Peter Hudis, ed., "The Letters Of Rosa Luxemburg" (Verso, 2013)
Rosa Luxemburg occupies a complex place in our history partly because there are several different Rosa's one can find scattered across the world; the feminist activist, revolutionary Marxist, economis...
9 Mar 202154min
Nadine Willems, "Ishikawa Sanshiro's Geographical Imagination" (Leiden UP, 2020)
Ishikawa Sanshirō (1876-1956) was a journalist, intellectual, and self-proclaimed socialist active in early twentieth-century Japan. In Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imaginations: Transnational Ana...
8 Mar 20211h 2min
T. G. Otte, "Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey" (Penguin, 2020)
'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office in early August 1914, are ...
8 Mar 20211h 15min
Philip Mansel, "King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV" (U of Chicago Press, 2019).
Philip Mansel, a trustee of the Society for Court Studies and President of the Research Center of the Chateau de Versailles, has written a one-volume biography of the life and times of Louis XIV, King...
3 Mar 202147min
Gary Scott Smith, "Duty and Destiny: The Life and Faith of Winston Churchill" (Eerdmans, 2021)
Though Churchill harbored intellectual doubts about Christianity throughout his life, he nevertheless valued it greatly and drew on its resources, especially in the crucible of war. In Duty and Destin...
2 Mar 202135min
Robert Elder, "Calhoun: American Heretic" (Basic Books, 2021)
In Calhoun: American Heretic (Basic Books, 2021), historian Robert Elder documents the life and thought of one of America's most controversial statesman, John C. Calhoun. A congressman, a vice presid...
2 Mar 202151min
Stephanie Russo, "The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn: Representations of Anne Boleyn in Fiction and on the Screen" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
In the centuries since her execution in 1536, Anne Boleyn’s presence in Western culture has grown to extraordinary proportions. In The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn: Representations of Anne Boleyn in Ficti...
1 Mar 202150min
Marion Turner, "Chaucer: A European Life" (Princeton UP, 2019)
More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life—yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they ref...
1 Mar 202153min
