Monthly Archives: August 2023

Simon Dalby, Pyromania: Fire and Geopolitics in a Climate-Disrupted World – Agenda, November 2023 We are the only species that uses fire. It has determined how we have made our home on this planet and it has propelled us to … Continue reading →

Kenneth W. Harl, Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes who Shaped Civilisation – Bloomsbury, March 2023 The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These tribes … Continue reading →

David Myer Temin, Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought – University of Chicago Press, August 2023 An examination of anticolonial thought and practice across key Indigenous thinkers. Accounts of decolonization routinely neglect Indigenous societies, yet … Continue reading →

Christine Keiner, Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal, University of Georgia Press, December 2020 This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Atlantic-Pacific Central American … Continue reading →

Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Theory and Explanation in Geography – Wiley/RGS-IBG book series, October 2023

Jeffrey Whyte, The Birth of Psychological War. Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War – British Academy/Oxford University Press, 2023 – open access

Nicolas de Warren, German Philosophy and the First World War – Cambridge University Press, March 2023

Alison Bashford, Emily M. Kern and Adam Bobbette (eds.), New Earth Histories: Geo-Cosmologies and the Making of the Modern World – University of Chicago Press, November 2023 A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth. This book brings the history … Continue reading →

Adam Shatz, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2024 A revelatory new biography of the writer-activist who inspired today’s movements for racial liberation In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon’s shadow … Continue reading →