fifteeneightyfour (Archive)

Lisa M. Barksdale-Shaw discusses her article on racial trauma in Othello: ‘The Moor’s Abused By Some Most Villainous Knave, Some Base Notorious Knave, Some Scurvy Fellow’: Legal Spaces, Racial Trauma And Shakespeare’s The Tragedy Of Othello, The Moor Of Venice. Read the Open Access article here: https://cup.org/3OHT2xG

This is a book about the book. Is this a book? is a question of wide appeal and interest. With the arrival of ebooks, digital narratives and audiobooks, the time is right for a fresh discussion of what is a book. In this podcast, Strand Editor for ‘The Business of Publishing’ Rachel Noorda is in discussion with the authors of this Element, Angus Phillips and Miha Kovač.

The second volume of The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World explores the development of modern economic growth from 1870 to the present. Leading experts in economic history offer a series of regional studies from around the world, as well as thematic analyses of key factors governing the differential outcomes in different parts of the global economy. Topics covered include human capital, capital and technology, geography and institutions, living standards and inequality, trade and immigration, international finance, and warfare and empire. In this episode, hear Executive Publisher Michael Watson and one of the volume editors, Stephen Broadberry, University of Oxford, discuss Vol. 2. Learn more at www.cambridge.org/9781107159488

The first volume of The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World traces the emergence of modern economic growth in eighteenth century Britain and its spread across the globe. Focusing on the period from 1700 to 1870, a team of leading experts in economic history offer a series of regional studies from around the world, as well as thematic analyses of key factors governing the differential outcomes in different parts of the global economy. Topics covered include population and human development, capital and technology, geography and institutions, living standards and inequality, international flows of trade and labour, the international monetary system, and war and empire. In this episode, hear Executive Publisher Michael Watson and one of the volume editors Stephen Broadberry, University of Oxford, discuss Vol. 1. Learn more at www.cambridge.org/9781107159457

Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and after that, he served on the President's Review Board on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and on the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board. In 2020, the World Health Organization appointed him as Chair of its technical advisory group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health. He is also The New York Times best-selling author of The World According to Star Wars (2016) and Nudge (2008) Here, Cass Sunstein explores some of the key themes in his Element, Behavioural Science and Public Policy in conversation with Tony Hockley from the London School of Economics. Read more about Cambridge Elements The CUP journal Behavioural Public Policy journal is managed by Tony Hockley (LSE).

War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination by Michael Bennett is available to purchase at cambridge.org/WarAgainstSmallpox.

In Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana, Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela Gross tell the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Gross joins Cambridge University Press Senior Editor Cecelia Cancellaro to discuss how ordinary people shaped the law and worked to change society and how that work is still relevant today. Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana is available now.

In Williams’ Gang, Jeff Forret explores a Washington, DC, slave trader’s legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans. Forret joins Cambridge University Press Senior Editor Cecelia Cancellaro to discuss the three-decade-long courtroom drama, the parallels between the slave trade and the modern-day prison-industrial complex, and more. Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts is available now.

In his new book, Buzz!, Dr. Kenneth Carter goes inside the minds of thrill-seekers, daredevils, and adrenaline junkies to see what makes them seek out potentially dangerous activities. In the final of a series of interviews, Dr. Carter speaks with the Creator of Georgia Death Race, Sean Blanton. Buzz!: Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies is available now.

In his new book, Buzz!, Dr. Kenneth Carter goes inside the minds of thrill-seekers, daredevils, and adrenaline junkies to see what makes them seek out potentially dangerous activities. In the fourth of a series of interviews, Dr. Carter speaks with highliner Faith Dickey. Buzz!: Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies is available now.

In his new book, Buzz!, Dr. Kenneth Carter goes inside the minds of thrill-seekers, daredevils, and adrenaline junkies to see what makes them seek out potentially dangerous activities. In the second of a series of interviews, Dr. Carter speaks with competitive freediver Ashleigh Baird. Buzz!: Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies will be available October 2019.

Discussing the new edition of Reversing Sail, author Michael A. Gomez joins editor Debbie Gershenowitz to explore the major updates to this book in relation to the study of the African Diaspora, and the importance of how we tell and teach history from a non-western perspective. From discussions on the cover to why the book begins in antiquity rather than with the transatlantic slave trade, Michael and Debbie journey through the intersectionality, both parallel and contradictory, of race, culture and ideas of gender and class within the black experience.   The second edition of Reversing Sail is available in November.

In his new book, Buzz!, Dr. Kenneth Carter goes inside the minds of thrill-seekers, daredevils, and adrenaline junkies to see what makes them seek out potentially dangerous activities. In the second of a series of interviews, Dr. Carter speaks with educator Beau Williams-Orser on training young professional students for careers in the outdoors. Buzz!: Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies will be available October 2019.

In his new book, Buzz!, Dr. Kenneth Carter goes inside the minds of thrill-seekers, daredevils, and adrenaline junkies to see what makes them seek out potentially dangerous activities. In the first of a series of interviews, Dr. Carter speaks with Jenn Thompson, an Ultra Marathoner who runs up to 150 miles per race, to see why she does it. Buzz!: Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies will be available October 2019.

Hear an excerpt from Crack, available October 10th, a shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber. Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the often-merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocaine underworld. Based on interviews, archival research, judicial records, underground videos, and prison memoirs, Crack explains why, in a de-industrializing America in which market forces ruled and entrepreneurial risk-taking was celebrated, the crack industry was a lucrative enterprise for the 'Horatio Alger boys' of their place and time. These young, predominately African American entrepreneurs were profit-sharing partners in a deviant, criminal form of economic globalization. Hip Hop artists often celebrated their exploits but overwhelmingly, Americans - across racial lines -did not. Crack takes a hard look at the dark side of late twentieth-century capitalism.  For more information, visit cambridge.org/audiobooks.

What do the Mona Lisa, the light bulb, and a Lego brick have in common? The answer - intellectual property (IP) - may be surprising, because IP laws are all about us, but go mostly unrecognized. Senior Editor Matt Gallaway speaks with the co-editor of A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects, Claudy Op den Kamp, on why IP resonates throughout our culture now and the artistic and creative nature of the project. A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects is available now.

Simon Harrison is a gesture studies researcher with interests ranging from the form and function of specific gestures (especially associated with negation) to the relationship between language, gesture and cognition in interactions. He is the author of The Impulse to Gesture (2018) and the forthcoming The Body Language Myth. In this podcast Simon discusses how body language is not a ‘separate’ language, how we use gestures in daily life and whether a body language expert can ever ‘switch off’. The Impulse to Gesture: Where Language, Minds, and Bodies Intersect is available now.

The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our child-rearing patterns, our moral codes, our religions, our languages, and science? The book tackles these issues by drawing on ideas from two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory. The guiding assumption is that humans are animals, and that like all animals, we evolved to pass on our genes. At some point, however, we also evolved the capacity for culture - and from that moment, culture began evolving in its own right. This transformed us from a mere ape into an ape capable of reshaping the planet, travelling to other worlds, and understanding the vast universe of which we're but a tiny, fleeting fragment. Hear an excerpt from The Ape that Understood the Universe, now available in audiobook and available from all major retailers. For more information, visit cambridge.org/audiobooks.

In 2017, the world watched as President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traded personal insults and escalating threats of nuclear war amid unprecedented shows of military force. Former Pentagon insider and Korean security expert Van Jackson traces the origins of the first American nuclear crisis in the post-Cold War era, and explains the fragile, highly unpredictable way that it ended. Hear an excerpt from his book, On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and the Threat of Nuclear War, now available in audiobook and available from all major retailers. For more information, visit cambridge.org/audiobooks.

Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. Hear an excerpt from his book, Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy, soon to be available in audiobook and available from all major retailers. For more information, visit cambridge.org/audiobooks.

Taking account of the carbon footprint of food production and a growing global population, should we all go vegan? Mike Berners-Lee addresses this question in an excerpt from his new book, There is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years, soon to be available in audiobook and available from all major retailers. For more information, visit cambridge.org/audiobooks.

Ever since the collapse of the Third Reich, anxieties have persisted about Nazism's revival in the form of a Fourth Reich. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld joins Cambridge University Press Executive Publisher Michael Watson to discuss why it's valuable to think about how postwar German history could have been different and continued relevance of the term with the rise of authoritarian populism around the world. The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present is available now.

What does a 21st century general look like? Cambridge publisher John Haslam and the author of Command: The Twenty-First-Century General Anthony King discuss this vital question and the transformation of military command over the past two decades. Command: The Twenty-First-Century General is available now.

Martha S. Jones joins Cambridge editor Debbie Gershenowitz for a fascinating discussion about her research, and why birthright citizenship was a core movement in the evolution of American democracy. Professor Jones' book, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America, was named a finalist for the 2019 PROSE Award for best book in U.S./North American History by the American Association of Publishers. Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America is available now.

Keri Leigh Merritt joins Cambridge editor Debbie Gershenowitz in our New York office to talk about the white underclass in 19th-century America, and how even in the antebellum South, the 1% colluded to divide poor whites and blacks. Masterless Men has been awarded the 2018 SHA Bennett H. Wall Award and the 2018 SSHA President's Book Award. Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South is available now.

In 1841, more than 130 slaves on the Creole were bound for New Orleans from Richmond, VA. Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America's Coastal Slave Trade tells the story of how this ship returned five weeks later minus the Captain, one passenger, and most of its captives. Author Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie joins editor Debbie Gershenowitz for the second episode of our Black History Month podcast series. Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America's Coastal Slave Trade is available now.

Jonathan Fennell joins Cambridge University Press Executive Publisher Michael Watson to discuss the unique sources he used to write the history of the British Commonwealth during WWII and more. Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War is available now.

R.J.M. Blackett joins Cambridge University Press editor Deborah Gershenowitz to discuss the impact fugitive slaves had on the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and how their agency influenced the outcome of the American Civil War. Dr. Blackett’s book, The Captive’s Quest for Freedom, has been shortlisted for the 2019 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. The Captive's Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the Politics of Slavery is available now.

What can we learn from the world’s highest performing education systems? University Distinguished Professor William Schmidt talks to Lewis Birchon from Cambridge University Press about policy tourism, the importance of "opportunity to learn," and what the future might hold for international comparative testing. Schooling Across the Globe is available now.

Roger L. Ransom, author of Gambling on War: Confidence, Fear, and the Tragedy of the First World War, joins Executive Publisher Michael Watson to discuss the centenary of the 1918 armistice, the lessons we are in danger of forgetting today, and more.

In this episode, the author of Yes to Europe!: The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain, Robert Saunders, joins Executive Publisher Michael Watson to discuss Britain's first national referendum to decide whether the UK should remain in Europe, how it compared to Brexit in 2016, and more.

Ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy that helped kickstart a global financial crisis, The Fed and Lehman Brothers: Setting the Record Straight on a Financial Disaster author Laurence M. Ball joins Cambridge University Press Senior Marketing Executive Ellena Moriarty to discuss the mistakes made that allowed it to happen and what we've learned in the ensuing decade.

Cambridge University Press Commisioning Editor Emily Hockley joins Imagining Shakespeare's Wife author Katherine West Scheil before her book launch at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon. They discuss the cultural history and creative reimagining of Anne Hathaway through the centuries, re-creations of the Cottage around the world and more. Imagining Shakespeare's Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway is available now.

Author Kyle Longley joins Cambridge University Press Senior Editor Deborah Gershenowitz to discuss his new book, LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval, including looking past the caricature of Lyndon Johnson and developing the humanity of the man, how 1968, a year of continuous nightmare, compares to our own political climate in 2018, and more. LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval by Kyle Longley is available now.

Linda Bree of Cambridge University Press and The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1929-1931 editor Sandra Spanier discuss the fourth volume of the series, including letters on censorship surrounding the release of A Farewell to Arms, how the author coped with the thrills and perils of fame, and his relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald.  The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1929-1931 edited by Sandra Spanier and Miriam B. Mandel is available now.