Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books
In Branding the Nation: The Global Business of National Identity, Melissa Aronczyk locates the rise
Historians tell stories, and stories have beginnings and ends. Most human eras, however, are not so
We’ve talked before on the show about how hard it is to enter into the field of Holocaust Studies. J
What is the nature of secularization? How distant are we from the magical world of the past? Perhaps
Isaac Martin is the author of Rich People’s Movement: Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent
Germany embarked on the age of imperialism a bit later than other global powers, and the German expe
Free will is essential to our understanding of human nature. We are masters of our own fate. We char
If you think about it, pretty much everything has a history insofar as everything exists in time. Hi
I don’t think it’s possible anymore for someone, even an academic with a specialty in the field, let
There is a fascinating area of study of how communities around the world realized there was such a c
Kate Brown‘s Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium
“The public don’t understand jazz music as we musicians do. A diminished seventh don’t mean a thing
Michael J. Kramer, author of The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Countercultu
Hitler famously said about the Armenian genocide “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation o
A common philosophical picture of language proposes to begin with the various kinds of communicative
Vanessa Williamson is coauthor (with Theda Skocpol) of The Tea Party: Remaking of Republican Conserv
Like it or not, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) has a
The Cold War was experienced by millions around the world. For many, Soviets were the enemies, and n
James A. Milward‘s new book offers a thoughtful and spirited history of the silk road for general re
Propositions are key players in philosophy of language and mind. Roughly speaking, they are abstract
