Lawrence Zhang, "Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2023)
04 Dec 2023
59m
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Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)
04 Dec 2023
1h 13m
Andrew C. McKevitt, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America" (UNC Press, 2023)
04 Dec 2023
1h 0m
John Perlin, "The Forest Journey: The Story of Trees and Civilization" (Patagonia, 2023)
04 Dec 2023
28m
Robert B. Rakove, "Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion" (Columbia UP, 2023)
03 Dec 2023
1h 21m
Sima Saigal, "The Second World War and North East India: Shadows of Yesteryears" (Routledge, 2022)
03 Dec 2023
1h 21m
Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
03 Dec 2023
55m
Tracy E. Perkins, "Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism" (U California Press, 2022)
03 Dec 2023
1h 6m
Samiparna Samanta, "Meat, Mercy, Morality: Animals and Humanitarianism in Colonial Bengal, 1850-1920" (Oxford UP, 2021)
02 Dec 2023
1h 9m
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
02 Dec 2023
58m
J. Christopher Edwards, "Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus" (Fortress Press, 2023)
02 Dec 2023
1h 15m
Daniel Herbert, "Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film" (U California Press, 2023)
02 Dec 2023
1h 20m
Daniel Jütte, "Transparency: The Material History of an Idea" (Yale UP, 2023)
01 Dec 2023
1h 3m
Andrew Pettegree, "The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict" (Basic Books, 2023)
01 Dec 2023
50m
Sinae Hyun, "Indigenizing the Cold War: The Border Patrol Police and Nation-Building in Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
01 Dec 2023
1h 2m
Rachel Stephens, "Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture" (U Arkansas Press, 2023)
01 Dec 2023
54m
Jeff Jarvis, "The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
01 Dec 2023
1h 3m
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30 Nov 2023
1h 2m
John Zubrzycki, "Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States" (Hurst, 2024)
30 Nov 2023
59m
Russ Castronovo, "American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability" (Princeton UP, 2023)
30 Nov 2023
1h 16m
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