PAX is a podcast about empire from the ancient world to the 21st century, highlighting the less well-trodden parts of history. Join John and Ed as they discuss the long, complicated and interesting histories of imperial projects, powers, and resistance across time.
This week, John and Ed begin their on-and-off series discussing slavery's relationship with Empire, beginning with slavery in the Ancient World. They talk about the place of the enslaved in society, their role within agriculture and the economy, the nature of freedom in the Roman world and the key differences with the chattel slave system of the Enlightenment era.
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29 May 2023
5. The Imperial Buy-In
In this episode, we talk to Charlton Cussans about "The Imperial Buy-In", and how Rhodesia - the most notorious settler state in Imperial history - built itself into a society that could only ever survive within the boundaries of the British Empire.
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13 May 2023
4: Researching Empire
In this episode, John and Ed discuss the difficulties and intricacies of researching Empires. Ed talks about getting to "walk the ground" of the Roman World, and we get into the political nature of research, archaeology and archiving, from Mussolini's Italy to British Kenya.
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7 Apr 2023
3. The Balkan Frontier
This episode, John and Ed are joined by Josselin Pérouse to talk about the Balkan's place in Imperial History. From the roman's nebulous neighbours, through the perils of the Serbian Empire and Byzantines to the playground of the Concert of Europe, Join us in a short by exciting tour of the Balkan Frontier!
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10 Mar 2023
1. Empire: Ancient, Modern and Fantasy
In our inaugural episode, John and Ed introduce themselves and their areas of study, the mission statement of PAX podcast, and get to grips with Nigel Biggar's new book Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning. Spoiler Alert: we don't like it!
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Tacitus; http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0081%3Achapter%3D30 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0081%3Achapter%3D30)
The Books:
The Dawn of Everything: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-dawn-of-everything/david-graeber/david-wengrow/9780141991061 (https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-dawn-of-everything/david-graeber/david-wengrow/9780141991061)
Ring of Steel: https://www.waterstones.com/book/ring-of-steel/alexander-watson/9780141042039 (https://www.waterstones.com/book/ring-of-steel/alexander-watson/9780141042039)
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