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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 →

Adam Bobbette, The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java – Duke University Press, August 2023 The Introduction is available here In The Pulse of the Earth Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from the slopes of Indonesia’s … Continue reading →