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Daniel Maudlin, A Night at the Inn: Space, Place, and the Elite Experience of Empire, 1650–1850 – Oxford University Press, June 2026 A bold reinterpretation of Georgian Britian and North America that puts inns at the heart of the imperial project. … Continue reading →

Edward Jones-Imhotep, The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self – MIT Press, May 2026 (print and open access) A cultural history of technological breakdown, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic World. The Broken … Continue reading →

Erin Torkelson, Predatory Welfare: Debt, Race, and Cash Transfers – Duke University Press, May 2026 In Predatory Welfare, Erin Torkelson explores how the direct cash transfer program instituted in South Africa revised and reworked post-apartheid racialized and gendered dispossession, despite its … Continue reading →

Leslie C. Dunn and Avi Mendelson eds. Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness – Springer, May 2026 Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness, the first collection to focus on madness and mental health in early modern drama, is energized by the belief … Continue reading →

Hans Demeyer and Sven Vitse, Affective Crisis and the Possibility of Attachment: A Comparative Study of Contemporary Fiction in Neoliberal Ruins – UCL Press, April 2026 (print and open access) Affective Crisis and the Possibility of Attachment offers a comparative critical … Continue reading →

Randall L. Schweller, Broken Cycle: World Politics in the Age of Dissent – Cambridge University Press, February 2026 Why is the Liberal International Order unraveling – and will this lead to global disorder? Broken Cycle explores this urgent question by viewing … Continue reading →

Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds. Media Rurality – Duke University Press, April 2026 Media Rurality investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media systems and technologies that shape daily life in and across rural and urban settings … Continue reading →