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Henry Snow, Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World – Verso, May 2026 Excerpt about the Bentham brothers and the Panopticon at History News Network – thanks to dmf for the link What are the rules that govern our … Continue reading →

Goldie Osuri, Settler/Colonialism in Kashmir: Sovereignty, Catastrophe, Indigeneity – Manchester University Press, April 2026 This book examines Indian rule in occupied Jammu and Kashmir through the lens of settler-colonial geopolitics. Engaging with settler-colonial, decolonial and Indigenous studies, the book traces … Continue reading →

M.X. Mitchell, Unsettling Sovereignty: International Law, Nuclear Weapons, and US Extraterritorial Power in Postwar Oceania – University of Chicago Press, October 2026 Marshall Islanders and their ancestral lands and waters played important roles in reshaping the United States’ offshore power, … Continue reading →

I Cannot Submit to Injustices: Collected Works of Martin Sostre – ed. Garrett Felber, AK Press, May 2026 Critical works by legendary Black radical and political prisoner Martin Sostre I Cannot Submit to Injustices is a collection of works by Black … Continue reading →

Mario Meliadò ed. Thinking in the Margins: Marginalia in Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy – De Gruyter Brill, 2026 (print and open access) The chapters in this book reflect on the special status of marginalia as an object of historical-philosophical interpretation … Continue reading →

Adam Moore, The Difference Place Makes: Peacebuilding and Bosnia’s Arizona Market – Stanford University Press, May 2026 How do places shape peacebuilding interventions? Put simply, they are eventful. Geographers have long argued that places are constituted by relations with the … Continue reading →

Paul Griffin and Cheryl McGeachan, Historical Geography: The Basics – Routledge, December 2025 Historical Geographies: The Basics provides readers with a thorough grounding in a sub-discipline that revisits the past through a geographical lens. It encourages the reader to pursue researching the … Continue reading →

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 →