Category Archives: Uncategorized

Felia Allum, Women in the Mafia: Power and Influence in the Neapolitan Camorra – Cornell University Press, July 2024 Women of the Mafia dives into the Neapolitan criminal underworld of the Camorra as seen and lived by the women who inhabit … Continue reading →

Christopher R. Rossi, The Arctic Großraum: Geopolitics and the High North – Bloomsbury, September 2025 How should the Arctic be viewed in the 21st century? In this book, a leading commentator assesses the competing players for the Arctic, looking at … Continue reading →

Isabel K. Köster, Stealing from the Gods: Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination – University of Michigan Press, January 2026 Stealing from the Gods investigates how authors writing between the first century BCE and second century CE addressed the issue of … Continue reading →

Bettina Brandt & Daniel L. Purdy eds. Colonialism and Enlightenment: The Legacy of German Race Theories – Oxford University Press, November 2025 For the last 30 years, scholars have treated Enlightenment race theory and nineteenth-century German colonialism as two distinct … Continue reading →

Martin Shuster, Critical Theory: The Basics – Routledge, 2024 New Books discussion with Dave O’Brien

Thomas M. Wilson ed. Border Studies: A Multidisciplinary Approach – Edward Elgar, August 2025 Very expensive hardback only, unfortunately, but e-book also available. This multidisciplinary book provides a diverse overview of social science approaches to geopolitical borders, social boundaries and … Continue reading →

Matthew Clayton, Independence for Children – Oxford University Press, March 2025 Independence for Children presents an alternative conception of parenting to those that have dominated our thinking about children and the family to date. It offers an elaboration and defence of … Continue reading →