Dialogues in International History
This podcast intends to contribute to public education by offering listeners thorough and serious conversations on topics in international history and the history of international relations. It features interviews with authors of new monographs and recent books by historians and specialists.
Dialogues in International History
Latest Episodes
Jelmer Vos, *Coffee and Colonialism in Angola 1820-1960*. Suffolk, UK: James Currey, 2025.
This book delivers a compelling reexamination of Angola's colonial past and labor systems, focusing on how coffee cultivation—the nation's premier export—shaped one of Africa's most enduring commercial zones south of the Sahara. In the post-Wor...
Lu Ann Homza, *The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Inquisition*. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2026.
Spanning from its establishment in 1478 to its final dissolution in 1834, the Spanish Inquisition stands as one of history's most infamous institutions, widely recognized for fueling religious and racial persecution. Yet the Spaniards themselve...
Ellinor Morack, *The Dowry of the State?: The Politics of Abandoned Property and the Population Exchange in Turkey, 1921-1945*. Bamberg, Germany: University of Bamberg Press, 2017.
In 1922, the Greeks and the remaining Armenians in what is now Turkey were forced to leave their homeland, and the properties they left behind were termed "abandoned property" (emval-i metruke). This legal designation implied that the absent ow...
Abboud Zeitoune and Abdul Mesih Bar-Abraham, *Senharib Balley and the Assyrian National Movement: Complete Translated and Edited Writings (1909-1969)*. Self-Published by the Editors. Weisbaden and Augsburg, Germany: Lulu Self-Publishing Platform, 2025.
The revival and unity movement led by Naum Faiq gave rise to numerous influential individuals who greatly shaped the young Assyrian national movement through their literary works. Among Naum Faiq's long-time collaborators was Senharib Balley (1...
Katerina Sergatskova, *Goodbye, ISIS: What Remains is Future*. Kate Tsurkan, trans. Boston: Cherry Orchard Books, 2026.
What drove over 15,000 people from the former Soviet bloc to enlist in ISIS, making up nearly a third of the group's foreign fighters? In this insightful study, renowned journalist Katerina Sergatskova explores one of the most overl...
