New Books in World Affairs

1888 Episodes

1. Walter Scheidel, “The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality” (Princeton UP, 2017)

   Published: 10/19/2017
2. Ronnie Perelis, “Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic: Blood and Faith” (Indiana UP, 2016)

   Published: 10/18/2017
3. Hugh Urban, “Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement” (U. Cal Press, 2016)

   Published: 10/9/2017
4. Michael Wintroub, “The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge Across the Sixteenth-Century World” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

   Published: 10/4/2017
5. Cyrus Schayegh, “The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World” (Harvard UP, 2017)

   Published: 10/2/2017
6. Jane McCabe, “Race, Tea and Colonial Resettlement: Imperial Families, Interrupted” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)

   Published: 9/29/2017
7. Alessandro Duranti, “The Anthropology of Intentions: Language in a World of Others” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

   Published: 9/26/2017
8. Christopher R. Cotter and David G. Robertson, eds., “After World Religions: Reconstructing Religious Studies” (Routledge, 2016)

   Published: 9/25/2017
9. Asher Orkaby, “Beyond the Arab Cold War: The International History of the Yemen Civil War, 1962-68” (Oxford UP, 2017)

   Published: 9/5/2017
10. Jocelyn Olcott, “International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-raising Event in History” (Oxford UP, 2017)

    Published: 8/25/2017
11. Ernesto Bassi, “An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World” (Duke UP, 2017)

    Published: 8/23/2017
12. Michael Allan, “In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt” (Princeton UP, 2016)

    Published: 8/14/2017
13. Carla Pestana, “The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire” (Harvard UP, 2017)

    Published: 8/12/2017
14. Alejandra Mancilla, “The Right of Necessity: Moral Cosmopolitanism and Global Poverty” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)

    Published: 8/1/2017
15. Jatinder Mann, “The Search for a New National Identity: The Rise of Multiculturalism in Canada and Australia, 1890s-1970s” (Peter Lang, 2016)

    Published: 7/30/2017
16. Maria Montoya, et. al, eds. “Global Americans: A History of the United States” (Wadsworth Publishing, 2017)

    Published: 7/28/2017
17. Bruce O’Neill, “The Space of Boredom: Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order” (Duke University Press, 2017)

    Published: 7/28/2017
18. Kief Hillsbery, “Empire Made: My Search for an Outlaw Uncle Who Vanished in British India” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)

    Published: 7/26/2017
19. Kiran Klaus Patel, “The New Deal: A Global History” (Princeton UP, 2016)

    Published: 7/12/2017
20. Dana Mills, “Dance and Politics: Moving Beyond Boundaries” (Manchester University Press, 2017)

    Published: 7/10/2017