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Princeton UP Ideas Podcast

A series of interview with authors of new books from Princeton University Press

Episodes

Total: 646

At the heart of Michael Szonyi’s new book are two questions: 1) How did ordinary people in the Ming

A much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nat

Culturally, idleness is widely derided as laziness, uselessness, and sloth.  Even within philosophy,

In his new book, The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy (Princeton University P

History is only recently opening up to previously marginalized groups: it is only just now that wome

What do the social worlds of teenage Muslim American boys look like? What issues do they grapple wit

This entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seve

In his new book, Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century (Princeton Universi

Most of us have heard of the math-music connection, but Eli Maor’s Music by the Numbers: From Pythag

The last two decades have seen a surge in global histories, be they global histories of food, of ide

Described as a small book about a very large book, The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic E

Stories about the suburbs often focus on conservatism. But, as Lily Geismer shows in her fascinating

As a graduate student, I spent quite a bit of time explaining to people how we needed to pay much mo

How certain can you be that you’re actually sitting at your desk when it seems that you are? You mig

Researching and writing about infrastructure is a tall task. Infrastructure’s vastness, complexity,

Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict (Princeton University Press, 201

Is there a difference between the Communist Party as an idea and the Communist Party in practice? A.

I first assigned Joshua Oppenheimer’s film “The Act of Killing” for my course in Comparative Genocid

Several weeks ago, we had Professor Lilliana Mason on the podcast talking about her book about the p

​In The Talmud: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2018), Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, associate p