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Liv Ingeborg Lied and Brent Nongbri, Working with Manuscripts: A Guide for Textual Scholars – Yale University Press, April 2025

Posted on April 16, 2026 by stuartelden

Liv Ingeborg Lied and Brent Nongbri, Working with Manuscripts: A Guide for Textual Scholars – Yale University Press, April 202 A first-of-its-kind handbook outlining best practices and common pitfalls for students and textual scholars interested in beginning to work with manuscripts While manuscripts … Continue reading →

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Morgan Golf-French, Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785-1815 – Oxford University Press, May 2026

Posted on April 15, 2026 by stuartelden

Morgan Golf-French, Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785-1815 – Oxford University Press, May 2026 In this book, Morgan Golf-French offers a new interpretation of late Enlightenment German historiography in relation to ideas about race, culture, and politics. … Continue reading →

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New John Berger editions from Verso – The Moment of Cubism, Landscapes, Corker’s Freedom and Goya’s Last Portrait/A Question of Geography (with Nella Bielski)

Posted on April 14, 2026 by stuartelden

Today we welcome four new titles into our Essential John Berger series: The Moment of Cubism – One of Berger’s most important collections of art criticism wherein he suggests that Cubism was a moment rather than a movement and makes a case … Continue reading →

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Saffron O’Neill, The Visual Life of Climate Change – Bristol University Press, December 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on April 14, 2026 by stuartelden

Saffron O’Neill, The Visual Life of Climate Change – Bristol University Press, December 2025 (print and open access) Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Images can play a key role in communication – but climate change imagery can be … Continue reading →

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Nicolas Guilhot, Conspiracy: The History of a Political Obsession – Harvard University Press, October 2026

Posted on April 13, 2026 by stuartelden

Nicolas Guilhot, Conspiracy: The History of a Political Obsession – Harvard University Press, October 2026 Pundits, scholars, and the general public alike have argued that conspiratorial thinking is the greatest threat to liberal democracy. Nicolas Guilhot, however, challenges us to … Continue reading →

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Georges Redard and the Linguistic Atlas of Iranian Speakers

Posted on April 12, 2026 by stuartelden

After Émile Benveniste suffered a major stroke in late 1969, his former student and friend Georges Redard planned to publish some of Benveniste’s incomplete projects. Redard was by this time teaching at the University of Bern in Switzerland. One volume … Continue reading →

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Harriet Hawkins, “Lithic Lives: Earth Stories from Cambodia’s Land of the Gemstones”, 9th Cosgrove Lecture, Royal Holloway, 11 May 2026

Posted on April 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Harriet Hawkins, “Lithic Lives: Earth Stories from Cambodia’s Land of the Gemstones“, 9th Cosgrove Lecture, Royal Holloway, 11 May 2026 A fragment of ruby, a hand-written list of sapphire sales from February 1918, a much-loved pop song crooned during Cambodia’s … Continue reading →

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Tiphaine Samoyault, Translation and Violence, trans. Alexander Hertich, Princeton University Press, September 2026

Posted on April 9, 2026 by stuartelden

Tiphaine Samoyault, Translation and Violence, trans. Alexander Hertich, Princeton University Press, September 2026 The rapid development of AI-powered translation tools is making translation more accessible than ever before, raising in a dramatic new way the old utopian promise of translation—to … Continue reading →

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Two dedications from Georges Dumézil – to Alfred Ernoux and Luc Estang

Posted on April 8, 2026 by stuartelden

With only rare exceptions, I’ve not tended to buy second-hand books with a view to the edition or dedications. Generally, I’ve been getting hold of copies because of the content, and the relatively few times I’ve looked for a first … Continue reading →

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Julian Brigstocke, Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power – LSE Press, March 2026 (print and open access)

Posted on April 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Julian Brigstocke, Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power – LSE Press, March 2026 (print and open access) Authority is not a word with many positive connotations. It suggests power-hungry dictators, trigger-happy police, stifling bureaucracies, and monumental urban … Continue reading →

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