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

33 mins; August 19, 2023

Samuel Moyn, "Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times" (Yale UP, 2023)

49 mins; August 19, 2023

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

107 hours 46 mins; August 18, 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

Isadore Ryan, "No Way Out: The Irish in Wartime France, 1939–1945" (Mercier Press, 2018)

61 hours 30 mins; August 18, 2023

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

48 mins; August 17, 2023

Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell, "Johnson at 10: The Inside Story" (Atlantic Books, 2023)

44 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

Toward a More Expansive View of Medieval Europe: Kyivan Rus and Norman Salerno in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

68 hours 19 mins; August 14, 2023

Michael Broers, "Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire, 1811-1821" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

35 mins; August 12, 2023

Aleksandra Nicole Pfau, "Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)

46 mins; August 11, 2023

Esra Özyürek, "Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany" (Stanford UP, 2023)

43 mins; August 10, 2023

Jon Stewart, "A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century: Confrontations with Nothingness" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

75 hours 44 mins; August 09, 2023

Daniel Foliard, "The Violence of Colonial Photography" (Manchester UP, 2022)

76 hours 34 mins; August 08, 2023

Steven Press, "Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa" (Harvard UP, 2021)

82 hours 36 mins; August 08, 2023

Richard C. Hoffmann, "The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

59 mins; August 07, 2023

Sharon Thompson, "Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law" (Hart Publishing, 2022)

56 mins; August 06, 2023

Mike Rothschild, "Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories" (Melville House, 2023)

49 mins; August 06, 2023

Michèle Miller Sigg, "Birthing Revival: Women and Mission in Nineteenth-Century France" (Baylor UP, 2022)

96 hours 35 mins; August 05, 2023

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

81 hours 52 mins; August 03, 2023

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

70 hours 45 mins; August 02, 2023

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

46 mins; August 01, 2023

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

36 mins; August 01, 2023

Ben Highmore, "In Good Taste: How Britain's Middle Classes Found Their Style" (Manchester UP, 2023)

43 mins; July 31, 2023

Manfred B. Steger and Ravi K. Roy, "Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2021)

66 hours 49 mins; July 30, 2023

Jonathan R. Topham, "Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

57 mins; July 29, 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

Rahil Roodsaz, "Sexual Self-Fashioning: Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging" (Berghahn Books, 2022)

36 mins; July 26, 2023

Joel D. Anderson, "Reimagining Christendom: Writing Iceland's Bishops Into the Roman Church, 1200-1350" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

51 mins; July 25, 2023

Ronan Bolton, "Making Energy Markets: The Origins of Electricity Liberalisation in Europe" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

57 mins; July 24, 2023

Kyle A. Thomas and Carol Symes, "The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo): A New Verse Translation, Edition, and Commentary" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)

33 mins; July 24, 2023

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

71 hours 14 mins; July 24, 2023

Yamin Levy, "The Mysticism of Andalusia: Exploring HaRambam's Mystical Tradition" (MHC Press, 2023)

53 mins; July 23, 2023

Robert Payne, "Reimagining the Family: Lesbian Mothering in Contemporary French Literature" (Peter Lang, 2021)

55 mins; July 23, 2023

Brigitte Buettner, "The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture" (Penn State UP, 2022)

60 hours 30 mins; July 23, 2023

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

52 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

Mani Sharpe, "Late-Colonial French Cinema: Filming the Algerian War of Independence" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

86 hours 31 mins; July 19, 2023

Judith Roumani, "Jews in Southern Tuscany During the Holocaust" (Lexington Books, 2020)

91 hours 23 mins; July 15, 2023

Jacqueline Kinghan, "Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change: Lawyers Changing Lives" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

65 hours 34 mins; July 11, 2023

The Future of the Sacred Nation: A Discussion with Anna M. Grzymała-Busse

40 mins; July 10, 2023

Katherine Giuffre, "Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2023)

53 mins; July 10, 2023

Robert Mills, "Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages" (U Chicago Press, 2015)

53 mins; July 09, 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

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

James Crossland, "The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Terrorism" (Manchester UP, 2023)

59 mins; July 06, 2023

Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn C. Higgins, "Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt" (Polity Press, 2023)

52 mins; July 05, 2023

Danny Orbach, "Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War" (Pegasus Books, 2022)

58 mins; July 05, 2023

Apostolos Andrikopoulos, "Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

47 mins; July 05, 2023

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

43 mins; July 04, 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

TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara

17 mins; July 02, 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

Joscha Abels, "The Politics of the Eurogroup: Governing Crisis and Conflict in the European Union" (Routledge, 2023)

58 mins; June 30, 2023

Marie Arleth Skov, "Punk Art History: Artworks from the European No Future Generation" (Intellect, 2023)

40 mins; June 30, 2023

Queer Mysticism

22 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

Daniel R. Smith, "The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945" (Manchester UP, 2023)

48 mins; June 28, 2023

Lynsey Black, "Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922-64" (Manchester UP, 2022)

38 mins; June 27, 2023

Miri Rubin, "The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2014)

50 mins; June 27, 2023

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

38 mins; June 26, 2023

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

54 mins; June 26, 2023

Marcello Musto, "The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography" (Stanford UP, 2020)

127 hours 34 mins; June 25, 2023

Chris Millington, "The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939" (Stanford UP, 2023)

63 hours 37 mins; June 22, 2023

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

55 mins; June 21, 2023

Lisabeth During, "The Chastity Plot" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

38 mins; June 21, 2023

Mary M. McGlynn, "Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction" (Syracuse UP, 2022)

50 mins; June 18, 2023

Anna Piela, "Wearing the Niqab: Muslim Women in the UK and the US" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

54 mins; June 16, 2023

Susan McCall Perlman, "Contesting France: Intelligence and US Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

74 hours 26 mins; June 16, 2023

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

67 hours 44 mins; June 14, 2023

Stephen G. Gross, "Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change" (Oxford UP, 2023)

74 hours 25 mins; June 13, 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

R. T. Howard, "Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler" (Oxford UP, 2023)

34 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

Osman Balkan, "Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

65 hours 59 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

Eliyana R. Adler and Katerina Capková, "Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

56 mins; June 04, 2023

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

48 mins; June 04, 2023

Negotiating Decolonization: The Limits of a Fairy Tale

34 mins; May 30, 2023

The Future of Wales: A Discussion with Will Hayward

49 mins; May 29, 2023

Jessica M. Marglin, "The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2022)

61 hours 1 min; May 27, 2023

Naoíse Mac Sweeney, "The West: A New History of an Old Idea" (Dutton, 2023)

42 mins; May 27, 2023

Neither Friend nor Enemy: Sweden-North Korea Relations

27 mins; May 26, 2023

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

58 mins; May 26, 2023

Patrick J. Corbeil, "Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement: Imagining a Secular World" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

64 hours 15 mins; May 26, 2023

Kenneth Mondschein, "On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)

49 mins; May 26, 2023

Black Film, British Cinema II

41 mins; May 25, 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

The Place Is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain

41 mins; May 24, 2023

Rosamond McKitterick, "Rome and the Invention of the Papacy: The Liber Pontificalis" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

49 mins; May 23, 2023

Christoph Kalter, "Postcolonial People: The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal " (Cambridge UP, 2022)

70 hours 10 mins; May 23, 2023

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

42 mins; May 23, 2023

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