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Julian Go and Stuart Schrader eds. Imperial Entanglements of Policing – Duke University Press, November 2026 Introduction open access at the above link. In recent years, people across the world have protested the violence of policing and its intrusion into … Continue reading →

Jeremy Adelman, The Capitalist Era: The Making—and Unmaking—of the Global Mind – Princeton University Press, September/November 2026 In The Capitalist Era, leading global historian Jeremy Adelman puts the world’s current unwinding in much-needed historical perspective. Combining political, economic, intellectual, and environmental … Continue reading →

Livia K. Stone, Without Masters: Autogestión, Anarchist Ethics, and Mexico City Punk – Duke University Press, September 2026 Introduction open access at the above link Without Masters is an anthropological history of the radical ethical and political principle of autogestión as … Continue reading →

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Michael Quinlan, Unfree Workers: Insubordination and Resistance in Convict Australia, 1788–1860 – Palgrave, 2022 New Books discussion with Hannah Forsyth – thanks to dmf for the link This book examines how convicts played a key role in the … Continue reading →

Leigh Ann Craig, Deprived of Sense and Intellect: Insanity, Possession, and Diagnosis in Medieval Europe – University of Michigan Press, July 2026 Medieval saints were thought to be able to provide miraculous cures for a wide variety of illnesses, and about … Continue reading →

Meghan M. Garrity, Mass Expulsion: The Politics of Forced Population Removal – Oxford University Press, 2026 New Books discussion with Miranda Melcher – thanks to dmf for the link Since the beginning of the twentieth century, governments around the world … Continue reading →

Tom Overton, John Berger: From Life – Verso, September 2026 John Berger (1926–2017) served in Britain’s wartime army before attending art school. The young artist became a critic and broadcaster, cutting a swathe through the staid world of post-war Britain, … Continue reading →

Bernd Herzogenrath and Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo eds. CONTRADICTionary: An Almanac of Resistance – Open Humanities Press, 2026 Available open access – thanks to dmf for the link CONTRADICTionary: An Almanac of Resistance is a collective intervention into the politics of language … Continue reading →

David E. Barclay, Cold War City: A History of West Berlin – Princeton University Press, September/November 2026 Located more than one hundred miles behind the Iron Curtain, West Berlin served as a stage on which the confrontation between nuclear-armed superpowers … Continue reading →

Sören Urbansky and Martin Wagner, Entangled Empires: Four Centuries of China-Russia Relations – Polity, June 2026 As expansionist empires, socialist superpowers and authoritarian regimes, China and Russia have much in common. While many in the West fear the formation of … Continue reading →