Guest
Francesca Trivellato, Professor of History

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November 4, 2009
Guest: Susan Hyde, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Subject: International election monitoring
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October 28, 2009
Guest: Thad Dunning, Associate Professor of Political Science
Subject: Cross-cutting cleavages and ethnic voting in Mali

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October 21, 2009
Guest: Kamari Clarke, Professor of Anthropology
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October 14, 2009
 Guest: Robert Harms, Henry J. Heinz Professor of History & African Studies
Subject: Slave traders and colonialism in equatorial Africa

 

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Episode: April 1, 2009

A Professor of History at Yale, Professor Francesca Trivellato specializes in the social and economic history of Italy, continental Europe and the Mediterranean in the early modern period. She is the author of a book on Venetian glass manufacturing and she has also published several essays on craft guilds, women's work, and merchant networks. We talk with her about her newest book The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period.

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