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Joel Wainwright, The End: Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis – Verso, November 2025

Joel Wainwright, The End: Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis – Verso, November 2025 How Marx provides new insights into our environmental crisis when read alongside Darwin In this pathbreaking study, Joel Wainwright shows how deeply Darwin … Continue reading

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Federico Marcon, Fascism: The History of a Word – University of Chicago Press, June 2025 and JHI blog interview with Jonathon Catlin

Federico Marcon, Fascism: The History of a Word – University of Chicago Press, June 2025 I’ve shared news of the book before, now there is a two-part interview at the Journal of the History of Ideas blog (part I; part … Continue reading

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Elena Del Rio, Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon: The Birth of Form – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

Elena Del Rio, Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon: The Birth of Form – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

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Daniel Frost and Evan Smith eds., In solidarity, under suspicion: The British far left from 1956 – Manchester University Press, November 2025

Daniel Frost and Evan Smith eds., In solidarity, under suspicion: The British far left from 1956 – Manchester University Press, November 2025 In solidarity, under suspicion is the successor volume to Against the grain (2014) and Waiting for the revolution (2017), complementing analysis … Continue reading

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Renaud Lariagon and Simon Le Roulley eds. Henri Lefebvre: Actualités – Éditions Grevis, December 2025

Renaud Lariagon and Simon Le Roulley eds. Henri Lefebvre: Actualités – Éditions Grevis, December 2025 Henri Lefebvre : actualités défend l’actualisation de la pensée de Lefebvre (1901-1991) à travers des contributions d’auteurs d’Amérique latine et d’Europe. Ce recueil met en … Continue reading

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Marc Bloch, Carnets Inédits 1917-1943 – Éditions Amsterdam, October 2025

Marc Bloch, Carnets Inédits 1917-1943 – Éditions Amsterdam, October 2025 Le « laboratoire » de Marc Bloch enfin accessible au grand public. Les deux carnets de Marc Bloch réunis dans cet ouvrage – « Quelques notes de lecture » et … Continue reading

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Aida A Hozić and Jacqui True eds. War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital – Routledge, December 2025

Aida A Hozić and Jacqui True eds. War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital – Routledge, December 2025 War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital examines the war economy from feminist perspectives, bringing fresh thinking in the context of heightened geopolitical tensions. … Continue reading

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Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law – University of Warwick, 3 December 2025

Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law – University of Warwick, 3 December 2025

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100 years since the Locarno Treaties and territorial integrity today

On 1 December 1925, the Locarno Treaties were signed by Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium and Italy, with some of the additional treaties also including Poland and Czechoslovakia as signatories. Negotiated in Switzerland in October, the final signing was in … Continue reading

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James Cheshire, The Library of Lost Maps – Bloomsbury, October 2025 and New Books discussion

James Cheshire, The Library of Lost Maps – Bloomsbury, October 2025 New Books discussion with Christine Gessler – thanks to dmf for the link The remarkable story of an overlooked map archive that reveals how maps have helped inspire some … Continue reading

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