Author Archives: stuartelden

Teresa M. Bejan, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism — Harvard University Press, October 2026 An incisive account of how equality transformed from an abstract ideal into a concrete social and political vision, thanks to seventeenth-century English dissidents … Continue reading →

Joseph Tonda, Postcolonial Imperialism: Critique of the Society of Dazzlements – trans. Cheryl Smeall, Duke University Press, April 2026 Introduction available open access Postcolonial Imperialism considers the inability to distinguish between reality and fiction as a key condition of contemporary life. … Continue reading →

Joseph Acquisto, Baudelaire’s Objects – Bloomsbury, May 2026 Examines Baudelaire’s multifaceted use of natural, domestic, urban, and esthetic objects in his verse and prose poetry, as well as the ways his poems reshape our understanding of objects and how those … Continue reading →

Neil Gray, Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy – Common Notions, August 2026 Take Over the City provides the first comprehensive spatial analysis of Italian operaismo and the extraordinary urban struggles of 1970s Italy. Take Over the … Continue reading →

William Carruthers, Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia and the Recolonization of Archaeology – Cornell University Press, December 2022; paperback March 2026 Flooded Pasts examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO’s International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960–80)—to show how … Continue reading →

Catherine Boland Erkkila, Spaces of Immigration: American Ports, Railways, and Settlements – University of Pittsburgh Press, April 2025 New Books discussion with Matt Wells – thanks to dmf for the link By transporting waves of newly arrived immigrants along rail lines … Continue reading →

Kiri Olivia Santner, The Borders of Responsibility: Migration Control in the Mediterranean Sea – Duke University Press, May 2026 While migrants face many dangers in attempting to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea—from drowning to dying of dehydration—they also … Continue reading →

Brian Drohan and Margot Tudor eds. Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations and Armed Forces – Cornell University Press, July 2026 While interconnections between humanitarian actors and military operations are a pervasive feature of contemporary conflicts around the globe today, Military Humanitarianism challenges the … Continue reading →