Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian, "The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform" (Yale UP, 2024)
06 May 2025
41m
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05 May 2025
48m
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04 May 2025
1h 0m
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03 May 2025
1h 2m
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02 May 2025
55m
Jeremy Black, "Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of George I, 1714-1727" (Routledge, 2016)
01 May 2025
40m
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30 Apr 2025
1h 13m
Steven Hahn, "Illiberal America: A History" (Norton, 2024)
29 Apr 2025
51m
Reider Payne, "War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
28 Apr 2025
1h 12m
Ross Benes, "1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
27 Apr 2025
48m
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26 Apr 2025
1h 5m
Richard Overy, "Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan" (Norton, 2025)
25 Apr 2025
39m
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24 Apr 2025
1h 15m
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23 Apr 2025
46m
Max Hastings, “Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975” (Harper, 2018)
22 Apr 2025
55m
Ulf Zander, "Raoul Wallenberg: Life and Legacy" (Lund UP, 2024)
21 Apr 2025
1h 10m
Henry Jenkins, "Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America" (NYU Press, 2025)
20 Apr 2025
58m
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19 Apr 2025
57m
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18 Apr 2025
45m
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17 Apr 2025
45m
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