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New Books in Early Modern History

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Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" (PublicAffairs, 2023)

46 mins; May 05, 2023

Emma Hagström Molin, "Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries" (Brill, 2023)

57 mins; May 05, 2023

Francis Xavier Clooney, "Saint Joseph in South India: Poetry, Mission and Theology in Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi's Tēmpāvaṇi" (Brill, 2022)

62 hours 21 mins; May 04, 2023

Maura Dykstra, "Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State" (Harvard UP, 2022)

63 hours 8 mins; April 30, 2023

Nicole von Germeten, "Death in Old Mexico: The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

72 hours 45 mins; April 30, 2023

All Men Are Created Equal: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo

65 hours 22 mins; April 28, 2023

Corrado Confalonieri, "Torquato Tasso and the Desire for Unity: 'Jerusalem Delivered' and a New Theory of the Epic" (Carocci editore, 2022)

73 hours 43 mins; April 27, 2023

Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America: A Conversation with Michael Breidenbach

50 mins; April 25, 2023

Benjamin L. Carp, "The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution" (Yale UP, 2023)

63 hours 32 mins; April 25, 2023

Scott Newstok, "How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education" (Princeton UP, 2020)

47 mins; April 23, 2023

Mònica Calabritto, "Murder and Madness on Trial: A Tale of True Crime from Early Modern Bologna" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)

52 mins; April 23, 2023

Ana Schwartz, "Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America" (UNC Press, 2022)

51 mins; April 23, 2023

Vanessa Wilkie, "A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England" (Atria Books, 2023)

81 hours 51 mins; April 22, 2023

Elizabeth Elbourne, "Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842" (Cambridge UP., 2022)

68 hours 13 mins; April 21, 2023

Ângela Barreto Xavier, "Religion and Empire in Portuguese India: Conversion, Resistance, and the Making of Goa" (SUNY Press, 2022)

44 mins; April 20, 2023

Benjamin E. Park, "American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783-1833" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

68 hours 42 mins; April 18, 2023

Timothy Sean Quinn, "Apiqoros: The Last Essays of Salomon Maimon" (Hebrew Union College Press, 2021)

95 hours 12 mins; April 18, 2023

George Washington and American Honor: A Conversation with Craig Bruce Smith

54 mins; April 14, 2023

Christopher S. Celenza, "The Italian Renaissance and the Origin of the Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

59 mins; April 13, 2023

The Roots of Equity and Equality: A Conversation with Teresa Bejan

61 hours 21 mins; April 11, 2023

Dror Goldberg, "Easy Money: American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

46 mins; April 09, 2023

This is My Body: Communion and Cannibalism in Colonial New England and New France

23 mins; April 07, 2023

Tony K. Stewart, "Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination" (U California Press, 2019)

47 mins; April 06, 2023

God, The Founders, and Natural Law: A Conversation with Phil Muñoz

33 mins; April 05, 2023

Greta LaFleur et al., "Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern" (Cornell UP, 2021)

53 mins; April 05, 2023

Katherine Johnston, "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2022)

63 hours 35 mins; April 03, 2023

Andrew D. Berns, "The Land Is Mine: Sephardi Jews and Bible Commentary in the Renaissance" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

65 hours 48 mins; April 02, 2023

David Lester and Marcus Rediker, "Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, a Graphic Novel" (Beacon Press, 2023)

67 hours 47 mins; March 31, 2023

School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education

60 hours 31 mins; March 30, 2023

School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education

60 hours 31 mins; March 30, 2023

Joshua D. Schendel, "The Necessity of Christ's Satisfaction: A Study of the Reformed Scholastic Theologians William Twisse (1578-1646) and John Owen (1616-1683)" (Brill, 2022)

37 mins; March 27, 2023

Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)

72 hours 35 mins; March 24, 2023

Aaron Spencer Fogleman and Robert Hanserd, "Five Hundred African Voices: A Catalog of Published Accounts by Africans Enslaved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1586-1936" (APS, 2022)

38 mins; March 22, 2023

Woody Holton, "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)

53 mins; March 21, 2023

Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden, "Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000–1800" (Princeton UP, 2022)

56 mins; March 18, 2023

Laura Kolb, "Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare" (Oxford UP, 2021)

54 mins; March 14, 2023

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran, "Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race" (Harvard UP, 2022)

61 hours 17 mins; March 14, 2023

Illuminations Episode 1: Experimental Methods

35 mins; March 12, 2023

Richard Thompson Ford, "Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History" (Simon & Schuster, 2021)

63 hours 48 mins; March 11, 2023

A Yankee Rebellion? The Regulators, New England, and the New Nation

34 mins; March 10, 2023

Audrey Truschke, "The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule" (Columbia UP, 2021)

64 hours 23 mins; March 10, 2023

Jessica Rosenberg, "Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

64 hours 40 mins; March 10, 2023

Jacqueline Broad, "Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence" (Oxford UP, 2019)

65 hours 57 mins; March 08, 2023

Clare Griffin, "Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

50 mins; March 06, 2023

Ben Dodds, "Myths and Memories of the Black Death" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

39 mins; March 06, 2023

Shivan Mahendrarajah, "A History of Herat: From Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

71 hours 5 mins; March 05, 2023

Marcus Rediker, "The Slave Ship: A Human History" (Penguin, 2008)

56 mins; March 03, 2023

Geoffrey Parker and Colin Martin, "Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance In 1588" (Yale UP, 2022)

67 hours 33 mins; March 03, 2023

Marilyn Migiel, "Veronica Franco in Dialogue" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

78 hours 22 mins; March 02, 2023

Kenneth R. Stow, "Anna and Tranquillo: Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions" (Yale UP, 2016)

86 hours 9 mins; February 28, 2023

Thomas Kuehn, "Patrimony and Law in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

48 mins; February 27, 2023

Caroline Dodds Pennock, "On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe" (Knopf, 2023)

60 hours 15 mins; February 26, 2023

Anthony Bale, "Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

81 hours 10 mins; February 25, 2023

Chris Bongie, trans. and ed., "The Colonial System Unveiled by Baron de Vastey" (Liverpool UP, 2014)

100 hours 44 mins; February 21, 2023

Nathan Vedal, "The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge" (Columbia UP, 2022)

63 hours 18 mins; February 21, 2023

Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)

44 mins; February 19, 2023

Justin W. Henry, "Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below" (Oxford UP, 2022)

25 mins; February 16, 2023

Bewitchment, Possession, and the Diabolical Arts: Daily Life in New France

31 mins; February 15, 2023

Golda Akhiezer, "Historical Consciousness, Haskalah, and Nationalism Among the Karaites of Eastern Europe" (Brill, 2017)

90 hours 13 mins; February 11, 2023

John Goodlad, "The Salt Roads: How Fish Made a Culture" (Birlinn, 2022)

66 hours 54 mins; February 10, 2023

Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage" (Oxford UP, 2022)

72 hours 36 mins; February 10, 2023

Mary E. Sommar, "The Slaves of the Churches: A History" (Oxford UP, 2020)

49 mins; February 09, 2023

Alan Verskin, "Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni Through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe" (Stanford UP, 2023)

73 hours 29 mins; February 06, 2023

M. M. Silver, "The History of Galilee, 1538-1949" (Lexington Books, 2022)

117 hours 20 mins; February 04, 2023

Curtis Runstedler, "Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

59 mins; February 03, 2023

Michael Lawrence Dickinson, "Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

62 hours 13 mins; February 02, 2023

War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence

66 hours 51 mins; January 31, 2023

Nicole von Germeten, "The Enlightened Patrolman: Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

77 hours 30 mins; January 31, 2023

Angela Vanhaelen, "The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths" (Penn State UP, 2022)

49 mins; January 30, 2023

Mark A. Schneegurt, "Anthology of Religious Poetry from the Mexican Inquisition Trials of 16th-Century CryptoJews" (2020)

80 hours 7 mins; January 30, 2023

Apocalypse Past, Present, and Future: Thinking about the End in History and Culture

63 hours 30 mins; January 29, 2023

Elizabeth Kelly Gray, "Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914" (Oxford UP, 2023)

59 mins; January 27, 2023

Igor H. De Souza, "Rewriting Maimonides: Early Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed" (de Gruyter, 2018)

89 hours 42 mins; January 26, 2023

Shaping Civilisations: The Sea in Asian History

24 mins; January 26, 2023

Stealing the Canon: Who Should Be In and Who Should Be Out?

31 mins; January 24, 2023

Podcast Series: Hell on Earth--The 30 Years War and the Violent Birth of Capitalism

86 hours 8 mins; January 22, 2023

Wolfgang P. Müller, "Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

53 mins; January 21, 2023

Robert Ovetz, "We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few" (Pluto Press, 2022)

71 hours 12 mins; January 18, 2023

Stuart Carroll, "Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

52 mins; January 16, 2023

Holy Paradox and St. Teresa of Ávila: Mysticism in Sixteenth Century Spain

54 mins; January 15, 2023

Miguel Valerio, "Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

41 mins; January 14, 2023

Vincent Phillip Muñoz, "Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

81 hours 43 mins; January 11, 2023

Robin Vose, "The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle Over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God" (Reaktion, 2022)

53 mins; January 09, 2023

Rousseau's Ideas About Censorship in the Arts

100 hours 37 mins; January 09, 2023

Urvashi Chakravarty, "Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

67 hours 9 mins; January 07, 2023

Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, "She Is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

49 mins; January 03, 2023

Paul Nelles and Rosa Salzberg, "Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World: The Practice and Experience of Movement" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)

33 mins; January 02, 2023

Zachary Schrag, "The Princeton Guide to Historical Research" (Princeton UP, 2021)

42 mins; December 31, 2022

Garritt van Dyk, "Commerce, Food, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England and France" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)

72 hours 7 mins; December 26, 2022

Stephen Dobranski, "Reading John Milton: How to Persist in Troubled Times" (Stanford UP, 2022)

36 mins; December 24, 2022

Tzafrir Barzilay, "Poisoned Wells: Accusations, Persecution, and Minorities in Medieval Europe, 1321-1422" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

57 mins; December 24, 2022

Noémie Ndiaye, "Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

77 hours 24 mins; December 21, 2022

John Stratton Hawley, "A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement" (Harvard UP, 2015)

52 mins; December 20, 2022

Pamela H. Smith, "From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

61 hours 59 mins; December 19, 2022

Carl Griffin, "The Politics of Hunger: Protest, Poverty and Policy in England, 1750-1840" (Manchester UP, 2020)

67 hours 57 mins; December 19, 2022

On William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

29 mins; December 19, 2022

On Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote"

32 mins; December 16, 2022

On Voltaire's "Candide"

27 mins; December 14, 2022

Elizabeth N. Ellis. "The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

59 mins; December 14, 2022

Leigh T. I. Penman, "The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism: The Early Modern Origins of the Intellectual Ideal" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

91 hours 53 mins; December 11, 2022

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