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What if liberalism isn't about high-minded political ideals, but about concrete institutions and commitments that protect people from cruelty, fear, and arbitrary power? Such is the insight at the heart of Judith Shklar's classic essay, The Liberalism of Fear—now available in a stand-alone volume.
New book review published advance access by Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social @jakobburnham.bsky.social reviews 'By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire' by Mélanie Lamotte @harvardpress.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility #SábadodeSensatezysentimientos #Sentidoysensibilidad, #ediciónanotada de @harvardpress.bsky.social en inglés y @akaleditor.bsky.social, a cargo de #PatriciaMeyerSpacks #traducción al #español de #MaríaJoséMartínPinto y colaboración de #LolaArtachoMartín.
We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2026 Stansky Book Prize for best book in British Studies dealing with the period since 1800. Read more here: www.nacbs.org/news/stansky... @uchicagopress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @harvardpress.bsky.social
In Credit to the Nation (@harvardpress.bsky.social), Rebecca Kobrin shows how Jewish immigrant bankers transformed commercial banking in the US by extending credit to those whom traditional lenders would not serve. @zacharymazur.bsky.social reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/credi...
Credit where it's due: Jewish immigrant bankers and American finance - CEU Review of Books
In Credit to the Nation (Harvard University Press, 2026), Rebecca Kobrin shows how Eastern European Jewish immigrant bankers transformed commercial banking in the United States by extending credit to ...
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Check out my latest in @theatlantic.com - a review of Frenchman Flat (@harvardpress.bsky.social)! It's a major new history of nuclear bombs and illustrates the importance of secrecy to nuclear stockpiles - and why the bomb is "bad for democracy." www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
Why the Bomb Is Bad for Democracy
A famous documentarian’s new book suggests that secrecy is a major impediment to sensible nuclear policy.
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My new book "Curved Air" is officially published today -- in #sicklecellawareness month. The UK launch follows in a few weeks. One anon reviewer said Curved Air is "[the[ book I've always wanted... I wanted to savor it like a good meal.” @harvardpress.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Curved Air — Harvard University Press
How sickle cell anemia led the quest to edit the human genome while patients endured decades of racial discrimination and medical neglect.In December 1904, Walter Clement Noel, a dental student from G...
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The most joyous unboxing of my life! The paperback of Make Your Own Job is out today, with a very special new cover. You can find a copy wherever you like to buy your books.
Tom Connolly writes that a new annotated translation of Alexander Herzen's magnificent "Past & Thoughts" brings his penetrating critique of tyranny, populism, and political extremism to American readers. @harvardpress.bsky.social artsfuse.org/334168/book-...
Book Review: Alexander Herzen’s “Future” Has Arrived - The Arts Fuse
A new annotated translation of "Past & Thoughts" restores the Russian revolutionary writer’s intimate family drama and brings his penetrating critique of tyranny, populism, and political extremism to ...
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The Book of Genocides, written by award-winning author and Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, Dana Mashoian Walrath, is a haunting graphic narrative that compels readers to confront the most harrowing chapters of human history.
We had a wonderful discussion about @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social’s magnificent Bancroft Prize-winning book at APSA. Thanks to Beth for writing it and everyone who attended! @harvardpress.bsky.social @bulaw.bsky.social
Robert L. Tsai@robertltsai.bsky.social · 4w ago@bethlewwilliams.bsky.social used new technology to identify more than 5,000 laws in the U.S. that regulated the lives of Chinese people between 1850-1920. @hsph.harvard.edu
Rich with Indigenous placenames, cultural knowledge, and brilliant language, this collection offers a newly published classic in North American literature by one of the great oral literary artists of the 20th century. Available from @harvardpress.bsky.social: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...
Likoodzi Shkalneek Áyá / It’s a Wonderful Story — Harvard University Press
This newest volume in the Ex Horto series, Likoodzi Shkalneek Áyá / It’s a Wonderful Story: Tlingit Oral History and Literature, features stories of an ancient migration over glaciers, cycles of legen...
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For the In Theory podcast, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Mélanie Lamotte about her book, "By Flesh and Toil," which unveils how a shared set of racial laws wedded sites across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in the early French Empire. @harvardpress.bsky.social
By Flesh and Toil: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Mélanie Lamotte
Disha Karnad Jani interviews Mélanie Lamotte about her book, "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (2026), which unveils how a shared set of racial laws wedded s...
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Another "try before you buy" opportunity, with the publication online of this excerpt of my book on Hobsbawm and total history writing by @myhnn.bsky.social. www.hnn.us/article/the-...
The Art of Writing History
How Eric Hobsbawm brought revolution to a broad audience.
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My review of Kevin Davies’s @kevinadavies.bsky.social excellent new book Curved Air published in today’s edition of @thewallstreet.bsky.social
#MultilingualCritical "Chabal goes much further than the series of modern history books of The Age, for which Hobsbawm is best known, and offers the first substantial interpretation of Hobsbawm's complete oeuvre." Author: @emile-chabal.bsky.social Publisher: @harvardpress.bsky.social
#MultilingualCritical "The early modern activists and philosophers can still captivate us today," Bejan argues, "and at the same time help us restore the power of equality as a political ideal." Author: @tmbejan.bsky.social Publisher: @harvardpress.bsky.social
It's here! After so many years! I wasn't entirely sure this book would really happen, until I opened the box. Now, perhaps, it's time to let go of it and see what others think..? Thanks to @harvardpress.bsky.social and everyone else who followed me in this journey.
Here’s my review of @emile-chabal.bsky.social’s brilliant new intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm @harvardpress.bsky.social unherd.com/2026/08/eric...
Eric Hobsbawm's age of contradictions
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Bill Littlefield on "Religion as Make-Believe" (@harvardpress.bsky.social): In Neil Van Leeuwen’s challenging book, belief and imagination overlap in ways that are provocative, unsettling, and unexpectedly illuminating. artsfuse.org/332633/book-...
Published today - looks terrific! Plant Humanities Edited by Yota Batsaki and Anatole Tchikine @harvardpress.bsky.social, 2026 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088... 400 pages, 5 photos/49 color photos, 18 illus./53 color illus. 8-1/2 x 11 inches Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Plant Humanities — Harvard University Press
Plant Humanities moves plants to the center of critical inquiry, positioning them as biocultural entities with distinct environmental and social histories that have profoundly shaped human cultures. I...
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Elizabeth Stice reviews “The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood” by William Whyte (Harvard University Press, 2026) @harvardpress.bsky.social www.orangeblossomordinary.com/reviews/stic...
Sticks and Stones, Silk and Ink: A review of "The University" by William Whyte — Orange Blossom Ordinary
Elizabeth Stice reviews "The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood" by William Whyte (Harvard University Press, 2026). A history of the physical university, a narrative of materials from the...
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Today's 'All-Time Favorite' as suggested by. Mark A. on Patreon is our 2020 interview with Eugene McCarraher, author of, "The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity" (@harvardpress.bsky.social). www.patreon.com/thisishell/p...
All-Time Favorite This is Hell! Eugene McCarraher on "The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity" | This Is Hell!
Today's interview was suggested by Mark A., but not Mark A. on Discord who chose our interview with Gerald Horne earlier this week. This is
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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 · 2mo agoThe 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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