{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in American Studies","slug":"new-books-in-american-studies-1045748","podcast_index_feed_id":1045748,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT2571364172","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/1c2a38a6-f361-11e8-b189-f7d6afada886/image/b7575166416cc2a27bf6b6b429ea6f1d.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":5000,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies","last_synced_at":"2026-09-05T06:22:36.942297+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-american-studies-1045748"},"episode":{"title":"Arturo Chang, \"A New World of Revolutions: Popular Imaginations and Movements Across the Americas\" (Princeton UP, 2026)","slug":"arturo-chang-a-new-world-of-revolutions-popular-imaginations-and-movements-across-the-americas-princeton-up-2026","published_at":"2026-08-20T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-american-studies-1045748/arturo-chang-a-new-world-of-revolutions-popular-imaginations-and-movements-across-the-americas-princeton-up-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-american-studies-1045748","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7046907989.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7046907989.mp3","summary":"In A New World of Revolutions: Popular Imaginations and Movements Across the Americas (Princeton UP, 2026), Arturo Chang reconstructs the histories, politics, and legacies of the Age of Revolutions (c. 1770-1850) from the vantage point of popular movements in the Americas. Challenging narratives that center the nation-state, Chang emphasizes the hemispheric politics, practices, and cultural production that connected revolutionary movements from the United States to Argentina. He draws on marching songs, poems, pamphlets, manifestos, plays, proclamations, constitutions, and other archival objects to show that hemispheric imaginaries were critical to the development of postcolonial republicanism in the Americas. Chang shows that marginalized groups, especially Indigenous, Mestizo, and Pardo communities, contributed to and benefitted from narratives of American emancipation. Armed with hemispheric discourses, they were able to argue for such egalitarian reforms as the abolition of slavery, the elimination of colonial tribute, the protection of Indigenous lands, the end of the Spanish caste system, and the establishment of civic equality. Countering assumptions that actors in popular movements followed elite leaders or had little to say during moments of revolutionary change, Chang shows how each of these campaigns influenced republican principles in ways that reflected their own cultures and histories--and how each produced concrete interventions in the legal, social, and material realities of their communities. Chang links popular movements in New Spain (Mexico), the United States, New Granada (Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, and Ecuador), and the postcolonial Andes (Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina), arguing that, together, they constituted an American tradition of…","meta_description":"In A New World of Revolutions: Popular Imaginations and Movements Across the Americas (Princeton UP, 2026), Arturo Chang reconstructs the histo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2724,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-american-studies-1045748/episodes/arturo-chang-a-new-world-of-revolutions-popular-imaginations-and-movements-across-the-americas-princeton-up-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-american-studies-1045748/arturo-chang-a-new-world-of-revolutions-popular-imaginations-and-movements-across-the-americas-princeton-up-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}