CURRENT AFFAIRS GENERAL HISTORY
Priscilla Solano, Douglas Massey 26th April, pb, £25.99, 9781439921531 Humanitarianism, human rights and migration.
The Belknap Press
A Brief History of Equality Thomas Piketty, Steven Rendall (tr) 22nd March, pb, eb, £15.95, 9780674295469 The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress towards equality despite crises, disasters and backsliding.
Pragmatism as Anti-authoritarianism Richard Rorty, Eduardo Mendieta (ed), Robert B Brandom 28th June, pb, £16.95, 9780674295476 The last book by the eminent American philosopher and public intellectual Rorty, providing the definitive statement of his mature philosophical and political views.
The History Press
The Ku Klux Klan Kristofer Allerfeldt 15th February, hb, eb, £25, 9781803990163 Comprehensive history of the shadowy group who have become a symbol of America’s long and violent legacy of racism.
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
The Jews of Provence and Languedoc Ram Ben-Shalom, Shmuel Sermoneta- Gertel (tr) 1st February, hb, eb, £120, 9781786941930 Examination of key aspects of Jewish life in Provence over some 1,500 years.
Collected Essays Vol III Haym Soloveitchik 1st March, pb, eb, £25.99, 9781802075854 Essays on the Sefer Hasidim and on Ravan of Posquières set a new agenda for medieval Jewish intellectual history.
The University of Michigan Press
China As Number One?
Yang Zhong, Ronald F Inglehart 12th February, pb, £25.95, 9780472056354 Explores the potential soft power of China by exam- ining its population’s social values. Examines findings in the context of evolutionary modernisa- tion theory and cross- national comparison.
None of the Above Mollie J Cohen 20th February, pb, £29.95, 9780472056620 Why do citizens cast blank and spoiled votes? How do campaigns mobilising the invalid vote influence this decision? Cohen answers these questions using evidence from elections in 18 democracies.
Singing the Land: Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America Eli Sperling 4th March, pb, £25.95, 9780472056651 Insights into how musical frameworks were central to catalysing American Jewry’s support of Zionist causes by the 1940s.
Generational Politics in the United States Sally Friedman (ed), Davy Schultz (ed) 18th June, pb, £38.95, 9780472056767 By examining the differ- ences in political atti- tudes, engagement and impact of recent genera- tions, Generational Poli- tics in the United States suggests how genera- tional change will impact American politics in the future.
Torva
Women on Porn Fiona Vera-Gray 8th February, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781911709435 Based on immersive research and interviews with women 18-70, a fresh take on sexually explicit material and female sexuality.
Trapeze
Head North Andy Burnham, Steve Rotheram 1st February, hb, eb, £22, 9781398719736 Ambitious, courageous and thought-provoking, this is Burnham’s and Rotheram’s vision for the Britain we deserve—and the one we need now more than ever.
Troubador
A Half Century Around Europe
John Waygood 28th March, pb, £13.99, 9781805143000 Light-hearted, illustrated account of the experi- ences of a British baby- boomer and his family in coping with the cultural differences of living in continental Europe.
UCL Press
The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality Vol 3 Alena Ledeneva (ed) 1st February, pb, eb, £50, 9781800086159 hb, £65, 9781800086166 digital, £1.19, 9781800086173 Part of the Fringe series which explores the roles that complexity, ambiva- lence and immeasurability play in social and cultural phenomena.
Unbound
Four Chancellors and a Funeral Russell Jones 21st March, hb, £25, 9781800183087 Darkly comical history of the Tory government from January 2021 to the end of 2022 and sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller The Decade in Tory.
University of Chicago Press
The Afterlife of Data Carl Öhman 11th April, hb, eb, £18, 9780226828220 Essential guide to understanding why and how we as a human race must gain control of our collective digital past- before it is too late.
The Strength of Our Commitments Corina Lacatus 27th February, pb, eb, £32, 9780226831411 Dives into the mechanics of national human rights institutions and the forces that make or break their success.
America’s New Racial Battle Lines Rogers M Smith, Desmond King 2nd May, pb, eb, £24, 9780226834047 Sobering portrait of the United States’ divided and shifting racial politics charted across different eras and over two decades.
University of Pennsylvania Press
The Maternalists Shaul Bar-Haim
28th May, pb, £25.99, 9781512826050 Demonstrating the affini- ties between welfarism, maternalism and psycho- analysis, Bar-Haim suggests a new reading of the British welfare state as a political project.
University of Rochester Press
Black Woman on Board Donna J Nicol 7th May, hb, £35, 9781648250231 Offers a rare view inside the university boardroom to uncover the vital role Black women educational leaders have played in ensuring access and equity for all.
Vehicule Press
Girls, Interrupted Lisa Whittington-Hill 11th April, pb, £18.95, 9781550656329 Pop culture’s treatment of women, writes Whitting- ton-Hill, is still marked by misogyny and misunder- standing. This candid and often cathartic début marks Whittington-Hill as a cultural critic of the first rank.
Vendome Press
Rowing Blazers Jack Carlson 25th April, hb, £50, 9780865653986 Designer and former US national team oarsman Jack Carlson’s essential celebration of the classic rowing blazer and of rowing itself. Revised and expanded.
Verso
Lifehouse Adam Greenfield 9th July, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781788738354 How to reclaim power in a time of perpetual crisis.
How We Walk Matthew Beaumont 5th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781804290071 How race, class and politics impact on the ways we move.
After Black Lives Matter Cedric G Johnson 13th February, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781804293003 Contemporary policing reflects the turn from welfare to domestic warfare as the chief means of regulating the excluded and oppressed.
Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?
Leah Cowan 11th June, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781804293034 How did feminists end up turning to the police and the law to make them safe?
Against Landlords Nick Bano 26th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781804293874 Groundbreaking intervention in the housing debate and what we can do to fix the problem.
The Vote: How It Was Won and How It Was Undermined Paul Foot 28th May, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781804294697 The dramatic story of the peoples’ fight for the right to vote.
Late Capitalism Ernest Mandel 30th July, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781804294758 “One of the major contributions of the last decade to Marxist economics”—Choice.
Bloody Panico Geoffrey Wheatcroft 28th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781804295755 From Cameron to Sunak, an obituary for the Conservatives.
Bodies Under Siege Sian Norris 23rd July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781839764745 Exposé of how far-right extremists across Europe use attacks on abortion to introduce broader fascist politics and their connections to the American far right.
Burnout Hannah Proctor 2nd April, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781839766053 The way in which activists and revolutionaries have navigated the emotional dimension of political experience.
Voltaire Foundation
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Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment pb, 978180207
Series has published more than 500 peer- reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955. The Process of Enlightenment Ere Pertti Nokkala (ed), Jonas Gerlings 1st July, £95, 1863 Everyday Politics and Culture in Revolutionary
France Suzanne Desan (ed), Bryant T Ragan, Victoria Thompson 8th June, £75, 3812 Sociability and Civic Spirit in Northern Europe Juliane Engelhardt 8th May, £75, 5618
Watkins
Sacred Feminine Through the Ages Paula Marvelly 11th June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781786788757 Fascinating history of women’s belief, faith and spirituality as told through the art and writing of more than 30 women of wisdom.
Embracing Alienation Todd Mcgowan 9th April, pb, £10.99, 9781915672223 The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome but could it actually form the basis of our emancipation?
Wayne State University Press
Queer Jews, Queer Muslims Adi Saleem Bharat (ed), Katrina Daly Thompson, Edwige Crucifix, Amr Kamal, Shanon Shah et al 13th February, pb, £29.95, 9780814350874 Explores the interrelated experiences and repre- sentations of Jewish and Muslim minorities in Europe while triangulat- ing the Jewish-Muslim dyad with a third vari- able: queerness.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn’t Ian Dunt 28th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781399602747 Biting critique of Westminster that shines a light on how British politics really operates.
Welbeck
How Men Can Help Sophie Gallagher 23rd May, pb, £12.99, 9781802792997 In addition to useful societal analysis, Gallagher offers men practical advice on conversations to start, roles to play and behaviours to avoid.
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