The Global History Podcast

Charles Walker speaks about his new book, Witness to the Age of Revolution: The Odyssey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru. The Global History Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://theglobalhistorypodcast.com/

Rachel Kaufman speaks about crypto-Judaism in the New World, the complexities of memory practices, and the importance of poetry in translating the emotions and materiality of the historical archive. The Global History Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://theglobalhistorypodcast.com/

Sujit Sivasundaram speaks about his new book, 'Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire,' discussing the age of revolutions in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The Global History Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://theglobalhistorypodcast.com/

Stephen Whiteman speaks about his book, 'Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe', discussing the study of landscapes, digital art history methods, and Qing history. The Global History Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://theglobalhistorypodcast.com/

Janet Gyatso speaks about her book, 'Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet', discussing topics including the entanglement of Buddhism and medicine in Tibet, the cross-cultural influences of diverse medical traditions on Tibetan medicine, and the importance of adopting a non-Eurocentric perspective when studying ways of knowing, debating, and gathering information about the human body and the natural world. The Global History Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://theglobalhistorypodcast.com/

Craig Lambert and Steven Mentz discuss their new book, 'The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400-1800' (edited by Lambert, Mentz, and Prof. Claire Jowitt). They discuss topics including how the volume situates itself in scholarship on the late medieval and early modern oceans, the importance of interdisciplinary approaches in writing about the sea, and the significance of the period 1400-1800 in the history of maritime worlds. The Global History Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://theglobalhistorypodcast.com/

Suman Seth speaks about his book, 'Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and Locality in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire', discussing topics including ideas about the process of 'seasoning', undergone when a person migrated from one kind of climate to another, gender and susceptibility to disease, and the entanglement of transatlantic slavery and abolition with ideas about race and medicine. The Global History Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://theglobalhistorypodcast.com/

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 British Empire in Asia, 1600 - 1750', discussing subjects including the relationships between the Company and Asian 'elites', Company servants and the formation of ethnically mixed families, and the importance of studying the British Empire today. The Global History Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://theglobalhistorypodcast.com/

Clare Griffin speaks about 'official' Russian court medicine, the challenges of reconstructing the 'unofficial' medical practices of the broader population, and the participation of the early modern Russian Empire in global trade networks of medical commodities, which brought products like sassafras and rhubarb to Moscow from as far away as the New World and East Asia, respectively. The Global History Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://theglobalhistorypodcast.com/

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' (Oxford University Press, 2020), which takes into account centuries and even millennia of archaeological and historical developments across such areas as warfare and weaponry, plant and animal domestication, and trade and exchange, inviting us to view the Conquest of Mexico and the forging of New Spain on a broader temporal canvass. The Global History Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://theglobalhistorypodcast.com/