Author Archives: stuartelden

Samuel A. Moore, Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons – University of Michigan Press, September 2025

Posted on December 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Samuel A. Moore, Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons – University of Michigan Press, September 2025 New Books discussion with Stephen Pinfield – thanks to dmf for the link Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move … Continue reading →

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Hanno Brankamp, Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya – Duke University Press, February 2026

Posted on December 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Hanno Brankamp, Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya – Duke University Press, February 2026 Introduction open access at this link In a world shaped by war, climate disaster, and displacement, refugee camps are imagined as indispensable safe havens … Continue reading →

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Charles J. Stivale, Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025

Posted on December 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Charles J. Stivale, Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025

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Erica Sheen, Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War – Oxford University Press, March 2024

Posted on December 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Erica Sheen, Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War – Oxford University Press, March 2024 I missed this when it came out last year – thanks to Richard Ashby for the link. Shame about the price though. Geopolitical … Continue reading →

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Boris Porshnev – from peasant revolts in 17th century France to cryptozoology and the quest for the Soviet Yeti

Posted on December 14, 2025 by stuartelden

I first read the work of the Soviet historian Boris Fyodorovich Porshnev because of Michel Foucault. (His name is sometimes transliterated, especially in France, as Porchnev.) In his 1971-72 Collège de France lectures, Penal Theories and Institutions, Foucault spends the first … Continue reading →

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Drew Flanagan, From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1955 – LSU Press, April 2026

Posted on December 13, 2025 by stuartelden

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 →

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Christos Lynteris, How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic – Johns Hopkins University Press, May 2026

Posted on December 12, 2025 by stuartelden

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 →

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Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Barbarian Architecture: Thorstein Veblen’s Chicago – MIT Press, April 2024 and New Books discussion

Posted on December 12, 2025 by stuartelden

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 →

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Peter Ekman, Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge and Doubt in America’s Postwar Urbanism – Cornell University Press, November 2024

Posted on December 11, 2025 by stuartelden

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 →

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Yii-Jan Lin, Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration – Yale University Press, November 2024 

Posted on December 11, 2025 by stuartelden

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 →

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