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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 →

Richard Saull, Capital, Race and Space, two volumes – Brill, 2023; paperbacks with Haymarket in summer 2024 – Capital, Race and Space, Volume I: The Far Right from Bonapartism to Fascism In this first volume of Capital, Race and Space, Richard … Continue reading →

Richard Cockett, Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World – Yale University Press, September 2023; paperback August 2024 How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth … Continue reading →

David N. Livingstone, The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea – Princeton University Press, April 2024 Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may … Continue reading →

Andrea Marston, Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia – Duke University Press, March 2024 In Subterranean Matters, Andrea Marston examines the ongoing history of Bolivian mining cooperatives, an economic formation that has been central to Bolivian politics … Continue reading →

Call for Papers: The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies, 4-5 April 2024, University of Amsterdam Deadline for proposals: 15 October 2023. For this two-day, single-stream, and in-person conference, sponsored by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and … Continue reading →