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Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2023)

57 mins; September 22, 2023

David Simpson, "Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature" (Stanford UP, 2022)

35 mins; September 19, 2023

Deanne Williams, "Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy" (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)

56 mins; September 18, 2023

Lenora Hanson, "The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation" (Stanford UP, 2022)

69 hours 45 mins; September 18, 2023

Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

40 mins; September 16, 2023

Edgar Garcia, "Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

74 hours 22 mins; September 16, 2023

Rebecca Kingston, "Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

47 mins; September 14, 2023

Neil Tarrant, "Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

69 hours 19 mins; September 13, 2023

A Better Way to Buy Books

34 mins; September 12, 2023

Padraic X. Scanlan, "Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain" (Robinson, 2021)

86 hours 53 mins; September 11, 2023

Alistair Moffat, "War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans" (Birlinn, 2023)

56 mins; September 10, 2023

Teresa Michals, "Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy" (U Virginia Press, 2021)

21 mins; September 09, 2023

Prachi Deshpande, "Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India" (Permanent Black, 2023)

59 mins; September 09, 2023

Divya Cherian, "The Owl and the Occult: Popular Politics and Social Liminality in Early Modern South Asia" (2023)

55 mins; September 09, 2023

Steven Veerapen, "The Wisest Fool: The Life of James VI and I" (Birlinn, 2023)

53 mins; September 07, 2023

Maximillian Mørch, "Plains of Discontent: A Political History of Nepal’s Tarai (1743-2019)" (FinePrint, 2023)

47 mins; September 07, 2023

James Newlin and James W. Stone, "New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains" (Routledge, 2023)

61 hours 32 mins; September 06, 2023

Taylor Cowdery, "Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

82 hours 39 mins; September 06, 2023

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)

62 hours 7 mins; September 04, 2023

Yanna Yannakakis, "Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico" (Duke UP, 2023)

62 hours 12 mins; September 04, 2023

Peter K. Andersson, "Fool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man" (Princeton UP, 2023)

24 mins; September 02, 2023

Aaron Kunin, "Character as Form" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

96 hours 49 mins; September 01, 2023

Annie Rachel Royson, "Texts, Traditions, and Sacredness: Cultural Translation in Kristapurana" (Routledge, 2023)

53 mins; August 31, 2023

Bonnie Gordon, "Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

57 mins; August 31, 2023

Una McIlvenna, "Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900" (Oxford UP, 2022)

52 mins; August 31, 2023

David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)

69 hours 43 mins; August 28, 2023

Jeremy Black, "Why the Industrial Revolution Happened in Britain" (Amberley Publishing, 2023)

25 mins; August 26, 2023

Stephanie Barczewski, "How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023)

57 mins; August 23, 2023

Adam Jasienski, "Praying to Portraits: Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World" (Penn State UP, 2023)

50 mins; August 21, 2023

Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

40 mins; August 21, 2023

Peter Moore, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776)" ( FSG, 2023)

70 hours 26 mins; August 20, 2023

Conor Lucey, "House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life" (Four Courts Press, 2022)

33 mins; August 19, 2023

Diane Purkiss, "English Food: A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables (William Collins, 2022)

64 hours 31 mins; August 18, 2023

Nicholas Hoover Wilson, "Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India" (Columbia UP, 2023)

46 mins; August 17, 2023

Hans Kundnani, "Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project" (Hurst, 2023)

48 mins; August 17, 2023

Christopher D. Bahl and Stefan Hanß, "Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

52 mins; August 16, 2023

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)

60 hours 14 mins; August 15, 2023

Al Coppola, "The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2016)

50 mins; August 15, 2023

Sara Beam, "Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva" (U Toronto Press, 2020)

53 mins; August 14, 2023

Jeremy Black, "Smollett's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)

22 mins; August 14, 2023

Simon Mills, "A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760" (Oxford UP, 2020)

52 mins; August 13, 2023

Andrii Portnov, "Dnipro: An Entangled History of a European City" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)

60 hours 17 mins; August 09, 2023

Christine Schott, "Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)

52 mins; August 04, 2023

Share and Share Alike: Researching Sibling Relationships in Eighteenth-Century England

81 hours 52 mins; August 03, 2023

Finola O'Kane, "Landscape Design and Revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688-1815" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2023)

57 mins; July 30, 2023

The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke

52 mins; July 28, 2023

Lucy Moffat Kaufman, "A People’s Reformation: Building the English Church in the Elizabethan Parish" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2023)

75 hours 41 mins; July 27, 2023

Eric Van Young, "Stormy Passage: Mexico from Colony to Republic, 1750-1850" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

92 hours 33 mins; July 27, 2023

Kathleen Lubey, "What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2022)

71 hours 14 mins; July 24, 2023

Owen Stanwood, "The Global Refuge: Huguenots in an Age of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2019)

52 mins; July 22, 2023

Stefan Rinke, "Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan" (Oxford UP, 2023)

66 hours 0 mins; July 22, 2023

Heidi Hausse, "The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany" (Manchester UP, 2023)

52 mins; July 21, 2023

"Companionable Thinking: Spenser With..." Spencer Studies, Volume 37 (2023)

75 hours 1 min; July 21, 2023

Hassan S. Khalilieh, "Islamic Law of the Sea: Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

48 mins; July 12, 2023

Liana Saif et al., "Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice" (Brill, 2020)

62 hours 45 mins; July 10, 2023

Kevin Killeen, "The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable" (Stanford UP, 2023)

73 hours 2 mins; July 09, 2023

Nile Green, "How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding" (Yale UP, 2023)

99 hours 30 mins; July 08, 2023

Nicole Bauer, "Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

83 hours 17 mins; July 08, 2023

Marco Caboara, "Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735" (Brill, 2022)

42 mins; July 06, 2023

David Tavárez, "Rethinking Zapotec Time: Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico" (U Texas Press, 2022)

76 hours 18 mins; July 05, 2023

Adhaar Noor Desai, "Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Discomposition" (Cornell UP, 2023)

71 hours 30 mins; July 04, 2023

Rose Marie San Juan, "Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)

58 mins; July 03, 2023

Katie Kadue, "Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

50 mins; July 03, 2023

Greg A. Salazar, "Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England: The Theology and Career of Daniel Featley" (Oxford UP, 2022)

37 mins; July 01, 2023

Yael Rice, "The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court" (U Washington Press, 2023)

59 mins; June 30, 2023

Kaya Sahin, "Peerless Among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman" (Oxford UP, 2023)

66 hours 58 mins; June 29, 2023

Joëlle Rollo-Koster, "The Great Western Schism, 1378-1417: Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

74 hours 19 mins; June 29, 2023

Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)

54 mins; June 26, 2023

Rebecca Whiteley, "Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

38 mins; June 26, 2023

Mongol Nomadism, Mongol Identity, and the Fall of the Mongol Empire

53 mins; June 25, 2023

Jean Pfaelzer, "California, a Slave State" (Yale UP, 2023)

54 mins; June 23, 2023

David Cressy, "Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea" (Oxford UP, 2022)

55 mins; June 21, 2023

The Environmental Unconscious

21 mins; June 20, 2023

Rachel E. Walker, "Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

51 mins; June 19, 2023

Simon Dreher and Wolfgang Mueller, "Foreigners in Muscovy: Western Immigrants in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Russia" (Routledge, 2023)

68 hours 31 mins; June 18, 2023

Vera Keller, "The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

69 hours 2 mins; June 17, 2023

Simon Paul Cox, "The Subtle Body: A Genealogy" (Oxford UP, 2021)

56 mins; June 15, 2023

Michael B. Gill, "A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art" (Princeton UP, 2022)

67 hours 44 mins; June 14, 2023

Robert Aldrich and Andreas Stucki, "The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

90 hours 1 min; June 12, 2023

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, "Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)

61 hours 40 mins; June 12, 2023

Jacqueline Beatty, "In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America" (NYU Press, 2023)

51 mins; June 11, 2023

Peter H. Wilson, "Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500" (Harvard UP, 2023)

60 hours 11 mins; June 10, 2023

Anne L. Murphy, "Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England" (Princeton UP, 2023)

51 mins; June 08, 2023

Felipe Valencia, "The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)

35 mins; June 05, 2023

Jonathan Abel, "Guibert's General Essay on Tactics" (Brill, 2021)

48 mins; June 04, 2023

Adrian Masters, "We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

69 hours 38 mins; June 03, 2023

Anne Gerritsen and Burton Cleetus, "Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

54 mins; May 29, 2023

Strategy and Saratoga: A Conversation with Kevin Weddle

56 mins; May 27, 2023

Nicholas Scott Baker, "In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

58 mins; May 26, 2023

Suzanne Sutherland, "The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur: War, Diplomacy, and Knowledge in Habsburg Europe" (Cornell UP, 2022)

58 mins; May 24, 2023

Alan Marshall, "Intelligence and Espionage in the English Republic C. 1600-60" (Manchester UP, 2023)

36 mins; May 24, 2023

Sagang Sechen, "The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty" (Columbia UP, 2023)

50 mins; May 22, 2023

Rila Mukherjee, "India in the Indian Ocean World: From the Earliest Times to 1800 CE" (Springer, 2022)

46 mins; May 21, 2023

Carlo Parisi, "Dagger Fencing: The Italian School" (Fallen Rook, 2016)

55 mins; May 20, 2023

Troy Bickham, "Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Reaktion Books, 2020)

70 hours 51 mins; May 19, 2023

Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2023)

54 mins; May 18, 2023

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)

80 hours 33 mins; May 16, 2023

Andrew R. Casper, "An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)

56 mins; May 11, 2023

Christianity and the American Founding with Mark David Hall

56 mins; May 09, 2023

Christine Kooi, "Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

71 hours 29 mins; May 06, 2023

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