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Immanuel Wallerstein at Columbia University: C. Wright Mills, Karl Polanyi, and the Frankfurt School in Postwar America by Sam Chian Immanuel Wallerstein, a towering figure in twentieth-century social science, is best known for his groundbreaking analysis of the history of capitalism in The Modern World-System series (1974, 1980, 1989, 2011). However, before his engagement with African studies... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on March 31, 2025

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Alciati’s Book of Emblems and the Popular Recovery of Antiquity by Truman Cunningham From the early sixteenth century to the eighteenth century, emblem books displayed moral, political, and religious lessons with small woodcut images and a few lines of poetry. They were extremely popular in both Catholic and Protestant Europe,... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on March 26, 2025

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Summer of Fire and Blood: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Lyndal Roper by Disha Karnad Jani In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History at Oriel College, Oxford about her new book Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War (Basic Books, 2025), also available in German... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on March 24, 2025

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Across Natural Orders: The Enlightenment Discovery of Insect Pollination by Christoffer Basse Eriksen As Charles Darwin was vacationing in the Bournemouth area in the autumn of 1862, he noticed an unfamiliar phenomenon. During his leisurely strolls around the clover fields that surrounded the cottage in which he and his... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on March 19, 2025

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Other Worlds, Other Persons? Theological Encounters with Extraterrestrials in Early Modern Fiction by Parker Cotton This think-piece is motivated by an early modern thought experiment found in philosopher Pierre Bayle's (1647–1706) Pensées diverses sur la comète. In it, Bayle asks how visitors from another world would hypothetically interpret Christian behavior. He writes:... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on March 17, 2025

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Pax Economica: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Marc-William Palen In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Marc-William Palen, Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter, about his new book, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World (Princeton University Press, 2024).  Palen begins his story in the 1840s, and shows... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on March 12, 2025

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Living in a New Sattelzeit: An Interview with Enzo Traverso by Jonathon Catlin Enzo Traverso, a leading scholar of modern European history and thought, is the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. His books include The Origins of Nazi Violence (2003), The End of Jewish... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on March 10, 2025

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The Other Bataille: An Interview with Benjamin Noys and Alberto Toscano by Jared Bly On the occasion of the publication of the second volume of Bataille's Critical Essays, which collects previously untranslated texts by George Bataille, Jared Bly interviewed its editors, Benjamin Noys and Alberto Toscano. The interview covers Bataille's complex... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on March 5, 2025

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