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Ten genocides. One revolutionary narrative. The Book of Genocides captures humanity's most harrowing hours in an immersive, fully illustrated graphic narrative; the first of its kind. Discover more and enter our giveaway: bookofgenocides.com Coming September 2026.
The Cold War transformed the US military into a permanent institution on an unprecedented scale. Our book of the week shows how models and strategies from the for-profit world reshaped the American military. By A. J. Murphy on @harvardpress.bsky.social buff.ly/irdvEbT
That's it. I've checked the very last proofs of the book and it's now off to the printers. I hope it will reach Hobsbawm fans, Hobsbawm sceptics, and anyone curious about the intellectual life of the left in the 20th century! Publication: 18 Aug (US), 4 Sept (UK) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Great book, from my blurb: “At a time when historical research and teaching are under attack, Emile Chabal’s careful reconstruction of the life of one of the century’s greatest historians is both a scholarly and an ethical act.“
Harvard University Press@harvardpress.bsky.social · last wk.The first truly global biography of a revolutionary thinker. How well do you know Eric Hobsbawm? Discover our conversation with biographer and historian Emile Chabal: bit.ly/3RZrUjK Coming August 18.
In The Discovery of Ottoman Greece (@harvardpress.bsky.social, 2025), Richard Calis offers a portrait of Martin Crusius, an early modern scholar who never set foot in Greece yet dedicated his life to the study of Greek history. Paul Csillag reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/ottom...
Ottoman Greece from a study in Tübingen - CEU Review of Books
In The Discovery of Ottoman Greece (Harvard University Press, 2025), Richard Calis offers a richly documented portrait of Martin Crusius, an early modern scholar who never set foot in Greece yet dedic...
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Emile Chabal, The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian - @harvardpress.bsky.social, August 2026 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... Interview about writing the book www.hup.harvard.edu/features/who...
The Age of Hobsbawm — Harvard University Press
An intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was one of the foremost European intellectuals of the twentieth cent...
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📰 Over the weekend in the ARB: David Chaffetz reviews “Exquisite Things and Strange Wonders” by Amir Khusraw Dihlavi and Alyssa Gabbay (eds. and trans.) @harvardpress.bsky.social buff.ly/eva3eZs
Hobsbawm came to Edinburgh in the early 2000s to give a talk in honor of Kiernan. Afterwards he responded to a question that pushed back on his Marxism with "We're the last one's left, so you'd better listen to us!"
Harvard University Press@harvardpress.bsky.social · last wk.The first truly global biography of a revolutionary thinker. How well do you know Eric Hobsbawm? Discover our conversation with biographer and historian Emile Chabal: bit.ly/3RZrUjK Coming August 18.
The first truly global biography of a revolutionary thinker. How well do you know Eric Hobsbawm? Discover our conversation with biographer and historian Emile Chabal: bit.ly/3RZrUjK Coming August 18.
In the mail: been holding back with the review-copy-requests as I settle in and wait for my US library to arrive (it's almost here ...), but nice to get a quartet of ... exquisite things and strange wonders, from @harvardpress.bsky.social Looking forward to all of these.
THE BOOK OF GENOCIDES by dana mashoian walrath releases 9/8/26 from @harvardpress.bsky.social #graphic #history #anthropology #horrors #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 8/1!
Congrats to Prof. @mivich.bsky.social whose book The Division of Rationalized Labor (@harvardpress.bsky.social) received three awards this year! sociology.stanford.edu/news/three-n...
Three national awards recognize Michelle Jackson's book on labor | Department of Sociology
Michelle Jackson's recent book, The Division of Rationalized Labor (Harvard University Press, 2025), has received three national honors in 2026. The book won the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award fro...
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1128. “…Or like her: leaving behind her houses and her father’s land” Hesiod. The Shield. Catalogue of Women. Other Fragments. Glenn W. Most (ed., trad.). LCL 503. Londres: HUP, 2018 #Library #Historia #History #hesiod #hesiodo #theshield #escudo #catalogue #catálogo @harvardpress.bsky.social
My friend handed @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social a copy of YUPPIES after the @bookculture.com event(!!!) I can die happy.
NEW YORK: come assuage your Knicks angst with me. Tonight at 7pm--Kim Phillips-Fein and I talk YUPPIES at @bookculture.com on 112th.
Did those ambitious whippersnappers really ruin everything? www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/y... @harvardpress.bsky.social @dygottlieb.bsky.social #booksky
Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York | Washington Independent Review of Books
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Ever wonder how Wall St. got so powerful? Why your urban rent is so expensive? Or why so many young professionals are obsessed with fitness? Come find out on my Reddit AMA on r/AskHistorians--I'll be there talking YUPPIES all morning.
Very honored that my book "Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry," is a shortlisted finalist for the @asanews.bsky.social Political Sociology Section's Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award! And it is currently 25% off on the @harvardpress.bsky.social website! See info below:
Central to daily life, neighborhood vitality… and legal controversies. When was the last time you considered the American sidewalk? Legal scholar Michael Pollack spins a vivid travelogue in his newest book, Sidewalk Nation: bit.ly/43iXrPF
I started AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN CONSTITUTIONS with hopeful settlers breaking away from New Hampshire and ended the book with white separatists in the Pacific Northwest. @harvardpress.bsky.social
Hadas Weiss@hadas.bsky.social · 2mo agoyes lol but that’s just liberal academic gatekeeping. literally every publisher and peer reviewer i’ve worked with demanded that i introduce hope
Next book on deck. You cannot serve both God and Mammon. You cannot serve both God and Capitalism. You must hate one and love the other. @harvardpress.bsky.social #TheEnchantmentsOfMammon #EugeneMcCarraher #Capitalism
Just started reading #Curved Air by @kevinadavies.bsky.social published by @harvardpress.bsky.social about the quest to cure sickle cell disease using gene editing #CRISPR #SickleCellDisease and which I am reviewing for @science.org
Today @dygottlieb.bsky.social joins us to discuss his new book Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquored New York, new from @harvardpress.bsky.social. Come check it out on @askhistorians.bsky.social! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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In this JHI Blog interview, Leslie James discusses her latest book, “The Moving Word,” and how it reframes the relationship between newspapers and decolonization in Anglophone West Africa and the Caribbean. @harvardpress.bsky.social
Moving Words, Shifting Visions: An Interview with Leslie James
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Great interview in Culture Study about @harvardpress.bsky.social's book, YUPPIES, by Dylan Gottlieb: www.patreon.com/posts/youre-...
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Happy to see the name ‘Old English Chronicle’ used for a new edition and translation of the text formerly known as ‘Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’. #medievalsky www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... 1/2
The Old English Chronicle, Volume I: The A-Text to 1001 and Related Poems — Harvard University Press
A thousand years of English history, encapsulating invasions, the rise and fall of kings, and religious eventsAmong the vernacular historical writings of early medieval England, the Old English Chroni...
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Now online! Brian Smith (Nazarbayev University) reviews "The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (@harvardpress.bsky.social, 2025) by John Samuel Harpham www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The book is out with @harvardpress.bsky.social next week, so be sure to pre-order your copy now. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Yuppies — Harvard University Press
How the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today.Yuppies ...
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It’s done! Just submitted the manuscript for my next book “The Latent Brain” In it I argue why and how we’ve shifted from single neurons to their collective, latent activity in our quest to understand how brains create minds Due early 2027 from @harvardpress.bsky.social
