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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State – Stanford University Press, February 2024 Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement … Continue reading →

Burak Kadercan, Shifting Grounds: The Social Origins of Territorial Conflict – Oxford University Press, October 2023 Territory has always played a key role in the origins, conduct, and consequences of armed conflict. For territories to exist in any meaningful sense, … Continue reading →

Gianna Englert, Democracy Tamed: French Liberalism and the Politics of Suffrage, Oxford University Press, April 2024 Does good democratic government require intelligent, moral, and productive citizens? Can our political institutions educate the kind of citizens we wish or need to … Continue reading →

Mara van der Lugt, Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering – Princeton University Press, paperback September 2023 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allowed evil and suffering in … Continue reading →

Siobhan Angus, Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography – Duke University Press, March 2024 In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, … Continue reading →

David O’Sullivan, Computing Geographically: Bridging Giscience and Geography – Guilford Press, January 2024 Geographic information science (GISc) and systems (GIS) have grown rapidly in recent decades, increasingly on a separate track from geographic thought. As geography’s “big ideas”—such as space, place, … Continue reading →

Rachael Squire and Anna Jackman, Political Geography: Approaches, Concepts, Futures – Sage, November 2023