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Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance – Zone, July 2026 How people pay, make savings and investments, buy insurance, and take on debt is undergoing digital transformation across the globe. This book argues … Continue reading →

Stephen Legg, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities – University of Georgia Press, March 2025 I’ve shared news of the book before. There is now a New Books discussion with Saumya Dadoo – thanks to dmf for the link Spaces … Continue reading →

István Hont, Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx: Culture, Needs and Property Rights – eds. Lasse S. Andersen, Béla Kapossy, Richard Whatmore, Cambridge University Press, January 2026 Thanks to Duncan Bell for the link

Roy Scranton, Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress – Stanford University Press, August 2025 We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe. Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transforming our planet. Yet instead of … Continue reading →

Isabel Feichtner, Susanne Heeg, Anne Klingenmeier, Gesine Langlotz and Katja Schubel  eds., Stadt – Land – Boden: Verbindende Bodenpolitik zwischen Stadt und Land – transcript, August 2025, open access Bodenpolitische Fragen sind zukunftsweisend, denn sie entscheiden über Erhalt oder Zerstörung unserer … Continue reading →

Christophe Bouton, Sur les traces du temps – Minuit, 2026 thanks to John Raimo for the link Qu’est-ce que le temps ? Constitue-t-il une réalité autonome ou une simple relation entre les êtres ? Un élément irréductible du monde ou … Continue reading →

Duncan Kelly, Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics – Oxford University Press, November 2025 I’ve shared news of this major study, of a massive topic – 784 pages! – before. There is now a … Continue reading →

Anne O. Law, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants – Oxford University Press, March 2026 Since the late nineteenth century, the US federal government has enjoyed exclusive authority to decide whether someone has the … Continue reading →