New Books in Intellectual History podcast

New Books in Intellectual History

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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

 

#1000

Mike Bird, "The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset" (Penguin, 2025)

In The Land Trap (Portfolio / Penguin), Mike Bird—Wall Street editor at The Economist—reve... more

18 hrs Ago

51 MINS

51:28

18 hrs Ago


#999

Negar Mansouri and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín eds., "Ways of Seeing International Organisations: N...

For decades, the field of scholarship that studies the law and practice of international o... more

Yesterday

46 MINS

46:53

Yesterday


#998

Liang Qichao, "Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker’s Studio: Essays on China and the World" (Penguin Class...

[Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker’s Studio: Essays on China and the World] (https://bookshop.... more

Yesterday

1 HR 03 MINS

1:03:43

Yesterday


#997

Edward McPherson, "Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View" (Astra House, 2025)

[Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View] (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9... more

Yesterday

38 MINS

38:21

Yesterday


#996

Dan Edelstein, "The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin" (Princeton ...

Political thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw revolutions as a grave threat to society a... more

10 Dec 2025

1 HR 00 MINS

1:00:23

10 Dec 2025


#995

Éléna Choquette, "Land and the Liberal Project: Canada’s Violent Expansion" (UBC Press, 2024)

In 1867, Canada was a small country flanking the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes, but w... more

06 Dec 2025

1 HR 00 MINS

1:00:14

06 Dec 2025


#994

Adam Silverstein, "Haman" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Haman, infamous as the antagonist in the book of Esther, appears as a villainous figure in... more

05 Dec 2025

37 MINS

37:32

05 Dec 2025


#993

Elizabeth Chika Tippett, "The Master-Servant Doctrine: How Old Legal Rules Haunt the Modern Workplac...

The field of employment law used to be called "master-servant law." Even if this term has ... more

04 Dec 2025

40 MINS

40:19

04 Dec 2025


#992

Carolyn J. Eichner, "Feminism's Empire" (Cornell UP, 2022)

[Feminism's Empire] (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9781501763809)  (Cornell UP, 2022) inves... more

04 Dec 2025

1 HR 22 MINS

1:22:43

04 Dec 2025


#991

The Renaissance of Marxist Studies: A Discussion with Babak Amini

The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in academic research in Marxism and ... more

03 Dec 2025

20 MINS

20:05

03 Dec 2025


#990

Maria Bach, "Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists" (Ca...

Originating in the Nineteenth Century, the European idea of development was shaped around ... more

03 Dec 2025

33 MINS

33:59

03 Dec 2025


#989

Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)

In  [The State] (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9780691182209)  (Princeton University Press,... more

02 Dec 2025

43 MINS

43:12

02 Dec 2025


#988

John Kieschnick, "Buddhist Historiography in China" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Since the early days of Buddhism in China, monastics and laity alike have expressed a prof... more

01 Dec 2025

49 MINS

49:10

01 Dec 2025


#987

Yoram Hazony, "Conservatism: A Rediscovery" (Regnery Publishing, 2022)

Conservatism needs to be rediscovered. That is, it needs to be differentiated from the pos... more

29 Nov 2025

1 HR 09 MINS

1:09:23

29 Nov 2025


#986

Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)

The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatiz... more

28 Nov 2025

1 HR 05 MINS

1:05:35

28 Nov 2025


#985

Ithamar Theodor, "The Philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

The Bhagavad Gita is a world classic often considered to be not just the 'Hindu Bible' but... more

27 Nov 2025

53 MINS

53:41

27 Nov 2025


#984

Jochen Hellbeck, "World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews" (Penguin...

In the West, World War II is commonly understood as the Allies’ struggle against Nazism. O... more

26 Nov 2025

1 HR 27 MINS

1:27:51

26 Nov 2025


#983

Maia Kotrosits, "After Transformation: Rewriting Time, Christian Late Antiquity, and the Present" (D...

In After Transformation, Maia Kotrosits offers a lyrical history of Christian late antiqu... more

25 Nov 2025

54 MINS

54:17

25 Nov 2025


#982

Verena Halsmayer on Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, chats with Verena Halsmeyer, a postdoctoral fellow at t... more

24 Nov 2025

1 HR 22 MINS

1:22:06

24 Nov 2025


#981

Mary Edwards, "Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis: Knowing Others" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Thinking of the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, it is hard to think of him without im... more

23 Nov 2025

1 HR 47 MINS

1:47:46

23 Nov 2025