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Staging the Sacred: Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry (Oxford UP, 2023) examines the imp
What did going to the movies sound like back in the “silent film” era? The answer takes us on a stra
The specter of the “Godless” Soviet Union haunted the United States and continental Western Europe t
In the lead-up to every election cycle, pundits predict that Latino Americans will overwhelmingly vo
Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative capital of Portuguese Angola, was
Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940 (Manche
Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the
A vibrant urban settlement from mediaeval times and the royal seat of the Safavid dynasty, the city
Despite Haiti's proximity to the United States, and its considerable importance to our own history,
Political Scientist Heath Brown’s new book, Roadblocked: Joe Biden's Rocky Transition to the Preside
Queer Obscenity: Erotic Archives in Dictatorial Spain (Stanford University Press, 2024) takes us ins
Lesley Smith of Oxford University joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Fragments of a World:
A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires.Imperial conquest and
Over the course of the Almoravid (1040–1147) and Almohad (1121–1269) dynasties, mediaeval Marrakesh
This June 2020 episode, originally part of a Global Policing series, was Recall this Book's first ex
When General Porfirio Díaz assumed power in 1876, he ushered in Mexico's first prolonged period of p
Who was James Madison? Why were his Notes on Government so valuable to the American founding? Did Ja
Film critic Alonso Duralde and I talk his new book, Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Represe
After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through n
In Deep Time: A Literary History (Princeton UP, 2023), Noah Heringman, Curators’ Professor of Englis
