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Lynne Huffer, These Survivals: Autobiography of an Extinction – Duke University Press, May 2025 A collage-style work in fragments, Lynne Huffer’s These Survivals brings together philosophy, memoir, poetry, and original multimedia artworks to articulate an ethics of living on a devastated planet. … Continue reading →

Raluca Grosescu and Ned Richardson-Little (eds.), Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and its Legacies – Oxford University Press, December 2024  The contributions of socialist thinkers and states to the development of international law often go unrecognized. Socialism and … Continue reading →

Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel, Rethinking Global History, Cambridge University Press, November 2024 (open access and print) Despite three decades of rapid expansion and public success, global history’s theoretical and methodological foundations remain under-conceptualised, even to those using them. In … Continue reading →

Owen Ware, Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany – Routledge, October 2023 There is a New Books discussion with Malcolm Keating. Thanks to dmf for the link. This book sheds new light on the fascinating – at times dark and … Continue reading →

Nikolina Bobic and Farzaneh Haghighi (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume II: Ecology, Social Participation and Marginalities – Routledge, November 2024 The Introduction is available open access. Volume I was published in 2022. Architecture and the urban … Continue reading →

Sonia Lavaert, Democratic Thought from Machiavelli to Spinoza: Freedom, Equality, Multitude – trans. Albert Gootjes, Edinburgh University Press, October 2024 Prohibitively priced hardback and e-book only In the latter half of the seventeenth century, Spinoza effected a reversal in the … Continue reading →

Marc-William Palen, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World – Princeton University Press, February 2024  Today, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen shows that free trade and globalisation in fact … Continue reading →

Marie-Eve Loiselle, Building Walls, Constructing Identities: Legal Discourse and the Creation of National Borders – Stanford University Press, November 2024 States are erecting walls at their borders at a pace unmatched in history, and the wall between the United States and Mexico … Continue reading →

Adam Warren, Julia E. Rodriguez and Stephen T. Casper (eds.), Empire, Colonialism and the Human Sciences: Troubling Encounters in the Americas and Pacific – Cambridge University Press, October 2024 (print and open access) In this bold reconsideration of the human … Continue reading →