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Maurizio Isabella, "Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions" (Princeton UP, 2023)

42 mins; May 23, 2023

Bruce Pass, ed., "Herman Bavinck, "On Theology: Herman Bavinck's Academic Orations" (Brill, 2020)

27 mins; May 22, 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

Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully

57 mins; May 19, 2023

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

46 mins; May 17, 2023

Annabel L. Kim, "Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

56 mins; May 14, 2023

Sharon Hecker and Raffaele Bedarida, "Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

61 hours 19 mins; May 13, 2023

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

56 mins; May 11, 2023

Michael Brown, "Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793-1912" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

76 hours 17 mins; May 10, 2023

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

46 mins; May 10, 2023

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

71 hours 29 mins; May 06, 2023

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

57 mins; May 05, 2023

Tim Clarkson, "A Mighty Fleet and the King's Power: The Isle of Man, AD 400 To 1265" (John Donald, 2023)

50 mins; May 02, 2023

Deborah Bauer, "Marianne Is Watching: Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and the Origins of the French Surveillance State" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)

100 hours 23 mins; May 01, 2023

Stéfanie von Hlatky, "Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations" (Oxford UP, 2022)

64 hours 38 mins; May 01, 2023

Macs Smith, "Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City" (MIT Press, 2021)

67 hours 12 mins; April 29, 2023

Robin Prior, "Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain, 1914-1945" (Yale UP, 2022)

60 hours 8 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

Rachel Anne Gillett, "At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris" (Oxford UP, 2021)

62 hours 1 min; April 25, 2023

Ferenc Hörcher, "Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

37 mins; April 25, 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

Ninon Dubourg, "Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages: Un/Suitable for Divine Service?" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

49 mins; April 22, 2023

Luca Zan, "The Venice Arsenal: Between History, Heritage, and Re-Use" (Routledge, 2022)

58 mins; April 19, 2023

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

95 hours 12 mins; April 18, 2023

Charles Read, "Calming the Storms: The Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises Since 1825" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

61 hours 46 mins; April 17, 2023

David Baumeister, "Kant on the Human Animal: Anthropology, Ethics, Race" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

44 mins; April 16, 2023

The Future of Antisemitism: A Discussion with Dave Rich

58 mins; April 15, 2023

Freddy Foks, "Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain" (U California Press, 2023)

71 hours 15 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

Celeste Day Moore, "Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France" (Duke UP, 2021)

94 hours 15 mins; April 12, 2023

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

61 hours 21 mins; April 11, 2023

Thomas M. Lekan, "Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti" (Oxford UP, 2020)

77 hours 33 mins; April 11, 2023

Laura Hobson Faure, "A 'Jewish Marshall Plan': The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France" (Indiana UP, 2022)

72 hours 56 mins; April 10, 2023

Kate Strasdin, "The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

52 mins; April 10, 2023

Jacques Dalarun et al., "A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Life of Clare of Rimini" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

52 mins; April 10, 2023

Simon Strange, "Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity and the Development of Punk, Post Punk and New Wave Music" (Intellect, 2023)

43 mins; April 08, 2023

Johnny Walker, "Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978-92" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

45 mins; April 07, 2023

David I. Kertzer, "The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler" (Random House, 2022)

29 mins; April 06, 2023

Hope Williard, "Friendship in the Merovingian Kingdoms: Venantius Fortunatus and His Contemporaries" (ARC Humanities Press, 2022)

59 mins; April 06, 2023

Stuart Elden, "The Archaeology of Foucault" (Polity, 2022)

49 mins; April 05, 2023

Patrick Bixby, "Nietzsche and Irish Modernism" (Manchester UP, 2022)

64 hours 3 mins; April 05, 2023

Mauro Resmini, "Italian Political Cinema: Figure of the Long '68" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

74 hours 58 mins; April 04, 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

Jason Knirck, "Democracy and Dissent in the Irish Free State: Opposition, Decolonization, and Majority Rights" (Manchester UP, 2023)

36 mins; April 02, 2023

Susan R. Grayzel, "The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

34 mins; April 01, 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

Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, "Dindshenchas Érenn" (U College Cork, 2022)

52 mins; March 29, 2023

Declan Warde et al., "Safety As We Watch: Anaesthesia in Ireland 1847-1998" (Wordwell Books, 2022)

61 hours 55 mins; March 27, 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

John Soderberg, "Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland: Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise" (Lexington Books, 2021)

50 mins; March 24, 2023

John P. Bequette, "Bede the Theologian: History, Rhetoric, and Spirituality" (Catholic U of America Press, 2022)

25 mins; March 21, 2023

Peter Heather, "Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300" (Knopf, 2023)

60 hours 25 mins; March 21, 2023

Andrew Phemister, "Land and Liberalism: Henry George and the Irish Land War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

35 mins; March 20, 2023

Jessica Brantley, "Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

50 mins; March 19, 2023

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

56 mins; March 18, 2023

Robin Prior, "Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain, 1914-1945" (Yale UP, 2022)

110 hours 57 mins; March 17, 2023

Rick de Villiers, "Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism: Humility and Humiliation" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

31 mins; March 17, 2023

Hugh Hodges, "The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britain in 21 Mixtapes" (PM Press, 2023)

67 hours 41 mins; March 16, 2023

Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal, "Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition" (Oxford UP, 2021)

63 hours 16 mins; March 16, 2023

Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson, "Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games" (MIT Press, 2023)

49 mins; March 16, 2023

Susan Colbourn, "Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO" (Cornell UP, 2022)

73 hours 48 mins; March 14, 2023

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

54 mins; March 14, 2023

Joseph W. Peterson, "Sacred Rivals: Catholic Missions and the Making of Islam in Nineteenth-Century France and Algeria" (Oxford UP, 2022)

80 hours 59 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)

60 hours 17 mins; March 14, 2023

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

63 hours 48 mins; March 11, 2023

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

56 mins; March 11, 2023

Emily Steiner, "John Trevisa's Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400" (Oxford UP, 2021)

54 mins; March 11, 2023

Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)

45 mins; March 10, 2023

Elina Gertsman and Barbara H. Rosenwein, "The Middle Ages in 50 Objects" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

70 hours 16 mins; March 08, 2023

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

65 hours 57 mins; March 08, 2023

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

45 mins; March 08, 2023

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

39 mins; March 06, 2023

Caroline Rusterholz, "Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70" (Manchester UP, 2021)

32 mins; March 04, 2023

Ben Davies et al., "Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Oxford UP, 2022)

61 hours 16 mins; March 04, 2023

Charlie Samuelson, "Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature" (Ohio State UP, 2022)

61 hours 46 mins; March 03, 2023

Helen Solterer and Vincent Joos, "Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multilingual Literatures, Arts, and Cultures" (Manchester UP, 2022)

55 mins; March 03, 2023

Elizabeth T. Hurren, "Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

66 hours 12 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

Bernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Duke UP, 2023)

53 mins; February 25, 2023

The Future of Democratic Capitalism: A Discussion with Martin Wolf

47 mins; February 24, 2023

Joseph T. Stuart, "Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War" (Catholic U of America Press, 2022)

84 hours 23 mins; February 24, 2023

Peter Hayes, "Why? Explaining the Holocaust" (Norton, 2017)

63 hours 36 mins; February 22, 2023

Helena Hof, "The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities" (Policy Press, 2022)

68 hours 50 mins; February 22, 2023

Tara Zahra, "Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars" (Norton, 2023)

65 hours 20 mins; February 22, 2023

Leila Jancovich and David Stevenson, "Failures in Cultural Participation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

67 hours 38 mins; February 20, 2023

Alan Meades, "Arcade Britannia: A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade" (MIT Press, 2022)

55 mins; February 18, 2023

The Future of the Liberal Order: A Discussion with James E. Cronin

51 mins; February 16, 2023

Mary C. Flannery, "Practicing Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England" (Manchester UP, 2019)

43 mins; February 15, 2023

Spencer Jones, "The Darkest Year: The British Army on the Western Front 1917" (Helion and Company, 2021)

90 hours 49 mins; February 14, 2023

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

72 hours 42 mins; February 12, 2023

Jonathan Ervine, "Humour in Contemporary France: Controversy, Consensus and Contradictions" (Liverpool UP, 2019)

60 hours 9 mins; February 10, 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

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