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Jared D. Margulies, The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade – University of Minnesota Press, November 2023 Cacti and succulents are phenomenally popular worldwide among plant enthusiasts, despite being among the world’s most threatened species. The … Continue reading →

Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures – Duke University Press, November 2023 The Introduction is open access here. In Residual Governance, Gabrielle Hecht dives into the wastes of gold and uranium mining in South Africa to explore … Continue reading →

Jean-Paul Demoule, The Indo-Europeans: Archaeology, Language, Race, and the Search for the Origins of the West – Oxford University Press, May/August 2023 The OUP site shows a hardback in May 2023, and paperback in August. It is a translation by … Continue reading →

Christopher S. Browning, Nation Branding and International Politics – McGill-Queen’s University Press, October 2023 Nation branding is regarded as essential for competitiveness among countries, but the idea of branding nations is often derided as lacking seriousness. While nation branding has … Continue reading →

Susan Slyomovics (ed.), Ordering Imperial Worlds: From Late Medieval Spain to the Modern Middle East, Edinburgh University Press, November 2023

Angelo Del Boca, As Cruel as Anyone Else: Italians, Colonies and Empire – trans. Richard Braude, Seagull, July 2024 Reveals a dark chapter in the Italian government’s colonial history that has been largely hidden from view. Between the end of the … Continue reading →

John Robertson (ed.), Time, History and Political Thought – Cambridge University Press, June 2023 Between the cliché that ‘a week is a long time in politics’ and the aspiration of many political philosophers to give their ideas universal, timeless validity … Continue reading →

Thomas Vesting, State Theory and the Law: An Introduction – Edward Elgar, 2022, paperback 2023 There has been renewed and growing interest in exploring the significant role played by law in the centralization of power and sovereignty – right from … Continue reading →