Episodes
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Shakespeare Survey 75
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Lisa M. Barksdale-Shaw discusses her article on racial trauma in Othello: ‘The Moor’s Abused By Some Most Villainous Knave, Some Base Notorious Knave, Some Scurvy Fellow’: Legal Spaces, Racial Trauma And Shakespeare’s The Tragedy Of Othello, The Moor Of Venice.
Read the Open Access article here: https://cup.org/3OHT2xG
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Cambridge Elements: Is this a book?
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Monday Nov 21, 2022
This is a book about the book. Is this a book? is a question of wide appeal and interest. With the arrival of ebooks, digital narratives and audiobooks, the time is right for a fresh discussion of what is a book. In this podcast, Strand Editor for ‘The Business of Publishing’ Rachel Noorda is in discussion with the authors of this Element, Angus Phillips and Miha Kovač.
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World - Part 2
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
The second volume of The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World explores the development of modern economic growth from 1870 to the present. Leading experts in economic history offer a series of regional studies from around the world, as well as thematic analyses of key factors governing the differential outcomes in different parts of the global economy. Topics covered include human capital, capital and technology, geography and institutions, living standards and inequality, trade and immigration, international finance, and warfare and empire.
In this episode, hear Executive Publisher Michael Watson and one of the volume editors, Stephen Broadberry, University of Oxford, discuss Vol. 2.
Learn more at www.cambridge.org/9781107159488
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World - Part 1
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
The first volume of The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World traces the emergence of modern economic growth in eighteenth century Britain and its spread across the globe. Focusing on the period from 1700 to 1870, a team of leading experts in economic history offer a series of regional studies from around the world, as well as thematic analyses of key factors governing the differential outcomes in different parts of the global economy. Topics covered include population and human development, capital and technology, geography and institutions, living standards and inequality, international flows of trade and labour, the international monetary system, and war and empire.
In this episode, hear Executive Publisher Michael Watson and one of the volume editors Stephen Broadberry, University of Oxford, discuss Vol. 1.
Learn more at www.cambridge.org/9781107159457
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Cambridge Elements: Behavioural Science and Public Policy with Cass Sunstein
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and after that, he served on the President's Review Board on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and on the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board.
In 2020, the World Health Organization appointed him as Chair of its technical advisory group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health. He is also The New York Times best-selling author of The World According to Star Wars (2016) and Nudge (2008)
Here, Cass Sunstein explores some of the key themes in his Element, Behavioural Science and Public Policy in conversation with Tony Hockley from the London School of Economics.
Read more about Cambridge Elements
The CUP journal Behavioural Public Policy journal is managed by Tony Hockley (LSE).
Monday Jun 29, 2020
War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Monday Jun 29, 2020
War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination by Michael Bennett is available to purchase at cambridge.org/WarAgainstSmallpox.
Wednesday Mar 11, 2020
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
Wednesday Mar 11, 2020
Wednesday Mar 11, 2020
In Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana, Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela Gross tell the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Gross joins Cambridge University Press Senior Editor Cecelia Cancellaro to discuss how ordinary people shaped the law and worked to change society and how that work is still relevant today.
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana is available now.
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
In Williams’ Gang, Jeff Forret explores a Washington, DC, slave trader’s legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans. Forret joins Cambridge University Press Senior Editor Cecelia Cancellaro to discuss the three-decade-long courtroom drama, the parallels between the slave trade and the modern-day prison-industrial complex, and more.
Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts is available now.
Monday Nov 11, 2019
Buzz! - Dr. Kenneth Carter interviews Sean Blanton
Monday Nov 11, 2019
Monday Nov 11, 2019
In his new book, Buzz!, Dr. Kenneth Carter goes inside the minds of thrill-seekers, daredevils, and adrenaline junkies to see what makes them seek out potentially dangerous activities. In the final of a series of interviews, Dr. Carter speaks with the Creator of Georgia Death Race, Sean Blanton.
Buzz!: Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies is available now.
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
Buzz! - Dr. Kenneth Carter interviews Faith Dickey
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
In his new book, Buzz!, Dr. Kenneth Carter goes inside the minds of thrill-seekers, daredevils, and adrenaline junkies to see what makes them seek out potentially dangerous activities. In the fourth of a series of interviews, Dr. Carter speaks with highliner Faith Dickey.
Buzz!: Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies is available now.