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Jonathan Rothwell, “A Republic of Equals: A Manifesto for a Just Society” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Jonathan Rothwell
A Republic of Equals
A Manifesto for a Just Society
Princeton University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network November 20, 2019 Stephen Pimpare

Inequality in the U.S. has increased dramatically over the past decades — on that there is agreement. There is less agreement on the causes of that inequality, the consequences of it, and, perhaps least of all, what to do about it. Join us to hear Jonathan Rothwell talk about his... Read More
Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, “The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great” (Liverpool UP, 2019)
Kelsey Rubin-Detlev
The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great

Liverpool University Press, 2019

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books Network November 20, 2019 Diana Dukhanova

The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great (Liverpool University Press, 2019) is the first scholarly monograph devoted to the comprehensive analysis of the letters of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia (r. 1762-1796), as well as the first to examine the conventions of letter-writing by an 18th-century monarch after Louis... Read More
Richard J. Bernstein, “Why Read Hannah Arendt Now” (Polity, 2018)
Richard J. Bernstein
Why Read Hannah Arendt Now

Polity, 2018

New Books in BiographyNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network November 20, 2019 Uli Baer

Nobody should feel excited about the renewed relevance of Hannah Arendt’s work today. Her foresight about the fragility of democratic life is relevant for the worst possible reasons: populism, white supremacy, mass deception, the rise of fascism around the world, the coordinated assault on serious journalism, academia and any kind... Read More
Adeline M. Masquelier, “Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger” (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Adeline M. Masquelier
Fada
Boredom and Belonging in Niger
University of Chicago Press, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network November 20, 2019 Bhoomika Joshi

Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger (University of Chicago Press 2019) is a study of the kinds of experimentation and creative engagements that young men in the urban public spaces of Niger undertake when confronted with the precarity and boredom of unemployed adult life. “The sitting that kills the pants”... Read More
Angela Rudert, “Shakti’s New Voice: Guru Devotion in a Women-Led Spiritual Movement” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Angela Rudert
Shakti's New Voice
Guru Devotion in a Women-Led Spiritual Movement
Rowman and Littlefield, 2017

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Hindu StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network November 20, 2019 Raj Balkaran

Angela Rudert‘s Shakti’s New Voice: Guru Devotion in a Women-Led Spiritual Movement (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017) is the first academic study of the popular contemporary North Indian female guru Anandmurti Gurumaa. In drawing from, e.g., Sikh and Sufi traditions, Gurumaa’s syncretic approach innovates Hindu religiosity, as does her progressive attitudes... Read More
Serhii Plokhy, “Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Serhii Plokhy
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front
American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books Network November 20, 2019 Ryan Stackhouse

What happened when Americans and Soviets fought alongside one another against Hitler? How did relations at Poltava airbase reveal cracks in the Grand Alliance? Serhii Plokhy tells the story of personal relationships and high geopolitics in his new book Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines... Read More
Marcos González Hernando, “British Think Tanks After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Marcos González Hernando
British Think Tanks After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network November 20, 2019 Dave O'Brien

How did the financial crisis of 2018 change politics? In British Think Tanks After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Marcos González Hernando, an Affiliated Researcher at the University of Cambridge and Senior Researcher at Think Tank for Action on Social Change (TASC), explores how think tanks were... Read More
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