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The Global History Podcast is an educational show designed for students, teachers, and anyone interested in the early modern world. We are dedicated to sharing histories both early modern an...

Episodes

19 episodes

Charles Walker on the Life and Times of an Andean Witness to the Age of Revolutions

Charles Walker speaks about his new book, Witness to the Age of Revolution: The Odyssey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru.

52:00Aug 6, 2022

Rachel Kaufman on Poetry, Memory, and Crypto-Judaism in New Mexico

Rachel Kaufman speaks about crypto-Judaism in the New World, the complexities of memory practices, and the importance of poetry in translati...

56:18Aug 16, 2021

Sujit Sivasundaram on the Age of Revolutions in the Indian and Pacific Oceans

Sujit Sivasundaram speaks about his new book, 'Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire,' discussing the age of revolu...

42:49May 17, 2021

Stephen Whiteman on Landscape, Space, and Global Connections at the Kangxi Emperor’s Estate at Rehe

Stephen Whiteman speaks about his book, 'Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe', discussing the study of landsc...

98:47Feb 15, 2021

Janet Gyatso on Medicine, Buddhism, and the Body in Early Modern Tibet

Janet Gyatso speaks about her book, 'Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet', discussing...

36:49Aug 29, 2020

Craig Lambert and Steven Mentz on Approaches to Late Medieval and Early Modern Maritime Worlds

Craig Lambert and Steven Mentz discuss their new book, 'The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400-1800' (edited by Lambert...

66:09Aug 3, 2020

Suman Seth on Climate, Medicine, and Race in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire

Suman Seth speaks about his book, 'Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and Locality in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire', discussin...

68:45Jul 22, 2020

David Veevers on Transcultural Interactions and the English East India Company in Early Modern Asia

David Veevers speaks about his new book on the history of the early modern English East India Company in Asia, titled 'The Origins of the Br...

101:11Jul 9, 2020

Clare Griffin on Histories of Medicine, Trade, and Translation in the Early Modern Russian Empire

Clare Griffin speaks about 'official' Russian court medicine, the challenges of reconstructing the 'unofficial' medical practices of the bro...

56:21Jun 26, 2020

David M. Carballo on Archaeology, Material Culture, and Writing a Deep History of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico

David M. Carballo speaks about his new book, 'Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain'...

83:49Jun 17, 2020

Hugh Cagle on Nature, Disease, and ‘Assembling the Tropics’ in the Portuguese Empire

Hugh Cagle speaks about his research on the creation of the idea of the ‘tropics’, focusing on knowledge about nature, medicine, and disease...

108:41Jun 9, 2020

Nükhet Varlık on Plague, Public Health, and Healing in the Ottoman Empire

Nükhet Varlık speaks about her research on plague, public health, and healing in the early modern Ottoman Empire, including the importance o...

59:09Jun 2, 2020

Sebestian Kroupa on Global Histories of Science and Medicine in the Early Modern Philippines

Sebestian Kroupa speaks about his research on the Bohemian Jesuit pharmacist Georg Joseph Kamel, who was stationed in the colonial Spanish P...

80:05May 26, 2020

Monica H. Green on the Black Death and the Global History of Disease

Monica H. Green discusses the global history of disease, including the global black death, the ways in which historians and scientists can c...

73:42May 12, 2020

Bronwen Everill on Abolition and Empire in West Africa

Dr. Bronwen Everill speaks about abolition and empire in West Africa in the late 18th and 19th centuries.

47:36May 3, 2020

Sujit Sivasundaram on Islands in Global History

In this segment, we hear from Professor Sujit Sivasundaram on the importance of islands in global history.

33:52Apr 26, 2020

Barbara E. Mundy on Hybrid Maps and Cultures in Colonial Mexico

On this episode, Professor Barbara E. Mundy speaks about some of the complex, fascinating, and important visual and indigenous sources of co...

54:20Nov 17, 2019

Sebastian Conrad on Approaches to Global History

On this episode, we will be discussing Prof. Sebastian Conrad’s well-known critical approach toward the burgeoning discipline of global hist...

45:56Oct 29, 2019

Alan Strathern on Religion and Political Authority in the Pre-Modern World

Join us for episode 1 of the Global History Podcast, in which we speak with Dr. Alan Strathern about religion and political authority in the...

48:56Mar 5, 2019