Author Archives: stuartelden

Ladelle McWhorter, Unbecoming Persons: The Rise and Demise of the Modern Moral Self – University of Chicago Press, November 2025 Interview with Ladelle McWhorter on the New Books Network with Sarah Tyson Thanks to Foucault News for the links. A damning genealogy … Continue reading →

Mustafa Aksakal, The War That Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire – Princeton University Press, January/March 2026 The Ottoman Empire’s collapse at the end of the First World War is often treated as a … Continue reading →

Sarah Griswold, Resurrecting the Past: France’s Forgotten Heritage Mandate – Cornell University Press, September 2025 New Books discussion with Miranda Melcher – thanks to dmf for the link In Resurrecting the Past, Sarah Griswold shows how the Levant became a crucial … Continue reading →

Lee Manion, The Recognition of Sovereignty: Politics of Empire in Early Anglo-Scottish Literature – Cambridge University Press, October 2025

Melinda Cooper, Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance – Zone Books, May 2024, paperback scheduled for early 2026 (link updated) At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual self-restraint. To this … Continue reading →

Debby Banham, Claire Burridge, Lea Olsan eds. Early Medieval Medicine in Context: Transmission, Translation and Transformation – Boydell & Brewer, November 2025 Fresh perspectives on how medical texts, broadly construed, were recorded, perceived and utilised. The past few decades have … Continue reading →