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Daniel Bessner & Michael Brenes eds. Cold War Liberalism: Power in a Time of Emergency – Cambridge University Press, January 2026 In the mid-twentieth century, Cold War liberalism exerted a profound influence on the US state, US foreign policy, and … Continue reading →

Adrian J. Ivakhiv, The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds – Stanford University Press, September 2025 In this ambitious new work, eco-philosopher and cultural theorist Adrian Ivakhiv presents an incisive new way of thinking … Continue reading →

Nicholas Allen, Late Heaney – Oxford University Press, January 2026 Late Heaney follows Seamus Heaney through the landscapes, friendships and events that shaped his last four collections, The Spirit Level, Electric Light, District and Circle, and Human Chain, all set in conversation with his work … Continue reading →

Ari Jerrems, The Spatial Limits of Political Community: Bordering the Neighbour in Urban Spain – Bristol University Press, September 2025 Through analysis of political events in Madrid, Spain, this book explores what the figure of the neighbour can tell us … Continue reading →

Kodili Henry Chukwuma, Nigeria’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Constructions of Threat, Response and Identity – Edinburgh University Press, August 2025, print and open access

Harald Bodenschatz, Victoria Grau, Christiane Post and Max Welch Guerra eds., Urban Planning in Nazi Germany: Attack, Triumph. Terror in the European Context 1933-1945 – DOM, 2025 New Books discussion with Jenna Pittman. Thanks to dmf for the link. Urban … Continue reading →

Adam A. Blackler, An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa – Penn State University Press, 2022 At the turn of the twentieth century, depictions of the colonized world were prevalent throughout the German metropole. Tobacco advertisements catered to the … Continue reading →