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Robert T. Tally Jr., For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism – Zer0 books, June 2022 For a Ruthless Critique of All that Exists takes as its point of departure two profound … Continue reading →

Shellen Xiao Wu, Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China – Stanford University Press, September 2023 From the 1850s until the mid-twentieth century, a period marked by global conflicts and anxiety about dwindling resources … Continue reading →

Eli Friedlander, Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History – Stanford University Press, January 2024 In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter Benjamin’s entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous and sustained philosophical questioning … Continue reading →

Simon Dalby, Pyromania: Fire and Geopolitics in a Climate-Disrupted World – Agenda, November 2023 We are the only species that uses fire. It has determined how we have made our home on this planet and it has propelled us to … Continue reading →

Kenneth W. Harl, Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes who Shaped Civilisation – Bloomsbury, March 2023 The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These tribes … Continue reading →

David Myer Temin, Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought – University of Chicago Press, August 2023 An examination of anticolonial thought and practice across key Indigenous thinkers. Accounts of decolonization routinely neglect Indigenous societies, yet … Continue reading →

Christine Keiner, Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal, University of Georgia Press, December 2020 This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Atlantic-Pacific Central American … Continue reading →

Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Theory and Explanation in Geography – Wiley/RGS-IBG book series, October 2023

Jeffrey Whyte, The Birth of Psychological War. Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War – British Academy/Oxford University Press, 2023 – open access

Nicolas de Warren, German Philosophy and the First World War – Cambridge University Press, March 2023