1888 Episodes

  1. Samuel Moyn, “The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History” (Harvard UP, 2010)

    Published: 1/14/2014
  2. Philip Dwyer and Lyndall Ryan, “Theaters of Violence: Massacre, Mass Killing, and Atrocity through History” (Berghan Books, 2012)

    Published: 1/12/2014
  3. Michael J. Hathaway, “Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China” (University of California Press, 2013)

    Published: 12/28/2013
  4. Nathaniel Millett, “The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World” (UP of Florida, 2013)

    Published: 12/20/2013
  5. Melissa Aronczyk, “Branding the Nation: The Global Business of National Identity” (Oxford UP, 2013)

    Published: 12/4/2013
  6. Peter Westwick and Peter Neushul, “The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing” (Crown, 2013)

    Published: 12/2/2013
  7. Gabrielle Hecht, “Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade” (MIT Press, 2012)

    Published: 11/10/2013
  8. Robyn Rodriguez, “Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World” (University of Minnesota Press, 2010)

    Published: 10/30/2013
  9. Eric Jennings, “Imperial Heights: Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina” (University of California Press, 2011)

    Published: 10/29/2013
  10. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, “The Devil That Never Dies” (Little, Brown and Co., 2013)

    Published: 10/22/2013
  11. Robert Gellately, “Stalin’s Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War” (Knopf, 2013)

    Published: 10/5/2013
  12. Christopher Powell, “Barbaric Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Genocide” (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011)

    Published: 9/21/2013
  13. John K. Thornton, “A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820” (Cambridge UP, 2012).

    Published: 9/12/2013
  14. Christine Yano, “Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek across the Pacific” (Duke UP, 2013)

    Published: 8/28/2013
  15. Joseph Nye, “Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era” (Princeton UP, 2013)

    Published: 8/19/2013
  16. Tony Collins, “Sport in Capitalist Society: A Short History” (Routledge, 2013)

    Published: 8/13/2013
  17. Chris Anderson and David Sally, “The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong” (Penguin, 2013)

    Published: 8/1/2013
  18. Luuk van Middelaar, “The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union” (Yale UP, 2013)

    Published: 6/28/2013
  19. Clive Hamilton, “Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering” (Yale UP, 2013)

    Published: 6/20/2013
  20. Prasannan Parthasarathi, “Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850” (Cambridge UP, 2011)

    Published: 6/7/2013

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