# colonial (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 11 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover colonial. Page: Feed: --- ## Taking The Scenic Route To High Quality Education For Indigenous Students _2026-08-19 · New Books in Australian and New Zealand Studies_ In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis talks to Hannah Madin and Catherine White. Hannah is a Teaching and Learning Officer at the Department of Education in the Northern Territory (Australia), and Catherine White is a Teaching and Learning Coach in secondary education. We are zooming in on learning English as an additional language or dialect in remote communities in… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2642325901.mp3) ## Utathya Chattopadhyaya, "Ganja Matters: Empire and the Pursuits of Cannabis in British India" (U California Press, 2026) _2026-08-19 · New Books in British Studies_ Ganja is the popular name in Hindustani, Bengali, and other South Asian languages for intoxicating substances produced from the plant species Cannabis sativa L. Starting in the eighteenth century, British India's colonial administrators sought ways to systematically tax and govern how ganja circulated from the farms of peasant families in rural Bengal to pipes, plates, and cups elsewhere in the… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8372955363.mp3) ## Amy Blakeway, "War and Governance in Scotland, 1543-1559: Destruction, Reconstruction and Reform" (Edinburgh UP, 2026) _2026-08-19 · New Books in British Studies_ Drawing from local archives alongside national and international records, War and Governance in Scotland, 1543-1559: Destruction, Reconstruction and Reform (Edinburgh UP, 2026) by Dr. Amy Blakeway argues that warfare was the defining feature of government and politics in Scotland for the two decades following the death of James V. It demonstrates that beyond the direct effects of invasion, the… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9644168008.mp3) ## Roderick Beaton, "Europe: A New History" (Allen Lane, 2026) _2026-08-19 · New Books in British Studies_ What do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or shared culture? In Europe: A New History (Allen Lane, 2026), award-winning historian Roderick Beaton tells the story of Europe as never before—as the history of an idea, and a collective identity. Since its dramatic birth in ancient Greece, 'Europe' has been defined, and redefined, by its people.… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9553150928.mp3) ## Po-Yi Hung, "Routes of Taiwan Tea: Mobility, Borders, and Territoriality" (U Washington Press, 2026) _2026-08-19 · New Books in Southeast Asian Studies_ From misty mountain oolongs to the global boba boom, Taiwan’s teas carry far more than flavor. They embody contested borders, evolving identities, and the complexities of nationhood. Routes of Taiwan Tea: Mobility, Borders, and Territoriality (U Washington Press, 2026) by Dr. Po-Yi Hung traces tea varieties, processing expertise, and merchants across Taiwan and Southeast Asia to reveal how a… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9708760411.mp3) ## Edward E. Andrews, "Newport Gardner's Anthem: A Story of Slavery, Struggle, and Survival in Early America" (Cornell UP, 2025) _2026-08-17 · New Books in African Studies_ Newport Gardner's Anthem: A Story of Slavery, Struggle, and Survival in Early America (Cornell UP, 2025) explores the remarkable life of Occramer Marycoo, an enslaved African who went on to become one of early America's most important Black leaders. In the mid-eighteenth century, Marycoo was taken from West Africa to Newport, Rhode Island, where he was forced into racial bondage and given a name… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3946229900.mp3) ## Ting Hui Lau, "Decolonial Endurance: Lisu Worldmaking Against Chinese Settler Colonialism" (Stanford UP, 2026) _2026-08-17 · New Books in Indigenous Studies_ A series of questions have been sparked by the indigenous urgency of the moment: What does it mean to live through a world coming undone? How do people carry on amid rupture, loss, and grief? Decolonial Endurance: Lisu Worldmaking Against Chinese Settler Colonialism (Stanford University Press, 2026) explores these questions through the turbulent lives of Indigenous Lisu subsistence farmers in… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8199213358.mp3) ## Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri eds., "Palestine in Transition: Frank Scholten's Visual Archive of the British Mandate Period" (CEU Press, 2026) _2026-08-17 · New Books in British Studies_ In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press) talks with Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri, the editors of Palestine in Transition: Frank Scholten's Visual Archive of the British Mandate Period. They discuss who Frank Scholten was, the breadth and depth of the images he took in Palestine, and the archival holdings themselves. You can browse Frank Scholten’s images here. Follow the City… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3928484406.mp3) ## Elizabeth Tynan, "Nuclear Archipelago: Secrets, Power and the Biggest Atomic Blast in Australia" (NewSouth, 2026) _2026-08-16 · New Books in Australian and New Zealand Studies_ Nuclear Archipelago: Secrets, Power and the Biggest Atomic Blast in Australia (NewSouth, 2026) tells the shocking story of the two British atomic weapons test series held at Western Australia's Monte Bello Islands in 1952 and 1956. Operation Hurricane and Operation Mosaic took place at a rugged archipelago 100 kilometres off the Pilbara coast, and each of the three bombs sent fallout over vast… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9687011431.mp3) ## Sophie Chao, "Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger" (Duke UP, 2025) _2026-08-15 · New Books in Southeast Asian Studies_ In Land of Famished Beings : West Papuan Theories of Hunger (Duke UP, 2025), Sophie Chao examines how Indigenous Marind communities understand and theorize hunger in lowland West Papua, a place where industrial plantation expansion and settler-colonial violence are radically reconfiguring ecologies, socialities, and identities. Instead of seeing hunger as an individual, biophysical state defined… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3136112098.mp3) ## [Sync bookmarks across every browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Cy2ZAIrJI7Jb) _2026-08-15 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync across Chrome, Firefox and Safari; built-in ad and tracker blocker. ## Hossam el-Hamalawy, "Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic ( Verso Books, 2026) _2026-08-14 · New Books in African Studies_ Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic ( Verso Books, 2026) is a rare and comprehensive examination of the structures, hierarchies, and methods of the military, police, and intelligence agencies. Drawing on meticulous research, it reveals the strategies deployed to suppress the revolutionary wave, from propaganda and surveillance to mass arrests, torture, and extrajudicial killings.… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7117587078.mp3) ## The MANTRAMS Project and Digital Mantra Research: A Discussion with Borayin Larios _2026-08-13 · New Books in Southeast Asian Studies_ Every day, tens of millions of people use mantras all around the globe. Originating in South Asia and then spreading via practitioners, texts, rituals, and iconography, mantras have been grounded in speech and sound but also take a range of material forms. For instance, they are inscribed on surfaces, written in manuscripts, printed on posters, visually encoded in diagrams, or worn as amulets and… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6058056222.mp3) ## [Revolutionary optimism amid systems of mass destruction, ft. Abby Martin](https://kamea.substack.com/p/green-dreamer-abby-martin) _2026-08-13 · green dreamer kaméa · UPROOTED_ Podcast Ep480 | Green Dreamer w/ Kaméa Chayne [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209887371/901e99ec5e581eb91c6cf0c19dfe0d2c.mp3) ## [\[Video\] Revolutionary optimism amid systems of mass destruction, ft. Abby Martin](https://kamea.substack.com/p/green-dreamer-abby-martin-video) _2026-08-11 · green dreamer kaméa · UPROOTED_ Bonus Version of Podcast Ep480 | Green Dreamer w/ Kaméa Chayne ## Caro Pirri, "Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England: Stages of Unsettlement" (Oxford UP, 2025) _2026-08-10 · New Books in British Studies_ Today’s guest, Caro Pirri, is the author of Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England: Stages of Unsettlement (Oxford University Press, 2025). This book explores how early modern colonial travel writing informed the London theater’s spatial and placemaking conventions. It suggests that what the stage found most compelling about narratives of colonial settlement was their failure… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK4188960900.mp3) ## Daniel Majchrowicz, "A Journey to Mecca and London: The Travels of an Indian Muslim Woman, 1909–1910" (Indiana UP, 2025) _2026-08-10 · New Books in British Studies_ Descended from Mughal nobility, Akhtar al-Nisa Begum Nawab Sarbuland Jung grew up in Hyderabad in southern India, where she lived a quiet, private, and privileged life at the heart of the state's royal court. In 1896, at the age of 20, she married Nawab Muhammad Hamidullah Khan Sarbuland Jung, a prominent lawyer and the scion of a leading Muslim reformist movement. In 1909, the wealthy couple… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6731270938.mp3) ## Marisa Karyl Franz, "Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums" (Cornell UP, 2026) _2026-08-09 · New Books in Indigenous Studies_ Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums (Cornell University Press, 2026) reveals nineteenth-century Siberian museums, built on Indigenous land and increasingly populated by political exiles, as active sites of ethnographic knowledge-making and centers of scientific research, regional identity, and colonial authority. Rather than collecting from distant colonies,… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6642986154.mp3) ## Edward T. G. Anderson, "Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational Politics and British Multiculturalism" (Oxford UP, 2024) _2026-08-08 · New Books in British Studies_ Hindu nationalism is transforming India as an increasingly dominant ideology and political force. But it is also a global phenomenon, with sections of India’s vast and influential diaspora drawn to, or actively supporting, right-wing Hindu nationalism. Indians overseas can be seen as an important, even inextricable, aspect of the movement. This is not a new dynamic—diasporic Hindutva has grown… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK4985630635.mp3) ## Max Perry Mueller, "Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West" (Basic Books, 2025) _2026-08-07 · New Books in Indigenous Studies_ In the mid-19th century, anyone who was anyone in the American West had heard of the Ute leader Wakara. Yet, by the early twenty first century, his story has been, if not forgotten, at the very least twisted and distorted into something that would have been unrecognizable to him and his contemporaries. In Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West (Basic Books,… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK4389200283.mp3) ## Edlie Wong, "Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific" (Cambridge UP, 2026) _2026-08-07 · New Books in Indigenous Studies_ Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific (Cambridge University Press, 2026) is an Element which centers the 'Black Pacific' as a generative site for comparative and intersectional methodologies and transnational frameworks for thinking about racial formations, post-national literary forms, and cultural histories. At the end of the nineteenth century, US overseas expansion into the… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2237892976.mp3) ## [Pirate.io on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/JYB4AlTCB0Z2) _2026-08-07 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Pirate.io listing on Google Play to view the app’s details. ## Emma Parker, "Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives" (Bloomsbury, 2024) _2026-08-07 · New Books in British Studies_ Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) examines how autobiographical writing reflects the psychological and cultural afterlives of the British Empire. Rather than treating decolonization as a completed historical moment, Emma Parker shows how empire continues to haunt personal memory, identity, and ideas of home. Through close… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8593180573.mp3) ## Steven Veerapen, "Overlord: A New History of the Life and Reign of Henry VIII" (Simon & Schuster, 2026 _2026-08-06 · New Books in British Studies_ Henry VIII is England’s most famous king. He is simultaneously the virtuous Renaissance prince gone wrong, the psychopathic, paranoid tyrant, the religious disruptor and the much-married glutton. Overlord: The Life and Reign of Henry VIII (Birlinn, 2026) is a groundbreaking study of Henry’s life examines and destroys many of the long-repeated myths about this complex monarch: he was not… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK4910135181.mp3) ## [Deepening into the discipline of care, ft. Norma Kawelokū Wong](https://kamea.substack.com/p/deepening-into-the-discipline-of-64e) _2026-08-06 · green dreamer kaméa · UPROOTED_ Podcast Ep479 | Green Dreamer w/ Kaméa Chayne [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209846299/d84f12a09bcc3f295e1f6c12b1224a39.mp3) ## [\[Video\] Deepening into the discipline of care, ft. Norma Kawelokū Wong](https://kamea.substack.com/p/deepening-into-the-discipline-of) _2026-08-06 · green dreamer kaméa · UPROOTED_ Bonus Version of Podcast Ep479 | Green Dreamer w/ Kaméa Chayne ## Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire with Simukai Chigudu _2026-08-05 · New Books in African Studies_ "In my home country, they call me a 'bornfree'." Simukai Chigudu was born in Zimbabwe, two years after the end of its bitter war of liberation - a war in which his father had fought. This is the story of his childhood journey through the chaos of that new country's birth to Britain, where he arrived alone, a teenager, burning with ambition but utterly lost in ways he had yet even to discover. Told… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2782096870.mp3) ## Samuel Marquis, "Empire and Frontier: Colonel Peter Schuyler and the Valiant Iroquois in King William's War: 1689-1701" (Pegasus Books, 2026) _2026-08-04 · New Books in Indigenous Studies_ Empire and Frontier: Colonel Peter Schuyler and the Valiant Iroquois in King William's War: 1689-1701 (Pegasus Books, 2026) by Samuel Marquis presents a powerful episode of early American history, revealing the very human story of friendship and alliance between Colonel Peter Schuyler and the Iroquois during King William’s War (1689–1701). Like Philbrick’s Mayflower and Gwynne’s Empire of the… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2127344097.mp3) ## Asher Emanuel, "The Valley: Crime and Punishment in a New Zealand City" (Bridget Williams Books, 2026) _2026-08-03 · New Books in Australian and New Zealand Studies_ There were two days to Christmas and Lewis felt like everything was spinning out of control. He wondered what he would say to the judge this time. His client, Rikihana, was already on multiple shoplifting charges. What’s a few more? Lewis thought. These supermarkets were still making a killing. It’s late 2020. Rikihana Wallace, a prolific shoplifter of no fixed abode, is back in prison with little… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5682629172.mp3) ## Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, "Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Resistance Within the Five Tribes, 1790–1861" (LSU Press, 2026) _2026-08-03 · New Books in Indigenous Studies_ Dr. Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel’s Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Resistance within the Five Tribes, 1790–1861 (LSU Press, 2026) is the first comprehensive study of African chattel slavery within the Five Tribes: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole Nations. Dr. Oertel examines how chattel slavery functioned among all Five Tribes before and… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3412545168.mp3) ## Brent Elliott and Roger Bowdler, "The British Cemetery: Architecture, Landscape, Sculpture" (Historic England, 2026) _2026-08-03 · New Books in British Studies_ Roger Bowdler and Brent Elliott’s The British Cemetery: Architecture, Landscape, Sculpture, published by Historic England (2026), traces the history of the cemetery from the 17th century to the present day. The cemetery emerged as a new landscape form in the 19th century in Britain but had deep roots in earlier churchyard practices and in fashionable garden landscape design. Cemeteries very… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3010772254.mp3) ## Elizabeth Darling, "Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922–32" (Lund Humphries, 2026) _2026-08-03 · New Books in British Studies_ Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922–1932 (Lund Humphries, 2026) by Dr. Elizabeth Darling is about the architecture and design of broadcasting in the 1920s and 1930s, examining the buildings which the BBC occupied in its founding decades, with a particular focus on Broadcasting House in London. It argues that these environments were as constitutive of the… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8433311328.mp3) ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/t46lsQQtijqt) _2026-08-03 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and access low-cost global trading. ## Thomas Richardson, "Soldiers and Bushmen: The Australian Army in South Africa, 1899–1902" (Cambridge UP, 2025) _2026-08-02 · New Books in African Studies_ Soldiers and Bushmen: The Australian Army in South Africa, 1899–1902 (Cambridge UP, 2025) by Dr. Thomas Richardson examines the commitment to what was expected to be a short war. It presents a thematic, analytical history of the birth of the Australian Army in South Africa, while exploring the Army's evolution from colonial units into a consolidated federal force. Soldiers and Bushmen investigates… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6348316261.mp3) ## Paulina Banas, "Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century" (American University in Cairo Press, 2025) _2026-08-02 · New Books in African Studies_ Following Napoleon Bonaparte’s 1798 campaign in Egypt, new possibilities of travel and improvements in printing technology saw an emergence of publishing ventures in France and Britain dedicated to the production of albums and travel accounts featuring images of Muslim Egypt and Islamic architecture and catering to a growing European fascination with the East. In her debut book, Visualizing Egypt:… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2980218500.mp3) ## [Honoring the land through the work of our hands, ft. Adrian Sutherland](https://kamea.substack.com/p/green-dreamer-adrian-sutherland) _2026-08-01 · green dreamer kaméa · UPROOTED_ Podcast Ep478 | Green Dreamer w/ Kaméa Chayne [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209300825/f2f51f5f1920f1472a9e5bcc0b940e70.mp3) ## Nabi Sahak, "Anglo-Afghan Power and Politics, 1893–1947: The Durand Line Unmasked" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) _2026-07-31 · New Books in British Studies_ In this episode of New Books Network, I speak with Nabi Sahak about his book, Anglo-Afghan Power and Politics, 1893–1947: The Durand Line Unmasked (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). Anglo-Afghan Power and Politics revisits one of the most contested borders in the modern world. The roughly 2,640-kilometre line drawn in 1893 by Mortimer Durand and Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, which today divides Pashtun… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7067485410.mp3) ## Meredith Gamer, "City of the Gallows: Art and Execution in Eighteenth-Century London" (Yale UP, 2026) _2026-07-28 · New Books in British Studies_ City of the Gallows: Art and Execution in Eighteenth-Century London (Yale UP, 2026) uncovers the complex and often unexpected connections between eighteenth-century London’s sites of punishment and its spaces of art-making, instruction, and display. Drawing together a wide range of images, objects, and texts – from popular woodcuts and anatomical sculptures to moral tracts and dictionaries of… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3742079800.mp3) ## Linford Fisher, "Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History" (Liveright, 2026) _2026-07-27 · New Books in Indigenous Studies_ Although the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown in 1619, European slavery in America began more than a century before. In a work distinguished not only by its original research but by its “passionate prose” (James F. Brooks), historian Linford Fisher demonstrates how the enslavement of Indigenous people began in the years just after 1492, ensnaring an estimated three to six million… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5746546567.mp3) ## Claire Hubbard-Hall, "Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence" (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2024) _2026-07-27 · New Books in British Studies_ Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked at the very heart of British secret intelligence - yet their contributions have been all but written out of history. Now, drawing on private and previously-classified documents, leading historian Claire Hubbard-Hall brings their gripping true stories to life in Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7356733038.mp3) ## Matthew Ritger, "Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026) _2026-07-27 · New Books in British Studies_ Today’s guest, Matthew Ritger, is the author of Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026). This book delves into the archival records of Bridewell, Europe’s first house of correction, which was overseen by the humanist reformer Richard Grafton. It makes the case that the Bridewell prison and workhouse were central to the… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK1453390027.mp3) ## Patrick Nunn, "Whispers from Celtic Seas: The True Meanings of Ancient Stories from Northwest Europe" (Reaktion, 2026) _2026-07-26 · New Books in Indigenous Studies_ What if the legends of submerged cities, land-making witches and sea-crossing bishops are not mere inventions but echoes of real events? Whispers from Celtic Seas: The True Meanings of Ancient Stories from Northwest Europe (Reaktion Books, 2026) by Professor Patrick Nunn at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia revisits coastal traditions from the Celtic fringes of northwest Europe,… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2406828940.mp3) ## Michelle Bigenho and Henry Stobart, "Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State" (Oxford UP, 2025) _2026-07-26 · New Books in Indigenous Studies_ The early twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia. The country welcomed its first Indigenous president, a new constitution, and a profusion of laws that recognized individual music and dance expressions as intangible cultural heritage. Using cultural heritage lawmaking as a window through which to view the de-centered workings of the Indigenous-focused Plurinational Bolivian… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5949812192.mp3) ## Leah Pope Parker, "Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2025) _2026-07-26 · New Books in British Studies_ From disability metaphors to narratives structured around bodies presented as aberrant, early medieval English thoughtworlds conveyed the promise of resurrection and the hope of salvation through crip and disabled bodies. Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature (U Michigan Press, 2025) argues that early medieval Christian eschatology, as manifested… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5212776575.mp3) ## Samantha Iyer, "Agrarian Superpower: Food, Development, and the Global Ascendancy of the United States" (Columbia UP, 2026) _2026-07-25 · New Books in African Studies_ The United States’ superpower status is often associated with its industrial, financial, and military might. Yet its global power after the Second World War hinged in part on something often seen as backward: agriculture. In contrast to Britain, the predominant global power of the nineteenth century, which depended on its current and former colonies for food and raw materials, the United States… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6915312734.mp3) ## Mitra Sharafi, "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia" (Cornell UP, 2026) _2026-07-25 · New Books in British Studies_ Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia (Cornell University Press, 2026) uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of forensic science. Around 1900, the government of British India created a web of institutions for the scientific detection of crime. Driven by anxieties about "native mendacity," newly minted forensic analysts focused on… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8258799756.mp3) ## Elisabeth van Houts, "Empress Matilda: Queen of the Romans, Ruler of the English" (Yale UP, 2026) _2026-07-25 · New Books in British Studies_ Born in 1102, Empress Matilda combined the blood of two dynasties: the house of Wessex and their conquerors, the dukes of Normandy. As a widowed German empress, she was named as heir successor by her father, Henry I. But, after his death in 1135, Matilda’s place on the English throne was usurped by her cousin, Stephen of Blois. Civil war followed, and she ruled the south-west of England in… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2979588218.mp3) ## Grégory Pierrot, "Fantômes de la révolution noire: Une histoire culturelle transatlantique" (Ròt-Bò-Krik, 2026) _2026-07-24 · New Books in African Studies_ Black Power! A name with a ring to it on both sides of the Atlantic, taken as a sign of Black American rage incarnated by a few names: Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, the Black Panthers, Angela Davis. Behind these archetypes of the 1960s and 70s stood a political movement as mutable as it was international, that of Black Power, with the goal of bringing about a global uprising. This insurrection of… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7922446761.mp3) ## Eamonn Gearon, "The Arab Bureau: The Story of Britain's Most Ingenious Intelligence Unit" (Hurst, 2026) _2026-07-23 · New Books in British Studies_ Many of us have watched the classic 1962 movie Lawrence of Arabia, the somewhat fictionalized work based on the life of T. E. Lawrence during the Arab Revolt and the First World War. But Lawrence was part of the Arab Bureau, an effort to better understand and influence the region as Britain fought the Ottoman Empire for control of the Middle East. Chastened by their intelligence failures at… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK1508182282.mp3) ## Mark Crinson, "Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2026) _2026-07-22 · New Books in British Studies_ Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape (Paul Mellon Centre, 2026) by Professor Mark Crinson is the first critical study to examine how a major international airport takes shape on the ground, and what that means for the landscape around it. Focused on Heathrow airport, it traces how the area has been formed and reformed by overlapping systems of architecture, infrastructure… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2168247778.mp3) ## Martin Shaw, "The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges After Gaza" (Agenda Publishing, 2025) _2026-07-22 · New Books in British Studies_ The Israeli destruction of Gaza has returned the idea of genocide to the center of world politics, with sharp conflicts between the protesters and lawyers who invoke it and the governments and media that deny it. The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges After Gaza (Agenda Publishing, 2025), by the foremost sociological theorist of genocide, Martin Shaw, defends the idea… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7837800062.mp3) ## R. Joseph Parrott, "Dream the Size of Freedom: How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism" (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) _2026-07-21 · New Books in African Studies_ Dream the Size of Freedom: How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) by Dr. R. Joseph Parrott explores how anti-colonial movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau reshaped US activist engagement with the Global South from the 1960s through the 1970s and influenced American foreign policy as the Vietnam War drew to a close. These… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8627261450.mp3) ## Kelly M. Duke Bryant, "Negotiating Childhood: French Colonialism and African Children in Senegal, 1848-1940" (U Mass Press, 2026) _2026-07-21 · New Books in African Studies_ Kelly M. 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