2h 22m
Kate Phillips, "Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery" (Luath Press, 2022)
Aug 31, 2022 • 40m
Thomas Donald Conlan, "Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471-1877: A Sourcebook" (Hackett, 2022)
Aug 30, 2022 • 43m
Emily Michelson, "Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Aug 29, 2022 • 47m
Sarah Neville, "Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 29, 2022 • 49m
Jeroen Dewulf, "Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)
Aug 26, 2022 • 53m
Asad Q. Ahmed, "Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)
Aug 26, 2022 • 44m
Ruben Espinosa, "Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism" (Routledge, 2021)
Aug 26, 2022 • 58m
Ann Blair et al., "Information: A Historical Companion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Aug 23, 2022 • 1h 18m
Brian Brege, "Tuscany in the Age of Empire" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 22, 2022 • 1h 34m
Johanna Drucker, "Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Aug 17, 2022 • 59m
Tom Zoellner, "Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Aug 16, 2022 • 45m
Matthew Mark Silver, "The History of Galilee, 47 BCE to 1260 CE: From Josephus and Jesus to the Crusades" (Lexington Books, 2021)
Aug 13, 2022 • 1h 5m
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Atlantic" (Robinson, 2022)
Aug 12, 2022 • 42m
Adam Sundberg, "Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 12, 2022 • 1h 39m
Helen Pfeifer, "Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Aug 11, 2022 • 43m
Saladin Ambar, "Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 11, 2022 • 53m
Lindsay Starkey, "Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
Aug 9, 2022 • 54m
John Goodall, "The Castle: A History" (Yale UP, 2022)
Aug 5, 2022 • 57m
John Callow, "The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Aug 5, 2022 • 56m
Nina Rattner Gelbart, "Minerva's French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France" (Yale UP, 2021)
Aug 4, 2022 • 54m
On "The Story of the Stone"
Aug 4, 2022 • 26m
Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh, "Sino-Japanese Reflections: Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity" (de Gruyter, 2022)
Aug 2, 2022 • 44m
Lisa Ford, "The King's Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 2, 2022 • 45m
Peter H. Wood, "Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion" (Norton, 1996)
Jul 29, 2022 • 1h 44m
Richard Middleton, "Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World" (Yale UP, 2022)
Jul 29, 2022 • 1h 11m
Kimberly Anne Coles, "Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Jul 29, 2022 • 1h 2m
Stuart Ellis-Gorman, "The Medieval Crossbow: A Weapon Fit to Kill a King" (Pen & Sword Military, 2022)
Jul 28, 2022 • 55m
Michael John Witgen, "Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America" (UNC Press, 2021)
Jul 28, 2022 • 59m
Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara V. Guengerich, "Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
Jul 26, 2022 • 1h 7m
James P. Byrd and James Hudnut-Beumler, "The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction" (Westminster John Knox Press, 2021)
Jul 25, 2022 • 1h 7m
David Brown, "Empire and Enterprise: Money, Power and the Adventurers for Irish Land During the British Civil Wars" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Jul 22, 2022 • 45m
Chrysovalantis Kyriacou, "Orthodox Cyprus Under the Latins, 1191-1571: Society, Spirituality, and Identities" (Lexington Books, 2018)
Jul 22, 2022 • 1h 3m
Francine Friedman, "Like Salt for Bread: The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina" (Brill, 2021)
Jul 20, 2022 • 1h 26m
Joy Wiltenburg, "Laughing Histories: From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit" (Routledge, 2022)
Jul 18, 2022 • 51m
Donovan Sherman, "The Philosopher's Toothache: Embodied Stoicism in Early Modern English Drama" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
Jul 15, 2022 • 1h 11m
Keith Thomson, "Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune" (Little Brown, 2022)
Jul 13, 2022 • 41m
David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jul 12, 2022 • 46m
Spenser and Race: A Discussion with Dennis Austin Britton and Kimberly Anne Coles
Jul 12, 2022 • 1h 0m
Christopher S. Celenza, "Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer" (Reaktion Books, 2017)
Jul 8, 2022 • 41m
Finnish Maritime Interaction with China in the 18th Century
Jul 8, 2022 • 30m
Sarah Fox, "Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England" (U London Press, 2022)
Jul 7, 2022 • 39m
Ricardo A. Herrera, "Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778" (UNC Press, 2022)
Jul 7, 2022 • 1h 3m
Drew Daniel, "Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jul 6, 2022 • 1h 5m
Meng Zhang, "Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Jul 6, 2022 • 43m
Peter Hughes, "A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues" (Aurum Press, 2021)
Jul 4, 2022 • 45m
Mary Wellesley, "Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers" (Riverrun, 2021)
Jul 4, 2022 • 1h 9m
Christina Ramos, "Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment" (UNC Press, 2022)
Jul 1, 2022 • 1h 8m
James Stafford, "The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jun 30, 2022 • 46m
Susan H. Brandt, "Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Jun 29, 2022 • 1h 0m
Deirdre N. McCloskey and Art Carden, "Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Jun 29, 2022 • 27m
Claire Bellerjeau and Tiffany Yecke Brooks, "Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth" (Lyons Press, 2021)
Jun 28, 2022 • 47m
Bradford P. Wilson and Carson Holloway, eds., "The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Jun 28, 2022 • 1h 19m
D. G. Hart, "Benjamin Franklin: Cultural Protestant" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jun 28, 2022 • 46m
Adrienne Mayor, "Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Jun 24, 2022 • 34m
Andrew Sneddon, "Representing Magic in Modern Ireland: Belief, History, Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jun 21, 2022 • 31m
James Elisha Taneti, "Telugu Christians: A History" (Fortress Press, 2022)
Jun 20, 2022 • 1h 29m
Paul Van Der Velde, "Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-Colonialist Jacob Haafner" (NUS Press, 2020)
Jun 20, 2022 • 46m
Thomas Dixon and Adam Shapiro, "Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction" Second Edition. (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jun 16, 2022 • 1h 26m
Mary Sarah Bilder, "Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution" (U Virginia Press, 2022)
Jun 15, 2022 • 42m
Steven K. Green, "Separating Church and State: A History" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jun 14, 2022 • 48m
Virginia Reinburg, "Storied Places: Pilgrim Shrines, Nature, and History in Early Modern France" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jun 10, 2022 • 41m
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of Germany" (Robinson, 2022)
Jun 9, 2022 • 50m
Andrea C. Mosterman, "Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Jun 7, 2022 • 54m
Thomas J. Misa, "Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Jun 6, 2022 • 1h 15m
Richard G. Marks, "Jewish Approaches to Hinduism: A History of Ideas from Judah Ha-Levi to Jacob Sapir (12th-19th Centuries)" (Routledge, 2021)
Jun 2, 2022 • 51m
Mary Franklin and Hannah Burton, "She Being Dead Yet Speaketh: The Franklin Family Papers" (Iter Press, 2019)
Jun 1, 2022 • 42m
Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross, "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
May 31, 2022 • 1h 1m
Ashley M. Williard, "Engendering Islands: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
May 30, 2022 • 48m
Amanda Phillips, "Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles Between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean" (U California Press, 2021)
May 27, 2022 • 54m
Chiara Camarda et al., "The Venice Ghetto: A Memory Space That Travels" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
May 27, 2022 • 31m
Kerry Brown and Gemma Chenger Deng, "China Through European Eyes: 800 Years of Cultural and Intellectual Encounter" (World Scientific, 2022)
May 26, 2022 • 30m
James Clark, "The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History" (Yale UP, 2021)
May 26, 2022 • 1h 36m
Kate Luce Mulry, "An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic" (NYU Press, 2021)
May 25, 2022 • 1h 11m
Akshya Saxena, "Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India" (Princeton UP, 2022)
May 23, 2022 • 42m
Catherine McCormack, "Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies" (Norton, 2021)
May 23, 2022 • 58m
Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li, "Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
May 20, 2022 • 53m
Alice Dailey, "How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol" (Cornell UP, 2022)
May 20, 2022 • 59m
Ferenc Hörcher, "The Political Philosophy of the European City: From Polis, Through City-State, to Megalopolis?" (Lexington Book, 2021)
May 16, 2022 • 1h 21m
Dana W. Logan, "Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
May 13, 2022 • 55m
Suman Seth, "Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
May 13, 2022 • 1h 4m
Ryan Hall, "Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877" (UNC Press, 2020)
May 12, 2022 • 1h 16m
Mahmood Kooria, "Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 12, 2022 • 1h 18m
Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden, "From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 11, 2022 • 58m
Paul Conrad, "The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
May 10, 2022 • 1h 3m
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, "Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan" (U California Press, 2022)
May 5, 2022 • 51m
William Wayne Farris, "A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
May 4, 2022 • 50m
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, "Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time" (Princeton UP, 2022)
May 4, 2022 • 1h 5m
Joan DeJean, "Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast" (Basic, 2022)
May 2, 2022 • 43m
On Mary Magdalene in the Reformation
May 2, 2022 • 40m
Rana A. Hogarth, "Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840" (UNC Press, 2017)
Apr 28, 2022 • 46m
Lillian Faderman, "Woman: The American History of an Idea" (Yale UP, 2022)
Apr 26, 2022 • 55m
Charly Coleman, "The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Apr 25, 2022 • 1h 4m
Faisal H. Husain, "Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 22, 2022 • 1h 43m
Mark R. Anderson, "Down the Warpath to the Cedars: Indians' First Battles in the Revolution" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
Apr 21, 2022 • 1h 8m
Simon Peter Newman, "Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London" (U London Press, 2022)
Apr 19, 2022 • 41m
Jeroen Koch et al., "The House of Orange in Revolution and War" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Apr 15, 2022 • 1h 4m
James C. Ungureanu, "Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
Apr 12, 2022 • 1h 13m
Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, "Wasteland with Words: A Social History of Iceland" (Reaktion, 2010)
Apr 12, 2022 • 52m
Zoltán Biedermann, "(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Apr 8, 2022 • 1h 23m
Jason K. Stearns, "The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Apr 8, 2022 • 2h 5m
William D. Adler, "Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787-1860" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Apr 7, 2022 • 50m
Shawn Michael Austin, "Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
Apr 7, 2022 • 1h 48m
Pamela Kyle Crossley, "Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
Apr 6, 2022 • 1h 6m
Chelsea Phillips, "Carrying All Before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800" (U of Delaware Press, 2022)
Apr 4, 2022 • 59m
Rebecca Cypess, "Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Apr 1, 2022 • 51m
Scott Kugle, "Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean" (UNC Press, 2021)
Apr 1, 2022 • 1h 17m
Ayşe Zarakol, "Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Mar 29, 2022 • 45m
Valerie A. Kivelson and Christine D. Worobec, "Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000-1900: A Sourcebook" (Northern Illinois UP, 2020)
Mar 29, 2022 • 1h 0m
Steven J. Brady, "Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Mar 29, 2022 • 1h 14m
Lucy Ward, "The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus" (ONEWorld, 2022)
Mar 25, 2022 • 1h 15m
Michael D. Breidenbach, "Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Mar 24, 2022 • 1h 27m
Elisabeth Ceppi, "Invisible Masters: Gender, Race, and the Economy of Service in Early New England" (Dartmouth College Press, 2018)
Mar 24, 2022 • 1h 22m
Elisheva Carlebach and Deborah Dash Moore, "The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization (6): Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880" (Yale UP, 2019)
Mar 22, 2022 • 1h 3m
Kenneth Hsien-y Pai and Susan Chan Egan, "A Companion to the Story of the Stone: A Chapter-By-Chapter Guide" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Mar 21, 2022 • 53m
De-Min Tao and Gary P. Leupp, eds., "The Tokugawa World" (Routledge, 2021)
Mar 21, 2022 • 32m
Saptarishi Bandopadhyay, "All Is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 18, 2022 • 42m
Samuel Wright, "A Time of Novelty: Logic, Emotion, and Intellectual Life in Early Modern India, 1500-1700 C.E." (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 17, 2022 • 45m
Tessa Murphy, "The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Mar 16, 2022 • 1h 28m
Arup K. Chatterjee, "Indians in London: From the Birth of the East India Company to Independent India" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Mar 10, 2022 • 49m
Albert A. Palacios, "Unlocking the Colonial Archive in Latin America"
Mar 9, 2022 • 58m
Edward Jones Corredera, "The Diplomatic Enlightenment: Spain, Europe, and the Age of Speculation" (Brill, 2021)
Mar 7, 2022 • 1h 2m
Nandi Timmana, "Theft of a Tree" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Mar 7, 2022 • 1h 9m
Brian Ogren, "Kabbalah and the Founding of America: The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World" (NYU Press, 2021)
Mar 3, 2022 • 52m
Lu Ann Homza, "Village Infernos and Witches' Advocates: Witch-hunting in Navarre, 1608-1614" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
Mar 2, 2022 • 45m
Dennis Duncan, "Index, a History of The: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age" (W.W. Norton, 2022)
Mar 2, 2022 • 1h 3m
Erin Drew, "The Usufructuary Ethos: Power, Politics, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century" (UVA Press, 2021)
Mar 1, 2022 • 1h 24m
Joseph J. Krulder, "The Execution of Admiral John Byng As a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Routledge, 2021)
Mar 1, 2022 • 1h 4m
Paul M. Dover, "The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Feb 25, 2022 • 1h 20m
Exploring Autonomy: A History of Jewish Self-Governance in Eastern Europe
Feb 23, 2022 • 20m
Mauro José Caraccioli, "Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire" (U Florida Press, 2021)
Feb 21, 2022 • 58m
Michelle Christine Smith, "Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
Feb 21, 2022 • 1h 1m
Marc David Baer, "The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs" (Basic Books, 2021)
Feb 17, 2022 • 46m
Micah Alpaugh, "Friends of Freedom: The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Feb 7, 2022 • 1h 2m
Rita Koganzon, "Liberal States, Authoritarian Families: Childhood and Education in Early Modern Thought" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 3, 2022 • 50m
Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, "The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts" (Yale UP, 2020)
Feb 2, 2022 • 53m
Erin Jessee et al., "Nyiragitwa: Daughter of Sacyega" (Mudacumura, 2021)
Jan 31, 2022 • 36m
Jennifer Scheper Hughes, "The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas" (NYU Press, 2021)
Jan 31, 2022 • 59m
Andrew Porwancher, "The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jan 26, 2022 • 41m
Nicholas Jubber, "The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales" (John Murray, 2022)
Jan 26, 2022 • 54m
Eleanor Janega and Neil Max Emmanuel, "The Middle Ages: A Graphic History" (Icon Books, 2020)
Jan 25, 2022 • 1h 6m
David Karmon, "Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jan 7, 2022 • 26m
Warren E. Milteer Jr., "North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885" (LSU Press, 2020)
Jan 5, 2022 • 43m
Trevor Burnard, "Jamaica in the Age of Revolution" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Jan 4, 2022 • 1h 10m
Dominique Townsend, "A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Jan 3, 2022 • 1h 23m
Paul Bushkovitch, "Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia: The Transfer of Power 1450-1725" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Dec 28, 2021 • 1h 7m
E. Natalie Rothman, "The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Dec 24, 2021 • 1h 11m
F. Bruce Gordon, "Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet" (Yale UP, 2021)
Dec 22, 2021 • 31m
Luis Lobo-Guerrero et al., "Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
Dec 22, 2021 • 1h 0m
Timothy D. Amos and Akiko Ishii, "Revisiting Japan's Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation" (Routledge, 2021)
Dec 20, 2021 • 1h 8m
Aurelia Campbell, "What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Dec 20, 2021 • 1h 0m
Jocelyn Hendrickson, "Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 17, 2021 • 1h 7m
Tibor Martí and Roberto Quiros Rosado, "Eagles Looking East and West: Dynasty, Ritual and Representation in Habsburg Hungary and Spain" (Brepols, 2021)
Dec 17, 2021 • 49m
Avner Wishnitzer, "As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Dec 16, 2021 • 57m
Gloria Maité Hernández, "Savoring God: Comparative Theopoetics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 16, 2021 • 47m
Lee B. Wilson, "Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021 • 47m
Janna Coomans, "Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021 • 50m
Cinthia Gannett and John Brereton, "Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies" (Fordham UP, 2016)
Dec 14, 2021 • 1h 5m
Edmond Smith, "Merchants: The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650" (Yale UP, 2021)
Dec 13, 2021 • 1h 3m
Jennifer Ferng and Lauren R. Cannady, "Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks" (Voltaire Foundation, 2021)
Dec 8, 2021 • 52m
Margherita Zanasi, "Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 3, 2021 • 1h 29m
Devin J. Vartija, "The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Dec 2, 2021 • 1h 12m
Andrew Roberts, "The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III" (Viking, 2021)
Dec 1, 2021 • 34m
Kevin Bruyneel, "Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States" (UNC Press, 2021)
Nov 29, 2021 • 53m
Melissa Macauley, "Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Nov 24, 2021 • 51m
Daniel Lee, "The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 24, 2021 • 1h 4m
Crawford Gribben, "The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 23, 2021 • 42m
Beatrice Gruendler, "The Rise of the Arabic Book" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Nov 22, 2021 • 1h 30m
Dennis C. Rasmussen, "Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Nov 18, 2021 • 54m
Clara A. B. Joseph, "Christianity in India: The Anti-Colonial Turn" (Routledge, 2020)
Nov 17, 2021 • 38m
Ndubueze L. Mbah, "Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age" (Ohio UP, 2019)
Nov 16, 2021 • 1h 16m
Eva Del Soldato, "Early Modern Aristotle: On the Making and Unmaking of Authority" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Nov 16, 2021 • 1h 6m
David Lester, "Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, A Graphic Novel" (Beacon Press, 2021)
Nov 10, 2021 • 56m
Vincent Evener, "Enemies of the Cross: Suffering, Truth, and Mysticism in the Early Reformation" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 8, 2021 • 1h 1m
Justin K. Stearns, "Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Nov 5, 2021 • 52m
Quentin Skinner, “Quest for Freedom” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Nov 5, 2021 • 1h 41m
Machiko Ōgimachi, "In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Nov 4, 2021 • 33m
Andrea Gondos, "Kabbalah in Print: The Study and Popularization of Jewish Mysticism in Early Modernity" (SUNY Press, 2020)
Nov 4, 2021 • 50m
Anthony Seldon, "The Impossible Office?: The History of the British Prime Minister" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Oct 27, 2021 • 50m
Teofilo Ruiz, “The Consolations of History” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Oct 26, 2021 • 2h 26m
Eileen Hunt Botting, "Portraits of Wollstonecraft" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Oct 22, 2021 • 1h 10m
Robert McCrum, "Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Oct 22, 2021 • 58m
Emily Mokros, "The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China: State News and Political Authority" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Oct 20, 2021 • 1h 3m
Leonidas Mylonakis, "Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean: Maritime Marauders in the Greek and Ottoman Aegean" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Oct 20, 2021 • 35m
Roger K. Thomas, "Counting Dreams: The Life and Writings of the Loyalist Nun Nomura Bōtō" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Oct 19, 2021 • 56m
Gábor Ágoston, "The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Oct 13, 2021 • 2h 29m
Luis Lobo-Guerrero et al., "Imaginaries of Connectivity: The Creation of Novel Spaces of Governance" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)
Oct 12, 2021 • 1h 3m
Paola Ugolini, "Court and Its Critics: Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Oct 11, 2021 • 56m
Mark Somos and Anne Peters, "The State of Nature: Histories of an Idea" (Brill, 2021)
Oct 11, 2021 • 1h 2m
Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Oct 11, 2021 • 1h 7m
Paola Ugolini, "Court and Its Critics: Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Oct 11, 2021 • 56m
Robert C. Schwaller, "African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama: A History in Documents" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
Oct 8, 2021 • 1h 19m
Mans Broo, "The Rādhā Tantra: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation" (Routledge, 2019)
Oct 7, 2021 • 50m
Timon Screech, "The Shogun's Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-1625" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 7, 2021 • 49m
Judith Pollmann, "Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1520-1635" (Oxford UP, 2011)
Oct 7, 2021 • 56m
Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 7, 2021 • 1h 7m
John Shovlin, "Trading with the Enemy: Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order" (Yale UP, 2021)
Sep 29, 2021 • 1h 3m
Kyokutei Bakin, "Eight Dogs, or 'Hakkenden': Part One—An Ill-Considered Jest" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Sep 28, 2021 • 56m
M. W. Shores, "The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Sep 22, 2021 • 1h 22m
Russell Newton et al., "The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland" (Boydell Press, 2021)
Sep 20, 2021 • 35m
Angeliki Lymberopoulou, "Cross-cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204-1669" (Routledge, 2020)
Sep 20, 2021 • 55m
Alexander Wragge-Morley, "Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Sep 17, 2021 • 1h 4m
Emily Erikson, "Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Sep 15, 2021 • 39m
Stefania Tutino, "A Fake Saint and the Real Church: The Story of a Forgery in Seventeenth-Century Naples" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Sep 15, 2021 • 57m
Charles Tieszen, "The Christian Encounter with Muhammad: How Theologians Have Interpreted the Prophet" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Sep 10, 2021 • 1h 11m
Keith Pluymers, "No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Sep 3, 2021 • 59m
Karen Cook Bell, "Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Sep 2, 2021 • 43m
Y. Bronner and L. J. McCrea, "First Words, Last Words: New Theories for Reading Old Texts in Sixteenth Century India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Aug 26, 2021 • 48m
Jagjeet Lally, "India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Aug 26, 2021 • 41m
Katherine Dauge-Roth, "Signing the Body: Marks on Skin in Early Modern France" (Routledge, 2019)
Aug 24, 2021 • 1h 4m
John Coffey, "The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: The Post-Reformation Era, 1559-1689" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Aug 23, 2021 • 43m
Stanley Mirvis, "The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Yale UP, 2020)
Aug 23, 2021 • 1h 0m
Jeremy Black, "How the Army Made Britain a Global Power: 1688-1815" (Casemate, 2021)
Aug 19, 2021 • 47m
Jason Frank, "The Democratic Sublime: On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Aug 19, 2021 • 1h 0m
David Potter, "Disruption: Why Things Change" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Aug 12, 2021 • 59m
Emilia Bachrach, "In the Service of Krishna: Illustrating the Lives of Eighty-Four Vaishnavas from a 1702 Manuscript" (Mapin, 2020)
Aug 12, 2021 • 59m
Jill P. Ingram, "Festive Enterprise: The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
Aug 6, 2021 • 1h 4m
John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 5, 2021 • 57m
David Veevers, "The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jul 28, 2021 • 1h 32m
Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen, "The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age" (Yale UP, 2019)
Jul 27, 2021 • 48m
George Southcombe, "The Culture of Dissent in Restoration England: The Wonders of the Lord" (Royal Historical Society, 2019)
Jul 27, 2021 • 40m
Gayle Rogers, "Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Jul 26, 2021 • 1h 7m
Jyoti Gulati Balachandran, "Narrative Pasts: The Making of a Muslim Community in Gujarat, C. 1400-1650" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 23, 2021 • 1h 6m
K. J. Drake, "The Flesh of the Word: The Extra Calvinisticum from Zwingli to Early Orthodoxy" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 19, 2021 • 32m
Russell E. Martin, "The Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495-1745" (Northern Illinois UP, 2021)
Jul 15, 2021 • 1h 3m
Richard Scholar, "Émigrés: French Words That Turned English" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jul 15, 2021 • 59m
Young Richard Kim, "The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jul 8, 2021 • 58m
Christopher Wood, "A History of Art History" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Jul 7, 2021 • 1h 9m
Lyle D. Bierma, "Font of Pardon and New Life: John Calvin and the Efficacy of Baptism" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 7, 2021 • 38m
Leah DeVun, "The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Jun 29, 2021 • 57m
Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jun 29, 2021 • 1h 6m
James Reeves, "Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century: A Literary History of Atheism" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jun 28, 2021 • 1h 19m
Gary Lee Steward, "Justifying Revolution: The Early American Clergy and Political Resistance" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jun 23, 2021 • 44m
R. Ward Holder, "John Calvin in Context" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jun 23, 2021 • 1h 2m
Jonathon D. Beeke, "Duplex Regnum Christi: Christ's Twofold Kingdom in Reformed Theology" (Brill, 2020)
Jun 22, 2021 • 37m
Kristina Bross and Abram Van Engen, "A History of American Puritan Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jun 11, 2021 • 33m
Tae-Yeoun Keum, "Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jun 10, 2021 • 54m
Mary D. Garrard, "Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
Jun 8, 2021 • 1h 5m
Silke Muylaert, "Shaping the Stranger Churches: Migrants in England and the Troubles in the Netherlands, 1547–1585" (Brill, 2020)
Jun 8, 2021 • 33m
Samy Ayoub, "Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Hanafi Jurisprudence" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 4, 2021 • 1h 4m
Suzanne L. Marchand, "Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jun 4, 2021 • 1h 1m
Christopher Ocker, "Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jun 4, 2021 • 38m
Jeremy Black, "To Lose an Empire: British Strategy and Foreign Policy, 1758-90" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Jun 2, 2021 • 44m
Michèle Hayeur Smith, "The Valkyries' Loom: The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic" (UP of Florida, 2020)
Jun 1, 2021 • 1h 0m
William P. Brecher, "Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930" (Brill, 2021)
May 31, 2021 • 45m
Linda Colley, "The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World" (Liveright, 2021)
May 26, 2021 • 46m
Patrick Spero, "Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776" (Norton, 2018)
May 21, 2021 • 52m
Jason H. Pearl, "Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel" (U Virginia Press, 2014)
May 20, 2021 • 52m
Barbara Pitkin, "Calvin, the Bible, and History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
May 5, 2021 • 35m
Clemena Antonova, "Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy: Pavel Florensky's Theory of the Icon" (Routledge, 2019)
May 5, 2021 • 1h 3m
Ritchie Robertson, "The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790" (Harper, 2021)
Apr 27, 2021 • 40m
Brenton Sullivan, "Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Apr 22, 2021 • 1h 12m
William B. Taylor, "Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico" (U California Press, 2021)
Apr 19, 2021 • 1h 32m
David Hosaflook (trans.), "The Siege of Shkodra: Albania's Courageous Stand Against Ottoman Conquest, 1478" (2017)
Apr 15, 2021 • 59m
Ayesha A. Irani, "The Muhammad Avatāra: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 14, 2021 • 41m
Takeshi Watanabe, "Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 13, 2021 • 52m
Mark A. Waddell, "Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Apr 9, 2021 • 1h 7m
Cedric Cohen-Skalli, "Don Isaac Abravanel: An Intellectual Biography" (Brandeis UP, 2020)
Apr 9, 2021 • 1h 37m
Jack W. Chen, "Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Apr 6, 2021 • 1h 23m
Constantine Nomikos Vaporis, "Voices of Early Modern Japan" (Routledge, 2020)
Apr 1, 2021 • 43m
Christopher Joby, "The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan" (Brill, 2020)
Apr 1, 2021 • 51m
Douglas A. Sweeney and Jan Stievermann, "The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 30, 2021 • 31m
William Max Nelson, "The Time of Enlightenment: Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Mar 29, 2021 • 1h 58m
Laura Moretti, "Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Mar 26, 2021 • 58m
Mayte Green-Mercado, "Visions of Deliverance: Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Mar 26, 2021 • 1h 2m
Eilish Gregory, "Catholics During the English Revolution, 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty" (Boydell Press, 2021)
Mar 25, 2021 • 40m
Mack P. Holt, "The Politics of Wine in Early Modern France: Religion and Popular Culture in Burgundy, 1477-1630" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Mar 25, 2021 • 1h 1m
Robert Launay, "Savages, Romans, and Despots: Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder" (U of Chicago Press, 2018)
Mar 25, 2021 • 1h 4m
Madeleine Pennington, "Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 22, 2021 • 41m
Jeffrey Shandler, "Yiddish: Biography of a Language" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 22, 2021 • 1h 4m
A. Blair and K. von Greyerz, "Physico-Theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–1750 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Mar 19, 2021 • 38m
Max Edling, "Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the US Constitution" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 16, 2021 • 28m
J. L. Heilbron, "The Ghost of Galileo: In a Forgotten Painting from the English Civil War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 10, 2021 • 35m
J. L. Heilbron, "The Ghost of Galileo: In a Forgotten Painting from the English Civil War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 10, 2021 • 35m
Brian Cummings et al., "Memory and the English Reformation" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Mar 10, 2021 • 51m
Michael J. Pfeifer, "The Making of American Catholicism: Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience" (NYU Press, 2021
Mar 9, 2021 • 1h 15m
Ethan Pollock, "Without the Banya We Would Perish" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Mar 4, 2021 • 1h 8m
David Onnekink and Gijs Rommelse, "The Dutch in the Early Modern World: A History of a Global Power" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Mar 2, 2021 • 57m
Robert Darnton, "Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 26, 2021 • 51m
G. Girard and T. Lockley, "African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan" (Hanover Square Press, 2021)
Feb 24, 2021 • 50m
Margarette Lincoln, "London and the Seventeenth Century" (Yale UP, 2021)
Feb 22, 2021 • 49m
Christopher T. Fleming, "Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 17, 2021 • 26m
Hannah Marcus, "Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Feb 16, 2021 • 51m
R. Alan Covey, "Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 11, 2021 • 51m
Francesco Quatrini, "Adam Boreel (1602-1665): A Collegiant's Attempt to Reform Christianity" (Brill, 2020)
Feb 10, 2021 • 33m
Jennifer M. Rampling, "The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Feb 8, 2021 • 1h 5m
David Dickson, "Sermons on Jeremiah's Lamentations" (Reformation Heritage Books, 2020)
Feb 2, 2021 • 34m
Carina L. Johnson, "Archeologies of Confession: Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017" (Berghahn, 2019)
Jan 29, 2021 • 55m
Michael D. Bailey, "Origins of the Witches' Sabbath" (Penn State UP, 2021)
Jan 27, 2021 • 49m
Nicholas McDowell, "Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jan 22, 2021 • 50m
Ian M. Miller, "Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Jan 21, 2021 • 1h 10m
L. Ferlier and B. Miyamoto, "Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688-1832" (Brill, 2020)
Jan 19, 2021 • 1h 2m
William C. Hedberg, "The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction: The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Jan 7, 2021 • 47m
Manan Ahmed Asif, "The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jan 6, 2021 • 1h 11m
Jesse Spohnholz, "The Convent of Wesel: The Event that Never was and the Invention of Tradition" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Jan 4, 2021 • 51m
Andrea Moudarres, "The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso" (U Virginia Press, 2019)
Dec 30, 2020 • 59m
Donald F. Johnson, "Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Dec 28, 2020 • 34m
Marta V. Vicente, "Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Dec 23, 2020 • 50m
Stuart Elden, "Shakespearean Territories" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Dec 18, 2020 • 43m
Priya Satia, "Time's Monster: How History Makes History" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 17, 2020 • 1h 11m
Ioanna Lordanou, "Venice's Secret Service: Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Dec 16, 2020 • 49m
Edward Wilson-Lee, "The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library" (Scribner, 2019)
Dec 11, 2020 • 49m
Carolyn Conley, "Debauched, Desperate, Deranged: Women Who Killed, London 1674-1913" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 4, 2020 • 34m
Diana Darke, "Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe" (Hurst, 2020)
Dec 3, 2020 • 37m
Mark Somos, "American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence, 1761-1775" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Dec 3, 2020 • 26m
Amanda L. Scott, "The Basque Seroras: Local Religion, Gender, and Power in Northern Iberia, 1550–1800" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Dec 2, 2020 • 52m
Peter Gordon and Juan José Morales, "Painter and Patron: The Maritime Silk Road in the Códice Casanatense" (Abbreviated Press, 2020)
Nov 30, 2020 • 55m
Gaby Mahlberg, "The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Nov 27, 2020 • 1h 20m
Jeppe Mulich, "In a Sea of Empires: Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Nov 24, 2020 • 53m
Antonia Bosanquet, "Minding their Place: Space and Religious Hierarchy in Ibn al-Qayyim’s Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma" (Brill, 2020)
Nov 20, 2020 • 59m
Sharon T. Strocchia, "Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Nov 17, 2020 • 31m
Marisa Anne Bass, "Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Nov 17, 2020 • 52m
Audrey J. Horning, "Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic" (UNC Press, 2017)
Nov 13, 2020 • 1h 26m
Anne Gerritsen, "The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Nov 12, 2020 • 1h 7m
Stephen H. Whiteman, "Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Nov 11, 2020 • 1h 25m
Ken Tully and Chad Leahy, "Jerusalem Afflicted: Quaresmius, Spain, and the Idea of a 17th-century Crusade" (Routledge, 2019)
Nov 11, 2020 • 1h 30m
Richard Muller, "Grace and Freedom: William Perkins and the Early Modern Reformed Understanding of Free Choice and Divine Grace" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 11, 2020 • 34m
Joanne Paul, "Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Nov 11, 2020 • 1h 19m
Niklas Frykman, "The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution" (U California Press, 2020)
Nov 9, 2020 • 50m
K. Yazdani and D. M. Menon, "Capitalisms: Towards a Global History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 6, 2020 • 1h 27m
John Tolan, "Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Nov 6, 2020 • 56m
Agnès Delahaye, "Settling the Good Land: Governance and Promotion in John Winthrop’s New England" (Brill, 2020)
Nov 4, 2020 • 56m
Paolo Astorri, "Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany (ca. 1520-1720)" (Verlag Ferdinand Schoningh, 2019)
Nov 2, 2020 • 44m
Alexander Lee, "Humanism and Empire: The Imperial Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Nov 2, 2020 • 1h 43m
Erin A. McCarthy, "Doubtful Readers: Print, Poetry and the Reading Public in Early Modern England" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 2, 2020 • 32m
Hayden J. Bellenoit, "The Formation of the Colonial State in India: Scribes, Paper and Taxes, 1760-1860" (Routledge, 2017)
Oct 28, 2020 • 33m
Noel Malcolm, "Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Oct 22, 2020 • 1h 3m
Prop to Prerequisite: How Manikins have Been Used Over Time
Oct 21, 2020 • 23m
D. Bilak and T. Nummedal, "Furnace and Fugue. A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s 'Atalanta fugiens' (1618)" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
Oct 21, 2020 • 58m
James Simpson, "Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Oct 20, 2020 • 1h 29m
Martyn Rady, "The Habsburgs: To Rule the World" (Basic Books, 2020)
Oct 20, 2020 • 1h 0m
Ravi Palat, "The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650" (Palgrave, 2015)
Oct 19, 2020 • 33m
Stefan Bauer, "The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 19, 2020 • 32m
Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr., "Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in 18th-Century South America" (UNC Press, 2020)
Oct 16, 2020 • 1h 11m
Julie Hardwick, "Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 13, 2020 • 1h 0m
Harrison Perkins, "Catholicity and the Covenant of Works: James Ussher and the Reformed Tradition" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 6, 2020 • 31m
D. Benge and N. Pickowicz, "The American Puritans" (Reformation Heritage Books, 2020)
Oct 2, 2020 • 33m
David Tavárez, "The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2011)
Oct 1, 2020 • 1h 1m
Adriaan C. Neele, "Petrus van Mastricht (1630-1706): Text, Context, and Interpretation" (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2020)
Sep 30, 2020 • 30m
Geoffrey Plank, "Atlantic Wars: From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 29, 2020 • 29m
Kenneth Austin, "The Jews and the Reformation" (Yale UP, 2020)
Sep 21, 2020 • 40m
Jonathan Robinson, "Rights at the Margins: Historical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives" (Brill, 2020)
Sep 18, 2020 • 1h 33m
Omar H. Ali, "Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery across the Indian Ocean" (Oxford UP, 2016)
Sep 17, 2020 • 35m
Pernille Røge, "Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire: France in the Americas and Africa c. 1750-1802" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Sep 11, 2020 • 55m
Steven Heine, "Readings of Dōgen's 'Treasury of the True Dharma Eye'"(Columbia UP, 2020)
Sep 9, 2020 • 56m
Ananya Chakravarti, "The Empire of Apostles" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Sep 7, 2020 • 1h 19m
Sandra Young, "The Early Modern Global South in Print: Textual Form and the Production of Human Difference as Knowledge" (Routledge, 2015)
Sep 7, 2020 • 1h 13m
Tamar Herzig, "A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Sep 4, 2020 • 1h 3m
Scott Soames, "The World Philosophy Made: From Plato to the Digital Age" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Aug 28, 2020 • 1h 45m
Shankar Nair, "Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia" (U California Press, 2020)
Aug 28, 2020 • 1h 2m
Dan Edelstein, "On the Spirit of Rights" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Aug 28, 2020 • 1h 25m
N. Detering and I. Walser-Bürgler, "Contesting Europe: Comparative Perspectives on Early Modern Discourses on Europe, 1400–1800" (Brill, 2019)
Aug 25, 2020 • 1h 16m
Matthew Romaniello, "Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Aug 24, 2020 • 59m
Lauren F. Klein, "An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Aug 24, 2020 • 51m
David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Aug 24, 2020 • 1h 27m
Valerie Wayne, "Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Aug 20, 2020 • 50m
Jared Rubin, "Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Aug 19, 2020 • 1h 16m
Colin Rose, "A Renaissance of Violence: Homicide in Early Modern Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Aug 18, 2020 • 1h 6m
Francis J. Beckwith, "Never Doubt Thomas: The Catholic Aquinas as Evangelical and Protestant" (Baylor UP, 2019)
Aug 7, 2020 • 1h 24m
David Tavárez, "Words and Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America" (U Colorado Press, 2017)
Aug 6, 2020 • 1h 29m
Nathan Spannaus, "Preserving Islamic Tradition: Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Aug 5, 2020 • 53m
Nicholas B. Miller, "John Millar and the Scottish Enlightenment: Family Lfe and World History" (Voltaire Foundation, 2017)
Aug 3, 2020 • 1h 5m
Gaurav Desai, "Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination" (Columbia UP, 2013)
Aug 3, 2020 • 1h 19m
Olivia Weisser, "lll Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England" (Yale UP, 2015)
Jul 31, 2020 • 42m
Andrew Kettler, "The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jul 27, 2020 • 53m
Shahla Haeri, "The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority and Gender" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jul 24, 2020 • 1h 11m
Laurie M. Wood, "Archipelago of Justice: Law in France’s Early Modern Empire" (Yale UP, 2020)
Jul 23, 2020 • 37m
Daniel Woolf, "A Concise History of History: Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jul 22, 2020 • 28m
Giulia Bonazza, "Abolitionism and the Persistence of Slavery in Italian States 1750–1850" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Jul 21, 2020 • 1h 2m
Amanda L. Scott, "The Basque Seroras: Local Religion, Gender, and Power in Northern Iberia, 1550-1800" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Jul 21, 2020 • 1h 18m
Scott Levi, "The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th-Century Central Asia" (U Pittsburgh, 2020)
Jul 15, 2020 • 1h 14m
Jeremy Black, "War in Europe: 1450 to the Present" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)
Jul 10, 2020 • 44m
Luca Scholz, "Borders and Freedom of Movement in the Holy Roman Empire" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 9, 2020 • 1h 4m
Takashi Miura, "Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Jul 8, 2020 • 39m
Christian Kleinbub, "Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies" (Penn State UP, 2020)
Jul 7, 2020 • 58m
Allison Bigelow, "Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World" (UNC Press 2020)
Jul 6, 2020 • 44m
Jeremy Black, "Mapping Shakespeare: An Exploration of Shakespeare’s World through Maps" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Jul 3, 2020 • 36m
David Carballo, "Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 3, 2020 • 1h 2m
Ahmed El-Shamsy, "Rediscovering the Islamic Classics" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jul 3, 2020 • 1h 19m
He Bian, "Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jul 2, 2020 • 1h 23m
Macabe Keliher, "The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China" (U California Press, 2019)
Jun 29, 2020 • 1h 9m
Alec Ryrie, "Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jun 22, 2020 • 1h 7m
Amy Harris, "Siblinghood and Social Relations in Georgian England: Share and Share Alike" (Manchester UP, 2016)
Jun 2, 2020 • 1h 24m
Éva Guillorel, "Rhythms of Revolt: European Traditions and Memories of Social Conflict in Oral Culture" (Routledge, 2018)
May 26, 2020 • 49m
Jeremy Black, "Military Strategy: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2020)
Apr 24, 2020 • 29m
Eric Dursteler, "In the Sultan’s Realm: Two Venetian Reports on the Early Modern Ottoman Empire" (CRRS, 2018)
Apr 23, 2020 • 1h 10m
Tom Chaffin, "Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations" (St. Martins, 2019)
Apr 7, 2020 • 42m
Vincent Brown, "Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 7, 2020 • 1h 3m
Kevin O'Connor, "The House of Hemp and Butter: A History of Old Riga" (NIUP, 2019)
Apr 1, 2020 • 1h 2m
Maurice Finocchiaro, "On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Mar 26, 2020 • 1h 4m
Nicholas R. Jones, "Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performance of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain" (Penn State UP, 2019)
Mar 20, 2020 • 1h 18m
Jonathan Scott, "How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution, 1500-1800" (Yale UP, 2019)
Mar 19, 2020 • 27m
John Hardman, "Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen" (Yale UP, 2019)
Mar 11, 2020 • 1h 15m
Loretta E. Kim, "Ethnic Chrysalis: China’s Orochen People and the Legacy of Qing Borderland Administration" (Harvard Asia Center, 2019)
Mar 9, 2020 • 1h 3m
Sher Banu Khan, "Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom: The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641-1699" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Feb 28, 2020 • 45m
Sohaira Siddiqui, "Law and Politics Under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Feb 21, 2020 • 47m
John Tweeddale, "John Calvin: For a New Reformation" (Crossway, 2019)
Feb 20, 2020 • 32m
Maria Taroutina, "The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival" (Penn State UP, 2018)
Feb 18, 2020 • 1h 4m
Abigail Shinn, "Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England: Tales of Turning" (Palgrave, 2018)
Feb 17, 2020 • 34m
Alan Gallay, "Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire" (Basic Books, 2019)
Feb 10, 2020 • 1h 27m
Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Slavery and Islam" (Oneworld Academic, 2019)
Feb 7, 2020 • 1h 11m
Christian J. Koot, "A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herrman’s Chesapeake" (NYU Press, 2017)
Feb 6, 2020 • 25m
Paul Lay, "Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate" (Head of Zeus, 2020)
Feb 3, 2020 • 41m
Emily Colbert Cairns, "Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora: Queen of the Conversas" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Jan 23, 2020 • 54m
Lauren Working, "The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jan 22, 2020 • 31m
Ingrid Horrocks, "Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility, 1784–1814" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jan 10, 2020 • 33m
Lydia Barnett, "After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Jan 8, 2020 • 44m
Christopher Lovins, "King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea" (SUNY Press, 2019)
Jan 6, 2020 • 1h 11m
James M. Vaughn, "The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III" (Yale UP, 2019)
Dec 23, 2019 • 42m
David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic History" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Dec 19, 2019 • 1h 16m
Wilson Jeremiah Moses, "Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Dec 10, 2019 • 1h 6m
Chet Van Duzer, "Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends" (Springer, 2019)
Dec 6, 2019 • 59m
Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, "The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great" (Liverpool UP, 2019)
Nov 20, 2019 • 58m
Margaret E. Schotte, "Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Nov 14, 2019 • 56m
Han F. Vermeulen, "Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment" (U Nebraska Press, 2015)
Nov 11, 2019 • 1h 43m
Paula McQuade, "Catechisms and Women’s Writing in Seventeenth-Century England" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Nov 8, 2019 • 35m
Saul Cornell, "The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s-1830s" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Oct 23, 2019 • 52m
Paul Musselwhite, "Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth: The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Oct 8, 2019 • 33m
Gerry Milligan, "Moral Combat: Women, Gender and War in Italian Renaissance Literature" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
Oct 1, 2019 • 55m
Jeremy Black, "England in the Age of Shakespeare" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Sep 30, 2019 • 37m
Geoffrey Parker, "Emperor: A New Life of Charles V" (Yale UP, 2019)
Sep 27, 2019 • 54m
Katie Jarvis, "Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Sep 4, 2019 • 50m
Bianca Premo, "The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Sep 2, 2019 • 1h 11m
Jesse Cromwell, "The Smugglers’ World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela" (UNC Press, 2018)
Aug 28, 2019 • 52m
Davide Crippa, The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century" (Birkhäuser, 2019)
Aug 28, 2019 • 1h 0m
J. C. D. Clark, "Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Aug 14, 2019 • 31m
Is the Idea of "The Enlightenment" Still Useful?
Aug 9, 2019 • 48m
Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
Jul 31, 2019 • 1h 4m
Peter Jan Margry, "The Miracle of Amsterdam: Biography of a Contested Devotion" (U Notre Dame, 2019)
Jul 31, 2019 • 1h 6m
Rachel B. Herrmann, "No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Jul 22, 2019 • 43m
Tita Chico, "The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment" (Stanford UP, 2018)
Jul 22, 2019 • 1h 8m
Hannah Weiss Muller, "Subjects and Sovereign: Bonds of Belonging in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jul 15, 2019 • 41m
Jakobina Arch, "Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan" (U Washington Press, 2018)
Jul 11, 2019 • 57m
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)
Jul 10, 2019 • 1h 2m
Caroline Boggis-Rolfe, "The Baltic Story: A Thousand Year History of Its Lands, Sea, and Peoples" (Amberley, 2019)
Jul 8, 2019 • 54m
Greta LaFleur, "The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
Jul 4, 2019 • 1h 20m
Sasha D. Pack, "The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Hispano-African Border" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Jul 1, 2019 • 59m
Jeanette M. Fregulia, "A Rich and Tantalizing Brew: A History of How Coffee Connected the World" (U Arkansas Press, 2019))
Jun 26, 2019 • 47m
Edward Vallance, "Loyalty, Memory and Public Opinion in England, 1658-1727" (Manchester UP, 2019)
Jun 20, 2019 • 57m
Daniel Hershenzon, "The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean" (U Penn Press, 2018)
Jun 5, 2019 • 59m
Robbie Richardson, "The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
Jun 4, 2019 • 46m
Ryan Hanley, "Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing, c. 1770 -1830" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
May 29, 2019 • 48m
Maren A. Ehlers, "Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan" (Harvard U Asia Center, 2018)
May 24, 2019 • 1h 8m
Gregory Smits, "Maritime Ryukyu, 1050–1650" (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
May 20, 2019 • 1h 8m
John W. Tweeddale, "John Owen and Hebrews: The Foundation of Biblical Interpretation" (T and T Clark, 2019)
May 20, 2019 • 39m
Toby Green, "A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
May 17, 2019 • 46m
Max Edelson, "The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence" (Harvard UP, 2017)
May 16, 2019 • 56m
Ryan Hackenbracht, "National Reckonings: The Last Judgement and Literature in Milton’s England" (Cornell UP, 2019)
May 6, 2019 • 42m
William Poole, "Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost" (Harvard UP, 2017)
May 2, 2019 • 47m
Muhammad Qasim Zaman, "Islam in Pakistan: A History" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Apr 25, 2019 • 1h 44m
Naomi Pullin, "Female Friends and the Making of Trans-Atlantic Quakerism, 1650-1750" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Apr 17, 2019 • 35m
Joel Elliot Slotkin, "Sinister Aesthetics: The Appeal of Evil in Early Modern Literature" (Palgrave, 2017)
Mar 29, 2019 • 33m
Ronald J. Schmidt, Jr., "Reading Politics with Machiavelli" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Mar 28, 2019 • 45m
Stéphane Henaut and Jeni Mitchell, "A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment" (The New Press, 2018)
Mar 25, 2019 • 55m
Margaret Arnold, "The Magdalene in the Reformation" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Mar 20, 2019 • 42m
Gregory Dawes, "Galileo and the Conflict between Religion and Science" (Routledge, 2016)
Mar 18, 2019 • 47m
Whitney G. Gamble, "Christ and the Law: Antinomianism at the Westminster Assembly" (Reformation Heritage Books, 2018)
Mar 11, 2019 • 36m
Chet Van Duzer, "Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence" (Springer, 2019)
Mar 1, 2019 • 1h 1m
Matthew Bingham, "Orthodox Radicals: Baptist Identity in the English Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Feb 26, 2019 • 37m
Adriaan C. Neele, "Before Jonathan Edwards: Sources of New England Theology" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Feb 20, 2019 • 37m
Gil Ben-Herut, "Śiva’s Saints: The Origins of Devotion in Kannada according to Harihara’s Ragaḷegaḷu (Oxford UP, 2018)
Feb 19, 2019 • 1h 11m
Kevin Ingram, "Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain: Bad Blood and Faith from Alonso de Cartagena to Diego Velázquez" (Palgrave, 2018)
Feb 7, 2019 • 35m
Adrienne Mayor, "Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Feb 6, 2019 • 41m
Jodi Campbell, "At the First Table: Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain" (U Nebraska Press, 2017)
Jan 29, 2019 • 33m
William Kelso, "Jamestown: The Truth Revealed" (U Virginia Press, 2017)
Jan 18, 2019 • 1h 12m
Benoît Majerus, "From the Middle Ages to Today: Experiences and Representations of Madness in Paris" (Parigramme, 2018)
Jan 16, 2019 • 35m
Christopher Gerrard, "Lost Lives, New Voices: Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar, 1650" (Oxbow Books, 2018)
Jan 11, 2019 • 1h 29m
Andrew S. Curran, "Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely" (Other Press, 2019)
Jan 2, 2019 • 1h 5m
Victoria Brownlee, "Biblical Readings and Literary Writings in Early Modern England, 1558-1625" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Dec 31, 2018 • 37m
Hüseyin Yılmaz, "Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Dec 7, 2018 • 1h 32m
Paola Bertucci, "Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France" (Yale UP, 2018)
Dec 6, 2018 • 55m
Diarmaid MacCulloch, "Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life" (Viking, 2018)
Nov 29, 2018 • 48m
Danna Agmon, "A Colonial Affair: Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India" (Cornell UP, 2017)
Nov 28, 2018 • 57m
Daniel Stolz, “The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Nov 5, 2018 • 57m
Iain Provan, “The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture” (Baylor UP, 2017)
Oct 29, 2018 • 37m
Robert G. Ingram, “Reformation Without End: Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England” (Manchester UP, 2018)
Oct 24, 2018 • 42m
Hugh Cagle, “Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450-1700” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Oct 22, 2018 • 59m
Nathaniel Philbrick, “In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown” (Viking, 2018)
Oct 16, 2018 • 47m
Dániel Margócsy, et al., “The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership, and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions” (Brill, 2018)
Oct 11, 2018 • 1h 3m
Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit, “A History of Ayutthaya: Siam in the Early Modern World” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Oct 3, 2018 • 48m
Giulio Ongaro, “Peasants and Soldiers: The Management of the Venetian Military Structure in the Mainland Dominion between the 16th and 17th Centuries” (Routledge, 2017)
Sep 25, 2018 • 30m
Jonathan Smyth, “Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being: The Search for a Republican Morality” (Manchester UP, 2016)
Sep 5, 2018 • 1h 5m
Rupali Mishra, “A Business of State: Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Aug 29, 2018 • 59m
Ahmad Dallal, “Islam without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought” (UNC Press, 2018)
Aug 21, 2018 • 1h 32m
Molly Warsh, “American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700” (UNC Press, 2018)
Aug 7, 2018 • 52m
Allan Greer, “Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Aug 6, 2018 • 46m
Irina Dumitrescu, “The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Aug 3, 2018 • 52m
Reginald Jackson, “Textures of Mourning: Calligraphy, Mortality, and The Tale of Genji Scrolls” (U Michigan Press, 2018)
Aug 2, 2018 • 1h 19m
Pablo Gomez, “The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic” (UNC Press, 2017).
Jul 24, 2018 • 53m
Steven and Ben Nadler, “Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Jul 23, 2018 • 1h 8m
Ata Anzali, “‘Mysticism’ in Iran: The Safavid Roots of a Modern Concept” (U South Carolina Press, 2017)
Jul 20, 2018 • 51m
Alexander Bevilacqua, “The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jul 16, 2018 • 54m
Ethan L. Menchinger, “The First of the Modern Ottomans: The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasif” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
May 22, 2018 • 34m
Elaine Fisher, “Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South Asia” (U California Press, 2017)
May 21, 2018 • 36m
Martha Few, “For All Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala” (U Arizona Press, 2015)
May 18, 2018 • 1h 4m
Katharine Gerbner, “Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
May 16, 2018 • 47m
Kathlene Baldanza, “Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
May 7, 2018 • 31m
Ji-Young Lee, “China’s Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination” (Columbia UP, 2017)
May 3, 2018 • 35m
Alexus McLeod, “Philosophy of the Ancient Maya: Lords of Time” (Lexington Books, 2018)
Apr 16, 2018 • 1h 6m
Jonathan Daly, “Crime and Punishment in Russia: A Comparative History from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin” (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Apr 10, 2018 • 1h 14m
Ruth von Bernuth, “How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition” (NYU Press, 2017)
Apr 2, 2018 • 32m
Amelia Glaser, “Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising” (Stanford UP, 2015)
Mar 30, 2018 • 31m
Robert Darnton, “A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Mar 15, 2018 • 1h 0m
Yair Mintzker, “The Many Deaths of Jew Suss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Mar 12, 2018 • 53m
Daniel B. Schwartz, “The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image” (Princeton UP, 2012)
Mar 2, 2018 • 59m
Taisu Zhang, “The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship Property in Preindustrial China and England” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Feb 27, 2018 • 58m
Larry Wolff, “The Singing Turk” (Stanford UP, 2016)
Feb 19, 2018 • 43m
Andrew Frank, “Before the Pioneers: Indians, Settlers, Slaves, and the Founding of Miami” (UP of Florida, 2017)
Feb 14, 2018 • 39m
Alfred Ivry, “Maimonides’ ‘Guide of the Perplexed’: A Philosophical Guide” (University of Chicago, 2016)
Feb 13, 2018 • 1h 5m
Benjamin R. Gampel, “Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response, 1391-1392” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Feb 6, 2018 • 1h 11m
Emily C. Nacol, “An Age of Risk: Politics and Economy in Early Modern Britain” (Princeton UP, 2016)
Jan 29, 2018 • 41m
Monica Mattfeld, “Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship” (Penn State UP, 2017)
Jan 19, 2018 • 32m
Anthony J. La Vopa, “The Labor of the Mind: Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures” (Penn Press, 2017)
Dec 19, 2017 • 46m
Sam White, “A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Dec 15, 2017 • 54m
James F. Brooks, “Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat’ovi Massacre” (W.W. Norton and Co., 2016)
Dec 5, 2017 • 1h 18m
Catherine Zuckert, “Machiavelli’s Politics” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
Nov 30, 2017 • 1h 3m
Kristian Petersen, “Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Language, and Scripture in the Han Kitab” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Nov 10, 2017 • 41m
Rebecca Fraser, “The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America” (St. Martin’s Press, 2017)
Nov 7, 2017 • 1h 5m
Adam Gaiser, “Shurat Legends, Ibadi Identities: Martyrdom, Asceticism and the Making of an Early Islamic Community” (U. South Carolina Press, 2016)
Oct 18, 2017 • 40m
Julia Fawcett, “Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801” (U. Michigan Press, 2016)
Oct 9, 2017 • 35m
Manan Ahmed Asif, “A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Aug 6, 2017 • 1h 0m
Eric Ash, “The Draining of the Fens: Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England” (Johns Hopkins, 2017)
Aug 2, 2017 • 54m
Elias Sacks, “Moses Mendelssohn’s Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism” (Indiana UP, 2016)
Jul 31, 2017 • 38m
Did the Protestant Reformation Have to Happen?
Jul 21, 2017 • 56m
Peter Marshall, “Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation” (Yale UP, 2017)
Jun 19, 2017 • 49m
Marcia Yonemoto, “The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan” (U of California Press, 2016)
Apr 25, 2017 • 1h 8m
Alec Ryrie, “Protestants: The Faith that Made the Modern World” (Viking, 2017)
Apr 7, 2017 • 1h 6m
Holly Hurlburt, “Daughter of Venice: Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance” (Yale UP, 2015)
Mar 30, 2017 • 46m
Raz Chen-Morris, “Measuring Shadows: Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility” (Penn State UP, 2016)
Mar 29, 2017 • 1h 2m
Meredith K. Ray, “Margherita Sarrocchi’s Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in 17th-Century Italy” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
Mar 13, 2017 • 1h 1m
Jeroen Dewulf, “The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo: The Forgotten History of America’s Dutch-Owned Slaves” (U. Press of Mississippi, 2016)
Feb 27, 2017 • 1h 0m
Matthew James Crawford, “The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800” (U. Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
Feb 23, 2017 • 1h 3m
Matthew L. Jones, “Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)
Jan 23, 2017 • 1h 4m
Surekha Davies, “Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps, and Monsters” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Jan 12, 2017 • 58m
David B. Goldstein and Amy L. Tigner, eds. “Culinary Shakespeare: Staging Food and Drink in Early Modern England” (Duquesne UP, 2016)
Dec 19, 2016 • 45m
Michael Brown, “The Irish Enlightenment” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Dec 13, 2016 • 51m
Larrie Ferreiro, “Brothers at Arms: Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It” (Knopf, 2016)
Dec 2, 2016 • 1h 3m
Lena Salaymeh, “Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Dec 2, 2016 • 22m
Scott Bruce, ed., “The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters” (Penguin, 2016)
Nov 28, 2016 • 38m
Coll Thrush, “Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire” (Yale UP, 2016)
Nov 23, 2016 • 1h 5m
James Alexander Dun, “Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America” (U. Penn Press, 2016)
Nov 23, 2016 • 59m
Kelly Watson, “Insatiable Appetites: Imperial Encounters with Cannibals in the North Atlantic World” (NYU Press, 2015)
Oct 11, 2016 • 1h 0m
Christopher Woolgar, “The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500” (Yale UP, 2016)
Sep 30, 2016 • 57m
Richard Bourke, “Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Sep 30, 2016 • 47m
Terri Diane Halperin, “The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
Sep 26, 2016 • 58m
Liam Brockey, “The Visitor: Andre Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Sep 11, 2016 • 1h 17m
Matthew Pierce, “Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shiism” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Sep 7, 2016 • 56m
Neil Kent, “Crimea: A History” (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2016)
Sep 2, 2016 • 1h 5m
William Cavert, “The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Aug 29, 2016 • 53m
Anders Ingram, “Writing the Ottomans: Turkish History in Early Modern England” (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015)
Aug 22, 2016 • 57m
Morgan Pitelka, “Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2016)
Aug 10, 2016 • 1h 8m
Paul M. Cobb, “The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Jul 25, 2016 • 49m
Daniel Jutte, “The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800” (Yale UP, 2015)
Jul 12, 2016 • 33m
Pi-Ching Hsu, “Feng Menglong’s ‘Treasury of Laughs’: A Seventeenth-Century Anthology of Traditional Chinese Humour” (Brill, 2015)
Jun 8, 2016 • 1h 0m
Dana Sajdi, “The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant” (Stanford UP, 2012)
May 16, 2016 • 52m
Ayesha Ramachandran, “Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
May 11, 2016 • 56m
Stern, et al., “The Monk’s Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee” (Penn State UP, 2015)
Apr 20, 2016 • 1h 1m
Seth Kimmel, “Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Apr 8, 2016 • 43m
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, “Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Mar 29, 2016 • 1h 13m
Justin E. H. Smith, “Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Mar 2, 2016 • 1h 18m
Jeroen Duindam, “Dynasties: A Global History of Power, 1300-1800” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Feb 22, 2016 • 1h 33m
Domna Stanton, “The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France: Women Writ, Women Writing” (Ashgate, 2014)
Jan 28, 2016 • 56m
James A. Benn, “Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History” (U of Hawaii Press, 2015)
Jan 4, 2016 • 1h 2m
Janet Gyatso, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (Columbia University Press, 2015)
Dec 18, 2015 • 1h 9m
Brian P. Copenhaver, “Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment” (Cambridge UP, 2015 )
Dec 15, 2015 • 1h 11m
Hina Azam, “Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Nov 25, 2015 • 52m
Anita Guerrini, “The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Nov 4, 2015 • 1h 6m
Kimberly Arkin, “Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France” (Stanford UP, 2013)
Sep 24, 2015 • 33m
Guy Burak, “The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Sep 23, 2015 • 45m
Federico Marcon, “The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan” (U of Chicago, 2015)
Sep 22, 2015 • 1h 15m
Anna M. Shields, “One Who Knows Me: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Sep 4, 2015 • 1h 9m
Jeffrey S. Shoulson, “Fictions of Conversion: Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
Sep 3, 2015 • 30m
Tabetha Ewing, “Rumor, Diplomacy, and War in Enlightenment Paris” (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2014)
Aug 31, 2015 • 58m
Kelly J. Whitmer, “The Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community: Observation, Eclecticism, and Pietism in the Early Enlightenment” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Aug 30, 2015 • 1h 8m
James Turner, “Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
Aug 10, 2015 • 1h 6m
Meredith K. Ray, “Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Jul 8, 2015 • 1h 3m
Benjamin Schmidt, “Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe’s Early Modern World” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
May 19, 2015 • 1h 8m
Stuart Young, “Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China” (U of Hawaii Press, 2014)
Apr 25, 2015 • 1h 13m
Kurtis R. Schaeffer, et al. “The Tibetan History Reader/Sources of Tibetan Tradition” (Columbia UP, 2013)
Apr 11, 2015 • 1h 8m
Nick Wilding, "Galileo's Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge" (U Chicago Press, 2014)
Mar 16, 2015 • 1h 12m
Byonghyon Choi, “The Annals of King T’aejo: Founder of Korea’s Choson Dynasty” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Feb 18, 2015 • 49m
Kenneth M. Swope, “The Military Collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty, 1618-44” (Routledge, 2014)
Feb 11, 2015 • 1h 2m
Susan Byrne, “Law and History in Cervantes’ Don Quixote” (University of Toronto Press, 2013)
Jan 29, 2015 • 58m
Joshua S. Mostow, “Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation” (Brill, 2014)
Dec 10, 2014 • 1h 6m
Daniel Margocsy, “Commercial Visions: Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age” (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
Dec 9, 2014 • 1h 10m
Michael Gibbs Hill, trans., Wang Hui, “China from Empire to Nation-State” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Nov 17, 2014 • 1h 3m
Lawrence Lipking, “What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution” (Cornell UP, 2014)
Nov 5, 2014 • 1h 9m
Eugene Y. Park, “A Family of No Prominence: The Descendants of Pak Tokhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea” (Stanford UP, 2014)
Oct 20, 2014 • 1h 6m
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, "Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse" (Columbia UP, 2014)
Sep 29, 2014 • 1h 1m
Nabil Matar, “Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam: The Originall and Progress of Mahometanism” (Columbia UP, 2013)
Sep 18, 2014 • 55m
Toby Green, “The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
Jul 30, 2014 • 43m
Craig Martin, “Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014)
Jul 14, 2014 • 1h 9m
Noah Shusterman, “The French Revolution: Faith, Desire, and Politics” (Routledge, 2013)
Jul 14, 2014 • 1h 3m
Hugh Talat Halman, “Where The Two Seas Meet” (Fons Vitae, 2013)
Jun 10, 2014 • 1h 14m
Clare Haru Crowston, “Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France”
May 29, 2014 • 1h 0m
Richard Yeo, “Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science” (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
May 14, 2014 • 1h 10m
John Cornwell, “The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession” (Basic Books, 2014)
Apr 8, 2014 • 58m
Matthew C. Hunter, “Wicked Intelligence” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Mar 23, 2014 • 1h 13m
Josef Stern, “The Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Mar 14, 2014 • 1h 10m
Kathleen Wellman, “Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France” (Yale UP, 2013)
Jan 21, 2014 • 1h 6m
Rumee Ahmed, “Narratives of Islamic Legal Theory” (Oxford UP, 2012)
Dec 20, 2013 • 1h 0m
Sanja Perovic, "The Calendar in Revolutionary France" (Cambridge UP, 2012)
Oct 3, 2013 • 1h 2m
Annette Kolodny, “In Search of First Contact” (Duke University Press, 2012)
Oct 1, 2013 • 41m
Kees Boterbloem, “Moderniser of Russia: Andrei Vinius, 1641-1716” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Sep 7, 2013 • 1h 3m
Jonathan Hay, “Sensuous Surfaces: The Decorative Object in Early Modern China” (University of Hawaii Press, 2010)
Aug 19, 2013 • 1h 9m
Matthew W. Mosca, “From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China” (Stanford, 2013)
Jul 22, 2013 • 1h 5m
Alisha Rankin, “Panaceia’s Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany” (U. Chicago Press, 2013)
Jul 18, 2013 • 1h 5m
Brian Sandberg, “Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010)
Jul 15, 2013 • 57m
Logan Beirne, “Blood of Tyrants: George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency” (Encounter Books, 2013)
Jun 14, 2013 • 1h 6m
Martin A. Miller, “The Foundations of Modern Terrorism” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
May 31, 2013 • 1h 7m
Nicholas Popper, Walter Ralegh’s History of the World and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Apr 1, 2013 • 1h 10m
Sean Cocco, “Watching Vesuvius: A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Mar 28, 2013 • 1h 9m
Lawrence M. Principe, “The Secrets of Alchemy” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Mar 18, 2013 • 1h 5m
Joy Wiltenburg, “Crime & Culture in Early Modern Germany” (University of Virginia Press, 2012)
Mar 11, 2013 • 48m
E. C. Spary, “Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Feb 18, 2013 • 1h 5m
Janice Neri, “The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700” (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
Dec 13, 2012 • 1h 7m
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, “Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia” (Harvard University Press, 2012)
Dec 5, 2012 • 1h 4m
Russell Martin, “A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage in Early Modern Russia” (NIU Press, 2012)
Nov 29, 2012 • 1h 7m
Daniela Bleichmar, “Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Nov 26, 2012 • 1h 7m
Anthony Bale, “The Book of Marvels and Travels” (Oxford UP, 2012)
Nov 2, 2012 • 1h 9m
Pamela O. Long, “Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600” (Oregon State University Press, 2011)
Oct 26, 2012 • 1h 6m
Amy Stanley, “Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan” (University of California Press, 2012)
Sep 19, 2012 • 1h 6m
Robert Westman, “The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order” (University of California Press, 2011)
Aug 29, 2012 • 1h 10m
Avner Ben Zaken, “Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560-1660” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010)
Aug 11, 2012 • 1h 9m
Paul Friedland, “Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment In France” (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Jul 16, 2012 • 58m
Elizabeth Goldsmith, “The King’s Mistresses” (PublicAffairs, 2012)
Jun 29, 2012 • 43m
Sally Bedell Smith, “Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch” (Random House, 2012)
Jun 1, 2012 • 42m
Nabil Matar and Gerald MacLean, “Britain and the Islamic World, 1558-1713” (Oxford UP, 2011)
Mar 14, 2012 • 1h 8m
Ann M. Blair, “Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age” (Yale University Press, 2010)
Mar 7, 2012 • 1h 14m
Timothy Brook, “The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties” (Harvard UP, 2010)
Feb 24, 2012 • 1h 29m
Carol Benedict, “Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010” (University of California Press, 2011)
Feb 16, 2012 • 1h 28m
Philip Stern, “The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India” (Oxford UP, 2011)
Nov 30, 2011 • 1h 8m
Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, "Mexico's Indigenous Communities: Their Lands and Histories, 1500-2010" (U Colorado Press, 2010)
Oct 17, 2011 • 1h 2m
Andrew Curran, “The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2011)
Oct 10, 2011 • 54m
Eric Rath, “Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan” (University of California Press, 2010)
Aug 4, 2011 • 1h 20m
Robert Pasnau, “Metaphysical Themes: 1274-1671” (Oxford UP, 2011)
Jul 15, 2011 • 1h 3m
Dagmar Schaefer, “The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
May 31, 2011 • 59m
Virginia Scharff, “The Women Jefferson Loved” (HarperCollins, 2010)
Feb 11, 2011 • 1h 9m
Ann Fabian, “The Skull Collectors: Race, Science and America’s Unburied Dead” (University of Chicago, 2010)
Dec 17, 2010 • 1h 1m
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, “Russian Orientalism” (Yale UP, 2010)
Oct 8, 2010 • 1h 1m
Toby Lester, “The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America its Name” (Free Press, 2009)
Jan 7, 2010 • 1h 17m
Sarah Ross, “The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England” (Harvard UP, 2009)
Dec 11, 2009 • 1h 6m
J. D. Bowers, “Joseph Priestley and English Unitarianism in America” (Penn State University Press, 2007)
Mar 14, 2008 • 55m
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