New Books in Intellectual History

Adam Kuper, “Anthropology and Anthropologists: The British School in the Twentieth-Century” (Routledge, 2014)

Adam Kuper
Anthropology and Anthropologists
The British School in the Twentieth-Century (Fourth Edition)
Routledge, 2014

New Books in Anthropology New Books in British Studies New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network June 20, 2018 Jeff Bristol

Adam Kuper‘s Anthropology and Anthropologists: The British School in the Twentieth-Century (Fourth Edition; Routledge, 2014) is an excellent, comprehensive tour through one of the most important and influential schools of anthropological theory, easily ranking alongside the Structuralist school of… Read More

Peter Sahlins
1668
The Year of the Animal in France
Zone Books, 2017

New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in French Studies New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books Network June 19, 2018 Lance Turner

Peter Sahlins’s 1668: The Year of the Animal in France (Zone Books, 2017) is a captivating look at the role of animals in court and salon culture in the first decades of Louis XIV’s reign in France. Focusing on… Read More

Samuel England, “Medieval Empires and the Cultures of Competition: Literary Duels at Islamic and Christian Courts” (Edinburgh UP, 2017)

Samuel England
Medieval Empires and the Cultures of Competition
Literary Duels at Islamic and Christian Courts
Edinburgh University Press, 2017

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in European Studies New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Islamic Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Middle Eastern Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network June 13, 2018 SherAli Tareen

In his thrilling and sparkling new book, Medieval Empires and the Cultures of Competition: Literary Duels at Islamic and Christian Courts (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Samuel England, Assistant Professor of Arabic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, analyzes with remarkable… Read More

Frances Kneupper, “The Empire at the End of Time: Identity and Reform in Late Medieval German Prophecy” (Oxford UP, 2016)

Frances Courtney Kneupper
The Empire at the End of Time
Identity and Reform in Late Medieval German Prophecy
Oxford University Press, 2016

New Books in Christian Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in German Studies New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network June 11, 2018 Anna Obererlacher

What sounds like the title of a Hollywood movie is actually a result of meticulous historical research. Frances Courtney Kneupper‘s new book The Empire at the End of Time: Identity and Reform in Late Medieval German Prophecy (Oxford University… Read More

Ronald P. Loftus
The Turn Against the Modern
The Critical Essays of Taoka Reiun (1870-1912)
Association for Asian Studies, 2017

New Books in Biography New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network June 8, 2018 Roman Pasca

Taoka Reiun (1870-1912) was a literary critic and thinker who was active from the early 1890s in Meiji period Japan. Not satisfied with the meaning of bunmei kaika (“civilization and enlightenment”), the trajectory that the government had mapped out for… Read More

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