Author Archives: stuartelden

Marc-William Palen, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World – Princeton University Press, February 2024  Today, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen shows that free trade and globalisation in fact … Continue reading →

Marie-Eve Loiselle, Building Walls, Constructing Identities: Legal Discourse and the Creation of National Borders – Stanford University Press, November 2024 States are erecting walls at their borders at a pace unmatched in history, and the wall between the United States and Mexico … Continue reading →

Adam Warren, Julia E. Rodriguez and Stephen T. Casper (eds.), Empire, Colonialism and the Human Sciences: Troubling Encounters in the Americas and Pacific – Cambridge University Press, October 2024 (print and open access) In this bold reconsideration of the human … Continue reading →

Bruno Leipold, Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought – Princeton University Press, November 2024 In Citizen Marx, Bruno Leipold argues that, contrary to certain interpretive commonplaces, Karl Marx’s thinking was deeply informed by republicanism. … Continue reading →

Reiner Schürmann, Selected Writings and Lecture Notes – Diaphenes, 2019- I hadn’t realised this project was ongoing… five volumes already and two more in December.

Eunsong Kim, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property – Duke University Press, August 2024 Open access introduction at the link above In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise … Continue reading →

Kristof Smeyers, Supernatural Bodies: Stigmata in Modern Britain and Ireland – Manchester University Press, September 2024 This book is the first in-depth study of the changing perceptions and receptions of supernatural bodies in modern Britain and Ireland. It focuses on … Continue reading →