Monthly Archives: December 2025

Drew Flanagan, From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1955 – LSU Press, April 2026 After the collapse of the National Socialist regime in May 1945, France became one of four principal occupying powers in a … Continue reading →

Christos Lynteris, How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic – Johns Hopkins University Press, May 2026 How modern epidemiology was born through the unlikely rise of the plague rat. Today, rats are nearly synonymous with plague, but this association … Continue reading →

Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Barbarian Architecture: Thorstein Veblen’s Chicago – MIT Press, April 2024 New Books discussion with Matt Wells – thanks to dmf for the link A richly visual architectural history and theory of modernity that reexamines Thorstein Veblen’s classic text … Continue reading →

Peter Ekman, Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge and Doubt in America’s Postwar Urbanism – Cornell University Press, November 2024 Timing the Future Metropolis—an intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science—explores the network of postwar institutions, formed amid … Continue reading →

Yii-Jan Lin, Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration – Yale University Press, November 2024  Tracing the metaphor of America as the Book of Revelation’s New Jerusalem, Yii-Jan Lin shows how apocalyptic narratives have been used … Continue reading →

Andrea Bardin, Marco Ferrari, Anaïs Nony and Gregorio Tenti eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Gilbert Simondon – Edinburgh University Press, October 2025

Philip Pettit, The State – Princeton University Press, March/May 2023 New Books discussion with Caleb Zakarin – thanks to dmf for the link The future of our species depends on the state. Can states resist corporate capture, religious zealotry, and … Continue reading →