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Angelo Del Boca, As Cruel as Anyone Else: Italians, Colonies and Empire – trans. Richard Braude, Seagull, July 2024

Posted on October 11, 2023 by stuartelden

Angelo Del Boca, As Cruel as Anyone Else: Italians, Colonies and Empire – trans. Richard Braude, Seagull, July 2024 Reveals a dark chapter in the Italian government’s colonial history that has been largely hidden from view. Between the end of the … Continue reading →

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John Robertson (ed.), Time, History and Political Thought – Cambridge University Press, June 2023

Posted on October 10, 2023 by stuartelden

John Robertson (ed.), Time, History and Political Thought – Cambridge University Press, June 2023 Between the cliché that ‘a week is a long time in politics’ and the aspiration of many political philosophers to give their ideas universal, timeless validity … Continue reading →

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Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience – Penguin, January 2024

Posted on October 9, 2023 by stuartelden

Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience – Penguin, January 2024 (US; UK) The violent unease of today’s world would have been familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, … Continue reading →

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Thomas Vesting, State Theory and the Law: An Introduction – Edward Elgar, 2022, paperback 2023

Posted on October 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Thomas Vesting, State Theory and the Law: An Introduction – Edward Elgar, 2022, paperback 2023 There has been renewed and growing interest in exploring the significant role played by law in the centralization of power and sovereignty – right from … Continue reading →

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Richard Saull, Capital, Race and Space, two volumes – Brill, 2023

Posted on October 7, 2023 by stuartelden

Richard Saull, Capital, Race and Space, two volumes – Brill, 2023; paperbacks with Haymarket in summer 2024 – Capital, Race and Space, Volume I: The Far Right from Bonapartism to Fascism In this first volume of Capital, Race and Space, Richard … Continue reading →

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Tehlike, Suç ve Haklar: Michel Foucault ile Jonathan Simon’ın Söyleşisi, trans. Utku Özmakas, Ayrıntı Yayınları, October 2023

Posted on October 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Tehlike, Suç ve Haklar, 2023: Michel Foucault ile Jonathan Simon’ın Söyleşisi, trans. Utku Özmakas, Ayrıntı Yayınları, October 2023 A text I edited from the Berkeley archive, “Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon“, which originally … Continue reading →

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Richard Cockett, Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World – Yale University Press, September 2023

Posted on October 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Richard Cockett, Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World – Yale University Press, September 2023; paperback August 2024 How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth … Continue reading →

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David N. Livingstone, The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea – Princeton University Press, April 2024

Posted on October 5, 2023 by stuartelden

David N. Livingstone, The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea – Princeton University Press, April 2024 Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may … Continue reading →

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Stefan Kipfer, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context – Haymarket, September 2023

Posted on October 4, 2023 by stuartelden

Stefan Kipfer, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context – Haymarket, September 2023 Now in paperback: What do struggles over pipelines in Canada, housing estates in France, and shantytowns in Martinique have in common? In Urban Revolutions, Stefan Kipfer shows … Continue reading →

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Andrea Marston, Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia – Duke University Press, March 2024

Posted on October 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Andrea Marston, Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia – Duke University Press, March 2024 In Subterranean Matters, Andrea Marston examines the ongoing history of Bolivian mining cooperatives, an economic formation that has been central to Bolivian politics … Continue reading →

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