Jun 3, 2026 · not_requested
Weipin Tsai, "The Making of China's Post Office: Sovereignty, Modernization, and the Connection of a Nation" (Harvard UP, 2024)
- Duration seconds
- 3492
Podcast
The Harvard Brief
- Author
- New Books Network
- Feed episode count
- 559
- Official site
- https://newbooksnetwork.com
Summary
Interviews with authors of Harvard UP books.
Episodes
May 25, 2026 · not_requested
Matthieu Felt, "Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan" (Harvard UP, 2023)
- Duration seconds
- 225
May 22, 2026 · not_requested
Alex Averbuch, "Furious Harvests" (Harvard UP, 2026)
- Duration seconds
- 2895
Apr 28, 2026 · not_requested
Raffaele Danna, "The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals: How Practical Arithmetic Shaped Commerce and Mathematics in Western Europe, 1200–1600" (Harvard UP, 2026)
- Duration seconds
- 3863
Apr 21, 2026 · not_requested
Stephen F. Jones, "The First Social Democracy: The Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1918–1921" (Harvard UP, 2026)
- Duration seconds
- 3919
Apr 21, 2026 · not_requested
Jim Downs, "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" (Harvard UP, 2023)
- Duration seconds
- 3096
Apr 9, 2026 · not_requested
Rishi Rajpopat, "Panini's Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem in Sanskrit Grammar" (Harvard UP, 2025)
- Duration seconds
- 2484
Mar 31, 2026 · not_requested
Peter Mauch, "Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General" (Harvard UP, 2026)
- Duration seconds
- 3862
Mar 16, 2026 · not_requested
Entrepreneurial Work Ethic
- Duration seconds
- 940
Mar 13, 2026 · not_requested
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters, "The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World" (Harvard UP, 2026)
- Duration seconds
- 6251
Mar 8, 2026 · not_requested
Guoqi Xu, "The Idea of China: A Contested History" (Harvard UP, 2026)
- Duration seconds
- 4266
Mar 5, 2026 · not_requested
Rian Thum, "Islamic China: An Asian History" (Harvard UP, 2025)
- Duration seconds
- 2622
Feb 21, 2026 · not_requested
Michelle Jackson, "The Division of Rationalized Labor" (Harvard UP, 2025)
- Duration seconds
- 3666
Feb 18, 2026 · not_requested
Mélanie Lamotte, "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (Harvard UP, 2026)
- Duration seconds
- 1618
Feb 15, 2026 · not_requested
Sugata Bose, "Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century" (Harvard UP, 2024)
- Duration seconds
- 3804
Feb 15, 2026 · not_requested
Ruixue Jia et al., "The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China" (Harvard UP, 2025)
- Duration seconds
- 3177
Feb 11, 2026 · not_requested
Hang Tu, "Sentimental Republic: Chinese Intellectuals and the Maoist Past" (Harvard UP, 2025)
- Duration seconds
- 3747
Feb 8, 2026 · not_requested
Joshua D. Zimmerman, "Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland" (Harvard UP, 2022)
- Duration seconds
- 5855
Feb 6, 2026 · not_requested
Leslie James, "The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought, 1935-1960" (Harvard UP, 2025)
- Duration seconds
- 3309
Feb 3, 2026 · not_requested
Jennifer Vail, "Friction: A Biography" (Harvard UP, 2026)
- Duration seconds
- 2062
Jan 31, 2026 · not_requested
Peter H. Wilson, "Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500" (Harvard UP, 2023)
- Duration seconds
- 3611
Jan 29, 2026 · not_requested
Rishi Rajpopat, "Panini's Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem in Sanskrit Grammar" (Harvard UP, 2025)
- Duration seconds
- 5065
Jan 13, 2026 · not_requested
Dagomar Degroot, "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System" (Harvard UP, 2025)
- Duration seconds
- 4532
Jan 11, 2026 · not_requested
Marcy Norton, "The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492" (Harvard UP, 2024)
- Duration seconds
- 3638
Jan 11, 2026 · not_requested
Andrew I. Port, "Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust" (Harvard UP, 2023)
- Duration seconds
- 4537