Author Archives: stuartelden

Mathias Albert, Dina Brode-Roger, Lisbeth Iversen, Svalbard Imaginaries: The Making of an Arctic Archipelago – Palgrave Macmillan, November 2023 Hardback and e-book at present; paperback due in December 2024 By drawing on a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds, this book … Continue reading →

Robert Zaretsky, The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas – University of Chicago Press, 2021, paperback 2023 Known as the “patron saint of all outsiders,” Simone Weil (1909–43) was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable thinkers, a … Continue reading →

Henri Hubert’s History of the Celtic Peoples (which contains two of his French books in translation); Karl Meyer and Sharon Brysac, Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia; Gören Larsson (ed.), The Legacy, Life … Continue reading →

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State – Stanford University Press, February 2024 Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement … Continue reading →

Burak Kadercan, Shifting Grounds: The Social Origins of Territorial Conflict – Oxford University Press, October 2023 Territory has always played a key role in the origins, conduct, and consequences of armed conflict. For territories to exist in any meaningful sense, … Continue reading →

Gianna Englert, Democracy Tamed: French Liberalism and the Politics of Suffrage, Oxford University Press, April 2024 Does good democratic government require intelligent, moral, and productive citizens? Can our political institutions educate the kind of citizens we wish or need to … Continue reading →