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Best podcasts about empire a history

Latest podcast episodes about empire a history

Diplomatic Immunity
Daniel Immerwahr on America's Hidden Empire

Diplomatic Immunity

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2025 32:53


For our fifth episode of "History and our Current World," Daniel Immerwahr joins Kelly to uncover how U.S. foreign policy has been shaped by a hidden history of territorial expansion. They dive into the myths surrounding the U.S. "logo map" and overlooked overseas territories, and discuss how a selective understanding of this history impacts our foreign policy decisions today. Daniel is the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence in the History department at Northwestern University. He is the author of Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development, and How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, both of which have won scholarly awards. Immerwahr is a contributing writer for The New Yorker and his essays have also appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, Harper's, The New Republic, and the New York Review of Books, among other places. Link to How to Hide an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Hide-Empire-History-Greater/dp/0374172145  The opinions expressed in this conversation are strictly those of the participants and do not represent the views of Georgetown University or any government entity. Produced by Theo Malhotra and Freddie Mallinson.  Recorded on March 10, 2025. Diplomatic Immunity, a podcast from the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, brings you frank and candid conversations with experts on the issues facing diplomats and national security decision-makers around the world. Funding support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. For more, visit our website, and follow us on Linkedin, Twitter @GUDiplomacy, and Instagram @isd.georgetown

History with Jackson
The American Mafia with Louis Ferrante

History with Jackson

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 67:17


In this episode we sit down to talk to Louis Ferrante all about his Borgata book series which charts to rise of the American Mafia! We spoke about some of the main characters, the relationships between different racial groups in building up the mafia, and how they influenced the American political process!Grab a copy of Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia and Borgata: Clash of Titans: A History of the American MafiaKeep up to date with Louis through his website, and XIf you want to get in touch with History with Jackson email: jackson@historywithjackson.co.ukTo support History with Jackson to carry on creating content subscribe to History with Jackson+ on Apple Podcasts or support us on our Patreon!To catch up on everything to do with History with Jackson head to www.HistorywithJackson.co.ukFollow us on Facebook at @HistorywithJacksonFollow us on Instagram at @HistorywithJacksonFollow us on X/Twitter at @HistorywJacksonFollow us on TikTok at @HistorywithJackson Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cops and Writers Podcast
211 Former Gambino Mobster, Now International Bestselling Author Louis Ferrante Takes us Inside the Mafia, Politics & the Kennedy Connection.

Cops and Writers Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2025 77:22


Send us a textWelcome to part one of a special two-part show with former Gambino Family Mobster turned mafia historian and international bestselling author Louis Ferrante. Mr. Ferrante grew up in New York City and became entangled in the Gambino crime family. He was eventually arrested and served almost ten years in prison. While he was incarcerated, he taught himself to write, and he fell in love with books. He promised himself that he would someday become an international bestselling author, and he did!Louis Ferrante is an international bestselling author, including his newest book, Borgata: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia: Volume 2 of the Borgata Trilogy. He is also a global speaker and television host for Discovery Networks International. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and his television series has aired in over 200 countries and territories worldwide.Please enjoy this conversation where we discuss the head of the Kennedy clan, Joe Kennedy and his affiliation with the mob, his manipulation of American Politics that led to his sons John F. Kennedy becoming president and Bobby Kennedy becoming attorney general and both of their eventual assignations. We also dive into the hatred between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the Kennedy's. We also discuss mob and union bosses Jimmy Hoffa, Sam Giancana, Carlos Marcello, Florida don Santo Trafficante and a host of other prominent mafia characters.In today's episode we discuss:.·      Does Lou ever feel like his life is in danger because of writing these books? He exposes a lot of dirt, some known some unknown on some very powerful families (both mob and non-mob) and politicians..·      The first book of the trilogy, Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia (Borgata Trilogy).·      The history of the Catholic religion and the mob. ·      Chicago politics and organized crime.·      Trump signing off on the Warren Commission files. What, if any, startling revelations will come out of this? Who do you think killed Kennedy? ·      The rumblings in the mob to kill John F and Bobby Kennedy.·      Joe Kennedy. The big boss of the family. His alliance with the mob, bootlegging, killing illegal aliens (dumping them off boats), FDR and Joe Kennedy?·      Joe Kennedy aspiring to become president but was anti-democracy. More pro-Hitler and Nazis. ·      Joe Kennedy having girlfriend's and then handing them down to his sons after he was done with them.·      JFK, war hero and second son of the Kennedys. Joe had him picked to become president. Joe made a deal with Sam Giancana (Chicago mob) to get his son elected in a very close race between him and Nixon.·      Bobby Kennedy was thought of as a slacker and a wimp. Not up to par for the Kennedy persona.·      Bobby Kennedy going after the teamsters and Jimmy Hoffa. History of Bobby Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa.·      Frank Sinatra and the mob? Unofficial liaison?Visit Lou on his website to learn more about him and his books!Check out the new Cops and Writers YouTube channel!Check out my newest book, The Good Collar (Michael Quinn Vigilante Justice Series Book 1)!What would you do if you lost the one you loved the most? How far would you go to quench your thirst for vengeance?https://a.co/d/2UsJPbaSupport the show

Talk Radio Europe
Priscilla Mary Isin – Bountiful Empire: a History of Ottoman Cuisine…with TRE's Giles Brown

Talk Radio Europe

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2025 28:01


Priscilla Mary Isin – Bountiful Empire: a History of Ottoman Cuisine…with TRE's Giles Brown

American Exception
USAID and the National Endowment for Anti-Democracy (DCC71 - Audio)

American Exception

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2025 108:14


  Support the work of Aaron Good by subscribing to American Exception on Patreon! Aaron is joined by Ben Thomason. Ben recently earned his doctorate in American Cultural Studies from Bowling Green State University. His dissertation title is Making Democracy Safe for Empire: A History and Political Economy of the National Endowment for Democracy, United States Agency for International Development, and Twenty-First Century Media Imperialism. In the show, we discuss the subject of his dissertation: the US empire's so-called “democracy promotion” enterprises. Special thanks to: Dana Chavarria, production Casey Moore, graphics Michelle Boley, animated intro Mock Orange, music

The Delicious Legacy
Bountiful Empire - A History of Ottoman Cuisine

The Delicious Legacy

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2025 63:11


Hello my lovely archaeogastronomers!For this bonus episode I've interviewed the author and food historian Priscilla Mary Işın about her delightful book "Bountiful Empire - A History of Ottoman Cuisine" which is out now!I hope you'll enjoy our chat, trying to untangle the different strands of the origins of the Ottoman Cuisine through the centuries, and explore the myriad dishes, with vegetables, cheeses, sweets, and savoury.You should buy the book is so so good!https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/bountiful-empireFor bonus chat please go to my Patreon page.https://www.patreon.com/thedeliciouslegacyMuch love,Thom & The Delicious LegacySupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. If you love to time-travel through food and history why not join us at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aspects of History
The Mafia & the Kennedys with Louis Ferrante Part 2

Aspects of History

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2025 36:08


On the 22nd November 1963 President John F Kennedy was assassinated…..by Lee Harvey Oswald right? Well wrong, because today's guest has a suspect, the boss of the New Orleans mafia, Carlos Marcello who, along with other family bosses Sam Giancana and Santo Traficante, conspired to have the President whacked. Louis Ferrante joins in this second part of our discussion on the mafia and the Kennedys as we talk about the assassination, motives, evidence and those involved. If you haven't listened to part one that's the previous episode. Louis Ferrante Links Part One Borgata Vol II: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia Borgata Vol I: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia Episode from 2024 with Louis Ferrante Aspects of History Links Latest Issue out - Annual Subscription to Aspects of History Magazine only $9.99/£9.99 Ollie on X Aspects of History on Instagram Get in touch: history@aspectsofhistory.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aspects of History
The Mafia & the Kennedys with Louis Ferrante Part 1

Aspects of History

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2025 33:30


In early 1957, the Robert F Kennedy and his brother Jack were part of the US Senate Rackets Committee and they both attacked the notorious Jimmy Hoffa, the leader of the Teamsters union and a man with numerous connections to the mob. But as Hoffa probably knew at the time, the two of them were themselves involved with the mafia. Joining today is former member of the Gambino crime family and friend of the show Louis Ferrante, the author of three volumes on the history of the mafia in American and today we discuss the second, Borgata Vol 2, Clash of Titans. This is a two part special, with the second episode following on Wednesday. Louis Ferrante Links Borgata Vol II: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia Borgata Vol I: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia Episode from 2024 with Louis Ferrante Aspects of History Links Latest Issue out - Annual Subscription to Aspects of History Magazine only $9.99/£9.99 Ollie on X Aspects of History on Instagram Get in touch: history@aspectsofhistory.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mummy Movie Podcast
How Accurate is the Portrayal of Commodus in Gladiator (2000)

Mummy Movie Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2024 24:19


Episode Synopsis: In this episode of The Mummy Movie Podcast, we delve into the historical accuracy of the character Commodus, as portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix in the 2000 film Gladiator. We explore how closely the movie's depiction aligns with historical records and what creative liberties were taken in bringing this infamous Roman emperor to life on screen.Support the Show:Patreon: Support us on PatreonContact Us:Email: mummymoviepodcast@gmail.comEpisode References:Benfree. (2011). RoaringCrowd.wav. Retrieved from https://freesound.org/people/benfree/sounds/130568/Burgersdijk, D. (2024). A revised Loeb of Historia Augusta - (D. Magie, D. Rohrbacher, Eds. & Trans.), Historia Augusta, Volume I (Loeb Classical Library 139). Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press. The Classical Review, 74(1), 121-124.Dan_AudioFile. (2022). Football-match_Cheering_Large-crowd_Ambience.stereo.wav. Retrieved from https://freesound.org/people/Dan_AudioFile/sounds/654085/Dio, C., Cary, E., & Foster, H. B. (1917). Roman History: Volume VI, Books 51-55.FunWithSound. (2017). Applause 4.mp3. Retrieved from https://freesound.org/people/FunWithSound/sounds/381358/Giovannitp. (2015). Horse and chariot 30 sec.mp3. Retrieved from https://freesound.org/people/giovannitp/sounds/271060/Herodian. (n.d.). History of the Empire, Volume I: Books 1-4.Jakobthiesen. (2013). Ext Large Crowd at Sunnyside Pool.WAV. Retrieved from https://freesound.org/people/jakobthiesen/sounds/194865/Kreaton. (2008). isaapp1.wav. Retrieved from https://freesound.org/people/Kreaton/sounds/61288/Kevp888. (2022). R4_00357_FR_LaughAndCheering.wav. Retrieved from https://freesound.org/people/kevp888/sounds/662101/Lenski, N., & Talbert, R. J. A. (2012). From Village to Empire: A History of Rome from Earliest Times to the End of the Western Empire. New York.Nicholls, M. (2019). Galen and the Last Days of Commodus: Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (De indolentia) in Context, 245.WebbFilmsUK. (2013). Marching 2.wav. Retrieved from https://freesound.org/people/WebbFilmsUK/sounds/200323/ Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime
Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia - Louis Ferrante - Underworlds with Mark Shaw

Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2024 76:06


The History of the American Mafia: How the Mob Built Its Empire in the US, with Former Gambino Crime Family Associate, Louis Ferrante.In this episode, Mark sits down with former Mob associate Louis Ferrante to discuss his book, Borgata: The Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia.The history of the American Mafia, known as La Cosa Nostra or simply "The Mob," is well known. Prohibition in the United States during the Roaring Twenties saw the rise of characters who have since been mythologized in Hollywood: Charles "Lucky" Luciano and his close confidant Meyer Lansky, Al "Scarface" Capone, Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein, Dutch Schultz, Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria, and Salvatore Maranzano.What makes Borgata different is that it was written by someone who lived "The Life," providing a unique perspective. Lou discusses the formation of The Commission, an underworld ruling council that controlled the Five Families of New York (now known as the Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Bonanno, and Colombo), The Outfit in Chicago, and the Philadelphia Mafia.Lou talks about the rules, the use of violence, and how the US government looked to tackle the growing power of organized crime, spearheaded by the likes of prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey.We also hear about Lou's own life in La Cosa Nostra and how he and his crew committed some of the most successful heists in US history, which ultimately landed him in prison.In prison, he began to read everything he could get his hands on, including history, philosophy, and the great classics of literature. He never turned on his former associates, but when he left prison, he also left "The Life." Now he speaks about his experiences with the Mob and has become a successful author (Unlocked: A Journey from Prison to Proust), including his new a huge three-part history of the American Mafia. In this episode, Mark and Lou discuss the first book, Borgata: The Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia.====================================================Louis Ferrante's book 'Borgata: The Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia' is available here: https://a.co/d/cDcxOQ2 Audible version: https://a.co/d/2VHu3Ht ====================================================

New Books Network
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2024 62:45


In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in History
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2024 62:45


In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

New Books in Military History
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

New Books in Military History

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2024 62:45


In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

New Books in Middle Eastern Studies
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2024 62:45


In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

New Books in Ancient History
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

New Books in Ancient History

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2024 62:45


In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Eastern European Studies
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

New Books in Eastern European Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2024 62:45


In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies

New Books in Italian Studies
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

New Books in Italian Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2024 62:45


In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/italian-studies

New Books in Medieval History
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

New Books in Medieval History

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2024 62:45


In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Christian Studies
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

New Books in Christian Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2024 62:45


In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/christian-studies

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2024 62:45


In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light.

American Prestige
E167 - The Early Days of Imperial America w/ Emily Conroy-Krutz

American Prestige

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2024 47:25


Danny and Derek sit down with Emily Conroy-Krutz, historian of nineteenth-century America specializing in the global history of the early American republic, to talk about the volume she co-edited with Michael Blaakman and Noelani Arista, The Early Imperial Republic: From the American Revolution to the U.S.–Mexican War. They explore the delineation of empire vs. republic vs. nation-state, challenging the narrative of 1898 being America's imperial turn, settler colonialism and the dispossession of Indigenous Americans, shifting notions of imperialism over time, and how the framing of America as an imperial project from the beginning can better help us understand its history.Be sure to also grab a copy of Emily's book Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations. Further Reading:* Michael Blaakman - Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic* Daniel Immerwahr - How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States* Paul Kramer This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe

Start Making Sense
The Early Days of Imperial America with Emily Conroy-Krutz | American Prestige

Start Making Sense

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2024 47:25


On this episode of American Prestige, Emily Conroy-Krutz on the global history of the early American republic.On this episode of American Prestige, we sit down with Emily Conroy-Krutz, historian of nineteenth-century America specializing in the global history of the early American republic, to talk about the volume she co-edited with Michael Blaakman and Noelani Arista, The Early Imperial Republic: From the American Revolution to the U.S.–Mexican War. They explore the delineation of empire vs. republic vs. nation-state, challenging the narrative of 1898 being America's imperial turn, settler colonialism and the dispossession of Indigenous Americans, shifting notions of imperialism over time, and how the framing of America as an imperial project from the beginning can better help us understand its history.You can also grab a copy of Emily's book Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations.Further Reading:Michael Blaakman – Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American RepublicDaniel Immerwahr – How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United StatesPaul KramerAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Turning Tides
Turning Tides: Piecing Together the Present: Accumulation by Dispossession, 1969 - Present: Episode 4

Turning Tides

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2024 65:51


Turning Tides: Piecing Together the Present will discuss the last 150 years of Puerto Rican history. The fourth and final episode, Accumulation by Dispossession, will cover the period from 1969 to Present, in which neoliberal economic policies influence the islanders' daily lives, and political corruption further exacerbates one of the worst natural disasters in modern Puerto Rican history.If you'd like to donate or sponsor the podcast, our PayPal is @TurningTidesPodcast1. Thank you for your support!Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone in affiliation with AntiKs Entertainment.Researched and written by Joseph PasconeEdited and revised by Melissa Marie BrownIntro and Outro created by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone using Motion ArrayWebsite: https://theturningtidespodcast.weebly.com/IG/Threads/YouTube/Facebook: @theturningtidespodcastEmail: theturningtidespodcast@gmail.comIG/YouTube/Facebook/Threads/TikTok: @antiksentEmail: antiksent@gmail.comEpisode 4 Sources:Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico, by Ed MoralesWar Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony, by Nelson A. DenisHistory of Puerto Rico: A Panorama of Its People, by Fernando PicóPuerto Rico: A Political and Cultural History, by Arturo Morales CarriónThe Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present: Fourth Edition, by R. Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. DupuyHow to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, by Daniel Immerwahrhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/18/lgbtq-defenders-welcome-pr-emergency-declaration-demand-actionhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4154190/https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/profile_state/PRhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/12/opinion/puerto-rico-gender-violence.htmlhttps://convention2.allacademic.com/one/asc/asc17/index.php?program_focus=view_paper&selected_paper_id=1278825&cmd=online_program_direct_link&sub_action=online_programWikipedia

Turning Tides
Turning Tides: Piecing Together the Present: No Más, 1949 - 1968: Episode 3

Turning Tides

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2024 77:31


Turning Tides: Piecing Together the Present will discuss the last 150 years of Puerto Rican history. The third episode, No Más, will cover the period from 1949 to 1968, in which war and American authoritarianism shaped Puerto Rican life on the island.If you'd like to donate or sponsor the podcast, our PayPal is @TurningTidesPodcast1. Thank you for your support!Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone in affiliation with AntiKs Entertainment.Researched and written by Joseph PasconeEdited and revised by Melissa Marie BrownIntro and Outro created by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone using Motion ArrayWebsite: https://theturningtidespodcast.weebly.com/IG/Threads/YouTube/Facebook: @theturningtidespodcastEmail: theturningtidespodcast@gmail.comIG/YouTube/Facebook/Threads/TikTok: @antiksentEmail: antiksent@gmail.comEpisode 3 Sources:Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico, by Ed MoralesWar Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony, by Nelson A. DenisHistory of Puerto Rico: A Panorama of Its People, by Fernando PicóPuerto Rico: A Political and Cultural History, by Arturo Morales CarriónThe Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present: Fourth Edition, by R. Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. DupuyHow to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, by Daniel ImmerwahrWikipedia

Turning Tides
Turning Tides: Piecing Together the Present: The Giant of Borinquen, 1902 - 1948: Episode 2

Turning Tides

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2024 85:31


Turning Tides: Piecing Together the Present will discuss the last 150 years of Puerto Rican history. The second episode, The Giant of Borinquen, will cover the period from 1902 to 1948, in which American overlordship wrought severe consequences on the people of Puerto Rico.If you'd like to donate or sponsor the podcast, our PayPal is @TurningTidesPodcast1. Thank you for your support!Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone in affiliation with AntiKs Entertainment.Researched and written by Joseph PasconeEdited and revised by Melissa Marie BrownIntro and Outro created by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone using Motion ArrayWebsite: https://theturningtidespodcast.weebly.com/IG/Threads/YouTube/Facebook: @theturningtidespodcastEmail: theturningtidespodcast@gmail.comIG/YouTube/Facebook/Threads/TikTok: @antiksentEmail: antiksent@gmail.comEpisode 2 Sources:Puerto Rico: An Interpretive History from Pre-Columbian Times to 1900, by Olga Jiménez de WagenheimFantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico, by Ed MoralesWar Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony, by Nelson A. DenisPuerto Rico 1898: The War After the War, by Fernando Picó, translated by Sylvia Korwek and Psique AranaHistory of Puerto Rico: A Panorama of Its People, by Fernando PicóPuerto Rico: A Political and Cultural History, by Arturo Morales CarriónThe Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present: Fourth Edition, by R. Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. DupuyHow to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, by Daniel ImmerwahrWikipedia

Turning Tides
Turning Tides: Piecing Together the Present: The Eagle's Ascent, 1870 - 1901: Episode 1

Turning Tides

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2024 84:33


Turning Tides: Piecing Together the Present will discuss the last 150 years of Puerto Rican history. The first episode, The Eagle's Ascent, will cover the period from 1870 to 1901, in which Spain and America fight for dominion over Puerto Rico under the racist and false pretense of wanting to "civilize" the island.If you'd like to donate or sponsor the podcast, our PayPal is @TurningTidesPodcast1. Thank you for your support!Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone in affiliation with AntiKs Entertainment.Researched and written by Joseph PasconeEdited and revised by Melissa Marie BrownIntro and Outro created by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone using Motion ArrayWebsite: https://theturningtidespodcast.weebly.com/IG/Threads/YouTube/Facebook: @theturningtidespodcastEmail: theturningtidespodcast@gmail.comIG/YouTube/Facebook/Threads/TikTok: @antiksentEmail: antiksent@gmail.comEpisode 1 Sources:Puerto Rico: An Interpretive History from Pre-Columbian Times to 1900, by Olga Jiménez de WagenheimFantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico, by Ed MoralesWar Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony, by Nelson A. DenisPuerto Rico 1898: The War After the War, by Fernando Picó, translated by Sylvia Korwek and Psique AranaHistory of Puerto Rico: A Panorama of Its People, by Fernando PicóPuerto Rico: A Political and Cultural History, by Arturo Morales CarriónThe Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present: Fourth Edition, by R. Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. DupuyHow to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, by Daniel ImmerwahrWikipedia

Cops and Writers Podcast
165 Former Gambino Family Mobster to International Bestselling Author, Television Producer and Director, Louis Ferrante. (Part Two)

Cops and Writers Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2024 90:44


Welcome back to the conclusion of my interview with a former member of the Gambino Crime Family, now International Bestselling Author, Television Producer and Director Louis Ferrante.Mr. Ferrante grew up in New York City and became entangled in the Gambino crime family. He was eventually arrested and served almost ten years in prison. While he was incarcerated, he taught himself to write, and he fell in love with books. He promised himself that he would someday become an international bestselling author, and he did!Lou also created, wrote, produced, and hosted Inside The Gangster Code series for Discovery Channel about maximum security prisons and gang culture around the world.  As a special treat to everyone, I'm bringing back my friend and colleague, Podcaster, Author, and Retired NYPD Detective Vic Ferrari. Vic spent most of his life in New York City and was assigned to the NYPD's organized crime unit which specialized in stolen cars, the same area of criminal expertise that was Lou's, just on the other side of the law.Please enjoy this powerful and inspirational conversation with Lou Ferrante and Vic Ferrari.In today's episode we discuss:·      Life in a maximum-security prison.·      Lightbulb moment for you when you were in prison that it was time for a change. ·      Did you have to do something to declare that you were no longer a member of the mafia? I thought it was a lifetime commitment.·      Did you find God, or turn away from him when you were at your lowest in prison? “No atheists in foxholes.”·      First thing Lou you did when he was released from prison.·      Lou's newest book, Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia (Borgata Trilogy).·      Why write this book?·      Mob formed in Sicily. Sicily was an island in itself. Didn't like rules or outsiders. ·      How big of an influence is the mafia in Sicily today?·      The mob and turning adversity into fortune?·      Prohibition (Kennedy's and other family's made millions), the stock market crash of 2029, and World War 2, the U.S. military asking the mob for help.·      What should we expect in book two? Check out Lou's newest book, Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia (Borgata Trilogy)Visit Lou on his website.Check out Field Training (Brew City Blues Book 1)!!Enjoy the Cops and Writers book series.Please visit the Cops and Writers website. Only for Cops and Writers Podcast listeners! Get 50% off the audiobook version of the F.B.I. K-9 thriller, Avenging Adam by Jodi Burnett. Use code, https://jodi-burnett.com/copsandwriters/Support the show

New Books Network
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2024 35:12


In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light. Dr. Anthony Kaldellis is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. His previous books include A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities; Streams of gold, Rivers of Blood; Romanland, and, as translator and editor, Prokopios' The Secret History. In 2019, he began hosting the podcast “Byzantium & Friends.” Evan Zarkadas (MA) is an independent scholar of European and Medieval history and an educator. He received his master's in history from the University of Maine focusing on Medieval Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, medieval identity, and ethnicity during the late Middle Ages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in History
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2024 35:12


In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light. Dr. Anthony Kaldellis is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. His previous books include A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities; Streams of gold, Rivers of Blood; Romanland, and, as translator and editor, Prokopios' The Secret History. In 2019, he began hosting the podcast “Byzantium & Friends.” Evan Zarkadas (MA) is an independent scholar of European and Medieval history and an educator. He received his master's in history from the University of Maine focusing on Medieval Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, medieval identity, and ethnicity during the late Middle Ages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

New Books in Ancient History
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

New Books in Ancient History

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2024 35:12


In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light. Dr. Anthony Kaldellis is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. His previous books include A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities; Streams of gold, Rivers of Blood; Romanland, and, as translator and editor, Prokopios' The Secret History. In 2019, he began hosting the podcast “Byzantium & Friends.” Evan Zarkadas (MA) is an independent scholar of European and Medieval history and an educator. He received his master's in history from the University of Maine focusing on Medieval Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, medieval identity, and ethnicity during the late Middle Ages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Eastern European Studies
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

New Books in Eastern European Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2024 35:12


In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light. Dr. Anthony Kaldellis is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. His previous books include A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities; Streams of gold, Rivers of Blood; Romanland, and, as translator and editor, Prokopios' The Secret History. In 2019, he began hosting the podcast “Byzantium & Friends.” Evan Zarkadas (MA) is an independent scholar of European and Medieval history and an educator. He received his master's in history from the University of Maine focusing on Medieval Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, medieval identity, and ethnicity during the late Middle Ages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies

New Books in Italian Studies
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

New Books in Italian Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2024 35:12


In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light. Dr. Anthony Kaldellis is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. His previous books include A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities; Streams of gold, Rivers of Blood; Romanland, and, as translator and editor, Prokopios' The Secret History. In 2019, he began hosting the podcast “Byzantium & Friends.” Evan Zarkadas (MA) is an independent scholar of European and Medieval history and an educator. He received his master's in history from the University of Maine focusing on Medieval Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, medieval identity, and ethnicity during the late Middle Ages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/italian-studies

New Books in Medieval History
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

New Books in Medieval History

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2024 35:12


In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light. Dr. Anthony Kaldellis is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. His previous books include A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities; Streams of gold, Rivers of Blood; Romanland, and, as translator and editor, Prokopios' The Secret History. In 2019, he began hosting the podcast “Byzantium & Friends.” Evan Zarkadas (MA) is an independent scholar of European and Medieval history and an educator. He received his master's in history from the University of Maine focusing on Medieval Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, medieval identity, and ethnicity during the late Middle Ages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2024 35:12


In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light. Dr. Anthony Kaldellis is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. His previous books include A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities; Streams of gold, Rivers of Blood; Romanland, and, as translator and editor, Prokopios' The Secret History. In 2019, he began hosting the podcast “Byzantium & Friends.” Evan Zarkadas (MA) is an independent scholar of European and Medieval history and an educator. He received his master's in history from the University of Maine focusing on Medieval Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, medieval identity, and ethnicity during the late Middle Ages.

Cops and Writers Podcast
164 Former Gambino Family Mobster to International Bestselling Author, Television Producer and Director, Louis Ferrante. (Part One)

Cops and Writers Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2024 90:03


Welcome to part one of my interview with a former member of the Gambino Crime Family, now International Bestselling Author, Television Producer, and Director Louis Ferrante.Mr. Ferrante grew up in New York City and became entangled in the Gambino crime family. He was eventually arrested and served almost ten years in prison. While he was incarcerated, he taught himself to write, and he fell in love with books. He promised himself that he would someday become an international bestselling author, and he did!Lou also created, wrote, produced, and hosted, Inside The Gangster Code series for Discovery Channel about maximum security prisons and gang culture around the world.  As a special treat to everyone, I'm bringing back my friend and colleague, Podcaster, Author, and Retired NYPD Detective Vic Ferrari. Vic spent most of his life in New York City and was assigned to the NYPD's organized crime unit and specialized in stolen cars, the same area of criminal expertise that was Lou's, just on the other side of the law.In today's episode we discuss:·      Why do you think we are fascinated with criminals, more specifically gangsters? Some examples are The Sopranos, Scarface, Sons of Anarchy, etc.…?·      How do you keep these stories of the mob “the old days” fresh for today's audience?·      What parallels are there with the mob and the street gangs of today?·      What was life in a maximum-security prison really like? What keeps someone who will never leave alive in line?·      What is the attraction to being in a gang or mafia?·      Is there a mafia today? If yes, where do they operate?·      How did you go from stealing cars and joyriding to making money chopping a car and later being involved in armed highjackings?·      How did the mob get interested in you?·      Eventually you got arrested. What were the circumstances? By what agency? Did you get offered a deal to be a rat? What was the offer? ·      Is there a code of honor in the mafia and how that has changed over the years? Check out Lou's newest book, Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia (Borgata Trilogy)Visit Lou on his website.Check out Field Training (Brew City Blues Book 1)!!Enjoy the Cops and Writers book series.Please visit the Cops and Writers website. Only for Cops and Writers Podcast listeners! Get 50% off the audiobook version of the F.B.I. K-9 thriller, Avenging Adam by Jodi Burnett. Use code, https://jodi-burnett.com/copsandwriters/Support the show

Aspects of History
The Rise of the Mafia with Louis Ferrante

Aspects of History

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2024 56:02


This week's guest is a man who has lived about what he writes. Louis Ferrante was a former member of the Gambino crime family, one of the Five Families of New York. He rose up the ranks until he was convicted of crimes and sent to prison where he became a changed man. He has now written a fantastic first volume of three on the history of the mafia, Borgata, and he chatted with our editor on the rise of the mob from their humble beginnings in Sicily through to the 1930s prohibition in the US. Louis Ferrante Links Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman Louis on X Aspects of History Links Subscribe to the magazine: only £/$9.99 per year Ollie on X Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Racket Report with Frank Morano
Episode 32: Louis Ferrante, Former Mafia Associate & Best-Selling Author

The Racket Report with Frank Morano

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2024 88:53


Louis Ferrante, former Mafia Associate and best-selling author, whose latest book is “Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia” Website: louisferrante.com Book: https://www.amazon.com/Borgata-Empire-History-American-Mafia/dp/1639366016 Topic: the history of the American Mafia Social Media: https://twitter.com/LOUFERRANTE https://www.facebook.com/louis.ferrante.92 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WYPL Book Talk
Louis Ferrante - Borgata: Rise of Empire

WYPL Book Talk

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2024 124:03


Guest host Matt Ward welcomes retired gangster and current historian Louis Ferrante on for an epic two-hour interview. Ferrante's new book is Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia, first part of the planned Borgata Trilog,) covering the Mafia's first one hundred years, from 1860's Sicily to 1960's America.

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast
334: The Birth of the Mafia w/ Louis Ferrante

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2024 88:19


My guest this week is bestselling author Louis Ferrante. He was an associate in the Gambino crime family before going to prison, where he studied history and began writing books. He joins us to talk about the origins of the Sicilian Mafia and how they followed Italian immigrants to the United States, initially establishing themselves in crime-ridden New Orleans alongside a corrupt police force.  His new book is called "Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia", the first volume of his Mafia trilogy.  More about Lou Ferrante and his work on his website: https://louisferrante.com/ Lou Ferrante's Simon & Schuster Publisher Page: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Borgata/Louis-Ferrante/Borgata-Trilogy/9781639366019 Lou Ferrante on Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/louferrante Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chatter on Books
Louis Ferrante “Borgata: Rise of Empire – A History of the American Mafia.”

Chatter on Books

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2024 65:54


“It's really life lessons.” Chatter rolls with David, Torie, and celebrity mixologist Rodney Ferguson.  They break down the Super Bowl and marvel at the life well lived by remarkable publisher (think “Jaws,: “The Exorcist,” and “Catcher in the Rye”).  Student of life and former Mafia associate Louis Ferrante zooms in to share “Borgata: Rise of Empire, a History of the American Mafia.”  Ferrante blends personal anecdotes with a remarkable grasp of history to track the rise of organized crime in America.  This is part one of a trilogy – he will be back!

The Art of Manliness
An Insider's Guide to the Rise of the American Mafia

The Art of Manliness

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2024 61:12


You're probably familiar with the American mafia, at least through its portrayal in popular culture. But how did this infamous secret society come to be?Louis Ferrante traces its origins in the first volume of his slated trilogy on the subject, entitled Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia. While there's been plenty written on the mafia, Ferrante, who was incarcerated for being a mobster himself, offers the first insider's history of this crime organization. Today on the show, he shares the surprising influences on the formation of the mafia in Sicily, why Louisiana and not New York was actually the mob's American Plymouth Rock, the unexpected collaboration between the government and the mafia during WWII, the real reason J. Edgar Hoover didn't go after the mob, why that hands-off approach changed, and much more.Connect With Louis FerranteLouis' websiteLouis' previous appearance on the AoM podcast — #551: Inside the Gangsters' Code

New Books Network
Yan Slobodkin, "The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies" (Cornell UP, 2023)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2023 40:57


The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. Yan Slobodkin traces the history of famine in the modern French Empire, showing that hunger is intensely local and sweepingly global, shaped by regional contexts and the transnational interplay of ideas and policies all at once. By integrating food crises in Algeria, West and Equatorial Africa, and Vietnam into a broader story of imperial and transnational care, Dr. Slobodkin reveals how the French colonial state and an emerging international community took increasing responsibility for subsistence, but ultimately failed to fulfill this responsibility. Europeans once dismissed colonial famines as acts of god, misfortunes of nature, and the inevitable consequences of backward races living in harsh environments. But as Dr. Slobodkin recounts, drawing on archival research from four continents, the twentieth century saw transformations in nutrition, scientific racism, and international humanitarianism that profoundly altered ideas of what colonialism could accomplish. A new confidence in the ability to mitigate hunger, coupled with new norms of moral responsibility, marked a turning point in the French Empire's relationship to colonial subjects—and to nature itself. Increasingly sophisticated understandings of famine as a technical problem subject to state control saddled France with untenable obligations. The Starving Empire not only illustrates how the painful history of colonial famine remains with us in our current understandings of public health, state sovereignty, and international aid, but also seeks to return food—this most basic of human needs—to its central place in the formation of modern political obligation and humanitarian ethics. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in Southeast Asian Studies
Yan Slobodkin, "The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies" (Cornell UP, 2023)

New Books in Southeast Asian Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2023 40:57


The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. Yan Slobodkin traces the history of famine in the modern French Empire, showing that hunger is intensely local and sweepingly global, shaped by regional contexts and the transnational interplay of ideas and policies all at once. By integrating food crises in Algeria, West and Equatorial Africa, and Vietnam into a broader story of imperial and transnational care, Dr. Slobodkin reveals how the French colonial state and an emerging international community took increasing responsibility for subsistence, but ultimately failed to fulfill this responsibility. Europeans once dismissed colonial famines as acts of god, misfortunes of nature, and the inevitable consequences of backward races living in harsh environments. But as Dr. Slobodkin recounts, drawing on archival research from four continents, the twentieth century saw transformations in nutrition, scientific racism, and international humanitarianism that profoundly altered ideas of what colonialism could accomplish. A new confidence in the ability to mitigate hunger, coupled with new norms of moral responsibility, marked a turning point in the French Empire's relationship to colonial subjects—and to nature itself. Increasingly sophisticated understandings of famine as a technical problem subject to state control saddled France with untenable obligations. The Starving Empire not only illustrates how the painful history of colonial famine remains with us in our current understandings of public health, state sovereignty, and international aid, but also seeks to return food—this most basic of human needs—to its central place in the formation of modern political obligation and humanitarian ethics. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/southeast-asian-studies

New Books in Middle Eastern Studies
Yan Slobodkin, "The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies" (Cornell UP, 2023)

New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2023 40:57


The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. Yan Slobodkin traces the history of famine in the modern French Empire, showing that hunger is intensely local and sweepingly global, shaped by regional contexts and the transnational interplay of ideas and policies all at once. By integrating food crises in Algeria, West and Equatorial Africa, and Vietnam into a broader story of imperial and transnational care, Dr. Slobodkin reveals how the French colonial state and an emerging international community took increasing responsibility for subsistence, but ultimately failed to fulfill this responsibility. Europeans once dismissed colonial famines as acts of god, misfortunes of nature, and the inevitable consequences of backward races living in harsh environments. But as Dr. Slobodkin recounts, drawing on archival research from four continents, the twentieth century saw transformations in nutrition, scientific racism, and international humanitarianism that profoundly altered ideas of what colonialism could accomplish. A new confidence in the ability to mitigate hunger, coupled with new norms of moral responsibility, marked a turning point in the French Empire's relationship to colonial subjects—and to nature itself. Increasingly sophisticated understandings of famine as a technical problem subject to state control saddled France with untenable obligations. The Starving Empire not only illustrates how the painful history of colonial famine remains with us in our current understandings of public health, state sovereignty, and international aid, but also seeks to return food—this most basic of human needs—to its central place in the formation of modern political obligation and humanitarian ethics. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

New Books in African Studies
Yan Slobodkin, "The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies" (Cornell UP, 2023)

New Books in African Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2023 40:57


The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. Yan Slobodkin traces the history of famine in the modern French Empire, showing that hunger is intensely local and sweepingly global, shaped by regional contexts and the transnational interplay of ideas and policies all at once. By integrating food crises in Algeria, West and Equatorial Africa, and Vietnam into a broader story of imperial and transnational care, Dr. Slobodkin reveals how the French colonial state and an emerging international community took increasing responsibility for subsistence, but ultimately failed to fulfill this responsibility. Europeans once dismissed colonial famines as acts of god, misfortunes of nature, and the inevitable consequences of backward races living in harsh environments. But as Dr. Slobodkin recounts, drawing on archival research from four continents, the twentieth century saw transformations in nutrition, scientific racism, and international humanitarianism that profoundly altered ideas of what colonialism could accomplish. A new confidence in the ability to mitigate hunger, coupled with new norms of moral responsibility, marked a turning point in the French Empire's relationship to colonial subjects—and to nature itself. Increasingly sophisticated understandings of famine as a technical problem subject to state control saddled France with untenable obligations. The Starving Empire not only illustrates how the painful history of colonial famine remains with us in our current understandings of public health, state sovereignty, and international aid, but also seeks to return food—this most basic of human needs—to its central place in the formation of modern political obligation and humanitarian ethics. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-studies

New Books in Environmental Studies
Yan Slobodkin, "The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies" (Cornell UP, 2023)

New Books in Environmental Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2023 40:57


The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. Yan Slobodkin traces the history of famine in the modern French Empire, showing that hunger is intensely local and sweepingly global, shaped by regional contexts and the transnational interplay of ideas and policies all at once. By integrating food crises in Algeria, West and Equatorial Africa, and Vietnam into a broader story of imperial and transnational care, Dr. Slobodkin reveals how the French colonial state and an emerging international community took increasing responsibility for subsistence, but ultimately failed to fulfill this responsibility. Europeans once dismissed colonial famines as acts of god, misfortunes of nature, and the inevitable consequences of backward races living in harsh environments. But as Dr. Slobodkin recounts, drawing on archival research from four continents, the twentieth century saw transformations in nutrition, scientific racism, and international humanitarianism that profoundly altered ideas of what colonialism could accomplish. A new confidence in the ability to mitigate hunger, coupled with new norms of moral responsibility, marked a turning point in the French Empire's relationship to colonial subjects—and to nature itself. Increasingly sophisticated understandings of famine as a technical problem subject to state control saddled France with untenable obligations. The Starving Empire not only illustrates how the painful history of colonial famine remains with us in our current understandings of public health, state sovereignty, and international aid, but also seeks to return food—this most basic of human needs—to its central place in the formation of modern political obligation and humanitarian ethics. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies

New Books in Food
Yan Slobodkin, "The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies" (Cornell UP, 2023)

New Books in Food

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2023 40:57


The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. Yan Slobodkin traces the history of famine in the modern French Empire, showing that hunger is intensely local and sweepingly global, shaped by regional contexts and the transnational interplay of ideas and policies all at once. By integrating food crises in Algeria, West and Equatorial Africa, and Vietnam into a broader story of imperial and transnational care, Dr. Slobodkin reveals how the French colonial state and an emerging international community took increasing responsibility for subsistence, but ultimately failed to fulfill this responsibility. Europeans once dismissed colonial famines as acts of god, misfortunes of nature, and the inevitable consequences of backward races living in harsh environments. But as Dr. Slobodkin recounts, drawing on archival research from four continents, the twentieth century saw transformations in nutrition, scientific racism, and international humanitarianism that profoundly altered ideas of what colonialism could accomplish. A new confidence in the ability to mitigate hunger, coupled with new norms of moral responsibility, marked a turning point in the French Empire's relationship to colonial subjects—and to nature itself. Increasingly sophisticated understandings of famine as a technical problem subject to state control saddled France with untenable obligations. The Starving Empire not only illustrates how the painful history of colonial famine remains with us in our current understandings of public health, state sovereignty, and international aid, but also seeks to return food—this most basic of human needs—to its central place in the formation of modern political obligation and humanitarian ethics. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/food

New Books in French Studies
Yan Slobodkin, "The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies" (Cornell UP, 2023)

New Books in French Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2023 40:57


The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. Yan Slobodkin traces the history of famine in the modern French Empire, showing that hunger is intensely local and sweepingly global, shaped by regional contexts and the transnational interplay of ideas and policies all at once. By integrating food crises in Algeria, West and Equatorial Africa, and Vietnam into a broader story of imperial and transnational care, Dr. Slobodkin reveals how the French colonial state and an emerging international community took increasing responsibility for subsistence, but ultimately failed to fulfill this responsibility. Europeans once dismissed colonial famines as acts of god, misfortunes of nature, and the inevitable consequences of backward races living in harsh environments. But as Dr. Slobodkin recounts, drawing on archival research from four continents, the twentieth century saw transformations in nutrition, scientific racism, and international humanitarianism that profoundly altered ideas of what colonialism could accomplish. A new confidence in the ability to mitigate hunger, coupled with new norms of moral responsibility, marked a turning point in the French Empire's relationship to colonial subjects—and to nature itself. Increasingly sophisticated understandings of famine as a technical problem subject to state control saddled France with untenable obligations. The Starving Empire not only illustrates how the painful history of colonial famine remains with us in our current understandings of public health, state sovereignty, and international aid, but also seeks to return food—this most basic of human needs—to its central place in the formation of modern political obligation and humanitarian ethics. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/french-studies

New Books in Economic and Business History
Yan Slobodkin, "The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies" (Cornell UP, 2023)

New Books in Economic and Business History

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2023 40:57


The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. Yan Slobodkin traces the history of famine in the modern French Empire, showing that hunger is intensely local and sweepingly global, shaped by regional contexts and the transnational interplay of ideas and policies all at once. By integrating food crises in Algeria, West and Equatorial Africa, and Vietnam into a broader story of imperial and transnational care, Dr. Slobodkin reveals how the French colonial state and an emerging international community took increasing responsibility for subsistence, but ultimately failed to fulfill this responsibility. Europeans once dismissed colonial famines as acts of god, misfortunes of nature, and the inevitable consequences of backward races living in harsh environments. But as Dr. Slobodkin recounts, drawing on archival research from four continents, the twentieth century saw transformations in nutrition, scientific racism, and international humanitarianism that profoundly altered ideas of what colonialism could accomplish. A new confidence in the ability to mitigate hunger, coupled with new norms of moral responsibility, marked a turning point in the French Empire's relationship to colonial subjects—and to nature itself. Increasingly sophisticated understandings of famine as a technical problem subject to state control saddled France with untenable obligations. The Starving Empire not only illustrates how the painful history of colonial famine remains with us in our current understandings of public health, state sovereignty, and international aid, but also seeks to return food—this most basic of human needs—to its central place in the formation of modern political obligation and humanitarian ethics. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Englewood Review of Books Podcast
Episode 69: Live from CCDA w/Soong-Chan Rah & Mark Charles

The Englewood Review of Books Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2023 62:55


Chris sat down with two first-time ERB Podcast guests, Soong-Chan Rah and Mark Charles, at the recent CCDA conference to discuss their work related to colonialism, race, history and the church.Books Mentioned in this Episode:If you'd like to order any of the following books, we encourage you to do so from Hearts and Minds Books(An independent bookstore in Dallastown, PA, run by Byron and Beth Borger) Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan RahProphetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times by Soong-Chan RahThe Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity by Soong-Chan RahThe Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis by Karen Swallow PriorModern Social Imaginaries by Charles TaylorThe Land is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery by Sarah AugustineHow to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel ImmerwahrDie with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins

MYSTICAL AMERICAN PATRIOTS SOCIETY
S3E034: How to Hide an Empire and Interview with Special Guest Jorge Mesa

MYSTICAL AMERICAN PATRIOTS SOCIETY

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2023 115:51


You can't choose your audience and Godward, it's time to pay for the podcast.Mother Angelica and why can't you listeners help us finance a body drawer?How to hide an empire.Did you know that the United States used to own the Philippines? The Pearl Harbor Retcon and the Great American Ethos.The amazing technology of controlling the world and not knowing about any of it.Jorge Mesa interviewWorld War You book, Jorge's journey, choosing a side, left vs right, binary concepts and trying to turn people into computers.People are tuning forks, frequencies and music.Videogames and computer programming.Singing the Bible.Shakespearian trickery, the sudden weird change from Old English to Modern English.English as a spell-crafting language that's killing all other languages.Solutions to avoid becoming drawn into the Borg, loving your neighbor and Hippie 2.0.LinksThird Eye Edify Linktreethirdeyeedify.comWorld War You bookHow to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United StatesMore Linkswww.MAPSOC.orgFollow Sumo on TwitterAlternate Current RadioSupport the Show!Subscribe to the Podcast on GumroadSubscribe to the Podcast on PatreonBuy Us a Tibetan Herbal TeaSumo's SubstacksHoly is He Who WrestlesModern Pulp

New Books Network
Arunima Datta, "Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2023 72:11


The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain (OUP, 2023) focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who travelled between India and Britain and often found themselves destitute in Britain as they struggled to find their way home to South Asia. Delving into the stories of individual ayahs from a wide range of sources, Arunima Datta illuminates their brave struggle to assert their rights, showing how ayahs negotiated their precarious employment conditions, capitalized on social sympathy amongst some sections of the British population, and confronted or collaborated with various British institutions and individuals to demand justice and humane treatment. In doing so, Datta re-imagines the experience of waiting. Waiting is a recurrent human experience, yet it is often marginalized. It takes a particular form within complex bureaucratized societies in which the marginalized inevitably wait upon those with power over them. Those who wait are often discounted as passive, inactive victims. This book shows that, in spite of their precarious position, the travelling ayahs of the British empire were far from this stereotype. The Museum of the Home in London will be hosting Arunima Datta for a public book talk and interactive tour on Waiting on Empire on October 28, 2023. Arunima Datta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Texas. She is a historian of the British Empire and Asian (South and Southeast Asian) history. Her research and teaching explore the everyday experiences of labor migrants within the context of the British Empire. She has previously been on New Books Network to discuss her first book, the award-winning Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (2021). She serves as an associate editor of Gender & History, Britain and the World, and as the Associate Review Editor of the American Historical Review. Zoya Sameen is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. She is a historian of gender, law, and empire in modern South Asia and her current book project examines how Indian and European women responded defiantly to the policing of prostitution from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in colonial India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in Gender Studies
Arunima Datta, "Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

New Books in Gender Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2023 72:11


The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain (OUP, 2023) focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who travelled between India and Britain and often found themselves destitute in Britain as they struggled to find their way home to South Asia. Delving into the stories of individual ayahs from a wide range of sources, Arunima Datta illuminates their brave struggle to assert their rights, showing how ayahs negotiated their precarious employment conditions, capitalized on social sympathy amongst some sections of the British population, and confronted or collaborated with various British institutions and individuals to demand justice and humane treatment. In doing so, Datta re-imagines the experience of waiting. Waiting is a recurrent human experience, yet it is often marginalized. It takes a particular form within complex bureaucratized societies in which the marginalized inevitably wait upon those with power over them. Those who wait are often discounted as passive, inactive victims. This book shows that, in spite of their precarious position, the travelling ayahs of the British empire were far from this stereotype. The Museum of the Home in London will be hosting Arunima Datta for a public book talk and interactive tour on Waiting on Empire on October 28, 2023. Arunima Datta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Texas. She is a historian of the British Empire and Asian (South and Southeast Asian) history. Her research and teaching explore the everyday experiences of labor migrants within the context of the British Empire. She has previously been on New Books Network to discuss her first book, the award-winning Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (2021). She serves as an associate editor of Gender & History, Britain and the World, and as the Associate Review Editor of the American Historical Review. Zoya Sameen is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. She is a historian of gender, law, and empire in modern South Asia and her current book project examines how Indian and European women responded defiantly to the policing of prostitution from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in colonial India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

New Books in South Asian Studies
Arunima Datta, "Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

New Books in South Asian Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2023 72:11


The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain (OUP, 2023) focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who travelled between India and Britain and often found themselves destitute in Britain as they struggled to find their way home to South Asia. Delving into the stories of individual ayahs from a wide range of sources, Arunima Datta illuminates their brave struggle to assert their rights, showing how ayahs negotiated their precarious employment conditions, capitalized on social sympathy amongst some sections of the British population, and confronted or collaborated with various British institutions and individuals to demand justice and humane treatment. In doing so, Datta re-imagines the experience of waiting. Waiting is a recurrent human experience, yet it is often marginalized. It takes a particular form within complex bureaucratized societies in which the marginalized inevitably wait upon those with power over them. Those who wait are often discounted as passive, inactive victims. This book shows that, in spite of their precarious position, the travelling ayahs of the British empire were far from this stereotype. The Museum of the Home in London will be hosting Arunima Datta for a public book talk and interactive tour on Waiting on Empire on October 28, 2023. Arunima Datta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Texas. She is a historian of the British Empire and Asian (South and Southeast Asian) history. Her research and teaching explore the everyday experiences of labor migrants within the context of the British Empire. She has previously been on New Books Network to discuss her first book, the award-winning Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (2021). She serves as an associate editor of Gender & History, Britain and the World, and as the Associate Review Editor of the American Historical Review. Zoya Sameen is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. She is a historian of gender, law, and empire in modern South Asia and her current book project examines how Indian and European women responded defiantly to the policing of prostitution from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in colonial India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies

New Books in Women's History
Arunima Datta, "Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

New Books in Women's History

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2023 72:11


The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain (OUP, 2023) focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who travelled between India and Britain and often found themselves destitute in Britain as they struggled to find their way home to South Asia. Delving into the stories of individual ayahs from a wide range of sources, Arunima Datta illuminates their brave struggle to assert their rights, showing how ayahs negotiated their precarious employment conditions, capitalized on social sympathy amongst some sections of the British population, and confronted or collaborated with various British institutions and individuals to demand justice and humane treatment. In doing so, Datta re-imagines the experience of waiting. Waiting is a recurrent human experience, yet it is often marginalized. It takes a particular form within complex bureaucratized societies in which the marginalized inevitably wait upon those with power over them. Those who wait are often discounted as passive, inactive victims. This book shows that, in spite of their precarious position, the travelling ayahs of the British empire were far from this stereotype. The Museum of the Home in London will be hosting Arunima Datta for a public book talk and interactive tour on Waiting on Empire on October 28, 2023. Arunima Datta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Texas. She is a historian of the British Empire and Asian (South and Southeast Asian) history. Her research and teaching explore the everyday experiences of labor migrants within the context of the British Empire. She has previously been on New Books Network to discuss her first book, the award-winning Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (2021). She serves as an associate editor of Gender & History, Britain and the World, and as the Associate Review Editor of the American Historical Review. Zoya Sameen is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. She is a historian of gender, law, and empire in modern South Asia and her current book project examines how Indian and European women responded defiantly to the policing of prostitution from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in colonial India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Economic and Business History
Arunima Datta, "Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

New Books in Economic and Business History

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2023 72:11


The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain (OUP, 2023) focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who travelled between India and Britain and often found themselves destitute in Britain as they struggled to find their way home to South Asia. Delving into the stories of individual ayahs from a wide range of sources, Arunima Datta illuminates their brave struggle to assert their rights, showing how ayahs negotiated their precarious employment conditions, capitalized on social sympathy amongst some sections of the British population, and confronted or collaborated with various British institutions and individuals to demand justice and humane treatment. In doing so, Datta re-imagines the experience of waiting. Waiting is a recurrent human experience, yet it is often marginalized. It takes a particular form within complex bureaucratized societies in which the marginalized inevitably wait upon those with power over them. Those who wait are often discounted as passive, inactive victims. This book shows that, in spite of their precarious position, the travelling ayahs of the British empire were far from this stereotype. The Museum of the Home in London will be hosting Arunima Datta for a public book talk and interactive tour on Waiting on Empire on October 28, 2023. Arunima Datta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Texas. She is a historian of the British Empire and Asian (South and Southeast Asian) history. Her research and teaching explore the everyday experiences of labor migrants within the context of the British Empire. She has previously been on New Books Network to discuss her first book, the award-winning Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (2021). She serves as an associate editor of Gender & History, Britain and the World, and as the Associate Review Editor of the American Historical Review. Zoya Sameen is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. She is a historian of gender, law, and empire in modern South Asia and her current book project examines how Indian and European women responded defiantly to the policing of prostitution from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in colonial India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in British Studies
Arunima Datta, "Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

New Books in British Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2023 72:11


The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain (OUP, 2023) focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who travelled between India and Britain and often found themselves destitute in Britain as they struggled to find their way home to South Asia. Delving into the stories of individual ayahs from a wide range of sources, Arunima Datta illuminates their brave struggle to assert their rights, showing how ayahs negotiated their precarious employment conditions, capitalized on social sympathy amongst some sections of the British population, and confronted or collaborated with various British institutions and individuals to demand justice and humane treatment. In doing so, Datta re-imagines the experience of waiting. Waiting is a recurrent human experience, yet it is often marginalized. It takes a particular form within complex bureaucratized societies in which the marginalized inevitably wait upon those with power over them. Those who wait are often discounted as passive, inactive victims. This book shows that, in spite of their precarious position, the travelling ayahs of the British empire were far from this stereotype. The Museum of the Home in London will be hosting Arunima Datta for a public book talk and interactive tour on Waiting on Empire on October 28, 2023. Arunima Datta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Texas. She is a historian of the British Empire and Asian (South and Southeast Asian) history. Her research and teaching explore the everyday experiences of labor migrants within the context of the British Empire. She has previously been on New Books Network to discuss her first book, the award-winning Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (2021). She serves as an associate editor of Gender & History, Britain and the World, and as the Associate Review Editor of the American Historical Review. Zoya Sameen is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. She is a historian of gender, law, and empire in modern South Asia and her current book project examines how Indian and European women responded defiantly to the policing of prostitution from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in colonial India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
Arunima Datta, "Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2023 72:11


The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain (OUP, 2023) focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who travelled between India and Britain and often found themselves destitute in Britain as they struggled to find their way home to South Asia. Delving into the stories of individual ayahs from a wide range of sources, Arunima Datta illuminates their brave struggle to assert their rights, showing how ayahs negotiated their precarious employment conditions, capitalized on social sympathy amongst some sections of the British population, and confronted or collaborated with various British institutions and individuals to demand justice and humane treatment. In doing so, Datta re-imagines the experience of waiting. Waiting is a recurrent human experience, yet it is often marginalized. It takes a particular form within complex bureaucratized societies in which the marginalized inevitably wait upon those with power over them. Those who wait are often discounted as passive, inactive victims. This book shows that, in spite of their precarious position, the travelling ayahs of the British empire were far from this stereotype. The Museum of the Home in London will be hosting Arunima Datta for a public book talk and interactive tour on Waiting on Empire on October 28, 2023. Arunima Datta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Texas. She is a historian of the British Empire and Asian (South and Southeast Asian) history. Her research and teaching explore the everyday experiences of labor migrants within the context of the British Empire. She has previously been on New Books Network to discuss her first book, the award-winning Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (2021). She serves as an associate editor of Gender & History, Britain and the World, and as the Associate Review Editor of the American Historical Review. Zoya Sameen is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. She is a historian of gender, law, and empire in modern South Asia and her current book project examines how Indian and European women responded defiantly to the policing of prostitution from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in colonial India.

Aquarian Diary
Part 2: A conversation with Dr. Nadine Sullivan

Aquarian Diary

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2023 78:15


Part one of this discussion can be found here: A conversation with Dr. Nadine Sullivan • Part One Special guest Dr. Nadine Sullivan and I engage in a wide-ranging discussion about her practice and experiences as a licensed hypnotherapist. We discuss how past lives and past life traumas influence our current incarnation (such as experiencing seemingly irrational phobias) and how such conditions can be resolved, alleviated or healed using hypnotherapy and past-life regression. This episode was published on July 26, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. Please see my "Conversations" playlist for more discussions. You can support my work and this channel by booking an astrology reading. You can contact Nadine or book a hypnotherapy session with her at the following link: Chestnut Hill Spiritual Counseling & Hypnotherapy References (will be updated shortly as of 7/26): Our generation was told liberal economics would make us free. Look at us now. We were misled. On U.S. Empire: Juan Gonzalez. (2002). Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (Second Revised and Updated Edition).‎ Penguin Books; Revised edition (June 14, 2022). ISBN-13:‎ 978-0143137436. Amazon link Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly' accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s How decades of disinformation about fossil fuels halted U.S. climate policy Big Oil's trade group allies outspent clean energy groups by a whopping 27x, with billions in ads and lobbying to keep fossil fuels flowing Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinformation Exxon: The Road Not Taken World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam New Florida standards teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills Avian flu may have killed millions of birds globally as outbreak ravages South America Georgia, the Peach State, is out of peaches. Here's why, and how locals are coping ‘Biblical proportions': 3 months' worth of rainfall floods Nova Scotia, forcing evacuations as crews search for missing people Nadine Rosechild Sullivan. 2012. Turn Your Life Around!: Expand Your Use of 'The Secret' & Manifest Intentionally in Every Area of Your Life.‎ Lifting Consciousness Press (October 25, 2012. ISBN-13: 978-0984822607. Amazon link On influencing the future: Lynne McTaggart. (2018). The Power of Eight: Harnessing the Miraculous Energies of a Small Group to Heal Others, Your Life, and the World.‎ Atria (reprint edition). ISBN-13: 978-1501115554. Amazon link The Great 2020's Timeline Split #Hypnotherapy #PastLives #PastLifeRegression Check my "Community Tab" where I comment and share links I find interesting. Please add yourself to my contact list. Errata

Book Club of One
Episode 91: It Finally Feels Like Spring

Book Club of One

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2023 15:52


Featured Books The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilak Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day by Dan Nott Dance-Punk by Larissa Wodtke How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr Daniel Immerwahr's Books of the Century ⁠2023 Cumulative Featured Books⁠ via Good Reads  Follow or Contact Book Club of One:  Instagram @bookclubofuno  ⁠bookclubofuno@gmail.com⁠ 

La Mogolla
The Microchip Cold War | USA vs China | Taiwan | Democratic Republic of The Congo | The Crossroads

La Mogolla

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2023 20:46


In this segment of The Crossroads I made a short introduction of the current cold war between the USA and China over microchips, and how this international debacle is directly linked with the enslavement of Congolese people in mining plants of The Democratic Republic of the Congo.(Sources) The images and some of the information mentioned in this episode are from: USA vs China, The War You Can't See (https://youtu.be/k_zz3239DA0)The Dark Side of Electric Cars (https://youtu.be/2_T5DgsO0jc)The World's Poorest Country is Sitting on $24 Trillion (https://youtu.be/whfzA0A2xLg)Recommended Books: 1. "Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives" by Siddharth Kara2. "The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila, A People's History" by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja3. "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa" by Adam Hochschild4. "Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association" by Tony Martin5. "Culture and Imperialism" by Edward W. Said6. "The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of Dark Continent From 1876 to 1912", by Thomas Pakenham7. "How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States", by Daniel Immerwahr8. "The Destruction of Black Civilization" by Chancellor Williams9. "The Rebirth of African Civilization", by Chancellor WilliamsFollow the podcast on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lamogollapr/Spotify: La Mogolla PRApple Podcast: La Mogolla PRSíguenos en:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lamogollapr/Spotify: La Mogolla PRApple Podcast: La Mogolla PR

3RDIHIGH (FactsOverFeelings)
The Book Report: (How to Hide An Empire) A History of the Greater United States

3RDIHIGH (FactsOverFeelings)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2023 130:53


The Book Report Series: Highlights of some very great books about American history. A list of books everyone should have in their libraries. “How to Hide an Empire is a breakthrough, for both Daniel Immerwahr and our collective understanding of America's role in the world. His narrative of the rise of our colonial empire outside North America, and then our surprising pivot from colonization to globalization after World War II , is enthralling in the telling—and troubling for anyone pondering our nation's past and future. the result is in instant classic, and a book for citizens and scholars alike.” —SAMUEL MOYN , professor at Yale Law School and author of “Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World” “This book changes our understanding of the fundamental character of the United States as a presence in world history. By focusing on the processes by which Americans acquired, controlled, and were affected by territory, Daniel Immerwahr shows that the United States was not just another ‘Empire' but a highly distinctive one, the dimensions of which have been largely ignored.” —DAVID A. HOLLINGER , emeritus professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of “Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jamaine-farmer-bey/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jamaine-farmer-bey/support

The CUInsight Network
B Corp Certified - PixelSpoke (#48)

The CUInsight Network

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2022 34:32


“Strategy is all about focus and simplicity.” - Cameron MadillThank you for tuning in to episode 48 of The CUInsight Network, with your host, Lauren Culp, Publisher & CEO of CUInsight.com. In The CUInsight Network, we take a deeper dive with the thought leaders who support the credit union community. We discuss issues and challenges facing credit unions and identify best practices to learn and grow together.My guest on today's show is Cameron Madill, CEO and co-owner at PixelSpoke. PixelSpoke is a worker-owned cooperative and certified B Corp that helps credit unions create beautiful and efficient websites. Cameron believes credit unions are the original version of what it means to be a social enterprise. As a team, PixelSpoke is helping financial institutions return to their core values by incorporating more impact.During our conversation, Cameron talks about the intersection of credit unions and social impact. He empathizes with credit unions who want to engage social impact, but don't know where to begin. Cameron shares how PixelSpoke did not start as a social enterprise and what it was like to become B Corp Certified. Maintaining a certification requires consistency, so Cameron walks through important social impact tasks such as impact measurement, impact marketing, and climate finance management.As we wrap up the episode, Cameron talks about enjoying his favorite coffee machine, listening to opera, and going out in nature when he gets the chance. Enjoy my conversation with Cameron Madill!Find the full show notes on cuinsight.com.Connect with Cameron:Cameron Madill, CEO and co-owner at PixelSpokeEmail https://www.pixelspoke.comCameron: LinkedIn PixelSpoke: Twitter | InstagramShow notes from this episode:What an amazing interview with Cameron! Check out all the exceptional work his team is doing over at PixelSpoke here.Want to hear more from Cameron? Click here.Book mentioned: CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping by Kerry BrownBook mentioned: How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel ImmerwahrBook mentioned: The Lincoln Highway: A Novel by Amor Towles

Wargames To Go
Wargames To Go 23.2 - Spanish-American War (part 2, with Jason Perez)

Wargames To Go

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2022 122:31


Come join the new Wargames To Go (and Boardgames To Go) discord server https://discord.io/BoardgamesToGo For a couple reasons, this episode has been my white whale, almost taking me down. I would certainly understand if any of my listeners gave up on me along the way, thinking the podcast had faded away entirely, or that I wasn't interested in wargaming any more. Not true! Listeners of my other podcast--the longstanding BoardgamesToGo about family strategy boardgames--know that I've still been active. I've even kept the flame of wargaming alive, playing a title here & there, reading history, watching films, and dabbling in online communities like Twitter and Discord. I even spent a weekend with wargame designer David Thompson where he beat me in a hex & counter wargame (not normally his thing, but mine!), showed me the brand-new Resist! game, and I also visited the nearby National Museum of the USAF. So what was it? What has kept me from closing out this wargame topic for so many months? The first is the topic itself. What started out as a little exploration of a lesser-known, short war with Teddy Roosevelt and his charge up San Juan Hill ballooned into a wider study of America's pivot to overseas colonialism and empire. It involves US national policy, ethical debates over the nature of democracy, a technological leap in naval power, islands in multiple oceans, and millions of other peoples who were fighting for their own American-style independence from foreign empires. That's a BIG topic, and it was the inspiration for my featured interview contained in this episode. The second reason was simply personal. I've spent most of the last year thinking I was going to be making a big change in my life, relocating overseas to Europe. I put a lot of things "on hold" while I worked on that, but it has ultimately not panned out. Ok, time to pick myself up, dust myself off, and start all over again. Except that it's not really "starting all over," because I've still got my good family, home, job...and wargame podcast. To a large extent, I simply need to get this episode behind me, which will close out this topic and let me move on to the next. The nature and history of American imperialism is such an enormous topic that I'll never do it justice. It has been fascinating and important for me to learn more about this subject--one of the great joys of my wargaming hobby is how it repeatedly opens up new understandings of history. I'm just going to do the best I can to wrap this up and then get energized all over again by the next topic. Books • The War Lovers, by Evan Thomas • The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century, by Clay Risen • Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, by Stephen Kinzer • How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, by Daniel Immerwahr Films • Rough Riders • Heneral Luna • Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War Jason Perez (Popesixtus) In addition to my closing comments about the games, books, and films I encountered for this episode, I was motivated to reach out to Jason "Shelf Stories" Perez for a featured interview. Over the summer, as I was thinking about the breadth of this topic, Jason popped onto my radar screen for his work with the thoughtful retheming of the classic eurogame Puerto Rico for its 20th anniversary into Puerto Rico 1897, which keeps the award-winning gameplay but fixes the cultural ignorance of the original. Though obviously not a wargame, it IS more aware of this history into which it is set, something eurogames have not usually done well. Picking the year 1897 reveals a significance to the Sp-Am War that was just around the corner, too. Then I noticed Jason had posted some other interesting videos about the cultural awareness (or not) of wargames. I knew I wanted to interview him for this episode. As you'll hear, Jason does consider himself a wargamer, but he does call himself a fan of "history games." He's passionate about history, especially the history of peoples, and proudly identifies himself with historian/political scientist Howard Zinn and his People's History of the United States. I suspect that point-of-view isn't for everybody, but it's exactly what I wanted to hear about for this podcast. Think about it and make up your own mind. -Mark P.S. I'm not 100% certain what my next topic will be, but I think it has to be a revisit of Gettysburg...since I literally revisited the battlefield this summer with a friend and listener of this podcast! Tom took me to Gettysburg which we'd both seen before, and later I started listening to Stephen Sears' book about the campaign. I'm thinking an interesting angle is to focus on the cavalry actions of Gettysburg campaign, from Brandy Station to the screened army marches to the cav-vs-cav skirmish east of the town itself. Hmmm...

Flow
How Has U.S. Foreign Policy Affected Immigration?

Flow

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2022 20:36


In this video I dive into the history of American involvement in Latin American politics and its effect on immigration to the U.S. #usa #uspolitics #latinamerica #history References Ali, Malik. n.d. “Intervention in Nicaragua.” Teaching American History. Accessed September 11, 2022. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/intervention-in-nicaragua/. Bensaid, Adam. 2019. “The secret history of US interventions in Latin America.” TRT World. https://www.trtworld.com/americas/the-secret-history-of-us-interventions-in-latin-america-23586. Campbell, Duncan. 2003. “Kissinger approved Argentinian 'dirty war' | World news.” The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/06/argentina.usa. Doyle, Kate, and Carlos Osorio. n.d. “U.S. POLICY IN GUATEMALA, 1966-1996.” The National Security Archive. Accessed September 11, 2022. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB11/docs/. Feierstein, Daniel, Marcia Esparza, and Henry R. Huttenbach, eds. 2010. State Violence and Genocide in Latin America: The Cold War Years. N.p.: Routledge. “Fulgencio Batista (1901-1973) | American Experience | Official Site.” n.d. PBS. Accessed September 11, 2022. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/castro-fulgencio-batista-1901-1973/. Gonzalez, Juan. 2011. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. N.p.: Penguin Publishing Group. Iber, Patrick J. 2013. ““Who Will Impose Democracy?”: Sacha Volman and the Contradictions of CIA Support for the Anticommunist Left in Latin America.” Diplomatic History 37, no. 5 (April): 995-1028. https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/37/5/995/357705?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false. Osorio, Carlos. 2013. “OPERATION CONDOR ON TRIAL: LEGAL PROCEEDINGS ON LATIN AMERICAN RENDITION AND ASSASSINATION PROGRAM OPEN IN BUENOS AIRES.” The National Security Archive. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB416/. Skidmore, Thomas E. 1989. The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-1985. N.p.: Oxford University Press. Tienda, Mara, and Susana Sanchez. 2013. “Latin American Immigration to the United States.” National Library Medicine 142, no. 3 (July): 48-64. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4638184/

Arts & Entertainment with Chris & Randall
ep99: The Vietnam War movie as apologia for empire

Arts & Entertainment with Chris & Randall

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2022 74:05


Randall asserts that (US-made) Vietnam War movies nearly universally serve to exonerate US conduct in the war — a war whose purpose is only to oppress indigenous people, further colonialism, and expand empire.  *** Vietnam movies discussed include:  The Green Berets (1968) Coming Home (1978) The Deer Hunter (1978) Go Tell the Spartans (1978) Apocalypse Now (1979) First Blood (1982) Platoon (1986) Good Morning; Vietnam (1987) Hamburger Hill (1987) Gardens of Stone (1987) Full Metal Jacket (1987) Hanoi Hilton (1987) Born on the Fourth of july (1989) Casualties of War (1989) We Were Soldiers (2002) Rescue Dawn (2006) *** Topics discussed include: US empire building The Phoenix Program What would a good Vietnam movie be like?  The CIA as an outgrowth of Nazi intelligence Reinhard Gehlen Operation Paperclip Mỹ Lai massacre Wannsee Conference Côn Đảo Prison Zero Dark Thirty (2012) American Sniper (2014) The Card Counter (2021) Top Gun: Maverick (2022) Bertolt Brecht's distancing effect wars run by the CIA Missing (1982) Paths of Glory (1957) *** https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/movies-video-games/2018/03/29/military-times-10-best-vietnam-war-movies/ *** Quotes from this show: I would call it a moral get out of jail free card because if every soldier in every war is really just an innocent chap who accidentally signed up for the wrong thing and now got stuck with a bunch of bullies who don't know any better, it really reduces the entire nation's moral culpability in a war because now it's just a bunch of good guys and bullies. —Chris These movies are trying to excuse the US' behavior in Vietnam. —Randall We gotta do bad things because the people we're fighting do bad things. You can literally justify anything with that moral equivalency. There's no point in having law, order, civility, or even a Geneva Convention if you're just going to tell hero stories. —Chris Our hero has the right to morally transgress because the villain is always so bad that the rules of civility exempts our hero from having any rules of civility. —Chris The CIA is the missing character in a lot of these movies. —Chris Every other kind of genre there's a moment of catharsis and realization that you can be a better person, but you can't do that with a country. You can't tell a story about a nation becoming a better person. Every time you make a war movie you're always going to end up with this false pat on the back. —Chris Is there anything the US could do that the US people would be ashamed of? —Randall Almost every one of our war movies are in some sense a perverse rationalization for violence. —Chris Why are they made at all? They're glorifications of going to war. —Randall *** Background reading: How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World by Douglas Valentine  Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism by Daniel Sjursen *** recorded June 12, 2022 *** Visit us at https://chrisandrandall.com/

Keen On Democracy
Juan Gonzalez: The Paradoxical History of Latinos in America

Keen On Democracy

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2022 41:41


Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Juan Gonzalez, author of Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. Juan Gonzalez is one of this country s best-known Latino journalists. He was a staff columnist for New York Daily News from 1987 to 2016 and has been a co-host since 1996 of Democracy Now! He is the author of Harvest of Empire, News for All the People, Fallout, and Reclaiming Gotham. Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, he was raised in East Harlem and Brooklyn, New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Democracy Now! Audio
Democracy Now! 2022-06-13 Monday

Democracy Now! Audio

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2022 59:00


We spend the hour with Democracy Now! co-host Juan González, who has just published a revised edition of his landmark 2000 book, “Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Democracy Now! Video
Democracy Now! 2022-06-13 Monday

Democracy Now! Video

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2022 59:00


We spend the hour with Democracy Now! co-host Juan González, who has just published a revised edition of his landmark 2000 book, “Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The History of the Americans
Sidebar: Justice Gorsuch and the “Insular Cases”

The History of the Americans

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2022 30:55


This episode is a “Sidebar,” which is our term for an episode that is off the timeline of the History of the Americans. This episode centers on a concurring opinion delivered by Justice Neil Gorsuch in a case handed down by the United States Supreme Court only a few days ago, on April 21, 2022. The case, United States vs. Vaello Madero, addresses a pretty unexciting question to most of us -- whether the Constitution requires Congress to extend Supplemental Security Income benefits to residents of Puerto Rico to the same extent it makes those benefits available to the residents of the States. That is not the interesting part. Justice Gorsuch's concurring opinion is, however, very interesting, an eloquent re-telling of the history of a series of cases -- the "Insular Cases" -- handed down in the years following the Spanish-American war, the moment in which the United States started dabbling in the European habit of true empire building. The Insular Cases are both an analytical mess and remain on the books as bad law today, as Justice Gorsuch compellingly argues. Enjoy! Selected references for this episode United States v. Vaello Madero Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Insular Cases (Wikipedia) Plessy v. Ferguson (Wikipedia) "Breaker Morant," epitaph scene

Voice of the water lily- our stories
Ep. 24 Remembering A Revolutionary Genius, Boricua Hero: Don Pedro Albizu Campos

Voice of the water lily- our stories

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2022 94:08


Many don't know his name. He was the president of the Partido Nationalista Puerto Rico. He called for armed revolution, simultaneous uprisings in towns around Puerto Rico, an attack on La Fortaleza and an assassination attempt against US President Truman. But we have to ask, why? Why did he do these things? Was he a psychopath who tried to violently overthrow the United States? Or was this born from a profound need for extreme actions? We cannot fully understand him or his valiant fight for independence without understanding the circumstances from which he evolved. This is the story of Pedro Albizu Campos, known affectionately by many as Don Pedro   Read my article about Don Pedro here: https://voiceofthelily.water.blog/2022/02/05/don-pedro-albizu-campos-a-genius-revolutionary-revised-version-with-podcast/ Songs:  Pedro Albizu Campos - Andres Jimenez ‘El Jibaro' 'El Jibaro' Coño Despierta Boricua - Andres Jimenez 'El Jibaro'  Que Bonita Bandera - Ramito La Borinqueña- Danny Rivera   Works Cited:  Works Cited Democracy Now. “War against All Puerto Ricans: Inside the U.S. Crackdown on Pedro Albizu Campos & Nationalist Party.” Www.youtube.com, 21 Apr. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=khkONOYSB8Q. Accessed 31 Jan. 2022.  Denis, Nelson A. “King of the Towels: The Torture and Murder of Pedro Albizu Campos.” Latino Rebels, 10 Mar. 2015, www.latinorebels.com/2015/03/10/king-of-the-towels-the-torture-and-murder-of-pedro-albizu-campos/. Accessed 31 Jan. 2022.  ---. “Pedro Albizu Campos.” WAR against ALL PUERTO RICANS, 25 Feb. 2015, waragainstallpuertoricans.com/pedro-albizu-campos/. Accessed 31 Jan. 2022.  ---. War against All Puerto Ricans : Revolution and Terror in America's Colony. New York, Bold Type Books, 2016. “Drew Pearson Interviews Gov Luis Muñoz Marín.” Www.youtube.com, www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWU9o5xjfKQ&t=543s. Accessed 31 Jan. 2022.  Federico Ribes Tovar. Albizu Campos: Puerto Rican Revolutionary. New York] Plus Ultra Educational Publishers, 1971. Fernndez, Johanna. YOUNG LORDS : A Radical History. S.L., Univ Of North Carolina Pr, 2020. González, Juan. Harvest of Empire : A History of Latinos in America. New York, Penguin, 2011. Kaike, Anani. “Don Pedro Albizu Campos, a Genius Freedom Fighter.” Voice of the Water Lily, 30 July 2019, voiceofthelily.water.blog/2019/07/30/don-pedro-albizu-campos-a-genius-freedom-fighter/. Accessed 31 Jan. 2022. ---.  “It's a Colony, Why Does It Matter? Puerto Rico, US Occupation, Uprising and Cornelius Rhoads's Medical Experiments on My People.” Voice of the Water Lily, 25 Mar. 2019, voiceofthelily.water.blog/2019/03/25/its-a-colony-why-does-it-matter-puerto-rico-us-occupation-uprising-and-cornelius-rhoadss-medical-experiments-on-my-people/. Accessed 31 Jan. 2022.  “Puerto Rico.” The Eugenics Archives, eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/connections/530ba18176f0db569b00001b. Accessed 31 Jan. 2022. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anani-kaike/message

Nomad + Spice
Summer books episode!

Nomad + Spice

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2021 33:19


Want to read with us? Join the Long Reads club on Patreon Be our friends on Goodreads! Kit and Viv Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino Convenience Store Woman by Sakaya Murata How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Know your Baldwin: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin If Beale Street Could Talk - Netflix documentary Kindred by Octavia Butler The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo Get a Life Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang Just read any Taylor Jenkins Reid book One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston Follow Rachel Cargle Support this podcast on Patreon! Email us! hello@nomadandspice.com. Join our FB Group! Nomad + Spice. Catch us on Instagram! @nomadandspice. Tweet us! @nomadandspice. Theme music: Yellow Sea by Madame Gandhi.

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
#1305 How to Build an Empire (A History of American Expansion) (Repost)

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2021 79:40


Air Date 9/13/2019 Today we take a look at the history and the process of the building of an American empire that currently spans the globe but allows as few people of color to vote as possible. Be part of the show! Leave us a message at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com  SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Daniel Immerwahr: Empire State of Mind Part 1 - On the Media - Air Date 8-22-19 The history of US imperialism — and why the familiar US map hides the true story of our country. With Northwestern University historian Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. Ch. 2: Doctrine of Christian Discovery - Let's Talk Native - Air Date 3-18-19 I learned that most educators know nothing about the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. How can you teach about colonization, slavery, the American genocide, Westward expansion or imperialism without teaching the origins of it all? Ch. 3: Harvest of Empire Part 1 - Making Contact - Air Date 6-25-19 It's not just jobs and prosperity that draw immigrants to the United States. Many Latin American's were brought here, or forced to come by dangerous or deadly conditions. And the US often had a role in creating those crises. Ch. 4: Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World w: Todd Miller - The Majority Report - Air Date 8-27-19 Journalist Todd Miller (@memomiller) joins Sam to discuss his new book, "Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World." Ch. 5: Harvest of Empire Part 2 - Making Contact - Air Date 6-25-19 It's not just jobs and prosperity that draw immigrants to the United States. Many Latin American's were brought here, or forced to come by dangerous or deadly conditions. And the US often had a role in creating those crises. Ch. 6: Daniel Immerwahr: Empire State of Mind Part 2 - On the Media - Air Date 8-22-19 The history of US imperialism — and why the familiar US map hides the true story of our country. With Northwestern University historian Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. Ch. 7: Blood, lies and the American empire - This is hell - Air Date 5-13-19 Black Agenda Report's Danny Haiphong traces a 300 year history of fake news in America. Danny is author of the book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror VOICEMAILS Ch. 8: Gun responsibility vs naked evil - Dave from Olympia, WA FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 9: Final comments on this weeks topics poll MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Support the show via Patreon Listen on iTunes | Stitcher | Spotify | Alexa Devices | +more Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunes and Stitcher!

Flow
Conservatism (Episode 14)

Flow

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2021 86:34


Carlos is a recent graduate from Portland State University, choosing to major in Political Science and minor in Foreign Language. Currently resides outside of Portland and has recently become more conservative-leaning with American Politics. Sources Gonzalez, Juan. 2011. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. New York, New York: Penguin Books. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Harvest_of_Empire/zCkVEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 Sowell, Thomas. 2015. Wealth, Poverty and Politics New York, New York: Basic Books. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Wealth_Poverty_and_Politics/vCnXCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

Reading Envy
Reading Envy 209: Best Reads of 2020 with Guest Menagerie

Reading Envy

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2020


Jenny invited past guests and members of the Reading Envy Readers group in Goodreads to contribute their best reads of 2020. In true Reading Envy fashion, books were not necessarily published in 2020. We always like to hear if you read a book because you heard about it on the podcast! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 209: Best Reads of 2020Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify New! Listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Jenny's full list of 5-star reads for 2020Sovietistan by Erika FatlandThe Empire of Gold by S. A. Chakraborty The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Deacon King Kong by James McBrideDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tolkarzcuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-JonesOne Hundred Twenty One Days by Michèle Audin, translated by Christiana Hills The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili, translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica translated by Sarah Moses Mama Day by Gloria Naylor Milkman by Anna BurnsThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahWar & Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Glass Hotel by Emily St John MandelA Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. FletcherNot Without Laughter by Langston Hughes Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi The Dutch House by Ann PatchettGirl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopera The Last Best League by Jim CollinsThe Mercury 13 by Martha Ackman Lauren The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart, translated from the French by Barbara BrayHow to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel ImmerwahrAftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm ed. by Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBronLetters: Summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, Maria Tsvetaeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke, translated from German and Russian by Margaret Wettlin and Jamey GambrellOther mentions:Discussion of The Only Good Indians on the Shelf Wear PodcastDiscussion of Drive Your Plow... on the Book Cougars PodcastDiscussion of Drive Your Plow... on the Book Cougars Goodreads group Stalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy If you want to hear more from one of the guests who appeared on this episode, go to the episode guide and do a search. All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate.

Pb Living - A daily book review
A Book Review - How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Book by Daniel Immerwahr

Pb Living - A daily book review

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2020 6:39


For a country that has always denied having dreams of empire; the United States owns a lot of overseas territory. America has always prided itself on being a champion of sovereignty and independence. We know it has spread its money; language and culture across the world - but we still think of it as a contained territory; framed by Canada above; Mexico below; and oceans either side. Nothing could be further from the truth.How to Hide an Empire tells the story of the United States outside the United States - from nineteenth-century conquests like Alaska; Hawai`i; the Philippines and Puerto Rico; to the catalogue of islands; archipelagos and military bases dotted around the globe over which the Stars and Stripes flies. Many are thousands of miles from the mainland; all are central to its history.But the populations of these territories; despite being subject to America's government; cannot vote for it; they have often fought America's wars; but they do not enjoy the rights of full citizens. These forgotten episodes cast American history; and its present; in a revealing new light. The birth control pill; chemotherapy; plastic; Godzilla; the Beatles; the name America itself - you can't understand the histories of any of thesewithout understanding territorial empire. Full of surprises; and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalisation mean today; How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of his --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pbliving/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support

Monstras
Movie Review: La Llorona 2019 by Jayro Bustamante

Monstras

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2020 58:50


An aging military general guilty of genocide comes face to face with his past misdeeds in the shape of an Indigenous dark haired woman...   We review the powerful 2019 movie La Llorona by Jayro Bustamante, which premiered on Shudder on Thursday, August 6th.  If you want to listen to our short spoiler free final thoughts you can forward to 49:30.    Music by Patrick Mullens Twitter - Facebook - Website Show Notes:  Movie Trailer La Llorona de Los Cafetales Music Video Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America

Quintessentially Somali
Episode 6: Sisterhood, Mental health, TikTok & many more

Quintessentially Somali

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2020 47:31


Hey my lovelies, in the 6th episode of this season we have a catch-up session on what we've been up to during lockdown and give suggestions on new podcasts, shows and good reads; all of which will be listed down below. Each of our suggestions covers the concept of sisterhood, mental health struggles, black women empowerment, funny TikTok videos and amazing new reads. We pray you guys are doing well and staying safe!! All recommendations: Podcast - Honest Tea Talks - S2, EP 3 - Pod Save the World - Untitled Podcast - EP 5 - The VN podcast - The Elicit Podcast Documentary/movie - Becoming by Michelle Obama Books - The End of History and the Last Man - Francis Fukuyama - How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States - Daniel Immerwahr - Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang

Working Historians
Matthew Avitabile - Mayor, Middleburgh NY

Working Historians

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2020 55:18


Matthew Avitabile teaches history at Southern New Hampshire University, is publisher of the Mountain Eagle newspaper, and mayor of Middleburgh, New York. In this episode, Matt discusses his background, his research into European history after World War II and British involvement with the Korean War, and the historical skills that he employs in his careers in journalism and public office. This episode’s recommendations: Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich (New York: Penguin Random House, 2005), https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292754/the-coming-of-the-third-reich-by-richard-j-evans/9780143034698/ Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich in Power (New York: Penguin Random House, 2006), https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292756/the-third-reich-in-power-by-richard-j-evans/ Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich at War (New York: Penguin Random House, 2010), https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292755/the-third-reich-at-war-by-richard-j-evans/9780143116714/ William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, 50th anniversary ed. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-the-Third-Reich/William-L-Shirer/9781451642599 Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire A History of the Greater United States (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374172145

JourneyWithJesus.net Podcast
JwJ: Sunday December 22, 2019

JourneyWithJesus.net Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2019 14:42


Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Debie Thomas. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Into the Mess* for Sunday, 22 December 2019; book review by Dan Clendenin: *How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States* by Daniel Immerwahr (2019); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Lonestar: Stevie Ray Vaughan, 1984–1989* (2017); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Gabriel's Annunciation* by Jan Richardson.

The Dangerous History Podcast
Ep. 0188: Introducing the Dangerous History Lyceum: Rise of the American Empire

The Dangerous History Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2019 60:21


I am super-excited to announce that the first lecture of Rise of the American Empire, the first Dangerous History Lyceum course, is now available! This podcast episode is centered on a segment from the first lecture in that course (slightly over half of the lecture, to be precise), so that DHP listeners will get a little preview of what is going to be covered in it, and (hopefully) will decide to support the show at $15 per month (or higher) in order to get access to the course as I create it. This course will cover the growth of the United States in size & power, from Independence through the War on Terror through the analytical lens of imperial history. Want to have access to the entirety of this, and any & all future DHL lectures & courses? Sign up to support the DHP at Patreon or Subscribestar at the Scholar Warrior level for $15 per month (or higher), or up your pledge to that level if you're already supporting at a lower level. CJ's Picks: Amazon Affiliate Links America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History by Andrew Bacevich Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (American Empire Project) by Andrew Bacevich The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II (Dispatch Books) by John Dower Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (American Empire Project) by Chalmers Johnson Dangerous Nation: America's Foreign Policy from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century by Robert Kagan The Forging of the American Empire: From the Revolution to Vietnam by Sidney Lens Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State (New Perspectives in SE Asian Studies) by Alfred McCoy Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansionism by Walter Nugent The Contours of American History by William Appleman Williams The Tragedy of American Diplomacy  by William Appleman Williams Empire As A Way of Life by William Appleman Williams Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Howe Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference by Burbank & Cooper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Killers, Cults, and Nutjobs
The Invisible Empire: A History of the Klan Part 3

Killers, Cults, and Nutjobs

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2019 73:29


Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Air Date: 9/13/2019 Today we take a look at the history and the process of the building of an American empire that currently spans the globe but allows as few people of color to vote as possible. Be part of the show! Leave a message at 202-999-3991   EPISODE SPONSORS: Bombas.com/BEST | Clean Choice Energy SHOP AMAZON: Amazon USA | Amazon CA | Amazon UK  MEMBERSHIP ON PATREON (Get AD FREE Shows & Bonus Content) VOTE IN THE WEEKLY SHOW TOPICS POLL! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Daniel Immerwahr: Empire State of Mind Part 1 - On the Media - Air Date 8-22-19 The history of US imperialism — and why the familiar US map hides the true story of our country. With Northwestern University historian Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. Ch. 2: Doctrine of Christian Discovery - Let’s Talk Native - Air Date 3-18-19 I learned that most educators know nothing about the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. How can you teach about colonization, slavery, the American genocide, Westward expansion or imperialism without teaching the origins of it all? Ch. 3: Harvest of Empire Part 1 - Making Contact - Air Date 6-25-19 It's not just jobs and prosperity that draw immigrants to the United States. Many Latin American’s were brought here, or forced to come by dangerous or deadly conditions. And the US often had a role in creating those crises. Ch. 4: Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World w: Todd Miller - The Majority Report - Air Date 8-27-19 Journalist Todd Miller (@memomiller) joins Sam to discuss his new book, "Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World." Ch. 5: Harvest of Empire Part 2 - Making Contact - Air Date 6-25-19 It's not just jobs and prosperity that draw immigrants to the United States. Many Latin American’s were brought here, or forced to come by dangerous or deadly conditions. And the US often had a role in creating those crises. Ch. 6: Daniel Immerwahr: Empire State of Mind Part 2 - On the Media - Air Date 8-22-19 The history of US imperialism — and why the familiar US map hides the true story of our country. With Northwestern University historian Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. Ch. 7: Blood, lies and the American empire - This is hell - Air Date 5-13-19 Black Agenda Report's Danny Haiphong traces a 300 year history of fake news in America. Danny is author of the book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror VOICEMAILS Ch. 8: Gun responsibility vs naked evil - Dave from Olympia, WA FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 9: Final comments on this weeks topics poll MUSIC(Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  Moon Bicycle Theme - American Moon Bicycle The Envelope - Aeronaut Great Great Lengths - The Balloonist Streamer - Arc and Crecent Heartland Flyer - The Balloonist UpUpUp and Over - The Balloonist Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Support the show via Patreon Listen on iTunes | Stitcher| Spotify| Alexa Devices| +more Check out the BotL iOS/AndroidApp in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunesand Stitcher!

Killers, Cults, and Nutjobs
The Invisible Empire: A History of the Klan Part 2

Killers, Cults, and Nutjobs

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2019 29:04


On the Media
Empire State of Mind

On the Media

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2019 49:53


In a special hour this week, On the Media examines the history of US imperialism — and why the familiar US map hides the true story of our country. Brooke spends the hour with Northwestern University historian Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. This is Part 2 of our series "On American Expansion." This episode originally aired April 5th, 2019.   Music: Bill Frisell - Lost Night The O’Neil Brothers - Tribute to America Eileen Alannah - Original recording from 1908 Ali Primera - Yankee Go Home Michael Andrews - The Artifact and Living Michael Andrews - Liquid Spear Waltz  Matt Farley - Bird Poop Song 

Killers, Cults, and Nutjobs
The Invisible Empire: A History of the Klan Part 1

Killers, Cults, and Nutjobs

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2019 30:34


On Top of the World
Ep 46: How to Hide an Empire

On Top of the World

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2019 56:15


Are mountains of bird sh*t, a doctor giving his patients cancer, and the width of screw threads central to the rise of American imperialism? Yes! Matt and Dave discuss How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr. This a text that will leave North American readers like Matt and Dave, saying "Oh sh*t! That really happened?" It is also history that weaves together mass politics, insane personal stories, and the twists of fate that shaped the changes and continuities of American history beyond and across the boundaries of "logo map." Recommendations:  Dave - A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine Matt - Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 by Andrew J. Torget How English Became the Global Language by David Northrup Dave's book is available for pre-order right now! World History through Case Studies: Historical Skills in Practice by Dave Eaton

Sinica Podcast
China's New Red Guards: Jude Blanchette on China's Far Left

Sinica Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2019 83:11


SupChina.direct — China consultants, on demand. Submit your project needs, and we will match you with qualified China consultants. This week, Kaiser sits down with Jude Blanchette in the Sinica South Studio in Durham, North Carolina, to talk about Jude's new book, China's New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong, which just came out on June 3. Jude explains the origins of the neo-Maoists and others on the left opposition, and how overlooking the conservative reaction to reform and opening impoverishes our understanding of China and its politics. What to listen for on this week’s Sinica Podcast: 9:33: The show begins with a discussion on Diāo Wěimíng 刁伟铭, an editor of the prominent neo-Maoist website Utopia (乌有之乡 wūyǒu zhī xiāng), and his untimely death in a vehicle collision while leading a group of Chinese tourists in North Korea visiting the grave of Mao Zedong’s grandson. Jude states: “Not only is his story fascinating and the story of why the heck they were in North Korea, but also [because] the news of the bus crash was originally suppressed.” The sensitivity of information about neo-Maoists reflects how their relationship with the Communist Party is “fraught” and “complex,” Jude says, who adds that this relationship “has been evolving for decades and continues to evolve now.” 18:48: Are there online platforms that lend themselves to radicalization in China? Jude explains how individuals find these communities organically, and moments around the turn of the millennium that prompted galvanization, the 1999 NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade among them. “Several key print publications were shut down by Jiang Zemin in 2002 and 2003, and these were old, established, thick theoretical journals that essentially had been the only remaining outlets for the conservative intellectuals…and after those publications were shut down, they really cast about to see what to do next, and I think had there been no internet, it would have been quite difficult to reconstitute a movement. But they saw this fledgling piece of information technology…this provided a public square, so to speak, where people could come together.” 27:34: What is neo-authoritarianism? What are the linkages between this ideology, the neo-Maoists, and the increasing prominence of technology? Jude tells the story of this theory in China and of the early progenitors, one of whom now sits on the Politburo Standing Committee. 31:21: How does the radical left in China view the protests at Tiananmen Square in 1989? Jude notes: “You would think given what we know about the current political program of neo-Maoism that they would either minimize or deny that there was any sort of massacre on June 4th, but in fact that’s actually not the case…there’s actually a much more nuanced position on things like the Cultural Revolution and June 4th than you would originally think.” 57:32: During Wen Jiabao’s tenure in office, Jude claims there is a reason why he pointed to the Cultural Revolution — to warn against the increase in radical leftist political views: “I do think there is a reason Wen Jiabao chose to invoke the spirit of the cultural revolution when essentially he wanted to warn about the neo-Maoists and Bo Xilai. That there is this thread of radical politics, which is always a threat to the Communist Party. And the most powerful fuel for this radical style of politics is not this sort of Liu Xiaobo, Ai Weiwei [style of] constitutional democracy. That’s not what the Party is really afraid of. It’s more afraid of people who outflank it from the left.” Recommendations: Jude: Behind the Curve, a film investigation into the “Flat Earth” community.   Kaiser: How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, by Daniel Immerwahr, a story of the United States beyond the lower 48 states.  

Bklyn Combine Podcast
NEW! Dr Barbara Episode. Part 2

Bklyn Combine Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2019 62:16


This is the 2nd of a 2-part series featuring a sitdown with Crown Heights, Brooklyn, elder stateswoman/historian/revolutionary, Dr. Barbara. We continue to discuss the subject of White Privilege. We are the Brooklyn Combine, a not-for-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities. Please check out Dr. Barbara's reading list: 1. The Black History of The White House By Clarence Lusane 2. The Empire's New Clothes: Barak Obamain The Real World of Power By Paul Street 3. Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq By Stephen Kinzer 4. The Bush Agenda: Invading The World One Economy At a Time By Antonia Juhasz 5. White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves In America By Don Jordan & Michael Walsh 6. How to Hide an Empire: A History of The Greater United States By Daniel Immerwahr 7. The World and Africa By W.E.B. Dubois 8. On The Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections On the Consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality By Ward Churchill 9. How The US Creates "Sh*thole" Countries By Cynthia McKinney * You may also watch interviews with the authors re their books on youtube.

All the Books!
E196: 196: New Releases and More for February 19, 2019

All the Books!

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2019 33:40


This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Bangkok Wakes to Rain, The White Book, The Study of Animal Languages, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Audible and Blinkist. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray The Source of Self Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison Bangkok Wakes to Rain: A Novel by Pitchaya Sudbanthad The Study of Animal Languages: A Novel by Lindsay Stern The White Book by Han Kang Darwin: An Exceptional Voyage by Fabien Grolleau and Jéremie Royer Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig The City In the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders What we're reading: Wanderers by Chuck Wendig The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker More books out this week: Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation by Ken Liu Trump Sky Alpha: A Novel by Mark Doten Nobody's Looking at You: Essays by Janet Malcolm For the Killing of Kings (The Ring-Sworn Trilogy) by Howard Andrew Jones Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II by Adam Makos The Moon Sister: A Novel (The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley The (Half) Truth by Leddy Harper Letter to Survivors by Gebe and Edward Gauvin The Elegant Lie by Sam Eastland The Familiars: A Novel by Stacey Halls Aerialists: Stories by Mark Mayer Hunting LeRoux: The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire by Elaine Shannon  Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives by Mark Miodownik The Nocilla Trilogy: Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experience, Nocilla Lab by Agustín Fernández Mallo, Thomas Bunstead (Translator) Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism New Edition by Daisy Hernandez, Bushra Rehman Arturo's Island: A Novel by Elsa Morante, Ann Goldstein (translator) How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr Tarot by Marissa Kennerson The Afterward by E.K. Johnston The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark The Art of Losing by Lizzy Mason The Secrets of Clouds by Alyson Richman The Next to Die: A Novel by Sophie Hannah The Birds That Stay by Ann Lambert The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman Immoral Code by Lillian Clark American Heroin by Melissa Scrivner Love Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe by Bob Berman Chamber Music: Wu-Tang and America (in 36 Pieces) by Will Ashon Death in Provence: A Novel by Serena Kent The Vanishing Man: A Prequel to the Charles Lenox Series by Charles Finch The Stranger from the Sea: A Novel by Paul Binding Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce Where Oblivion Lives (Los Nefilim Book 1) by T. Frohock

Princeton Theological Seminary
2018 Herencia Lectures | Juan D. Gonzalez

Princeton Theological Seminary

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2018 38:45


October 5, 2018 | 2018 Herencia Lectures “Reaping What We Sow: Roots of Central American Migration” Speaker: Dr. Juan D. Gonzalez, award-winning broadcast journalist and investigative reporter; a two-time winner of the George Polk Award; co-host of Democracy Now!; author of “Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America”; a founder of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists

Smart People Podcast
Craig Koslofsky

Smart People Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2012 36:22


Craig Koslofsky, author, Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois . Can you imagine a time without electricity and modern technology? First of all, HOW would you download this podcast? In Craig Koslofsky’s book, Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe, Craig discusses “the history of night” and what it...

Unsung History
The History of US Foreign Disaster Relief

Unsung History

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 1970 42:43


In 1812, the United States Congress voted to provide $50,000 to assist victims of a horrific earthquake in the far-away country of Venezuela. It would be another nine decades before the US again provided aid for recovery efforts after a foreign rapid-onset natural disaster, but over time it became much more common for the US to help in such emergencies. This disaster relief, provided via a three-pronged response from the State Department, the military, and the voluntary sector, especially represented by the American Red Cross, serves both humanitarian and diplomatic functions for the United States. Joining me in this episode is Dr. Julia Irwin, the T. Harry Williams Professor of History at Louisiana State University and author of Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century.Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The mid-episode music is “Palloncini sweet and happy piano song,” by Pastichio_Piano_Music, available for use under the Pixabay Content License. The episode image is “Personnel of Commander Carrier Division 15, showing theprime minister of Ceylon the supplies that the US Navy was delivering to flood victims in his country in early 1958,” Image courtesy of Naval History and Heritage Command.Additional Sources:How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr, Picador USA, 2020.“The City of Earthquakes,” by Horace D. Warner, The Atlantic, March 1883.“Founding and early years of the ICRC (1863-1914),” International Committee of the Red Cross, May 12, 2020.“A Brief History of the American Red Cross,” American Red Cross. “American Empire,” American Yawp.“December 28, 1908: The Tsunami of Messina,” by David Bressan, Scientific American History of Geology, December 28, 2012.By David Bressan on December 28, 2012“USAID History,” United States Agency for International Development.“Where We Work,” United States Agency for International Development.