New Books in European Studies
Interviews with Scholars of Europe about their New Books
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- Description
- Interviews with Scholars of Europe about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-02 16:57
- last episode published
- 2024-12-30 09:00
- publication frequency
- 2.72 days
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- Marshall Poe
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-12-30 |
Nicholas R. Jones, "Cervantine Blackness" (Penn State UP, 2024) There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profound silence about the Spanish author’s compelling literary construction and cultural codification of Black Africans and sub-Saharan Africa. In Cervantin... |
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| 2024-12-29 | In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" — countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland — pirated the works of prominent (and often banned) French... |
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| 2024-12-29 |
Sara Lodge, "The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective" (Yale UP, 2024) In The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (Yale UP, 2024), Sara Lodge tells stories of women who brought 19th century criminals to justice, in real life and popular culture, as unacknowledged crime-fighters and feminist icons. On stage ... |
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| 2024-12-29 |
Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022) The British Marxist Historians, originally published in 1995, remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most influential contemporary academic traditions in history and social theory. In this classic text, Kaye looks at Ma... |
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| 2024-12-29 | Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People (Basic Books, 2024) is the first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth century thought. At... |
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| 2024-12-28 |
Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020) Who is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativist philosophy responsible for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right, he is one of the architects of Cultural Marxism. To his academic critics, he reduced French philosoph... |
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| 2024-12-28 | We think we know all there is to know about Britain's Second World War. We don't. This radical re-interpretation of British history and British Conservatism between 1939 and 1945 reveals the bold, at times utopian, plans British Conservatives drew up f... |
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| 2024-12-27 | John Eglin talks with Jana Byars about The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency (Oxford UP, 2023). Gambling captures as nothing else the drama of the "long eighteenth century" between the age of religious wars and ... |
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| 2024-12-27 |
Giovanna Ceserani, "A World Made by Traval: A Digital Grand Tour" (Stanford UP, 2024) In the eighteenth century, tens of thousands of travelers journeyed to Italy on the Grand Tour. These travels in the age of Enlightenment contributed to a massive reimagining of politics and the arts, of the market for culture, and of ideas about educa... |
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| 2024-12-27 |
Ben Highmore, "Playgrounds: The Experimental Years" (Reaktion, 2024) After World War II, a new kind of playground emerged in Northern Europe and North America. Rather than slides, swings, and roundabouts, these new playgrounds encouraged children to build shacks and invent their own entertainment. Playgrounds: The Expe... |
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