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Dislodging the avant-garde from its central position in the narrative of Soviet art, Collective Body
The classical Bildungsroman charted an idealized path of human development—the harmonization of indi
In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History (Duke UP, 2022), Rhiannon Stephens offers
A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel (Brandeis UP, 2024) explor
How does time figure in racial domination? What is the relationship between the capitalist organizat
Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an
Arab nationalism has been one of the dominant ideologies in the Middle East and North Africa since t
Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice (University of Delaware Press, 2023) e
At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual self-rest
British poet John Milton published one of the earliest and still tremendously important defenses of
Histories of Britain composed during the "twelfth-century renaissance" display a remarkable amount o
The period from the Mamlūk reconquest of Acre (1291) to the Ottoman siege of Constantinople (1453) w
In this episode, Alisa interviews Dr. Trevor Wilson about his new book, Alexandre Kojève and the Spe
Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance
'The king can do no wrong' remains one of the most fundamental yet misunderstood tenets of the commo
Ada Palmer joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Inventing the Renaissance (U Chicago Press,
In November 1839, a group of young women in Boston formed a conversation society "to answer the grea
The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite
We are coming up on the centenary of Heidegger’s Being and Time, a text that radically reshaped the
In The Ideological Scramble for Africa, Frank Gerits examines how African leaders in the 1950s and 1
