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Julia Jorati, Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates… – Oxford University Press, 2023 and 2024 and NDPR review

Posted on January 9, 2025 by stuartelden

Julia Jorati, Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century – Oxford University Press, November 2023 review by Peter K. J. Park at NDPR Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported to the Americas in the eighteenth century. Europeans–many … Continue reading →

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Derek S. Denman, Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control – University of Minnesota Press, July 2025

Posted on January 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Derek S. Denman, Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control – University of Minnesota Press, July 2025 A compelling treatise on the relationship between power and enclosure Fortress Power presents a genealogy of fortification as a material and … Continue reading →

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Ian G. Baird, Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty: Within and between Nation-States in Mainland Southeast Asia – University of Wisconsin Press, December 2024

Posted on January 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Ian G. Baird, Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty: Within and between Nation-States in Mainland Southeast Asia – University of Wisconsin Press, December 2024 The Kingdom of Champassak was founded in 1713 in what is now southern Laos, and its royal lineage, the … Continue reading →

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Rob Kitchin, Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods – Polity, December 2024

Posted on January 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Rob Kitchin, Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods – Polity, December 2024 Critical Data Studies has come of age as a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of study. Taking data as its primary analytical focus, the … Continue reading →

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Adam Zucker, Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity – Oxford University Press, 2024 and New Books discussion with Pamela Brown

Posted on January 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Adam Zucker, Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity – Oxford University Press, 2024 New Books discussion with Pamela Brown – thanks to dmf for the link Shakespeare Unlearned dances along the borderline of sense and nonsense in early … Continue reading →

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Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II – HarperCollins, September 2024

Posted on January 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II – HarperCollins, September 2024 The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the … Continue reading →

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Mark Lawrence, Western Europe’s Small Wars and Counterinsurgencies Since Napoleon: After the Great Wars – Springer, December 2024

Posted on January 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Mark Lawrence, Western Europe’s Small Wars and Counterinsurgencies Since Napoleon: After the Great Wars – Springer, December 2024 This book focuses on the wars that are normally relegated to the periphery of geo-politics at the heart of Europe’s ‘new’ military history. … Continue reading →

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John Protevi, Regimes of Violence: Towards a Political Anthropology – University of Minnesota Press, March 2025

Posted on January 3, 2025 by stuartelden

John Protevi, Regimes of Violence: Towards a Political Anthropology – University of Minnesota Press, March 2025 A wide-ranging examination of the roots—and possible future—of violence in human societies Is aggression inevitable among humans? In Regimes of Violence, John Protevi explores how human … Continue reading →

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David Golumbia, Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology – University of Minnesota Press, November 2024

Posted on January 2, 2025 by stuartelden

David Golumbia, Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology – University of Minnesota Press, November 2024 An urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings In a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital technology, Cyberlibertarianism argues … Continue reading →

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Books I’m looking forward to in 2025

Posted on January 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Some of the academic books I’m looking forward to in 2025: Ben Anderson and Anna Secor, The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism (Goldsmiths Press/PERC Papers) Georges Bataille, Critical Essays Volume 2: 1949-1951, trans. Chris Turner, ed. Alberto Toscano and Benjamin Noys (Seagull) … Continue reading →

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