Category: Interviews
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Finding Law in the History of Global Violence: An Interview with Lauren Benton
Violence is, in the public imagination, the law’s radical Other. Brutality and cruelty, we tend to believe, are elements that flourish in law’s absence. Not…
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The Fiftieth Anniversary of India’s Peaceful Nuclear Explosion: An Interview with Jayita Sarkar
Today, May 18, 2024, marks the fiftieth anniversary of India’s peaceful nuclear explosion or PNE. To mark the occasion, the Toynbee Prize Foundation facilitated a…
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The Interwar World: Where, When, and How?
This interview engages the co-editors of the new edited volume, The Interwar World (Routledge 2023), Andrew Denning and Heidi J. S. Tworek. Expansive both in…
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Pax Economica: An Interview with Marc-William Palen
In his new book Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World (Princeton University Press, 2024), historian Marc-William Palen offers a counter-history of free…
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The History of Modern Sports in South America: An Interview with Matthew Brown
Two balls were brought onto the pitch in the first soccer World Cup Final, held in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1930. The two teams, Argentina, and…
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U.S. foreign policy, Cold War history, and history of capitalism: An interview with Fritz Bartel.
It is an exciting time for Cold War historiography. Long gone are debates that were once central to the field, such as those about the…
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Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France: An Interview with Lewis Wade
Dr. Lewis Wade’s new book Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France: Marine Insurance, War and the Atlantic Empire under Louis XIV (Boydell and…
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Global History and International Relations: a discussion with Ayşe Zarakol, Glenda Sluga, and Heidi Tworek
IR scholars and Historians are increasingly in dialogue these days, trying to give meaning and substance to how we think about the international order, not…
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Petroleum and Progress in Iran: An Interview with Gregory Brew
Between the 1940s and the 1960s, Iran developed into the world’s first petro-state. In the recently published Petroleum and Progress in Iran: Oil, Development, and…
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Kashmir in the aftermath of Partition: An interview with Shahla Hussain
یہ داغ داغ اجالہ یہ شب گزیدہ سحر وہ انتظارتھا جسکا یہ وہ سحر تو نہیں “This dappled dawn injured by the night This is…