Podcasts with Authors about their New Books
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episode 33: Michael R. Boswell, "Climate Action Planning: A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities" (Island Press, 2019)
"Climate Action Planning" is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community's greenhouse gas emissions...
episode 7: Roberto Carmack, "Kazakhstan in World War II: Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
Carmack looks at the experience of the Kazakh Republic during the Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War...
episode 159: Claire Chambers, “Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels” (Palgrave, 2019)
Chambers outlines Muslim cultural production during this period through a literary analysis of the senses, especially those beyond the visual...
episode 615: Jason Smith, "To Master the Boundless Sea: The US Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire" (UNC Press, 2018)
Smith discusses the US Navy’s role in exploring and charting the ocean world...
episode 10: Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt, "Reconsidering Southern Labor History" (UP of Florida, 2018)
Hild and Merritt discuss the nexus of race, class and power in the history of labor in the South, and how a new generation of southern labor scholars are changing our understanding of labor's past, present and future in the region...
episode 660: Chet Van Duzer, "Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends" (Springer, 2019)
Van Duzer presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography...
episode 303: Erin Schoneveld, "Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism: Art Magazines, Artistic Collectives, and the Early Avant-Garde" (Brill, 2018)
Schoneveld shows how Shirakaba arose in opposition to the statist art of the young Meiji state,..
episode 222: Deborah Lupton, "The Quantified Self" (Polity, 2016)
Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the concepts of selfhood...
episode 663: Eleanor Parker, "Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
For all of their prominence in the popular imagination today, the historical record of the Viking presence in England is limited...
episode 664: Sarah Handley-Cousins, "Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Handley-Cousins shows how disability was a necessary by-product of the U.S. Civil War...