The Global History Podcast is an educational show designed for students, teachers, and anyone interested in the early modern world. We are dedicated to sharing histories both early modern and global, from approximately the 16th to the early 19th centuries.
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Charles Walker on the Life and Times of an Andean Witness to the Age of Revolutions
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Subscribe Welcome to the 19th episode of the Global History Podcast. Today, we’d like to welcome Charles Walker, Professor of History and former Director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas at the University of California, Davis. He held the MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair in International Human Rights from 2015 to 2020. Professor Walke…
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Rachel Kaufman on Poetry, Memory, and Crypto-Judaism in New Mexico
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Subscribe Welcome to the 18th episode of the Global History Podcast. Today, we’d like to welcome Rachel Kaufman, a rising second-year graduate student in the Department of History at UCLA. In her own words, Rachel “works on Latin American and Jewish history. Her current research focuses on crypto-Jewish memory practices in New Mexico and Mexico fro…
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Sujit Sivasundaram on the Age of Revolutions in the Indian and Pacific Oceans
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Subscribe Click on the images below to open the gallery and view them full size. Welcome to the seventeenth episode of the Global History Podcast. Today, we’d like to welcome back to the podcast Sujit Sivasundaram, Professor of World History at the University of Cambridge, Fellow and College Lecturer in History at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridg…
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Stephen Whiteman on Landscape, Space, and Global Connections at the Kangxi Emperor’s Estate at Rehe
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Subscribe Click on the images below to open the gallery and view them full-size. Thank you to Dr. Stephen Whiteman for providing the images. Welcome to the sixteenth episode of the Global History Podcast. Today we’d like to welcome Dr. Stephen Whiteman, Senior Lecturer in Art and Architecture of China and Head of the Research Degrees Programme at t…
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Janet Gyatso on Medicine, Buddhism, and the Body in Early Modern Tibet
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Subscribe Click on the images below to open the gallery and view them full-size. Welcome to the fifteenth episode of the Global History Podcast, which is also the next installment in our series, ‘Global Histories of Health, Medicine, and Disease in the Early Modern World’. Today we’d like to welcome Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studi…
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Craig Lambert and Steven Mentz on Approaches to Late Medieval and Early Modern Maritime Worlds
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Subscribe Click on the images below to open the gallery and view them full-size. Welcome to the fourteenth episode of the Global History Podcast. Today, we’d like to welcome Craig Lambert and Steven Mentz. Craig Lambert is Associate Professor in Maritime History at the University of Southampton. In his own words, Dr. Lambert’s ‘primary research foc…
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Suman Seth on Climate, Medicine, and Race in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
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Subscribe Click on the images below to open the gallery and view them full-size. Welcome to the thirteenth episode of the Global History Podcast, which is also the next installment in our series on ‘Global Histories of Health, Medicine, and Disease in the Early Modern World’. Today, we’d like to welcome Suman Seth, the Marie Underhill Noll Professo…
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David Veevers on Transcultural Interactions and the English East India Company in Early Modern Asia
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Subscribe Click on the images below to open the gallery and view them full-size. Welcome to the twelfth episode of the Global History Podcast. Today, we’d like to welcome Dr. David Veevers, a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. In his own words, Dr. Veevers is ‘interested in all aspects of early modern imperial…
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Clare Griffin on Histories of Medicine, Trade, and Translation in the Early Modern Russian Empire
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Subscribe Click on the images below to open the gallery and view them full-size. Welcome to the eleventh episode of the Global History Podcast, which is also the next installment in our series on ‘Global Histories of Health, Medicine, and Disease in the Early Modern World’. Today, we’d like to welcome Clare Griffin, Assistant Professor in the Histo…
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David M. Carballo on Archaeology, Material Culture, and Writing a Deep History of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
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Subscribe Click on the images below to open the gallery and view them full-size. Welcome to the tenth episode of the Global History Podcast. Today, we’d like to welcome David M. Carballo, Assistant Provost for General Education and Associate Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Latin American Studies at Boston University. In his own words, P…
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Hugh Cagle on Nature, Disease, and ‘Assembling the Tropics’ in the Portuguese Empire
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Subscribe Click on the images below to open the gallery and view them full-size. Thank you to Professor Cagle for providing and/or recommending several of the images below. Welcome to the ninth episode of the Global History Podcast, which is also the next installment in our series on ‘Global Histories of Health, Medicine, and Disease in the Early M…
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Nükhet Varlık on Plague, Public Health, and Healing in the Ottoman Empire
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Subscribe To view the images below in full size, click on them to open the gallery. Thank you to Professor Varlık for providing and/or suggesting several of these images. Welcome to the eighth episode of the Global History Podcast, which is also the next installment in our series on ‘Global Histories of Health, Medicine, and Disease in the Early Mo…
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Sebestian Kroupa on Global Histories of Science and Medicine in the Early Modern Philippines
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Subscribe To view the images below in full-screen, click on them to open the gallery. And listen to this episode to learn more about Georg Joseph Kamel’s beautiful drawings of Philippine nature, and why they were not published during his lifetime. Welcome to the seventh episode of the Global History Podcast, which is also the next installment in ou…
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Monica H. Green on the Black Death and the Global History of Disease
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Subscribe Click on the images below to open the gallery and see them full-size. For a brief commentary on the difficulties of sourcing images that depict the medical effects of the mid-fourteenth-century wave of plague firsthand, see this article in NPR, which quotes Dr. Green. Welcome to the sixth episode of the Global History Podcast. This is the…
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Bronwen Everill on Abolition and Empire in West Africa
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Subscribe To view the images below in full-screen, please click on them to open the gallery. Welcome to the fifth episode of the Global History Podcast. Today, we’ll be hearing from Bronwen Everill, 1973 Lecturer in History at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Dr. Everill is broadly interested, as she phrases it, “in the place of Africa and the …
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Sujit Sivasundaram on Islands in Global History
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DOWNLOAD THE TRANSCRIPT Subscribe For examples of Sri Lankan palm leaf manuscripts, a type of source material discussed in the interview, click on the images below to open the gallery and view them full-size. Welcome to the fourth episode of the Global History Podcast. In this segment, we hear from Sujit Sivasundaram, Professor of World History at …
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Barbara E. Mundy on Hybrid Maps and Cultures in Colonial Mexico
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Subscribe To refer to some of the maps, places, and documents discussed in the episode, click on the images below to open the gallery and view them full-size. Welcome to the third episode of the Global History Podcast. Today we’d like to extend a warm welcome to Barbara E. Mundy, Professor of Art History at Fordham University. Professor Mundy teach…
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Sebastian Conrad on Approaches to Global History
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Subscribe Court Ladies Sewing Western Clothing (Jokan yōfuku saihō no zu), August 23rd, 1887. Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu. Triptych of polychrome woodblock prints; ink and color on paper. Dimensions: 14 5/16 x 29 11/16 in. (36.4 x 75.4 cm). Accession Number: JP3340. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Welcome to the second episode of the Glo…
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Alan Strathern on Religion and Political Authority in the Pre-Modern World
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Subscribe Click on the images below to open the gallery and view them full-size. Welcome to the first episode of the Global History Podcast. We would like to extend a warm welcome to Dr. Alan Strathern, Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford, Fellow at Brasenose College, and Lecturer at St. John’s College. Alan’s work has, in hi…
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