Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast

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Episode: Xiaobo Lü, "Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China's Republican Era" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Deepa Das Acevedo

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Associate Professor at University College London

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Episode: Luis L. Schenoni, "Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

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Cambridge University Press

Episode: Karen Stollznow, "Bitch: The Journey of a Word" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

John L. Campbell

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Episode: John L. Campbell, "Pay Up!: Conservative Myths about Tax Cuts for the Rich" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Dr. Emily Vine

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Adrian Pole

Author of Making Anti-Fascist War, The International Brigades' Transnational Encounters with Civil War Spain, 1936 to 1939

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Episode: Adrian Pole, "Making Antifascist War: The International Brigades' Transnational Encounters with Civil-War Spain, 1936-1939" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Dr. Martin Austin Nesvig

Professor at the University of Miami, author of the book discussing witchcraft and women's cultural roles in 16th-century Mexico.

University of Miami

Episode: Martin Austin Nesvig, "The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Devika Shankar

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Xiaobo Lü, "Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China's Republican Era" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Q: How is it that in comparison with the CCP and this dominant leader, elite conflict, somewhat contested leadership are affecting party building in particular within the KMT?

The KMT's pragmatic approach created inevitable elite conflict due to the power struggle among ambitious individuals.

Xiaobo Lü, "Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China's Republican Era" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Q: What was it that pulled you back to the Republican period before 1949?

I cannot escape the lingering questions about the legacy from the CCP and KMT's previous struggle during the pre-49 era.

Todd McGowan, "The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Q: What motivated you to write this book?

McGowan reveals that he initially hesitated but was encouraged by his friend Mari Ruti, and after her passing, felt compelled to finish it in her memory.

Karen Stollznow, "Bitch: The Journey of a Word" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Q: Is it accurate to say that it seems like it's more commonly used now than it has been at other points?

In some ways, it's more common today. It's more acceptable—there's more public tolerance of bad language, especially online.

Karen Stollznow, "Bitch: The Journey of a Word" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Q: To what extent has it an additional use as being reclaimed, so not just as an insult?

Since the 1960s in particular, with the Bitch Manifesto, the word has been reclaimed in some contexts to refer to a confident, strong, independent woman.

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