Author Archives: stuartelden

Stockholm Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture series Jenny Larsson, Thomas Olander, Anders Richardt Jørgensen eds. Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology – Stockholm University Press, 2024 Current scientific advances are reshaping our understanding of prehistory, offering unprecedented insights into … Continue reading →

Joshua Comaroff, Spectropolis: The Enchantment of Capital in Singapore – University of Minnesota Press, November 2025 In Singapore, the financial center of Southeast Asia, hyperurbanization and commercial development exist alongside enduring belief in the economic power of ghosts: in their … Continue reading →

Felia Allum, Women in the Mafia: Power and Influence in the Neapolitan Camorra – Cornell University Press, July 2024 Women of the Mafia dives into the Neapolitan criminal underworld of the Camorra as seen and lived by the women who inhabit … Continue reading →

Christopher R. Rossi, The Arctic Großraum: Geopolitics and the High North – Bloomsbury, September 2025 How should the Arctic be viewed in the 21st century? In this book, a leading commentator assesses the competing players for the Arctic, looking at … Continue reading →

Isabel K. Köster, Stealing from the Gods: Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination – University of Michigan Press, January 2026 Stealing from the Gods investigates how authors writing between the first century BCE and second century CE addressed the issue of … Continue reading →

Bettina Brandt & Daniel L. Purdy eds. Colonialism and Enlightenment: The Legacy of German Race Theories – Oxford University Press, November 2025 For the last 30 years, scholars have treated Enlightenment race theory and nineteenth-century German colonialism as two distinct … Continue reading →

Martin Shuster, Critical Theory: The Basics – Routledge, 2024 New Books discussion with Dave O’Brien