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Christopher S. Browning, Nation Branding and International Politics – McGill-Queen’s University Press, October 2023

Posted on October 15, 2023 by stuartelden

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 →

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Books received – Renou, Althusser, Safransky, Zumwalt, Woodard

Posted on October 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Mainly bought second-hand for the Indo-European project, along with Sara Safransky, The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit, sent by Duke University Press. The Rosemary LévyZumwalt book is the first part Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist … Continue reading →

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

Posted on October 12, 2023 by stuartelden

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

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Angelo Del Boca, As Cruel as Anyone Else: Italians, Colonies and Empire – trans. Richard Braude, Seagull, July 2024

Posted on October 11, 2023 by stuartelden

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 →

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John Robertson (ed.), Time, History and Political Thought – Cambridge University Press, June 2023

Posted on October 10, 2023 by stuartelden

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 →

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Thomas Vesting, State Theory and the Law: An Introduction – Edward Elgar, 2022, paperback 2023

Posted on October 8, 2023 by stuartelden

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 →

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Richard Saull, Capital, Race and Space, two volumes – Brill, 2023

Posted on October 7, 2023 by stuartelden

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 →

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Tehlike, Suç ve Haklar: Michel Foucault ile Jonathan Simon’ın Söyleşisi, trans. Utku Özmakas, Ayrıntı Yayınları, October 2023

Posted on October 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Tehlike, Suç ve Haklar, 2023: Michel Foucault ile Jonathan Simon’ın Söyleşisi, trans. Utku Özmakas, Ayrıntı Yayınları, October 2023 A text I edited from the Berkeley archive, “Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon“, which originally … Continue reading →

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Richard Cockett, Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World – Yale University Press, September 2023

Posted on October 6, 2023 by stuartelden

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 →

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David N. Livingstone, The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea – Princeton University Press, April 2024

Posted on October 5, 2023 by stuartelden

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 →

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