{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies","slug":"new-books-in-russian-and-eurasian-studies-313261","podcast_index_feed_id":313261,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/HQyUzOY_","website_url":"https://new-books-in-russian-and-eurasian-studies.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/42fb3a55-d4d5-4eaa-8ea0-bce212a58de2/d82e765b-1852-4d2c-b563-78ae131041b9/3000x3000/a801439f626e716355b8fec9d4e33336.png?aid=rss_feed","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":600,"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/russian-studies","last_synced_at":"2026-10-02T08:22:53.141272+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-russian-and-eurasian-studies-313261"},"episode":{"title":"Anthony J. 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In this anthology, Anthony Barbieri pairs accounts from twenty-eight travelers across different historical periods, placing side-by-side travelers looking or going East with those looking or going West. Spanning from 400 BCE through to 1936, the anthology brings together ambassadors, monks, missionaries, merchants, and journalists in order to explore how people understood the cultures, societies, and worlds that they encountered through travel. Structured around these “parallel journeys,” the book highlights both similarities and differences in the ways travelers described foreign places and peoples. Some travelers used these encounters to criticize the societies they entered, while others turned outward observation into reflection on their own cultures. Across the anthology, travel writing emerges not simply as a way of describing a journey, but as a way of forging ideas about cultural difference, identity, religion, commerce, and political power. This anthology will appeal to readers interested in Eurasian history, travel writing, world literature, and cross-cultural exchange. It is also a flexible and engaging anthology perfect for classroom teaching, complete with both long and short versions of each account, helpful visuals, and contextual information — an excellent way to get students thinking about what it means to do comparison effectively. For another overview of the anthology, readers should check out Barbieri’s lecture “Beyond the Mountains and Seas,” available on YouTube here. 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