Author Archives: stuartelden

Delia Duong Ba Wendel, Rwanda’s Genocidal Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty – Duke University Press, November 2025 (print and open access) The introduction is available here. In Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage, Delia Duong Ba Wendel contends with the forms of justice and … Continue reading →

Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng, Jonathan Silver and Alan Wiig eds. The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road – Bristol University Press, November 2025 (print and open access) China’s Belt … Continue reading →

Charlotte Beradt, The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation – trans. Damion Searls, Princeton University Press, April 2025 Charlotte Beradt began having unsettling dreams after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. She envisioned herself being shot at, … Continue reading →

The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings, and The Essential Einstein: Public Writings – eds. Diana Kormos Buchwald and Tilman Sauer, Princeton University Press, Sept/Nov 2025 The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings presents Einstein’s most important physics papers, spanning his groundbreaking contributions to statistical mechanics, … Continue reading →

Edward Hall, Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century – Oxford University Press, July 2025 Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century examines whether the liberalism of fear – the negative and cautionary … Continue reading →

Donald Sassoon, Revolutions: A New History – Verso, November 2025 Revolutions is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in terms of fleeting events, such as the Fall of the Bastille or the … Continue reading →