Monthly Archives: January 2026

Sara B. Pritchard, Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution – University of Washington Press, July 2026 Darkness has become legible—and contested. Blending archival narrative with on-the-ground ethnography, Sara B. Pritchard traces how four fields—astronomy, remote sensing, conservation science, … Continue reading →

Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History – 24 June 2026 Download the Call for Papers (PDF) When in danger, humans search for places of refuge — whether in states, homes, or religions. Political communities have their origins … Continue reading →

Roger Luckhurst, Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead – Princeton University Press, October 2025 Why, how, and where do we inter our dead? How have people throughout history responded to the problem of laying their dead to rest? … Continue reading →

Peter Garnsey, Rethinking Capital Punishment: The Pre-History of the Abolition of the Death Penalty – Cambridge University Press, April 2026 The death penalty was accepted almost universally until the eighteenth century, when Giuseppe Pelli of Florence and Cesare Beccaria of Milan produced … Continue reading →

Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance – Zone, July 2026 How people pay, make savings and investments, buy insurance, and take on debt is undergoing digital transformation across the globe. This book argues … Continue reading →

Stephen Legg, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities – University of Georgia Press, March 2025 I’ve shared news of the book before. There is now a New Books discussion with Saumya Dadoo – thanks to dmf for the link Spaces … Continue reading →

István Hont, Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx: Culture, Needs and Property Rights – eds. Lasse S. Andersen, Béla Kapossy, Richard Whatmore, Cambridge University Press, January 2026 Thanks to Duncan Bell for the link

Roy Scranton, Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress – Stanford University Press, August 2025 We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe. Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transforming our planet. Yet instead of … Continue reading →