Guest:
Daniel Beer is a senior lecturer in the History Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. He’s written widely on 19th century Russia and is the author of Renovating Russia: The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880–1930, published by Cornell University Press. His new book is The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars published by Knopf.
Music:
Adam & the Ants, “King of the Wild Frontier,” Antbox, 2000.
