Category: The Blog
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What We’re Reading: February 22 2023
Allison Dinner/AFP/Getty Images Ellen Smith, University of Leicester Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds, Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men’s Countries and the International Challenge…
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What We’re Reading: February 12 2023
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lascaux_004.jpg Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín, The Graduate Institute Geneva George Orwell, Essays, [New edition] (London: Penguin, 2014). In the first candid essay of this rather sincere…
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What We’re Reading: January 23 2023
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia160128.html Mirek Tobiáš Hošman, University of Bologna, Paris City University. Erwin Dekker, Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise, Cambridge University Press, 2021.…
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What We’re Reading: January 19 2023
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365333/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-State-emergency-nuclear-power-plant-crippled.html Antoney Bell, McGill University Lisa Lowe, The Intimacies of Four Continents (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015). Lise Lowe’s The Intimacies of the Four…
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What We’re Reading: January 13 2023
https://mmppf.wordpress.com/2019/03/12/lourenco-da-silva-mendonca-the-first-anti-slavery-activist/ Michael Aidan Pope, Birkbeck, University of London. José Lingna Nafafé, Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century…
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What We’re Reading: December 12 2023
Credit: https://www.loc.gov/item/95517725/ Antoney Bell, McGill University. Michel Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended, 17 March 1976,” in Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76. trans. David…
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What We’re Reading: December 5 2022
Credit: https://thecharnelhouse.org/2015/01/20/the-historical-project/ Zaib Aziz, University of South Florida. Adom Getachew, Naomi Kebede, “Monument Gallery“, The American Historical Review, Volume 127, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 831–846. Part of…
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What We’re Reading: November 23 2022
Arkadiusz Warguła | Credit: Getty Images Mirek Tobiáš Hošman, University of Bologna, Paris City University Jamie Martin, The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance,…
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What We’re Reading: November 15 2022
Image: OZAN KOSE/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Amrita Malhi, Flinders University and The Australian National University Anwar Ibrahim, SCRIPT For a Better Malaysia It’s election season in…
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What We’re Reading: November 8 2022
Credit: Balaji Srinivasa Joseph Satish, University of Hyderabad Ashkhen Khachatryan, “The Armenian Presence in Chennai“, Cenkantal. The author, an Armenian based in Chennai (India), describes the…