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Gervase Phillips, "Persecution and Genocide: A History" (Routledge, 2024)
69 hours 58 mins; January 10, 2025
Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP, 2024)
64 hours 7 mins; January 09, 2025
Rebecca Charbonneau, "Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain" (Polity, 2024)
55 mins; January 08, 2025
Peter Mandler, "The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain's Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2020)
40 mins; January 06, 2025
Emily Marker, "Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era" (Cornell UP, 2022)
68 hours 37 mins; January 05, 2025
Simon Miles, "Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2020)
76 hours 26 mins; January 04, 2025
Adam Zucker, "Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
67 hours 2 mins; January 03, 2025
Victor D. Cha, "The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea" (Columbia UP, 2024)
45 mins; January 02, 2025
Brandon Keim, "Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World" (Norton, 2024)
96 hours 37 mins; January 01, 2025
Hugh Wilford, "The CIA: An Imperial History" (Basic Books, 2024)
55 mins; December 31, 2024
Mike Madrid, "The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
67 hours 56 mins; December 30, 2024
Emily Herring, "Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People" (Basic Books, 2024)
66 hours 1 min; December 29, 2024
Kit Kowol, "Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
39 mins; December 28, 2024
Ben Highmore, "Playgrounds: The Experimental Years" (Reaktion, 2024)
47 mins; December 27, 2024
Rebecca Ball, "A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
35 mins; December 26, 2024
Lisa Sheryl Jacobson. "Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey After Prohibition" (U California Press, 2024)
93 hours 4 mins; December 25, 2024
Jordan D. Rosenblum, "Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig" (NYU Press, 2024)
65 hours 20 mins; December 24, 2024
Paula Fredriksen, "Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years" (Princeton UP, 2024)
54 mins; December 23, 2024
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, "The Unequal Effects of Globalization" (MIT, 2023)
51 mins; December 22, 2024
Lindsay Weinberg, "Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
48 mins; December 21, 2024
Jan Machielsen, "The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
50 mins; December 20, 2024
Erich Hatala Matthes, "What to Save and Why: Identity, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Conservation" (Oxford UP, 2024)
43 mins; December 19, 2024
Stephanie Rutherford, "Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)
53 mins; December 18, 2024
Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler, "Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
34 mins; December 17, 2024
Yaacov Yadgar, "To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism" (NYU Press, 2024)
62 hours 6 mins; December 16, 2024
Alissa Klots, "Domestic Service in the Soviet Union; Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
66 hours 31 mins; December 15, 2024
Robert Danisch, "Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024)
56 mins; December 14, 2024
Barbara A. Biesecker, "Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State" (Penn State Press, 2024)
48 mins; December 13, 2024
Suzanne Owen and Angela Puca, "Pagan Religions in Five Minutes" (Equinox, 2024)
40 mins; December 12, 2024
Robert Caper, "Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words: Psychoanalysis, Suggestion, and the Language of the Unconscious" (Routledge, 2020)
68 hours 1 min; December 11, 2024
Mie Nakachi, "Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union" (Oxford UP, 2021)
71 hours 6 mins; December 10, 2024
Jacob Flaws, "Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
60 hours 11 mins; December 09, 2024
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, "Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America" (W. W. Norton, 2024)
57 mins; December 08, 2024
Larry Alan Busk, "The Right-Wing Mirror of Critical Theory: Studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
70 hours 4 mins; December 06, 2024
Eric Drott, "Streaming Music, Streaming Capital" (Duke UP, 2024)
Vanessa Christina Wills, "Marx's Ethical Vision" (Oxford UP, 2024)
60 hours 11 mins; October 21, 2024
Eran Ortal, "Battle Before the War: The Inside Story of the IDF's Transformation" (Dado Center, 2023)
61 hours 55 mins; October 20, 2024
Bruce Gordon, "The Bible: A Global History" (Basic Books, 2024)
76 hours 58 mins; October 19, 2024
Anne Higonnet, "Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution" (Norton, 2024)
47 mins; October 18, 2024
Keith E. Whittington, "You Can't Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms" (Polity Press, 2024)
55 mins; October 17, 2024
Rachel O'Sullivan, "Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in Comparative Perspective" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
63 hours 5 mins; October 16, 2024
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
29 mins; October 15, 2024
Donald R. Hickey, "Tecumseh's War: The Epic Conflict for the Heart of America" (Westholme, 2023)
35 mins; October 14, 2024
Rochelle Gurstein, "Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art" (Yale UP, 2024)
65 hours 9 mins; October 13, 2024
Gretchen Sisson, "Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
69 hours 14 mins; October 12, 2024
Virginia Nicholson, "All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
69 hours 40 mins; October 11, 2024
Victor C. Shih, "Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao's Stratagem to the Rise of Xi" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
58 mins; October 10, 2024
Luke Clossey, "Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520" (Open Book, 2024)
34 mins; October 09, 2024
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, "Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians" (NYU Press, 2024)
76 hours 41 mins; October 07, 2024
A Deep Dive on Karl Marx's "Capital"
161 hours 7 mins; October 07, 2024
Nick Lloyd, "The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918" (Norton, 2024)
55 mins; October 06, 2024
Jeffrey Ding, "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" (Princeton UP, 2024)
35 mins; October 05, 2024
Sean McMeekin, "To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism" (Basic Books, 2024)
55 mins; October 04, 2024
Jon Michaels and David Noll, "Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy" (Atria/One Signal, 2024)
81 hours 36 mins; October 03, 2024
Brianna Nofil, "The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration" (Princeton UP, 2024)
39 mins; October 02, 2024
Jerome E. Copulsky, "American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order" (Yale UP, 2024)
