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Avner Greif et al., "Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000" (Princeton UP, 2025)

50 mins; April 02, 2026

Arthur W. Gullachsen, "The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision Hitlerjugend: Volume II: Operations Martlet, Epsom, Windsor and Charnwood 11 June-12 July 1944" (Casemate, 2026)

59 mins; March 31, 2026

Colloquies on European Civil Procedure: A Conversation with Marco de Benito

39 mins; March 28, 2026

Elisheva Baumgarten, "Beyond the Elite: Everyday Jewish Lives in Medieval Northern Europe" (Cornell UP, 2026)

53 mins; March 28, 2026

Joanna Siekiera ed., "NATO Stability Policing: Beneficial Tool in Filling the Security Gap and Establishing the Rule of Law, and a Safe and Secure Environment" (NATO Stability Policing Centre Of Excellence, 2024)

69 hours 45 mins; March 25, 2026

Claire Goldstein, "Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France" (Northwestern UP, 2025)

39 mins; March 24, 2026

David Bather Woods, "Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

76 hours 34 mins; March 23, 2026

Steffan Blayney, "Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body" (Activist Studies of Science, 2022)

44 mins; March 23, 2026

Andrew I. Port, "Germany" (Polity, 2025)

74 hours 6 mins; March 22, 2026

Orsi Husz, "Bankminded: Banks As Intimate Agents of Everyday Life in Welfare State Sweden" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)

46 mins; March 22, 2026

Maria A. Sanchez, "Deference and Divergence in Regional Human Rights Courts" (Cornell UP, 2026)

51 mins; March 20, 2026

Alec Ryrie, "The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It" (Reaktion, 2025)

53 mins; March 15, 2026

Foster Chamberlin, "Uncivil Guard: Policing, Military Culture, and the Coming of the Spanish Civil War" (Louisiana State UP, 2025)

53 mins; March 15, 2026

Tristan J. Rogers, "Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction" (Routledge, 2025)

74 hours 49 mins; March 14, 2026

Jessica Clarke, "A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

49 mins; March 13, 2026

Kim Bowes, "Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent" (Princeton UP, 2025)

61 hours 38 mins; March 12, 2026

Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Paul Poast, "Wheat at War: Allied Economic Cooperation in the Great War" (Oxford UP, 2025)

54 mins; March 03, 2026

Todd H. Weir and Lieke Wijnia, eds., "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Heritage in Contemporary Europe" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

82 hours 37 mins; February 23, 2026

Good and Bad Palm Oil: Food Security, Paradigm Shift and Stakeholder Negotiations in Indonesia and the EU

31 mins; February 20, 2026

How Corporate Lobbyists are Capturing EU Institutions

33 mins; February 16, 2026

Manchán Magan, "Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape" (Chelsea Green, 2026)

39 mins; February 11, 2026

A. Bagliani and N, Şenocak, "A People's Church: Medieval Italy and Christianity, 1050-1300" (Cornell UP, 2023)

60 hours 5 mins; February 07, 2026

164 Maurice Samuels: Jewish Assimilation, Integration and the Dreyfus Affair (JP)

60 hours 19 mins; February 05, 2026

Jacqueline Riding, "Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London" (Profile Books, 2025)

63 hours 48 mins; February 05, 2026

Andrew Billing, "Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-century Liberal Political Writing" (Routledge, 2023)

56 mins; February 04, 2026

David McCrone, "Changing Scotland: Society, Politics and Identity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

108 hours 47 mins; February 03, 2026

Peter Stansky, "The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War" (Stanford UP, 2023)

43 mins; January 31, 2026

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

60 hours 11 mins; January 31, 2026

Tom Menger, "The Colonial Way of War: Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German and Dutch Empires, c. 1890-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

62 hours 12 mins; January 30, 2026

Bram de Maeyer, "Building for Belgium: Belgian Embassies in a Globalising World (1945-2020)" (Leuven UP, 2025)

37 mins; January 28, 2026

Erika Quinn, "This Horrible Uncertainty: A German Woman Writes War, 1939-1948" (Berghahn Books, 2024)

35 mins; January 25, 2026

Christian Raffensperger, "Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe" (Routledge, 2022)

46 mins; January 24, 2026

Alison Rowlands, "Witchcraft Narratives in Germany: Rothenburg, 1561-1652" (Manchester UP, 2026)

52 mins; January 21, 2026

Sara Petrosillo, "Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

50 mins; January 19, 2026

Jamie Kreiner, "The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction" (Liveright, 2023)

44 mins; January 18, 2026

Jorge Marco and Gutmaro Gomez Bravo, "The Fabric of Fear: Building Franco's New Society in Spain, 1936-1950" (Liverpool UP, 2023)

71 hours 42 mins; January 18, 2026

Elwin Hofman et al. eds., "The Business of Pleasure: A History of Paid Sex in the Heart of Europe" (Leuven UP, 2022)

50 mins; January 17, 2026

Anna Sergi, "How to Recognize the Mafia Abroad: Critical Notes on ‘ndrangheta Mobility" (Policy Press, 2025)

55 mins; January 12, 2026

Sheiba Kian Kaufman, "Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama" (Oxford UP, 2025)

59 mins; January 11, 2026

Rachel Midura, "Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe" (Cornell UP, 2025)

41 mins; January 10, 2026

Amitav Acharya, "The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West" (Hachette UK, 2025)

56 mins; January 10, 2026

Jürgen Zimmerer, "Memory Wars: New German Historical Consciousness" (Reclam Verlag, 2023)

61 hours 32 mins; January 09, 2026

Moritz Föllmer, "The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century European History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

75 hours 6 mins; January 09, 2026

John Samuel Harpham, "Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2025)

95 hours 17 mins; January 09, 2026

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

51 mins; January 08, 2026

Jessica Kelly and Neal Shasore, "Reconstruction: Architecture, Society and the Aftermath of the First World War" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

44 mins; January 07, 2026

Matt Dawson, "The Political Durkheim: Sociology, Socialism, Legacies" (Routledge, 2023)

46 mins; January 06, 2026

D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

46 mins; January 05, 2026

Andrew S. Curran, "Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson" (Other Press, 2026)

76 hours 45 mins; January 04, 2026

Susan McCready, "Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of the Great War" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

48 mins; January 03, 2026

Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)

113 hours 11 mins; January 02, 2026

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

48 mins; January 01, 2026

Alison Stone, "Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

55 mins; December 31, 2025

Amit Varshizky, "The Metaphysics of Race: Science and Faith in the Nazi Worldview" (Taylor & Francis, 2024)

67 hours 40 mins; December 31, 2025

Martin Jay, "Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure" (Verso, 2023)

82 hours 23 mins; December 30, 2025

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

57 mins; December 29, 2025

Lisa Silverman, "The Postwar Antisemite: Culture and Complicity After the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2025)

69 hours 29 mins; December 28, 2025

Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

63 hours 35 mins; December 25, 2025

Shlomo Pereira, "Monuments de Papel E Pergaminho: Hebrew Printing in Portugal at the End of the 15th Century" (Chabad Portugal Press, 2025)

51 mins; December 25, 2025

Andrea Maraschi and Francesca Tasca, "Food, Heresies, and Magical Boundaries in the Middle Ages (Amsterdam UP, 2024)

51 mins; December 24, 2025

Tracey Norman and Mark Norman, "Devon's Forgotten Witches: 1860–1910" (The History Press, 2025)

57 mins; December 23, 2025

Maddalena Alvi, "The European Art Market and the First World War: Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910–1925" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

60 hours 8 mins; December 17, 2025

Tullia d'Aragona, "The Wretch, Otherwise Known As Guerrino" (Iter Press, 2024)

51 mins; December 15, 2025

Ulinka Rublack, "Dürer's Coats: Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Social Recognition" (CEU Press, 2025)

37 mins; December 15, 2025

Aubrey Gabel, "The Politics of Play: Oulipo and the Legacy of French Literary Ludics" (Northwestern UP, 2025)

47 mins; December 15, 2025

Katrina Navickas, "Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England" (Reaktion, 2025)

29 mins; December 14, 2025

Colm Murphy, "Futures of Socialism: ‘Modernisation', the Labour Party, and the British Left, 1973–1997" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

70 hours 24 mins; December 13, 2025

Dan Edelstein, "The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin" (Princeton UP, 2025)

60 hours 23 mins; December 10, 2025

“Rurality 2.0”: How City Migrants are Reshaping Norway’s Rural Regions with Tom Bratrud

71 hours 7 mins; December 08, 2025

Carolyn J. Eichner, "Feminism's Empire" (Cornell UP, 2022)

82 hours 43 mins; December 01, 2025

The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress

57 mins; December 01, 2025

Patricia Anne Simpson, "Early Modern Women's Work: Kinship, Community, and Social Justice" (Routledge, 2025)

59 mins; November 30, 2025

Jacob Bloomfield, "Drag: A British History" (U California Press, 2023)

42 mins; November 29, 2025

Taylor McCall, "The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

36 mins; November 28, 2025

Darcie Fontaine, "Modern France and the World" (Routledge, 2023)

70 hours 45 mins; November 28, 2025

Radio ReOrient 13.7: "Linguistics, Citizenship and Belonging,” with Kamran Khan, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Marchella Ward

44 mins; November 28, 2025

What is Happening in the Mediterranean Right Now – And Why You Should Care

31 mins; November 26, 2025

Nina Wilen, "Securitizing the Sahel: Analyzing External Interventions and Their Consequences" (Oxford UP, 2025)

52 mins; November 25, 2025

Mary Edwards, "Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis: Knowing Others" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

107 hours 46 mins; November 23, 2025

Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)

54 mins; November 19, 2025

Tracy Borman, "The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2025)

49 mins; November 12, 2025

Lars Cornelissen, "Neoliberalism and Race" (Stanford UP, 2025)

77 hours 23 mins; November 11, 2025

Dag Nikolaus Hasse, "What Is European? On Overcoming Colonial and Romantic Modes of Thought" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)

67 hours 4 mins; November 11, 2025

Jenny C. Mann, "The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime" (Princeton UP, 2021)

48 mins; November 08, 2025

Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo, "Madrid on the Move: Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century" (Manchester UP, 2021)

55 mins; November 08, 2025

Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, "The Construction of Witchcraft in Early Modern Denmark, 1536-1617" (Routledge, 2025)

45 mins; November 01, 2025

Jakub Gortat, "Remembering National Socialism in Austrian Post-war Film" (1945-1955) (Brill, 2025)

39 mins; October 29, 2025

Kenneth G. Appold, "Luther and the Peasants: Religion, Ritual, and the Revolt Of 1525" (Oxford UP, 2025)

49 mins; October 27, 2025

Maurice Samuels, "Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair" (Yale UP, 2024)

39 mins; October 21, 2025

Paul Galvez, "Courbet's Landscapes: The Origins of Modern Painting" (Yale UP, 2022)

66 hours 22 mins; October 20, 2025

William Doyle, "Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

19 mins; October 19, 2025

Danny Orbach, "Plots Against Hitler" (Mariner, 2016)

63 hours 20 mins; October 19, 2025

Lorenzo Castellani, "Alberto Beneduce, Mussolini's Technocrat: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Fascist Italy" (Routledge, 2025)

47 mins; October 18, 2025

Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen, "Icelandic Pop: Then, Today, Tomorrow, Next Week" (Reaktion Books, 2025)

43 mins; October 18, 2025

Thomas Smith, "Rewriting the First Crusade: Epistolary Culture in the Middle Ages" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)

45 mins; October 16, 2025

Madeleine Chalmers, "French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

31 mins; October 13, 2025

Matthias Egeler, "Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld" (Yale UP, 2025)

42 mins; October 11, 2025

Andrew Lambert, "No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One" (Yale UP, 2025)

53 mins; October 07, 2025

Justine De Young, "The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

71 hours 17 mins; October 06, 2025

David M. Whitford, "The Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity" (Routledge, 2025)

57 mins; October 05, 2025

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