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New Books in British Studies
Margrit Pernau, “Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India: From Balance to Fervor” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Margrit Pernau
Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India
From Balance to Fervor
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network October 23, 2020 SherAli Tareen

In her stunning and conceptually adventurous new book Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India: From Balance to Fervor (Oxford University Press, 2020), Margrit Pernau examines the varied and hugely consequential expressions of and normative investments in emotions in modern South Asian Muslim thought. By considering a wide array of sources... Read More
Francesca Sobande, “The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain” (Palgrave, 2020)
Francesca Sobande
The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain

Palgrave, 2020

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network October 21, 2020 Dave O'Brien

What are the possibilities and what are the inequalities of the digital world? In The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (Palgrave, 2020), Francesca Sobande, a lecturer in Digital Media Studies at Cardiff University explores the experiences of Black women as producers and as consumers of digital media. The book... Read More
James Simpson, “Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism” (Harvard UP, 2019)
James Simpson
Permanent Revolution
The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism
Harvard University Press, 2019

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network October 20, 2020 Jonathan Megerian

The Protestant Reformation looms large in our cultural imagination. In the standard telling, it’s the moment the world went modern. Casting off the shackles and superstitions of medieval Catholicism, reformers translated the Bible into the vernacular and democratized religion. In this story, it’s no wonder that Protestantism should give birth... Read More
Brian Weatherson, “A History of Philosophy Journals. Volume 1: Evidence from Topic Modeling, 1876-2013” (2020)
Brian Weatherson
A History of Philosophy Journals
Volume 1: Evidence from Topic Modeling, 1876-2013
, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books NetworkNew Work in Digital Humanities October 14, 2020 Luca Scholz

Anglophone philosophy in the twentieth century was centered, to an unprecedented extent, around journals: periodical publications that aimed to present (one vision of) the best philosophical work of the moment. By looking at the trends across these journals, we can see important trends in philosophy itself. But looking at the... Read More
Stephen Wall, “Reluctant European: Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Stephen Wall
Reluctant European
Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit
Oxford University Press, 2020

NBN Book of the DayNBN Special SeriesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 9, 2020 Tim Gwynn Jones

In January 2020, the UK became the first country to leave the European Union after a troubled 47-year membership. What was at the core of the country’s semi-detachment to the EU? Was the UK’s eventual inevitable or was it a tragedy of errors and misunderstandings borne of divergent political cultures?... Read More
Matthew S. Hopper, “Slaves of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire” (Yale UP, 2015)
Matthew S. Hopper
Slaves of One Master
Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire
Yale University Press, 2015

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the Indian Ocean World October 8, 2020 Robyn Morse

In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S. Hopper examines the interconnected themes of enslavement, globalization, and empire and challenges previously held conventions regarding Middle Eastern slavery and British imperialism. Whereas conventional historiography regards the Indian Ocean... Read More
Patrick Honohan, “Currency, Credit and Crisis: Central Banking in Ireland and Europe” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Patrick Honohan
Currency, Credit and Crisis
Central Banking in Ireland and Europe
Cambridge University Press, 2020

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in FinanceNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 8, 2020 Tim Gwynn Jones

For readers – including non-economists – who want to get to grips with the nature and scale of the last financial crisis, how it was managed and mismanaged, and its particular impact on a small, open economy, Patrick Honohan’s book Currency, Credit and Crisis: Central Banking in Ireland and Europe... Read More
Thomas Levenson, “Money for Nothing” (Random House, 2020)
Thomas Levenson
Money for Nothing
The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich
Random House, 2020

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in FinanceNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 6, 2020 Daniel Peris

Modern finance isn’t really all that modern. Three centuries ago, Great Britain’s need for money to fight its wars, the appearance of joint stock companies, and the emerging quantification of all aspects of life converged to create new notions and forms of money and investments. And then there was a... Read More
Harrison Perkins, “Catholicity and the Covenant of Works: James Ussher and the Reformed Tradition” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Harrison Perkins
Catholicity and the Covenant of Works
James Ussher and the Reformed Tradition
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network October 6, 2020 Crawford Gribben

Historians of early modern religion recognise the importance of the development of covenant theology in the formation of Calvinism. Harrison Perkins, who teaches systematic theology at Edinburgh Theological Seminary and serves as assistant minister of London Presbyterian Church, has recently published what promises to be one of the most important... Read More
Stephen C. Kepher, “COSSAC: Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan and the Genesis of Operation OVERLORD” (Naval Institute Press, 2020)
Stephen C. Kepher
COSSAC
Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan and the Genesis of Operation OVERLORD
Naval Institute Press, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 5, 2020 Lipkowitz and Scott

D-Day, June 6, 1944, looms large in both popular and historical imaginations as the sin qua non, or single defining moment, of the Second World War. Though there were other d-days launched across multiple theaters throughout Europe, Africa, and the Pacific, only one endures as a potent symbol for the... Read More

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