Best France Inter Podcasts (2025)

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Barbara J. Sahakian and Christelle Langley, "Brain Boost: Healthy Habits for a Happier Life" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 30:11

1d ago30:11

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Your mental health is as important as your physical health and, in times of stress, it's vital to have enhanced cognition and reserves of resilience. Brain Boost: Healthy Habits for a Happier Life (Cambridge UP, 2025) is packed with practical tips, based on scientific evidence, that will teach you how to implement lifestyle strategies that will imp…

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Week 19 Best Bets - Return to Action Across Europe 51:20

5d ago51:20

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The major European leagues are back to full schedule and so are Steve Wyss, James Eastham and Dan Roebuck as they look for the best bets this weekend.By BetRivers Network

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Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017) 57:26

7d ago57:26

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We interview Dr. Joel Whitebook, philosopher and psychoanalyst about his book Freud: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge UP, 2017). Dr. Whitebook works in Critical Theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt School, developing that tradition with his clinical and philosophical knowledge of recent advances in psychoanalytic theory. The life and work o…

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Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard, "Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy" (Cambridge UP, 2020) 1:25:44

8d ago1:25:44

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Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 2020) traces the role of human rights concerns in US foreign policy during the 1980s, focusing on the struggle among the Reagan administration and members of Congress. It demonstrates how congressional pressure led the administration to reconsider its approa…

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EURO FINAL - 2008 Spain vs Germany 30:49

9d ago30:49

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Would this final be about Iberian brilliance or German pragmatism? We obviously know what Spain would produce both domestically and internationally over the next 4 years but was it really a done-deal that they would dominate judging by this tournament alone? Listen in as we discuss the 2008 Euro Final and of course, England's dramatic fall from gra…

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Week 18 Best Bets - Key Matches in Italy & France 51:29

12d ago51:29

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Dan Roebuck, Steve Wyss, and James Eastham offer a comprehensive analysis of European soccer. They preview key matchups in Italy and France, including top games like PSG vs. Monaco and Saint-Étienne’s fixture under a new manager. France Saturday 00:00 St Etienne v Reims 07:35 Lille v Nantes 10:00 Lyon v Montpellier France Sunday 14:50 Lens v Toulou…

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Doris L. Bergen, "Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 2:07:06

12d ago2:07:06

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During the Second World War, approximately 1000 Christian chaplains accompanied Wehrmacht forces wherever they went, from Poland to France, Greece, North Africa, and the Soviet Union. Chaplains were witnesses to atrocity and by their presence helped normalize extreme violence and legitimate its perpetrators. Military chaplains played a key role in …

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Oishik Sircar, "Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 1:36:01

16d ago1:36:01

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Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India (Cambridge UP, 2024) tells a story about the relationship between secular law and religious violence by studying the memorialisation of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom--postcolonial India's most litigated and mediatized event of anti-Muslim mass violence. By reading judgments and films…

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Week 17 Best Bets - Serie A Special 42:20

20d ago42:20

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With Bundesliga, LaLiga and Ligue 1 taking a break this weekend, the Extra Time team does a deep dive on the Serie A slate.By BetRivers Network

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2024 Christmas Special - prediction review and quiz! 29:11

24d ago29:11

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It's the most wonderful time of the year!!! Merry Christmas one and all - it's our traditional end of year Christmas Special with our high-drama football quiz game; Tension! We also check in on our pre-season predictions to see whether we're Nostradamus or more Derek Acorah. See who doubted Erling Haaland, who predicted relegation for Nottingham Fo…

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Daniel Joseph Majchrowicz, "The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 54:55

25d ago54:55

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This episode features Daniel Majchrowicz, Associate Professor of South Asian Literature & Culture at Northwestern University, discussing his new book, The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press. It is a study of South Asia’s global imagination as it was expresse…

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Week 16 Best Bets - Barcelona & Atletico Madrid Top Slate 47:28

26d ago47:28

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The Extra Time team of Steve Wyss, James Eastham, and Dan Roebuck are back to look at the best bets across European soccer, including a tricky matchup for Barcelona against Atletico Madrid in a battle for the top of the table.By BetRivers Network

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Alissa Klots, "Domestic Service in the Soviet Union; Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 1:06:31

1M ago1:06:31

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Domestic Service in the Soviet Union: Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor (Cambridge University Press, 2024) by Dr. Alissa Klots is the first to explore the evolution of domestic service in the Soviet Union, set against the background of changing discourses on women, labour, and socialist living. Even though domestic service co…

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Week 15 Best Bets - Who to Fade after the Champions League Break 45:42

1M ago45:42

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With another week of Champions League, Europa League and Conference League behind us, the Betting Weekly: Extra Time team of Steve Wyss, Dan Roebuck and James Eastham look for the best bets in club play across Europe.By BetRivers Network

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Samuel Hodgkin, "Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 1:02:11

1M ago1:02:11

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At the height of literary nationalisms in the twentieth century, leftist internationalists from Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and the Soviet East bonded over their shared love of the classical Persian verses of Hafiz and Khayyam. At writers' congresses and in communist literary journals, they affirmed their friendship and solidarity with lyric …

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David Cowan, "Politics of the Past: Inter-war Memories and the Making of British Popular Politics, 1939–2009" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 53:50

1M ago53:50

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The inter-war period (1918–1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation – the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Thousands of conversations about life in the inter-war period – between parents and children around the dinner table; among workmates at the pub – shaped these understandings. In turn, these fed into popu…

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Week 14 Best Bets - Looking for Value in Lower Profile Matches 46:34

1M ago46:34

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The Extra Time team is digging deep this week to find value across European soccer leagues. Join Steve Wyss, James Eastham and Dan Roebuck as they turn over every rock this week in Ligue 1, Serie A, Bundesliga and LaLiga.By BetRivers Network

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EURO 2004 - England's "Golden Generation" 38:16

1M ago38:16

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We've covered the final between Portugal and Greece in one of our most popular episodes (listen here!) so we thought we'd revisit the tournament through a different lens and answer the question: "Was this really England's golden generation?" Rooney is unstoppable in this breakout tournament, Ronaldo is tamed by Ashley Cole but ultimately Portugal's…

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Geneviève Rousselière, "Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 52:30

1M ago52:30

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The French have long self-identified as champions of universal emancipation, yet the republicanism they adopted has often been faulted for being exclusionary – of women, foreigners, and religious and ethnic minorities. Can republicanism be an attractive alternative to liberalism, communism, and communitarianism, or is it fundamentally flawed? Shari…

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Alex Mayhew, "Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 59:32

1M ago59:32

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The First World War was an unprecedented crisis, with communities and societies enduring the unimaginable hardships of a prolonged conﬂict on an industrial scale. In Belgium and France, the terrible capacity of modern weaponry destroyed the natural world and exposed previously held truths about military morale and tactics as falsehoods. Hundreds of…

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Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain, "How Government Built America" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 1:28:49

1M ago1:28:49

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How Government Built America (Cambridge UP, 2024) challenges growing, anti-government rhetoric by highlighting the role government has played in partnering with markets to build the United States. Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain explore how markets can harm and fail the country, and how the government has addressed these extremes by restorin…

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Week 13 Best Bets: Dortmund-Bayern Munich Highlight This Week's Matchups 47:37

2M ago47:37

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Fresh off the Champions League and the Europa League, the Extra Time team is back to look at matches across Europe, including a doozy in Dortmund.By BetRivers Network

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Denys Turner, "Dante the Theologian" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 1:23:09

2M ago1:23:09

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An understanding of Dante the theologian as distinct from Dante the poet has been neglected in an appreciation of Dante's work as a whole. That is the starting-point of Dante the Theologian (Cambridge UP, 2022). In giving theology fresh centrality, the author argues that theologians themselves should find, when they turn to Dante Alighieri, a compe…

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Sandipto Dasgupta, "Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 1:39:16

2M ago1:39:16

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Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated audacious ideas of freedom. Following decolonization, the challenge was to give an institutional form to those ideas. Through an original account of India's constitution making, Legalizing the Revolution explores the promises, challenges, and contradictions of that task. In contrast to deriv…

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Phillip Lieberman, "The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 1:28:30

2M ago1:28:30

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In The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West (Cambridge UP, 2022), Phillip Lieberman revisits one of the foundational narratives of medieval Jewish history--that the rise of Islam led the Jews of Babylonia, the largest Jewish community prior to the rise of Islam, to abandon a livelihood bas…

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Roberta Pergher, "Mussolini's Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922–1943" (Cambridge UP, 2017) 1:14:02

2M ago1:14:02

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With Mussolini's Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922–1943 (Cambridge UP, 2017), Roberta Pergher transforms our understanding of Fascist rule. Examining Fascist Italy's efforts to control the antipodes of its realm - the regions annexed in northern Italy after the First World War, and Italy's North African colonies…

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Week 12 Best Bets - Clubs Adjust after Latest International Break 43:46

2M ago43:46

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The European club leagues are back after what felt like a long international break. Steve Wyss, James Eastham and Dan Roebuck are back to give you the best bets across Europe this weekend.By BetRivers Network

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EURO FINAL - 2000 France vs Italy 28:59

2M ago28:59

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It's the Millennium and the Golden Goal is taking international football by storm! France are looking to cement their reign as the best team in the world and England are hoping to finally achieve something of worth *SPOILER* one of those things happens! Euro 2000 is memorable for it's goals and scoreline and how could it not be with Figo, Trezeguet…

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Peter Worthing, "General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China" (Cambridge UP, 2016) 1:21:28

2M ago1:21:28

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General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China (Cambridge UP, 2016) is a revisionist study of the career of General He Yingqin, one of the most prominent military officers in China's Nationalist period (1928-49) and one of the most misunderstood figures in twentieth-century China. Western scholars have dismissed He Yingqin as corrupt an…

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Lucian Staiano-Daniels, "The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 54:14

2M ago54:14

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In The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War (Cambridge UP, 2024), Lucian Staino-Daniles uses the transnational story of a single regiment to examine how ordinary soldiers, military women, and officers negotiated their lives within the chaos and uncertainty of the seventeenth century. Raised in Saxon…

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Week 11 Best Bets - Inter-Napoli & More from European Leagues 46:28

2M ago46:28

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Steve Wyss, James Eastham and Dan Roebuck look at the weekend's matches across Europe, fresh off the midweek games in the Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference.By BetRivers Network

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Why Can’t the US Compete with China in Infrastructure? 48:02

2M ago48:02

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In this episode, Dr. Shahar Hameiri and Dr. Lee Jones discuss the political economy and financing behind global infrastructure development, with a focus on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The discussion explores the driving forces behind Chinese infrastructure investment, while addressing the crucial question of why American and European in…

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Week 10 Best Bets - Betting on Goals in Bundesliga & Serie A, La Liga Impacted by Floods 43:26

2M ago43:26

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Dan Roebuck, Steve Wyss, and James Eastham offer picks for this week including goals in Bundesliga and Serie A games. They pass on La Liga due to regional flooding.By BetRivers Network

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Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson, "The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 1:07:19

3M ago1:07:19

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There has been a lot of commentary from scholars and journalists as to the meaning of Donald Trump’s three appointments to the United States Supreme Court – with regards to changes in jurisprudence, increased separation of the Court from political processes that legitimate it. Drs. Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson have done something a little diff…

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Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination 1:09:49

3M ago1:09:49

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan speaks with Dr Anthea Vogl about her new book, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination (Cambridge UP, 2024). The conversation introduces listeners to the procedures involved in seeking asylum in the global north and how language is implicated throughout these processes. Discussing Dr Vogl’s…

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Friederike Baer, "Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War" (Oxford UP, 2022) 1:03:07

3M ago1:03:07

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Between 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, they actually came from six German territories within the Holy Roman Empire. Over the course of the war, members of the German corps, including women and children, spent extended periods of time in loca…

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Anuradha Sajjanhar, "The New Experts: Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi's India" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 39:10

3M ago39:10

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How are technocratic experts supporting populist politics? In The New Experts Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi’s India (Cambridge UP, 2024), Anuradha Sajjanhar, a Lecturer in Politics & Public Policy at the University of East Anglia examines the recent history of Indian Politics and the rise and impact of Hindu Nationalism. Often s…

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Peter Harrison, "Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 1:00:01

3M ago1:00:01

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In his famous argument against miracles, David Hume gets to the heart of the modern problem of supernatural belief. 'We are apt', says Hume, 'to imagine ourselves transported into some new world; where the whole form of nature is disjointed, and every element performs its operation in a different manner, from what it does at present.' This encapsul…

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EURO FINAL - 1996 Germany vs Czech Republic PART TWO 40:24

3M ago40:24

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"You better remember where you watched this game because in thirty years time somebody will probably ask you about it." The epic sign off from Des Lynam following the epic semi-final clash between England and Germany. We of course talk about Gazza, Anderton, Southgate and even some German, Kuntz. This is The Final Countdown. A podcast dedicated to …

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Talking Thai Politics: Prajak Kongkirati, Thailand: Contestation, Polarization and Democratic Regression (Cambridge 2024) 25:48

3M ago25:48

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Why has Thailand’s politics been so contested and so intensely polarized in recent decades? How can we account for the persistent democratic regression of the past twenty years, despite the fact that the parallel vigour of progressive oppositional politics remains a source of hope for many? In this episode of Talking Thai Politics, prominent Thai p…

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Week 9 Best Bets - Big-time Matches Litter the Schedule 48:37

3M ago48:37

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Week 9 on the European club soccer calendar is loaded with marquee matchups. Steve Wyss, James Eastham and Dan Roebuck look to continue their winning ways in a competitive week.By BetRivers Network

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Dolores Albarracin et al., "Creating Conspiracy Beliefs: How Our Thoughts Are Shaped" (Cambridge UP, 2021) 1:01:31

3M ago1:01:31

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Conspiracy theories spread more widely and faster than ever before. Fear and uncertainty prompt people to believe false narratives of danger and hidden plots, but are not sufficient without considering the role and ideological bias of the media. Creating Conspiracy Beliefs: How Our Thoughts Are Shaped (Cambridge UP, 2021) focuses on making sense of…

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Beatrice de Graaf, "Fighting Terror after Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure after 1815" (Cambridge UP, 2020) 54:27

3M ago54:27

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After twenty-six years of unprecedented revolutionary upheavals and endless fighting, the victorious powers craved stability after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. With the threat of war and revolutionary terror still looming large, the coalition launched an unprecedented experiment to re-establish European security. With over one million troops remainin…

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EURO FINAL - 1996 Germany vs Czech Republic PART ONE 39:10

3M ago39:10

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It's here! Arguably the episode that this Pod was made for! The year is 1996, Lightning Seeds are blaring from passing car windows, England is hosting a major tournament and Paul Gascoigne is visiting Dentists...kinda?! This episode was jam-packed with memories, nostalgia and joy so we had to split it for our first ever two-parter! Also, let's be h…

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Joseph John Viscomi, "Migration at the End of Empire: Time and the Politics of Departure Between Italy and Egypt" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 1:37:29

3M ago1:37:29

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How has migration shaped Mediterranean history? And what role did conflicting temporalities and the politics of departure play in the age of decolonisation? Using a microhistorical approach, Migration at the End of Empire: Time and the Politics of Departure Between Italy and Egypt (Cambridge UP, 2024) explores the experiences of over 55,000 Italian…

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Week 8 Best Bets - Finding Form Out of the International Break 46:28

3M ago46:28

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Steve Wyss & James Eastham join Dan Roebuck to look at the best bets, hot dogs and SGP across France, Spain, Italy and Germany. Will teams have holdover form from before the break?By BetRivers Network

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Simcha Gross, "Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 1:14:22

3M ago1:14:22

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From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE). The Talmud is replete with stories and discussions that feature Sasanian kings, Zoroastrian magi, fire temples, imperial administrators, Sasanian laws, Persian customs, and more quotidian details of Jewish life. Yet, in the s…

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Helena F. S. Lopes, "Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 1:52:09

3M ago1:52:09

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The South China enclave of Macau was the first and last European colonial settlement in East Asia and a territory at the crossroads of different empires. In Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War (Cambridge UP, 2023), Helena F. S. Lopes analyses the layers of collaboration that developed from neutrality in Ma…

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Kanupriya Dhingra, "Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 55:01

3M ago55:01

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Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar (Cambridge UP, 2024) looks at Old Delhi's Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar, as a parallel location for books and a site of resilience and possibilities. The first section studies the bazaar's spatiality - its location, relocation, and spatialization. Three actors p…

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Victor C. Shih, "Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao's Stratagem to the Rise of Xi" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 58:34

3M ago58:34

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In Coalitions of the Weak (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Victor C. Shih investigates how leaders of one-party autocracies seek to dominate the elite and achieve true dictatorship, governing without fear of internal challenge or resistance to major policy changes. Through an in-depth look of late-Mao politics informed by thousands of historical…

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