Author Archives: stuartelden

Julien Larregue, Hereditary: The Persistence of Biological Theories of Crime – Stanford University Press, January 2024 Since the 1990s, a growing number of criminal courts around the world have been using expert assessments based on behavioral genetics and neuroscience to … Continue reading →

Jeffrey Ahlman, Ghana: A Political and Social History – Bloomsbury, November 2023 Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has. In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the then-colonial Gold Coast emerged as a key political and … Continue reading →

Joseph Albernaz, Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community – Stanford University Press, August 2024 What happens to the experience of community when the grounds of communal life collapse? The Romantic period’s upheaval cast both traditional communal organizations of … Continue reading →

Philip Hutch and Elaine Stratford, Landscape, Association, Empire: Imagining Van Diemen’s Land – Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 This book tells a compelling story about invasion, settler colonialism, and an emergent sense of identity in place, as seen through topographical and landscape … Continue reading →

W.C. Hackett, Outside the Gates – Angelico, 2021 The gates of Drancy Internment Camp in the northeast suburbs of Paris served as a holding pen for thousands of Jews during the German occupation of France in World War II. Jean … Continue reading →

Dana Luciano, How The Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century America – Duke University Press, January 2024 The introduction is available open access here In How the Earth Feels Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century … Continue reading →

Karl Marx, Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume I – trans. Paul Reitter, ed. Paul Reitter and Paul North, preface by Wendy Brown, afterword by William Clare Roberts – Princeton University Press, September 2024 Karl Marx (1818–1883) was living in exile in … Continue reading →