author2author, Ep. 1 — Brian Carso & Tim Wendel on writing historical fiction

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Hear an incredible conversation between historical novelists Tim Wendel, author of Rebel Falls, and Brian Carso, author of Gideon’s Revolution. Listen to them discuss their research processes, fictionalizing real events, and the importance of historical fiction in today’s increasingly polarized world. Buy Gideon’s Revolution: https://qrco.de/bew7Sg More on Brian Carso: https://briancarso.com Buy Rebel Falls: https://qrco.de/bevT5Z More on Tim Wendel: https://timwendel.com Transcript available here: https://shorturl.at/zqp8d About author2author: This series aims to bring together two (or maybe more!) Cornell University Press authors writing about similar ideas to discuss anything and everything related to their books; the state of their area of expertise, how they came up with their book, publishing with Cornell University Press, and more. We hope to broaden accessibility to scholarship by giving you a taste of our books and the brilliant minds that create them. About Cornell University Press: Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance. https://cornellpress.cornell.edu Music Intro: Take It by LiQWYD (CC BY 3.0) Production: CUP Marketing Team Production & Voiceover: Rebecca Brutus Production & Editing: Alfredo Gutierrez

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author2author, Ep. 1 — Brian Carso & Tim Wendel on writing historical fiction

1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast

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1869, Ep. 158 w/ Rachel Chin & Samuel Huneke, editors of Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe 31:12

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Download and read the FREE open access ebook edition of Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe here: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779206/reimagining-citizenship-in-postwar-europe/#bookTabs=1 Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779190/reimagining-citizenship-in-postwar-europe/#bookTabs=1 In the UK, use promo code CSANNOUNCE here: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501779190/reimagining-citizenship-in-postwar-europe/ Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/ZoMnfkB3yxUfKXfznPSKGLs5i5w?utm_source=copy_url Rachel Chin is a Lecturer in War Studies at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of War of Words. Samuel Huneke is Associate Professor of History at George Mason University. He is the author of States of Liberation and A Queer Theory of the State. We spoke to Rachel and Samuel about the many different dimensions of citizenship, the impact that tens of thousands of refugees and migrants had in postwar Europe, and what we can learn from this history to help us understand where today’s Europe is heading in regards to citizenship…

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Authors in Conversation, Ep. 8 — Benjamin Coates & Kazushi Minami discuss People's Diplomacy 52:39

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Welcome to the eighth episode of Authors in Conversation, a podcast from the series editors of the United States in the World series from Cornell University Press. This episode features Wake Forest University professor Benjamin Coates (co-editor of the United States in the World series) speaking with Osaka University professor Kazushi Minami about his new book People's Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War Download and read the book for free: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501774171/peoples-diplomacy/#bookTabs=1 And save 30% off the print edition with the Promo Code 09POD. Written transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/0TKH9xfrW0R7d4mP76wIRsfszAo?utm_source=copy_url…

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1869, Ep. 157 with Felia Allum, author of Women of the Mafia 31:23

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Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on Women of the Mafia: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501774799/women-of-the-mafia/ In the UK, use promo code CSANNOUNCE here: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501774799/women-of-the-mafia/ Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/66ZHk_WmYWFLUANWFtixUAe64Sc?utm_source=copy_url Felia Allum is Professor in the department of Politics, Languages and International Studies at the University of Bath (UK). Her research focuses on organized crime, Italian Mafias, criminal mobility, gender and political corruption. She is the award-winning author of The Invisible Camorra. We spoke to Felia about why the conventional wisdom that all women are victims of a male-only mafia that excludes them is false; how women’s criminal activities within the mafia of Naples, Italy are hidden for a variety of reasons; and, why in the private sphere women are actually the key to the power of the Neapolitan Camorra and are its very backbone.…

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1869, Ep. 156 with authors Paolo Heywood and Adam Reed 34:26

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Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on Burying Mussolini, https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501778285/burying-mussolini/ and Animal People: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779640/animal-people/ Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/tc5iDpv5sFvw71D1UPyWU0F4ekw?utm_source=copy_url Paolo Heywood and Adam Reed discuss the common theme in each of their books centering around the power of ideas about ordinariness and normality in contemporary politics. We hope you enjoy their conversation. Paolo Heywood is Associate Professor of anthropology at Durham University. He is the author of After Difference, editor of New Anthropologies of Italy, and the co-editor of Beyond Description. Adam Reed is a Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. His research explores the intersections between moral and literary imagination and institutional life. He is the author of Literature and Agency in English Fiction Reading and Papua New Guinea's Last Place.…

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Authors in Conversation, Ep. 7 — Emily Conroy-Krutz & Tom Smith discuss Word across the Water 39:49

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Welcome to the seventh episode of Authors in Conversation, a podcast from the series editors of the United States in the World series from Cornell University Press. This episode features Michigan State University professor Emily Conroy-Krutz (co-editor of the United States in the World series) speaking with Selwyn College, University of Cambridge research fellow Tom Smith about his new book Word across the Water: American Protestant Missionaries, Pacific Worlds, and the Making of Imperial Histories https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777448/word-across-the-water/#bookTabs=1 Save 30% off the book with the Promo Code 09POD.…

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1869, Ep. 155 with Eliot Borenstein, author of Unstuck in Time 20:41

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Learn about Unstuck in Time here (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777899/unstuck-in-time/ Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/xLkSlsXBJKcP_0l4RGqFztFfcpQ?utm_source=copy_url&tab=chat&view=transcript In this episode, we speak with Eliot Borenstein, author of the new book Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny. Eliot Borenstein is Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies and Vice Chancellor for Global Programs at New York University. His other books include Soviet Self-Hatred, Plots against Russia, Overkill, and Marvel Comics in the 1970s. We spoke to Eliot about how, decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, many Russians today still look back to that time as a golden age; how this nostalgia for the past manifests in popular culture through films, fiction, and television series featuring time travel and alternate history; and, how even some Russians refuse to acknowledge their current government and instead insist that the USSR still exists.…

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1869, Ep. 154 with Peter Ekman, author of Timing the Future Metropolis 32:21

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Learn about Timing the Future Metropolis here (and use 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501778391/timing-the-future-metropolis/#bookTabs=1 Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/s2IqBx8SSmwfPTUZHjSWmc5eHBA?utm_source=copy_url&tab=chat&view=transcript In this episode, we speak with Peter Ekman, author of the new book Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America's Postwar Urbanism. Peter Ekman teaches the history and theory of landscape and urbanism in the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California. He is a postdoctoral fellow at USC's Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life, and at the Berggruen Institute. We spoke to Peter about why within the field of urban planning, the Joint Center for Urban Studies, founded in 1959, took a preeminent role; how the Joint Center’s ideas on the urban future dramatically evolved over a relatively short period of time; and,how the history of planning runs in parallel with the history of time itself.…

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author2author, Ep. 2: Jeff Friedman & Steven Wagner discuss American political history 38:43

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Watch the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9gCI6cjm-RQ?si=a6NewEJVEQIycptu This episode of author2author features Jeff Friednman, author of The Commander-in-Chief Test, and Steve Wagner, author of Eisenhower for Our Time, providing the perfect scene-setting of how we got to our political reality in the lead up to the 2024 election. Click below to hear them discuss how presidents use foreign policy to their advantage, the divisiveness in American politics, and President Eisenhower’s influence on our modern political parties. Buy The Commander-in-Chief Test by Jeff Friedman: https://qrco.de/bfK8cX Buy Eisenhower for Our Time by Steven Wagner: https://qrco.de/bfR7oz Read the transcript: https://otter.ai/u/jPPHS_5K89afnV12fgUrWkC7h8s?utm_source=copy_url About author2author: This series aims to bring together two (or maybe more!) Cornell University Press authors writing about similar ideas to discuss anything and everything related to their books; the state of their area of expertise, how they came up with their book, publishing with Cornell University Press, and more. We hope to broaden accessibility to scholarship by giving you a taste of our books and the brilliant minds that create them. About Cornell University Press: Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance. https://cornellpress.cornell.edu Music Intro: Take It by LiQWYD (CC BY 3.0) Project by CUP Marketing Team Production & Editing: Rebecca Brutus & Alfredo Gutierrez…

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1869, Ep. 153 with Alexander Sorenson, author of The Waiting Water 29:30

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Learn more about The Waiting Water here (and use 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777103/the-waiting-water/ Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/9ViJleOJojtPvz1hresS5aiMzok?tab=chat&view=transcript In this episode, we speak with Alexander Sorenson, author of the new book The Waiting Water: Order, Sacrifice, and Submergence in German Realism. Alexander Sorenson is Lecturer of German and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, State University of New York. His research and teaching interests center upon interdisciplinary themes and issues related to the environmental humanities, such as the interface between philosophy, literature, art and the history of science. We spoke to Alexander about the difference between German realism and English and French realism; what the symbolic meaning is behind one the most recurring motifs in German Realist literature—death by drowning; and the deep connections between this drowning motif with Ovid’s Metamorphoses as well as Shakespeare’s character Ophelia in Hamlet.…

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1869, Ep. 152 with Muna Güvenç, author of The City is Ours 27:41

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Learn more about The City is Ours here (and use 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776373/the-city-is-ours/ In this episode, we speak with Muna Güvenç, author of the new book The City Is Ours: Spaces of Political Mobilization and Imaginaries of Nationhood in Turkey. Muna Güvenç is an Assistant Professor at Brandeis University. Her research interests encompass social movements, minority politics, urbanism, and architecture in the Middle East and beyond. Prior to her academic career, she worked as an architect in Istanbul, Turkey. We spoke to Muna about how outlawed and legally-constrained pro-Kurdish parties in Turkey harnessed urban planning to resist government coercion, the creative loopholes the movement found to express their Kurdish identity, and the many stories of repression and resistance that Muna uncovered in her research.…

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1869, Ep. 151 with Michael De Groot, author of Disruption 27:00

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Learn more about Disruption here (and use 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501774119/disruption/#bookTabs=0 Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/AYwGHof_RZb3H_x32SO6bo1BjXQ?utm_source=copy_url In this episode, we speak with Michael De Groot, author of the new book Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War. Michael De Groot is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington where he teaches and researches the international, diplomatic, and economic history of the twentieth century. We spoke to Michael about his research showing that the global economic upheaval of the 1970s was instrumental in ending the Cold War; how the United States during this time was able to use debt and large trade deficits to its advantage while the Soviet bloc simply could not; and what lessons we can learn from this time period to help us navigate our current troubles today.…

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Authors in Conversation, Ep. 6 — Judy Tzu-Chun Wu & Alfred Peredo Flores discuss Tip of the Spear 30:40

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Welcome to the sixth episode of Authors in Conversation, a podcast from the series editors of the United States in the World series from Cornell University Press. This episode features UC Irvine professor Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (co-editor of the United States in the World series) speaking with Harvey Mudd College professor Alfred Peredo Flores about his recent book Tip of the Spear— https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771347/tip-of-the-spear/#bookTabs=0 Save 30% off the book with the Promo Code 09POD. Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/8UXJWdMdLeKlgafI7vj2-r5wZO4?utm_source=copy_url…

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author2author, Ep. 1 — Brian Carso & Tim Wendel on writing historical fiction 34:23

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1869, Ep. 150 with Claudia Strauss, author of What Work Means 31:38

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Learn more about What Work Means here (and use 09POD to save 30% off): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501775512/ Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/wz7ZAx9DLou7RUlouoLjz1S3shI?utm_source=copy_url In this episode, we speak with Claudia Strauss, author of the new book What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic. Claudia Strauss is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Pitzer College. She is the author of Making Sense of Public Opinion and coauthor of A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning. We spoke to Claudia about her research on Americans’ attitudes towards work; what she found were the two most prevalent views that Americans have about their work lives; and, why, despite dire warnings in the media, Americans still want to work in the Post-COVID employment landscape.…

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Authors in Conversation, Ep. 5 — Emily Conroy-Krutz & Matthew Shannon discuss Mission Manifest 49:58

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