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John Torpey, "The Three Axial Ages: Moral, Material, Mental" (Rutgers UP, 2017)


Since its initial postulation by Karl Jaspers, the concept of an “axial age” in the development of human thought and religion has exerted enormous influence in the fields of history and sociology. In The Three Axial Ages: Moral, Material, Mental (Rutgers University Press, 2017), John Torpey develops the concept further by identifying two additional axial points in human history following upon the first, “moral” age...


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 January 30, 2019  31m
 
 

episode 80: Tom Sweterlitsch, "The Gone World" (G.P. Putnam Son's, 2018)


The book opens with a brutal murder and a search for a missing girl, and maintains the pace of a chilling page-turner...


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 January 30, 2019  38m
 
 

episode 141: Brannon D. Ingram, "Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam" (U California Press, 2018)


Through careful analysis of historical textual discourses, Ingram carefully guides his readers through important polemics that manifested amongst the Deoband ‘ulama...


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 January 30, 2019  54m
 
 

episode 132: Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis. "Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham" (Empire States Editions, 2018)


A new book explores how and why New York City became a showcase for the art and architectural styles of ancient Greece and Rome.


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 January 30, 2019  41m
 
 

episode 18: Marshall Ryan Maresca, "The Way of the Shield" (DAW, 2018)


Dayne has the highest respect for the order he’s joined, the Tarians...


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 January 30, 2019  31m
 
 

episode 28: Rosalind Fredericks, "Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal" (Duke UP, 2018)


The production and removal of garbage, as a key element of the daily infrastructure of urban life, is deeply embedded in social, moral, and political contexts...


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 January 29, 2019  51m
 
 

episode 81: David L. Hoffmann, "The Stalin Era" (Cambridge UP, 2018)


In his new book The Stalinist Era (Cambridge University Press, 2018), David L. Hoffmann focuses on the myriad ways in which Stalinist practices had their origins in World War I (1914-1918) and Russian Civil War era (1918-1920)...


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 January 29, 2019  1h6m
 
 

episode 474: Jodi Campbell, "At the First Table: Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain" (U Nebraska Press, 2017)


According to Dr. Campbell, early modern Spaniards adhered to strict regulations about food consumption based on their place in the social hierarchy as well as defined categories of gender, age, occupation and religion...


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 January 29, 2019  33m
 
 

episode 30: Monica Kim, "The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History" (Princeton UP, 2019)


Monica Kim provides a fresh look at the Korean War with a people-centered approach that studies the experiences of prisoners of war...


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 January 29, 2019  1h1m
 
 

episode 257: Eiko Maruko Siniawer, "Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan" (Cornell UP, 2018)


More than a history of garbage and waste disposal, Waste is a look at the aspirations and discontents of a rapidly changing society...


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 January 29, 2019  1h14m