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Allen Buchanan, Political Tribalism: How It Hijacks Our Minds and Diminishes Our Humanity – Routledge, May 2025 and NDPR review

Posted on June 4, 2026 by stuartelden

Allen Buchanan, Political Tribalism: How It Hijacks Our Minds and Diminishes Our Humanity – Routledge, May 2025 NDPR review by Alexander Motchoulski Combining hard data with the author’s personal story of a life in the U.S. South and then as a … Continue reading →

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Marc Bloch, Ecrire La société féodale: lettres à Henri Berr, 1921-1943 – ed. Jacqueline Pluet-Despatin, Éditions EHESS, June 2026

Posted on June 3, 2026 by stuartelden

Marc Bloch, Ecrire La société féodale: lettres à Henri Berr, 1921-1943 – ed. Jacqueline Pluet-Despatin, Éditions EHESS, June 2026 En 1939-1940, l’historien Marc Bloch publie les deux volumes de La société féodale dans la collection « L’évolution de l’humanité», chez Albin Michel. Ce livre … Continue reading →

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David Petruccelli, A Scourge of Humanity: The Origins of Interpol and the End of Empire in Central and Eastern Europe – Oxford University Press, March 2026 and New Books discussion

Posted on June 3, 2026 by stuartelden

David Petruccelli, A Scourge of Humanity: The Origins of Interpol and the End of Empire in Central and Eastern Europe – Oxford University Press, March 2026 New Books discussion with Miranda Melcher – thanks to dmf for the link As … Continue reading →

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Kevin Inston, Rethinking the Politics of Belonging: Towards a Theory of Improper Community – Edinburgh University Press, May 2026

Posted on June 2, 2026 by stuartelden

Kevin Inston, Rethinking the Politics of Belonging: Towards a Theory of Improper Community – Edinburgh University Press, May 2026

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Nathaniel O’Grady and Gemma Sou eds., Geography and Disasters: Places, Processes and the Human Geographical Imagination – Bloomsbury, May 2026

Posted on June 2, 2026 by stuartelden

Nathaniel O’Grady and Gemma Sou eds., Geography and Disasters: Places, Processes and the Human Geographical Imagination – Bloomsbury, May 2026 Drawing on global case studies, this is the first book to outline and elaborate on the ways that human geography … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Éléments de rythmanalyse et autres essais sur les temporalités – new edition, Eterotopia, April 2026

Posted on June 1, 2026 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre, Éléments de rythmanalyse et autres essais sur les temporalités – new edition, Eterotopia, April 2026 Thanks to John Raimo for this link. As far as I can tell, this has the same content as the 2019 edition of … Continue reading →

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Henry Somers-Hall, Reading A Thousand Plateaus: Adventures in Nomad Thought – Edinburgh University Press, May 2026

Posted on June 1, 2026 by stuartelden

Henry Somers-Hall, Reading A Thousand Plateaus: Adventures in Nomad Thought – Edinburgh University Press, May 2026 Interview with Brent Adkins about the book

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Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois and the Question of Fascism

Posted on May 31, 2026 by stuartelden

Most of Georges Bataille’s earliest writings were literary, and between 1929 and the early 1930s he was the editor of Documents, an art and literary journal (scans are available on Gallica). Most of his articles there were included in the first … Continue reading →

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Yannis Flytzanis ed. Henri Lefebvre – Space, Philosophy and the Political – Bloomsbury, July 2026

Posted on May 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Yannis Flytzanis ed. Henri Lefebvre – Space, Philosophy and the Political – Bloomsbury, July 2026 A fresh interdisciplinary examination of the thought of Henri Lefebvre which sheds light on the politics of utopia and commoning through the examination of the wide-ranging … Continue reading →

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Timothy Mason Roberts, After Barbary: Algeria’s Role in the French and American Empires – Cornell University Press, December 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on May 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Timothy Mason Roberts, After Barbary: Algeria’s Role in the French and American Empires – Cornell University Press, 2025 New Books discussion with Miranda Melcher – thanks to dmf for the link After Barbary explores the connection between the United States and … Continue reading →

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