Petros Spanou reviews this ‘superb, absorbing, and thought-provoking work offering a major reassessment of nineteenth-century philosophy’.
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Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
George Bodie reviews this ‘kaleidoscopic new vision’ of a vanished country.
Bathing at the Edge of the Roman Empire: Baths and Bathing Habits in the North-Western Corner of Continental Europe
Giacomo Savani reviews this investigation of the development, adoption, and adaptation of Roman baths in the northwestern regions of continental Europe, which significantly enhances our understanding of Roman baths and bathing in the periphery of the empire.
Gold and Swingler
Katrina Goldstone reviews two biographies of neglected writers, which demonstrate there is still much to be learned about the influence of writers, political commitment, and the 1930s on broader intellectual histories.
A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home
Lucy J. Havard reviews an ‘immensely enjoyable and engaging’ look at scientific enquiry as it took place in the eighteenth-century home.
Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and USSR
Thomas Ellis reviews Diana Cucuz’s book on women, gender, and the politics of selling U.S. consumer culture and domesticity during the early Cold War through “polite propaganda.”
The Politics of Biography in Africa: Borders, Margins, and Alternative Histories of Power
Rebecca Martin reviews this ‘important collection’ showing how biographical narratives can shed light on alternative, little known or under-researched aspects of state power in African politics.
Milk
Charlie Taverner reviews a ‘thorough and stimulating’ major exhibition exploring our relationship with milk and its place in global politics, society, and culture.
Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family
Hannah Holtschneider reviews a compelling exploration of changing ideas about race, of human relationships in colonial empires, of Jewish minorities in slave societies, of religious identity and belonging, and of migration across the Anglophone Atlantic from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century.
No Return
It is hard to review this book without lapsing into the language of academic letters of recommendation: it is brilliant, illuminating. The genre is the Anglo-American ‘book of the thesis’. This genre contrasts with that of first books from young German and French scholars in that the author has taken years to revise his 2015Continue reading “No Return”