The Global History Podcast: Recent Episodes
Chase Caldwell Smith and Jeffery C. J. Chen
The Global History Podcast is an educational show designed for students, teachers, and anyone interested in the early modern world. We are dedicated to sharing histories both early modern and global, from approximately the 16th to the early 19th centuries.
Charles Walker speaks about his new book, Witness to the Age of Revolution: The Odyssey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru.
Rachel Kaufman speaks about crypto-Judaism in the New World, the complexities of memory practices, and the importance of poetry in translating the emotions and materiality of the historical archive.
Sujit Sivasundaram speaks about his new book, 'Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire,' discussing the age of revolutions in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Stephen Whiteman speaks about his book, 'Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe', discussing the study of landscapes, digital art history methods, and Qing history.
Janet Gyatso speaks about her book, 'Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet', discussing topics including the entanglement of Buddhism and medicine in Tibet, the cross-cultural influences of diverse medical traditions on Tibetan medicine, and the importance of adopting a non-Eurocentric perspective when studying ways of knowing, debating, and gathering information about the human body and the natural world.
Craig Lambert and Steven Mentz discuss their new book, 'The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400-1800' (edited by Lambert, Mentz, and Prof. Claire Jowitt). They discuss topics including how the volume situates itself in scholarship on the late medieval and early modern oceans, the importance of interdisciplinary approaches in writing about the sea, and the significance of the period 1400-1800 in the history of maritime worlds.
Suman Seth speaks about his book, 'Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and Locality in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire', discussing topics including ideas about the process of 'seasoning', undergone when a person migrated from one kind of climate to another, gender and susceptibility to disease, and the entanglement of transatlantic slavery and abolition with ideas about race and medicine.
David Veevers speaks about his new book on the history of the early modern English East India Company in Asia, titled 'The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600 - 1750', discussing subjects including the relationships between the Company and Asian 'elites', Company servants and the formation of ethnically mixed families, and the importance of studying the British Empire today.
Clare Griffin speaks about 'official' Russian court medicine, the challenges of reconstructing the 'unofficial' medical practices of the broader population, and the participation of the early modern Russian Empire in global trade networks of medical commodities, which brought products like sassafras and rhubarb to Moscow from as far away as the New World and East Asia, respectively.
David M. Carballo speaks about his new book, 'Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain' (Oxford University Press, 2020), which takes into account centuries and even millennia of archaeological and historical developments across such areas as warfare and weaponry, plant and animal domestication, and trade and exchange, inviting us to view the Conquest of Mexico and the forging of New Spain on a broader temporal canvass.
Hugh Cagle speaks about his research on the creation of the idea of the ‘tropics’, focusing on knowledge about nature, medicine, and disease in the Portuguese Empire during the late medieval and early modern periods.
Nükhet Varlık speaks about her research on plague, public health, and healing in the early modern Ottoman Empire, including the importance of considering the Ottoman experience in the broader history of plague, the links between Ottoman imperial expansion and the spread of plague, and practices of healing in early modern Ottoman society.
Sebestian Kroupa speaks about his research on the Bohemian Jesuit pharmacist Georg Joseph Kamel, who was stationed in the colonial Spanish Philippines at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th, and about how Kamel’s life, work, and correspondence can illuminate the ways knowledge was produced in cross-cultural, cross-imperial, and cross-oceanic settings in the early modern world.
Monica H. Green discusses the global history of disease, including the global black death, the ways in which historians and scientists can collaborate in writing global histories of disease, at what point a disease can be called global, and the role of colonization and trade in spreading disease.
Dr. Bronwen Everill speaks about abolition and empire in West Africa in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
In this segment, we hear from Professor Sujit Sivasundaram on the importance of islands in global history.
On this episode, Professor Barbara E. Mundy speaks about some of the complex, fascinating, and important visual and indigenous sources of colonial Mexico.
On this episode, we will be discussing Prof. Sebastian Conrad’s well-known critical approach toward the burgeoning discipline of global history, entitled What Is Global History? So, how does one go about writing the history of the world, and who is global history written by and for whom? Listen on to find out more.
Join us for episode 1 of the Global History Podcast, in which we speak with Dr. Alan Strathern about religion and political authority in the pre-modern world.