
Marshall Poe is a historian and currently a member of the faculty at the University of Iowa. He hosts New Books in History in which he interviews the authors of such books on various historical topics.
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Rohrbough Interview
Colin Woodard, “American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America”
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Christopher Krebs, “A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich”
Francis Spufford, “Red Plenty: Industry! Progress! Abundance! Inside the Fifties Soviet Dream”
Gerald Steinacher, “Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice”
Edith Sheffer, “Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain”
Orna Ophir, “On the Borderland of Madness: Psychosis, Psychoanalysis, and Psychiatry in Postwar USA” (Routledge, 2015)
Irene L. Gendzier, “Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East” (Columbia UP, 2015)
Paul Roquet, “Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2016)
Ricardo Duchesne, “The Uniqueness of Western Civilization”
Rodric Braithwaite, “Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89″
Jay Rubenstein, “Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse”
Richard Bessel, “Germany 1945: From War to Peace”
Anthony Bale, trans., “Sir John Mandeville’s The Book of Marvels and Travels”
Mary Fulbrook, “A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust”
Susan Cahan “Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power” (Duke UP, 2016)
Lisa Bjorkman, “Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai” (Duke UP, 2015)
Adam Hochschild, “To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918″
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Jack Jacobs, “The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Diana Heney, “Toward a Pragmatist Metaethics” (Routledge, 2016)
Morgan Pitelka, “Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2016)
Kenneth Schaffner, “Behaving: What’s Genetic, What’s Not, and Why Should We Care?” (Oxford UP, 2016)
David Brophy, “Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Robert Bucholz and Joseph Ward, “London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550-1750″
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Mark R. E. Meulenbeld, “Demonic Warfare: Daoism, Territorial Networks, and the History of a Ming Novel” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2015)
Interview with Charles Postel
Carolina Armenteros, “The French Idea of History: The French Idea of History: Joseph de Maistre and his Heirs, 1794-1854″
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Eric Schickler, “Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965” (Princeton UP, 2016)
Peter Harrison, “The Territories of Science and Religion” (U. of Chicago Press, 2014)
Paul M. Cobb, “The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Lars Rensmann, “The Politics of Unreason: The Frankfurt School and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism” (SUNY Press, 2017)
Joanna Levin, “Bohemia in America, 1858-1920″
Maiolo Interview
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David Stahel, “Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East”
James M. Banner, Jr., “Being a Historian: An Introduction to the Professional World of History”
David Brandenberger, “Propaganda State in Crisis: Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror under Stalin”
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Susan Kavaler-Adler, “The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers” (ORI Academic, 2013)
Kirk A. Denton, “Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2014)
Russell Rickford, “We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power and the Radical Imagination” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Sam Quinones, “Dreamland: The True Tale of American’s Opiate Epidemic” (Bloomsbury Press, 2015)
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