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Noga Arikha, Franz Boas: In Praise of Open Minds – Yale University Press, July 2025 A thought-provoking account of the life and work of Franz Boas and his influential role in shaping modern anthropology Franz Boas (1858–1942) is widely acknowledged for … Continue reading →

D. Vance Smith, Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe – University of Chicago Press, December 2025 There is an excerpt here A major new look at Africa’s influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image … Continue reading →

Balázs Trencsényi, Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond: A Transnational History – Oxford University Press, March 2025 This volume offers a broad-ranging and comprehensive analysis of the history and theory of the political idea … Continue reading →

Sarah Punathil ed. Lines and Passages: Reimagining Migration and Borderlands in South Asia, Routledge, March 2026 Moving beyond the conventional binary logic of state and society, this book reveals how borderlands emerge as both contested and negotiated terrains shaped by historical … Continue reading →

Duncan Bell and Douglas Mao, Utopia – Oxford University Press, March 2026 Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of social dreaming. In this compact volume, two leading scholars from different … Continue reading →

Andrea Bardin, Hobbes’s Materialist Agenda: The Politics of Early Modern Science – Edinburgh University Press, January 2026

Mark Leonard, Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail – Polity, April 2026 We live in an explosive world. Trump is blowing up political order. Xi Jinping is scrambling the economy. And Putin is redrawing the map of Europe. At … Continue reading →