Robert Richards and I recently spoke about his new collection of wonderfully engaging and provocative essays on Darwin, Darwinians, and much else. You can find our conversation about it here. Continue reading Was Hitler a Darwinian?: An Interview
Rob Mitchell and I recently spoke about his wonderful new book, an exceptionally inspiring study in the history and literature of science that traces experimental vitalism through a wide range of Romantic textual worlds from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. You can find our conversation about it here. Continue reading Experimental Life: An Interview
Michelle King’s wonderful new book explores the intertwined histories of imperialism and infanticide, situating the histories of infant killing and abandonment in China within a broader account of these practices in western Europe and across Eurasia. You can listen to our recent conversation about it here. Continue reading Between Birth and Death: An Interview
Emma Teng’s wonderful new book explores the history of discourses about Eurasian identity and the lived experiences of Eurasian people in China, Hong Kong, and the US between 1842 and 1943. She generously made the time to talk with me about it recently, it was such a pleasure, and you can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading Eurasian: An Interview
Josh Fogel and spoke recently about his thoughtful new exploration of the transformations of an artifact as read through the transformations in the way that artifact has been understood historically. It’s a book about a very particular gold seal in the history of Japan, and simultaneously about much more, and you can listen to our conversation about it here. Continue reading Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C. E.: An Interview
I had the pleasure of talking with Andrea Goldman about her wonderful study of opera in late Qing Beijing. It’s a rich book full of nuanced readings of some great historical documents, and you can listen to our conversation about it here. Continue reading Opera and the City: An Interview
Darryl Flaherty and I recently talked about his fascinating new study of nineteenth-century legal culture in Japan, and you can listen to our conversation about it here. Continue reading Public Law, Private Practice: An Interview
It was a pleasure to talk with Conevery Bolton Valencius about her new book on the making and forgetting of knowledge surrounding a series of earthquakes that rocked the Mississippi Valley in the 19th century. It’s a great story about the history of early American science, with particularly awesome footnotes, and you can find our conversation here. Continue reading The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes: An Interview
I recently spoke with Michael Ruse about his fascinating new history of the Gaia Hypothesis in the context of the transformations of professional and public engagements with science and technology in the 1960s. It was a pleasure, and you can find our conversation here. Continue reading The Gaia Hypothesis: An Interview
Henrietta Harrison and I recently talked about her beautiful new study of global Christianity, Chinese history, storytelling, and the history of a single town in Shanxi. It was a pleasure, and you can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading The Missionary’s Curse: An Interview
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