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Anthony King, Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century – Polity, 2nd edition, May 2025 War is urbanising. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the largest and most intense battles of the twenty-first century have taken place in densely populated … Continue reading →

Richard Carter-White and Claudio Minca, A Spatial Theory of the Camp: Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Immunitarian State – Edward Elgar, February 2025 (open access) The link for the entire book is at the bottom of the page This is an open … Continue reading →

Edwin D. Rose, Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820 – University of Pittsburgh Press, March 2025 In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a period that marked the emergence of a global modernity—educated landowners, or “gentlemen,” dominated the development … Continue reading →

Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined – Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2025 The author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination.  When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the … Continue reading →

Laleh Khalili, Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy – Verso, August 2025 An eye-opening survey of how extractive industries power globalization and how to fight back, by one of the world’s leading experts on the oil … Continue reading →

27 May 2025, 5.30pm, discussion of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, June 2025) London Group of Historical Geographers

MEGA (from the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism) – translated at Historical Materialism by Kaan Kangal Translation of the entry ‘MEGA’ in the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (Historisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus[HKWM]), vol. 9/I (Hamburg: Argument, 2018), pp. 388-404. Part I written by Rolf … Continue reading →

Open Letter from CRMEP Students & Researchers on Kingston University’s Proposed Closure of the Department of Humanities

David H. Pinkney, Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris – Princeton University Press, reedition, March 2025 Between 1850 and 1870, Napoleon III and his Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann, created the modern city of Paris out of the congested … Continue reading →