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In the very first episode of the “Off the Road” podcast, Gilberto and Jannis have a chance to sit down with Corey Ross, director of the institute and professor of European Global Studies at the Europainstitut of the University of Basel. We speak with Corey about the intellectual paths that led him to environmental history, the development of the field in the United States and Europe, and the relationship between empire, water, and the environment. At the center of the conversation is Corey’s latest, brilliant book, Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World (Princeton University Press, 2024), which...