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Cristina Vatulescu, Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and their Challenges – Stanford University Press, November 2024 The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the “archival revolution” due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. … Continue reading →

Matthew Watson, False Prophets of Economics Imperialism: The Limits of Mathematical Market Models – Agenda, November 2024 This book studies the methodological revolution that has resulted in economists’ mathematical market models being exported across the social sciences. The ensuing process … Continue reading →

Caroline Ashcroft, Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024

David McLaughlin, Making the literary-geographical word of Sherlock Holmes: The game is afoot – University of Wales Press, October 2024 In the second half of the twentieth century, American readers of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories – known as … Continue reading →

Thomas Piketty and Michael J. Sandel, Equality: What it Means and Why it Matters – Polity, January 2025 In this compelling dialogue, two of the world’s most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and … Continue reading →

Denis J.B. Shaw, Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, exploring and describing early modern Russia, 1613-1825 – UCL Press, October 2024 (print and open access) Like many European countries during the Great Age of Discovery and Exploration, Russia embarked on policies of state building, … Continue reading →

Elias J. Palti, Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change, Cambridge University Press, May 2024 How does long-term intellectual change occur? Can we develop a theoretical framework for understanding past systems of knowledge? In this ambitious study, Elías José Palti … Continue reading →