Oct 5, 202656 min
From their foundational era in 1097 to Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem almost a century later, the Crusader States transformed the Middle Eastern world. In an era shaped by many conflicts, this was not simply a war...
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Nomads, Past and Present
Hosted by Maggie Freeman · history · EN-US
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A podcast about nomadism and nomadic peoples, around the world and throughout history.
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Who hosts Nomads, Past and Present?
Nomads, Past and Present is hosted by Maggie Freeman. The show has published 48 episodes to date.
What has Nomads, Past and Present covered recently?
Recent episodes include "The Crusader Storm: A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East with Nicholas Morton (Pegasus, 2026)" (5 October 2026, 56 minutes), "Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference" (5 September 2026, 59 minutes), and "The Far Edges of the Known World: A New History of the Ancient Past" (17 February 2026, 61 minutes).
How often does Nomads, Past and Present publish?
Nomads, Past and Present publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 55 minutes across 48 episodes.
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Booking probability for Nomads, Past and Present is 24%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Nomads, Past and Present requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Nomads, Past and Present's contact route on record: verified email.
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Maggie Freeman hosts Nomads, Past and Present, a history podcast with 48 episodes published.
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Nomads, Past and Present
Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference
Sep 5, 202659 minExamining how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together, Relative Strangers (U Toronto Press, 2024) sheds light on Romani life in Palestine. Arpan Roy presents an ethnographic...
Nomads, Past and Present
The Far Edges of the Known World: A New History of the Ancient Past
Feb 17, 20261h 1mWhen Ovid was exiled from Rome to a border town on the Black Sea, he despaired at his new bleak and barbarous surroundings. Like many Greeks and Romans, Ovid thought the outer reaches of his world was where civilization...
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Eric Halsey, "State Builders from the Steppe: A History of The First Bulgarian Empire" (This is RETHINK, 2025)
Nov 13, 202546 minState Builders from the Steppe: A History of the First Bulgarian Empire (This is RETHINK, 2025) explores how the Proto-Bulgarians were able to build both an empire and an identity amidst the turmoil of the Balkans in...
Episode #46
A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia
Oct 27, 20251h 4mAs permafrost in Siberia continues to melt and the steppe in the Gobi turns to desert, people in Mongolia are faced with overlapping climate crises. Some nomadic herders describe climate change as the end of a world...
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Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, "Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East" (UP Colorado, 2025)
Sep 28, 202539 minLandscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East (University Press of Colorado, 2025) offers an in-depth exploration of the Urartian empire, which occupied the highlands of present-day Turkey...
Episode #43
The Nomadic Origin of the State
Aug 1, 20251h 13mContemporary, commonly-accepted understandings of the history of Chinese state formation see the nomadic pastoralists of the Eurasian steppe as peripheral appendages to a centralized, agriculturalist empire. In his...
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The Roma: A Travelling History
Jul 8, 202543 minThe word Roma conjures images of free-spirited nomads, creative and easy-going people who choose to eschew social conformity for personal independence and a life on the road. Few know the Roma’s long history of being...
Episode #42
The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century
Jan 15, 202552 minFrom the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, recurrent and extreme climate disruptions became an underlying yet unacknowledged component of escalating conflict between Christian Armenian peasants and Muslim...
Episode #41
Persistent Pastoralism: Monuments and Settlements in the Archaeology of Dhofar
Dec 7, 202449 minToday I talked to Joy McCorriston about Persistent Pastoralism: Monuments and Settlements in the Archaeology of Dhofar (Archaeopress Publishing, 2023). In the Dhofar region of southern Oman, pastoralists have...
Episode #40
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires
Aug 30, 20241h 1mNo animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe...
Episode #39
Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE
Jul 14, 20241h 11mNumerous Iron-Age nomadic alliances flourished along the 5000-mile Eurasian steppe route. From Crimea to the Mongolian grassland, nomadic image-making was rooted in metonymically conveyed zoomorphic designs, creating an...
Episode #38
Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jul 12, 202447 minLocusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023) focuses on the intersections of three entities otherwise deemed marginal in historical scholarship: the Jazira region...
Episode #37
"Akmaral" (Regal House, 2024): A Discussion with Judith Lindbergh
Apr 24, 202450 minInspired by the legends of Amazon women warriors told by ancient Greek historian Herodotus and evidenced by recent archaeological discoveries in Central Asia, Akmaral (Regal House Publishing, 2024) is the latest...
Episode #36
Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013:: An Anthropological Approach
Mar 12, 202450 minIn Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013:: An Anthropological Approach (Routledge, 2023), Emilie Le Febvre takes us to the Naqab Desert where Bedouin use photographs to make, and respond to...
Episode #35
Dune, Part Two: An Interview with Dr. Kara Kennedy
Mar 8, 202448 minPart Two of director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films embeds viewers among the Fremen, the Indigenous inhabitants of the planet Arrakis. The sole source of the valuable drug spice, Arrakis has been colonized and its...
Episode #34
Nicholas Morton, "The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 22, 20241h 1mNicholas Morton’s The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187 (Oxford UP, 2020) explores the military history of the medieval Near East, piecing together the fault-lines of conflict which...
Episode #33
Adriana Helbig, "ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 19, 202445 minAdriana Helbig's book ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid (Oxford University Press, 2023) offers a micro ethnography of economic networks that impact the daily lives of Romani musicians on the borders...
Episode #32
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
Dec 2, 202359 minThe “barbarian” nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world’s greatest...
Episode #31
The Secret History of the Mongols
Sep 24, 20231h 3mThe Secret History of the Mongols is one of the literary wonders of the world. Writing in the thirteenth century, the Secret Historian - whose identity remains unknown - combines insider history and verse to chronicle...
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