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May 31, 2026
A Scourge of Humanity
As the First World War came to a chaotic end, Europeans feared that a wave of crime and anarchy would sweep across their continent. The upheavals …
May 31, 2026
Suitable
How did black suits become so ubiquitous? Why has men's business clothing been so plain for the last 250 years? How did a style adopted by the Foundin…
May 29, 2026
The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film
Since the release of Jordan Peele's Academy Award-winning horror hit Get Out (2017), interest in Black horror films has erupted. This renewed intrigue…
May 29, 2026
Nourishing Networks
For much of the Crescent City's history, days began with the cries of roaming street vendors and the percussive thwack of butchers' meat cleavers echo…
May 28, 2026
The Wisdom of the Ancients
The Wisdom of the Ancients: Four Ideas That Changed the World (Oxford UP, 2025) is about four cornerstones of modern thought that were put in place by…
May 25, 2026
The Birth of Psychological War
Jeffrey Whyte's book The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War (Oxford UP, 2023) explo…
May 23, 2026
Co-Operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective
Co-operative enterprises, which are democratically owned and governed by their workers, customers, or suppliers, have long captured the imagination of…
May 22, 2026
Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship
Since the late nineteenth century, the US federal government has enjoyed exclusive authority to decide whether someone has the ability to enter and …
May 19, 2026
Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal
Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal (Oxford UP, 2024) by Sumana Roy takes an unexpected cast of writers and artists and, in studying their work…
May 16, 2026
How Low Interest Rates Change the World
How Low Interest Rates Change the World: Global Trends Caused by Low Rates and Emerging Factors Shaping the Future of Rates (Oxford UP, 2025) explore…
May 14, 2026
Conceiving the Mother of Tibet
Conceiving the Mother of Tibet: The Early Literary Lives of the Buddhist Saint Yeshe Tsogyel (Oxford UP, 2026) is the first comprehensive study dedica…
May 14, 2026
The Unfinished Quest
From a Distinguished International Relations Scholar comes The Unfinished Quest: India's Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi (Oxford UP, …
May 12, 2026
Reconceptualizing War
The field of Strategic Studies, which studies the use and threat of force for political purposes, has seen the repeated rise of concepts to dominate d…
May 12, 2026
Markets of Pain
Markets of Pain offers a sweeping history of the business of licit opium--following cultivators, merchants, scientists, and policymakers--and shows ho…
May 10, 2026
Consciousness is Motor
When it comes to consciousness, William James is well-known for his descriptions of it rather than his theory of it and its relation to the body. In C…
May 10, 2026
The Injustice of Noah's Curse
In Genesis 9, Noah plants a vineyard, and eventually becomes drunk and uncovered in his tent. Then we are told that Ham sees the nakedness of his fath…
May 8, 2026
Antisemitism
History teaches that antisemitism is a disease which begins with the Jews but does not end with them. Once antisemitism is unleashed, it knows no boun…
May 5, 2026
Beyond the Quantum
Based on decades of research, Beyond the Quantum: A Quest for the Origin and Hidden Meaning of Quantum Mechanics (Oxford UP, 2026) offers a panoramic …
May 4, 2026
Manufacturing Religion:
First published in 1997, Manufacturing Religion was a controversial book because it critiqued a widely adopted style of scholarship that presumes that…
May 3, 2026
Black Power, White Heat
A rich history of cross-racial coalitions and alliances of the Sixties' freedom movement, acclaimed historian Alice Echols's Black Power, White Heat r…