Best Christopher Flores Podcasts (2024)

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Ebony Nilsson, "Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 40:14

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Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Ebony Nilsson explores the lives of left-wing Soviet refugees who fled the Cold War to settle in Australia, and uncovers how they adjusted to life under surveillance in the West. As Cold War tensions built in the postwar years, many o…

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Authors in Conversation, Ep. 6 — Judy Tzu-Chun Wu & Alfred Peredo Flores discuss Tip of the Spear 30:40

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Welcome to the sixth episode of Authors in Conversation, a podcast from the series editors of the United States in the World series from Cornell University Press. This episode features UC Irvine professor Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (co-editor of the United States in the World series) speaking with Harvey Mudd College professor Alfred Peredo Flores about his …

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Alfred Peredo Flores, "Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962" (Cornell UP, 2023) 49:44

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In Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962 (Cornell University Press, 2023), Dr. Alfred Peredo Flores argues that the US occupation of the island of Guåhan (Guam), one of the most heavily militarised islands in the western Pacific Ocean, was enabled by a process of settler militarism. During World War II and th…

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author2author, Ep. 1 — Brian Carso & Tim Wendel on writing historical fiction 34:23

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An incredible conversation between historical novelists Tim Wendel, author of Rebel Falls, and Brian Carso, author of Gideon’s Revolution. Listen to them discuss their research processes, fictionalizing real events, and the importance of historical fiction in today’s increasingly polarized world. Buy Gideon’s Revolution: https://qrco.de/bew7SgMore …

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1869, Ep. 150 with Claudia Strauss, author of What Work Means 31:38

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Learn more about What Work Means here (and use 09POD to save 30% off):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501775512/Transcript here:https://otter.ai/u/wz7ZAx9DLou7RUlouoLjz1S3shI?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with Claudia Strauss, author of the new book What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic. Claudia Strauss is Prof…

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Joanna Siekiera, "21st Century as the Pacific Century: Culture and Security of Oceania States in Great Power Competition" (Warsaw UP, 2023) 1:20:35

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With the ever-greater shift of the balance of global power towards the Pacific region, what does this have implications for the geopolitics of the region? How should the rest of the world, especially Europe, address the growing power and influence of the Pacific region? How does the complex interplay of cultural, civilizational, economic, legal, en…

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Hannah Forsyth, "Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 44:42

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Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 (Cambridge UP, 2023) explores the rise of the professional middle class across the Anglophone world from c. 1870 to 2008. With a focus on British settler colonies - Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States - Hannah Forsyth argues that the …

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John Blaxland and Clare Birgin, "Revealing Secrets: An Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence and the Advent of Cyber" (UNSW Press, 2023) 1:06:23

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Why does Australia have a national signals intelligence agency? What does it do and why is it controversial? And how significant are its ties with key partners, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand, to this arrangement? Revealing Secrets: An Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence and the Advent of Cyber (Univ…

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Lifestyle and Death with Christopher Mayes 35:35

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In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Christopher Mayes. Dr Mayes is an interdisciplinary scholar with backgrounds in sociology, history and philosophy. His research interests include history and philosophy of healthcare, sociology of health and food, and bioethics. He is the author of Unsettling Food Politics Agriculture, Dispossession and Sovereignt…

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Cian T. McMahon, "The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine" (NYU Press, 2021) 53:50

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Cian T. McMahon is an associate professor of history at University of Nevada-Las Vegas. His research focuses on the history and identity of the Irish Diaspora. In this interview, he discusses his new book The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine (NYU Press, 2021), a social history of migration during the Great Irish Fami…

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Authors in Conversation, Ep. 5 — Emily Conroy-Krutz & Matthew Shannon discuss Mission Manifest 49:58

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Welcome to the fifth episode of Authors in Conversation, a podcast from the series editors of the United States in the World series from Cornell University Press. This episode features Michigan State University professor Emily Conroy-Krutz (co-editor of the United States in the World series) speaking with Emory & Henry College professor Matthew Sha…

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1869, Ep. 149 with Güneş Murat Tezcür, author of Liminal Minorities 23:54

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Learn more about the book (and use promo code 09POD to save 30% off):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501774683/liminal-minorities/Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/tysBjMaA_aPb7lhGtZyREw9ZFto?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with Güneş Murat Tezcür, author of the new book Liminal Minorities: Religious Difference and M…

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Martin Dusinberre, "Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 1:06:34

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In Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories (Cambridge UP, 2023), Martin Dusinberre follows the Yamashiro-maru steamship across Asian and Pacific waters in an innovative history of Japan's engagement with the outside world in the late-nineteenth century. His compelling in-depth analysis reconstructs the lives of some of…

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Authors in Conversation, Ep. 4 — Benjamin Coates & Christopher Tounsel discuss Bounds of Blackness 46:05

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Welcome to the fourth episode of Authors in Conversation, a podcast from the series editors of the United States in the World series from Cornell University Press. This episode features Wake Forest University professor Benjamin Coates (co-editor of the United States in the World series) speaking with University of Washington professor Christopher T…

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Hanne Elliot Fønss Nielsen, "Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent" (U Nebraska Press, 2023) 1:04:27

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Antarctica is, and has always been, very much “for sale.” Whales, seals, and ice have all been marketed as valuable commodities, but so have the stories of explorers. The modern media industry developed in parallel with land-based Antarctic exploration, and early expedition leaders needed publicity to generate support for their endeavours. Their le…

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Annaliese Jacobs Claydon, "Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth" (Bloomsbury, 2024) 1:24:38

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In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The enduring obsession with the Franklin mystery, and in particular Inuit information about its fate, is partly due to the ways in which information was circulated in these imperial spaces. Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermedi…

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Kieran File, "How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports Teams: Power and Solidarity Dynamics in a New Zealand Rugby Team" (Bloomsbury, 2022) 53:05

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While the topic of relationships in professional sports teams is gaining greater attention from researchers and practitioners, the role that coach and athlete language plays in shaping these relationships remains largely unexplored. How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports Teams: Power and Solidarity Dynamics in a New Zealand Rugby …

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Atakohu Middleton, "Kia Hiwa Rā!: Māori Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand" (Huia Publishers, 2023) 1:05:10

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Māori journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand has become a vibrant industry, reporting through print, radio, television and the internet. Kia Hiwa Rā!: Māori Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand (Huia Publishers, 2023) looks at the history of Māori journalism and the elements that make it what it is today. The author examines the way that news values comm…

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Cristina Rocha, "Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities" (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:04:13

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When did Christianity become cool? How did an Australian church conquer the world and expand into Brazil, a country with its own crop of powerful megachurches? In her exciting new book, Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities (Oxford UP, 2023), anthropologist Cristina Rocha analyses the creation of a transnational …

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1869, Ep. 148 with authors Christopher Ewing and Jake Newsome 38:28

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Learn more about the books (and use promo code 09POD to save 30% off):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773365/the-color-of-desire/https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501765155/pink-triangle-legacies/Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/_EFsZxQPv5zbCURy-99A4uFVSQY?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we brought together tw…

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Jacqueline Kennelly, "Burnt by Democracy: Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion of Civic Life" (U Toronto Press, 2023) 1:05:57

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Burnt by Democracy: Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion of Civic Life (University of Toronto Press, 2023) by Dr. Jacqueline Kennelly traces the political ascendance of neoliberalism and its effects on youth. The book explores democracy and citizenship as described in interviews with over forty young people – ages 16 to 30 – who have either experienc…

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1869, Ep. 147 with Vassily Klimentov, author of A Slow Reckoning 27:12

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Learn more about the book (and use promo code 09POD to save 30% off):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773808/a-slow-reckoning/Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/_ZDbUEgeMZgs_eaXLmNJzs8oWVI?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with Vasilly Klimentov, author of the new book, A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the Afghan Communist…

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Angela Wanhalla, "Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II" (U Nebraska Press, 2023) 1:05:59

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Between 1942 and 1945 more than two million servicemen occupied the southern Pacific theater, the majority of whom were Americans in service with the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. During the occupation, American servicemen married approximately 1,800 women from New Zealand and the island Pacific, creating legal bonds through marriage and…

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What Can Australian Message Sticks Teach Us About Literacy? 48:56

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Ingrid Piller speaks with Piers Kelly about a fascinating form of visual communication, Australian message sticks. What does a message stick look like? What is its purpose, and how has the use of message sticks changed over time from the precolonial period via the late 19th/early 20th century and into the present? Why do we know so little about mes…

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Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, "Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World" (U California Press, 2022) 47:23

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Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World (University of California Press, 2022) by Dr. Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre is a bold, rigorous and award-winning history of Britain’s surprising role in creating the wine industries of Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. Dr. Regan-Lefebvre bridges the genres of global commodity history an…

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1869, Ep. 146 w/ John Linstrom, editor of Liberty Hyde Bailey's The Nature-Study Idea 34:49

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Download the FREE ebook:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501772634/the-nature-study-idea/You can also save 30% off the print edition with promo code 09PODRead the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/xWNbdn02Wq4saEqPlItdUJd-LnM?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with John Linstrom, editor of the definitive new edition of Liberty Hyd…

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Use of Bacteriophages as Natural Antimicrobials to Manage Bacterial Pathogens in Aquaculture in Vietnam and Australia 24:56

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Aquaculture is the fastest-growing protein production industry globally, with Vietnam one of the top producers and exporters of seafood products. In Vietnam, aquaculture is seen as a means of protecting rural livelihoods threatened by the consequences of climate change on agriculture. But climate change also drives the emergence of marine bacterial…

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Marcia Stephenson, "Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World" (U Texas Press, 2023) 56:36

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Camelids are vital to the cultures and economies of the Andes. The animals have also been at the heart of ecological and social catastrophe: Europeans overhunted wild vicuña and guanaco and imposed husbandry and breeding practices that decimated llama and alpaca flocks that had been successfully tended by Indigenous peoples for generations. Yet the…

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1869, Ep. 145 with Luke Griffith, author of Unraveling the Gray Area Problem 22:29

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Learn more about the book (and use promo code 09POD to save 30% off):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773068/unraveling-the-gray-area-problemRead the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/Ckmr71FCYKFkd5oDyV0oR2AV0v8?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with Luke Griffith, author of the new book Unraveling the Gray Area Problem: The …

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Brandon Presser, "The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific" (Icon Books, 2022) 49:07

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In 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the era: the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing their vessel, had disappeared into the night with their Tahitian companions. Seven generations later, the island is still inhabited by des…

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James Keating, "Distant Sisters: Australasian Women and the International Struggle for the Vote, 1880-1914" (Manchester UP, 2020) 1:00:32

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In the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote. Buoyed by their victories, they promised to lead a global struggle for the expansion of women’s electoral rights. Charting the common trajectory of the colonial suffrage campaigns, James Keating's book Distant Sisters: Australasian Women and the Internation…

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Jeremy Yellen, "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War" (Cornell UP, 2019) 1:17:04

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Jeremy Yellen’s The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War (Cornell University Press, 2019) is a challenging transnational exploration of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japan’s ambitious, confused, and much maligned attempt to create a new bloc order in East and Southeast Asia during World War II. Yelle…

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1869, Ep. 144 with Jeffrey Friedman, author of The Commander-in-Chief Test 31:31

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Learn more about the book (and use promo code 09POD to save 30% off):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501772924/the-commander-in-chief-test/Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/docHKI5gdBYX9FRBeKMaarObkes?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with Jeffrey Friedman, author of the new book The Commander-in-Chief Test: Public Opi…

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1869, Ep. 143 w/ Vajra Watson, Kindra Montgomery-Block, & Patrice Hill on new book Faith Made Flesh 30:52

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Read the book (use promo code 09POD to save 30%):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501772320/faith-made-flesh/Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/EQUorUn0cr-GH9JMXYTaJ-G_2Po?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with editors Vajra Watson and Kindra Montgomery-Block, as well as contributor Patrice Hill, all of whom worked toget…

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1869, Ep. 142 w/ Eric Keenaghan & Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, editors of The Muriel Rukeyser Era 39:14

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Learn about the new book here (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771750/the-muriel-rukeyser-era/#bookTabs=1Read the transcript here:https://otter.ai/u/XqLGFhSLcHCvbI8HZPT3omPq7w8?utm_source=copy_urlEric Keenaghan is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of English at the University at A…

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Stephanie Convery, "After the Count: The Death of Davey Browne" (Penguin Australia, 2020) 58:05

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Today we are joined by Stephanie Convery, inequality editor at Guardian Australia, and author of After the Count: The Death of Davey Browne (Penguin Australia, 2020). In our conversation, we discussed the history of boxing in Australia, the failures that explain Davey Browne’s death in Sydney in 2015, the nature of violence in sport, and the future…

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1869, Ep. 141 with Amy Godine, author of The Black Woods 26:04

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Learn more about The Black Woods here (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771682/the-black-woods/Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/bMcnVOvsG9riaiRRXpVI4fgaWf8?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with Amy Godine, author of the new book The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the …

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Wm. Matthew Kennedy, "The Imperial Commonwealth: Australia and the Project of Empire, 1867-1914" (Manchester UP, 2023) 1:00:59

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The Imperial Commonwealth: Australia and the Project of Empire, 1867-1914 (Manchester University Press, 2023) by Dr. Wm. Matthew Kennedy tells the story of how from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, Australian settler colonists mobilised their unique settler experiences to develop their own vision of what 'empire' was and could be. Reinterpreting …

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1869, Ep. 140 with Benjamin Hegarty, author of The Made-Up State 29:21

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Learn more about the book:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501766657/the-made-up-state/Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/O18-V2EdVKo5Rz5eblyrDU9DTM0?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with Benjamin Hegarty, author of The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia. Benjamin Hegarty is McKenz…

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1869, Ep. 139 with Paul Robinson, author of Russian Liberalism 27:52

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Learn more about the book (and save 30% with promo code 09POD)https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501772177/russian-liberalismRead the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/110CsGZ7M5iRsUm0ZhIMJ3FgzS8?utm_source=copy_urlPaul Robinson is a professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, at the University of Ottawa. He is the …

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Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean" (Robinson, 2023) 46:36

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Jeremy Black's A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean (Robinson, 2023) succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean's islands and Western control or influence over the its islands and shores. There is a particular focus on the period from the 1530s to 1890 with its greater Western coastal and oceanic presence in the Pacific,…

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Boyd Cothran and Adrian Shubert, "The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914" (UNC Press, 2024) 1:15:02

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It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel—in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday merchant ship drew together a changing world and its people in an extraordinary age of rising empires, sweeping economic transformation, and social change. The Edwin…

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Jared Davidson, "Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2023) 58:10

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Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard-labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand. Forced labour haunts the streets we walk today and the spaces we take for …

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Megan MacKenzie, "Good Soldiers Don't Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 44:05

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Sexual violence is a significant problem within many Western militaries. Despite international attention to the issue and global #MeToo and #TimesUp movements highlighting the impact of sexual violence, rates of sexual violence are going up in many militaries. Good Soldiers Don't Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence (Cambridge U…

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1869, Ep. 138 with Scott Meiners, author of Tree by Tree 32:11

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Learn more about the book (and save 30% with promo code 09POD)https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771262Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/4zNwG4JyGYaMp0rhGC0XMtwN-xM?utm_source=copy_urlScott Meiners is Professor of Biological Sciences at Eastern Illinois University. His research interests generally revolve around factors that infl…

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A Better Way to Buy Books 34:29

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Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has already raised more than $27,000,000. In this interview, Andy Hunter, founder and CEO discusses his journey to creating one of the most revolutionary new organizations in the book world. Bookshop has found …

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Clive Moore, "Making Mala: Malaita in Solomon Islands, 1870s–1930s" (Australia National UP, 2017) 1:06:32

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Malaita is one of the major islands in the Solomons Archipelago and has the largest population in the Solomon Islands nation. Its people have an undeserved reputation for conservatism and aggression. Clive Moore's book Making Mala: Malaita in Solomon Islands, 1870s–1930s (Australia National UP, 2017) argues that in essence Malaitans are no differen…

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Alexandra Roginski, "Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 1:16:18

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The contentious science of phrenology once promised insight into character and intellect through external ‘reading’ of the head. In the transforming settler-colonial landscapes of nineteenth-century Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, popular phrenologists — figures who often hailed from the margins — performed their science of touch and cranial ja…

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1869, Special APSA Episode with Joan Tronto, 2023 Lippincott Award Winner 19:40

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Learn more about the hotel workers' strike:https://www.unitehere11.org/2023-contract-fight/Learn more about Joan Tronto:https://cla.umn.edu/polisci/news-events/news/professor-emerita-joan-tronto-receives-benjamin-e-lippincott-award-apsaLearn more about Who Cares?:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501702747/who-cares/#bookTabs=1Read the …

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Tanya Evans, "Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship: A New Social History" (Bloomsbury, 2021) 44:28

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Family history is one of the most widely practiced forms of public history around the globe, especially in settler migrant nations like Australia and Canada. It empowers millions of researchers, linking the past to the present in powerful ways, transforming individuals' understandings of themselves and the world. Family History, Historical Consciou…

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