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May 13, 2024
Governing After War
Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Shelley X. Liu explores how wartime processes a…
May 11, 2024
Extending Play
Despite the hypervisibility of a constellation of female pop stars, the music business is structured around gender inequality. As a result, women in t…
May 10, 2024
An Unholy Traffic
The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic, died …
May 8, 2024
Gendered Publics
Gendered Publics: Chandraprava Saikiani and the Mahila Samiti in Colonial Assam (Oxford UP, 2024) is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive appraisal of th…
May 6, 2024
Mexican Exodus
In Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War (Oxford University Press, 2019), Julia G. Young reframes the Cristero War as a …
May 5, 2024
Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War
Decisions to go to war are often framed in cost-benefit terms, and typically such assessments do not factor in longer term costs. However, recent dram…
May 4, 2024
Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture
The Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film laboratories, and low-budget optical printers were the small-gauge media technologies tha…
May 2, 2024
Mirabai
Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gendered …
May 1, 2024
Xiongnu
In Xiongnu: The World’s First Nomadic Empire (Oxford UP, 2024), Bryan K. Miller weaves together archaeology and history to chart the course of the Xio…
May 1, 2024
Private Censorship
When we think of censorship, our minds might turn to state agencies exercising power to silence dissent. However, contemporary concerns about censors…
May 1, 2024
The Gulf Migrant Archives in Kerala
The Indian state of Kerala is one of the largest blocs of migrants in the oil economies of the Arab Gulf. Looking closely at the cultural archives p…
April 29, 2024
November 1918
Was Weimar doomed from the outset? In November 1918: The German Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2020), Robert Gerwarth argues that this is the w…
April 28, 2024
The Constitution of the War on Drugs
David Pozen is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the author of the new book, The Constitution of the War on Drugs…
April 24, 2024
J. N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism
J.N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism (Oxford University Press, 2024) describes the work of one of the most important and under-studied theolo…
April 24, 2024
Digital Empires
The global battle among the three dominant digital powers―the United States, China, and the European Union―is intensifying. All three regimes are raci…
April 15, 2024
Theorizing Music Evolution
What did historical evolutionists such as Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer have to say about music? What role did music play in their evolutionary t…
April 11, 2024
Irish Culture and 'The People'
Seamus O’Malley is an associate professor at Yeshiva University. His first book was Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative (Oxford Uni…
April 9, 2024
Puruṣa
The concept of the puruṣa, or person, is implicated in a wide range of ancient texts throughout the Indian subcontinent. In Puruṣa: Personhood in Anci…
April 9, 2024
Enchanted Revolution
China’s communist revolution has an intricate relationship with gender and religion. In Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in …
April 7, 2024
The New Roman Empire
In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated mo…