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Richard Fallon, Contesting Earth’s History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology and Palaeontology – Oxford University Press, April 2025 By the mid-nineteenth century, geologists and palaeontologists had reconstructed an authoritative narrative of Earth’s … Continue reading →

Samuel Mace, Carl Schmitt in the Middle East: Unstable Decisionism and the Failure of Political Orders – Palgrave Macmillan, August 2026 This book presents a critical examination of Carl Schmitt’s political framework, particularly in the context of decisionist regimes in … Continue reading →

Michael R. Griffiths, The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought – Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 New Books discussion with Maths Frickhoeffer – thanks to dmf for the link The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought promises to transform a decades … Continue reading →

Jennifer C. James, Captive Ecologies: The Environmental Afterlives of Slavery – Duke University Press, August 2026 Introduction open access at the above link Captive Ecologies makes a case for the ecological significance of slavery’s afterlife, tracing the complex entanglements between racial … Continue reading →

Matthew Ritger, Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England – University of Pennsylvania Press, May 2026 New Books network discussion with Jane Degenhardt The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe’s most … Continue reading →

Alex Gekker, Maps as Media – Polity, July 2026 Maps have escaped from the confines of road atlases or decorative frames to being ubiquitous on our screens. Using a GPS while driving, looking for a shop on Google Maps, or … Continue reading →

Andrew Littlejohn, We Live with the Sea: Ecologizing Safety in Post-Tsunami Japan – Duke University Press, July 2026 Introduction open access at the above link In We Live with the Sea, Andrew Littlejohn addresses the implementation and controversy surrounding safety infrastructures … Continue reading →

Ming Dong Gu, The Fusion of Intellectual Horizons in Chinese and Western Thought – Edinburgh University Press, June 2026 Offers a convergence of ideas as the basis for a contemporary universalism with global values Ming Dong Gu bridges the divide … Continue reading →