In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Elizabeth Brake, “Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law” (Oxford UP, 2012)

2012/6/1

From the time we are children, we are encouraged to see our lives as in large measure aimed at findi

Susan Harris, “God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902” (Oxford UP, 2011)

2012/5/22

Mark Twain called it “pious hypocrisies.” President McKinley called it “civilizing and Christianizin

Kevin Whitehead, “Why Jazz? A Concise Guide” (Oxford UP, 2011)

2012/5/21

Kevin Whitehead‘s highly readable, informative and entertaining Why Jazz? A Concise Guide (Oxford Un

Christopher Mole, “Attention is Cognitive Unison: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology” (Oxford UP, 2011)

2012/4/27

Chris Mole‘s book, Attention is Cognitive Unison: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology (Oxford Unive

Peter Robb, “Richard Blechynden’s Calcutta Diaries, 1791-1822” (Oxford UP, 2011)

2012/4/18

Richard Blechynden came to Calcutta in 1782 as a twenty two year old, and stayed there for the rest

Tore Janson, “The History of Languages: An Introduction” (Oxford UP, 2012)

2012/4/16

It’s a sobering thought that, but for the spread of English, I wouldn’t be able to do these intervie

Geoff Dean et al., “Organized Crime: Policing Illegal Business Entrepreneurialism” (Oxford UP, 2010)

2012/3/30

This week we have Geoff Dean on the show to talk about his new book Organised Crime: Policing Illega

David Edgerton, “Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War” (Oxford UP, 2011)

2012/3/22

My grandfather joined up when the Second World War broke out, but he was soon returned to civvy stre

Jeanne Fahnestock, “Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion” (Oxford UP, 2011)

2012/3/15

A thing I enjoy about this job is being encouraged to read books that unexpectedly turn out to be pr

Uriah Kriegel, “The Sources of Intentionality” (Oxford UP, 2011)

2012/3/15

It’s standard in philosophy of mind to distinguish between two basic kinds of mental phenomena: inte

Nabil Matar and Gerald MacLean, “Britain and the Islamic World, 1558-1713” (Oxford UP, 2011)

2012/3/14

Nineteenth-century observers would say that the British Empire was an Islamic one; be that as it may

Allen Buchanan, “Better than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves” (Oxford UP, 2011)

2012/3/1

Popular culture is replete with warnings about the dangers of technology. One finds in recent films,

Gerald Steinacher, “Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice” (Oxford UP, 2011)

2011/12/13

When I was a kid I loved movies about Nazis who had escaped justice after the war. There was “The Ma

Kariann Akemi Yokota, “Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation” (Oxford UP, 2011)

2011/12/7

The founding fathers–and mothers, sons and daughters–were British. Sort of. It’s true that they were

Frank Wcislo, “Tales of Imperial Russia: The Life and Times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915” (Oxford UP, 2011)

2011/12/2

When it comes to Russia’s great reformers of the nineteenth century, Count Sergei Witte looms large.

Robert Audi, “Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State” (Oxford UP, 2011)

2011/12/1

In a liberal democratic society, individuals share political power as equals. Consequently, liberal

Philip Stern, “The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India” (Oxford UP, 2011)

2011/11/30

‘Traders to rulers’ is an enduring caption insofar as the English East India Company is concerned. B

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