Category: Interviews
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A Genealogy of a Non-Event: An Interview with Seth Anziska
In Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo (Princeton University Press, 2018), Seth Anziska throws new light on the history…
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Histories of the Big and Small: An Interview with Mark Mazower
As the discipline of history continues to expand beyond the powerful few, historians face the challenges that come with trying to uncover and illuminate the…
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The Age of Questions: An Interview with Holly Case
In The Age of Questions (Princeton University Press, 2018), historian Holly Case (Brown University) presents seven interpretations of the many “questions” of the long nineteenth…
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How Do We Teach Global History? A Toynbee Prize Conversation
In this new feature for the Toynbee Prize Blog, we’ve invited five academics, representing a variety of institutions around the world, to reflect upon their…
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Islam, Constitutionalism, and the Nation State in Afghanistan: An Interview with Faiz Ahmed
In January of 2004, following weeks of debate by a Loya Jirga, an Afghan variant of a national assembly, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan adopted…
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Writing the Histories of People in Motion: An Interview with Laura Madokoro
The movement of people across borders, seas and deserts saturate contemporary international news headlines. Refugees are often described in legalistic and sensationalistic terms: the assumption…
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Development Politics and India’s Cold War Triangle: An Interview with David Engerman
In The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India (Harvard University Press, 2018), David Engerman, a leading historian of US and Soviet modernization…
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Exploring the History of Science and Religion: An Interview with Job Kozhamthadam
Few today acknowledge the role of religion in the development of modern science and technology. But scholars have shown that religion has actively contributed to…
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Troubling the Empire: An Interview with Antoinette Burton
The British Empire in its various guises remains a rich historiographical field. Over the course of the past forty years, imperial history has undergone a series of…
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Populism in History: An Interview with Federico Finchelstein
Academics and commentators across the world have diagnosed what seems to them a global crisis of liberal-democracy. Many of them have focused in on populism,…