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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

Alison Bashford, Emily M. Kern and Adam Bobbette (eds.), New Earth Histories: Geo-Cosmologies and the Making of the Modern World – University of Chicago Press, November 2023 A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth. This book brings the history … Continue reading →

Adam Shatz, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2024 A revelatory new biography of the writer-activist who inspired today’s movements for racial liberation In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon’s shadow … Continue reading →

A. Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern (eds.), Sacred Kinship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence – Columbia University Press, May 2022 Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of … Continue reading →

Thomas Nail, Matter and Motion: A Brief History of Kinetic Materialism – Edinburgh University Press, December 2023

Andrew Mason, What’s Wrong with Lookism? Personal Appearance, Discrimination, and Disadvantage – Oxford University Press, July 2023 People are treated differently as a result of their looks. But when is appearance discrimination, or “lookism” as it is often called, morally … Continue reading →

Lauren Benton, They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence – Princeton University Press, February 2024 Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at … Continue reading →