Stuart Elden

Freedom Ship Freedom Ship is a gripping history of the enslaved African Americans who stowed away on vessels that carried them to liberty. Up to 100,000 fugitives successfully fled the horrors of bondage in the Am...

Marcus Rediker, Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea – @versobooks.bsky.social, March 2026 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Manchester University Press - What is a thoughtful life? What is a thoughtful life? - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of What is a thoughtful life? by Kélina Gotman

Kélina Gotman, What is a Thoughtful Life? - @manchesterup.bsky.social, June 2026
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526187567/

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3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history
Department of Politics & International Studies
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

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The opening of Beowulf from the unique surviving manuscript of the Old English text, beginning with a large initial 'H'.

Hwaet! The Beowulf manuscript (Cotton MS Vitellius A XV) is now back online.

You can consult the entire manuscript through the online catalogue:

searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...

The Alibi of Capital Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capital­ism’s origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of c...

Timothy Mitchell, The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow - @versobooks.bsky.social, March 2026
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Women Reading Deleuze To celebrate International Women's Day, explore a free collection of journal articles and book chapters on Gilles Deleuze, all authored by women.

International Women's Day: Women Reading Deleuze - virtual theme issue from @edinburghup.bsky.social

www.euppublishing.com/dlgs/virtual...

Composite image of Walter Henning, Franz Altheim and the cover of Asien und Rom

"Walter Bruno Henning, Franz Altheim and the Politics of Reviews" - a new short essay in my 'Sunday Histories' series
progressivegeographies.com/2026/03/08/w...

On Gibbon on Polybius; with some Speculative stuff on Hume and Smith I am traveling a bit, so my blogging is, as you have noticed, a bit intermittent at the moment.

On Gibbon on Polybius; with some Speculative stuff on Hume and Adam Smith open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

Sunday histories At the beginning of 2025 I decided that Progressive Geographies had become too much of a noticeboard, sharing information about books, talks or shorter pieces by other people that looked interestin…

The others are listed here - progressivegeographies.com/future-proje...

Composite image of Walter Henning, Franz Altheim and the cover of Asien und Rom

"Walter Bruno Henning, Franz Altheim and the Politics of Reviews" - a new short essay in my 'Sunday Histories' series
progressivegeographies.com/2026/03/08/w...

Georges Bataille – Oeuvres complètes and other French collections; English translations This page is an attempt to provide a list of English translations of works in George Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and other French collections of his work. Some preliminary notes and explanat…

There are a lot of other research resources here - progressivegeographies.com/resources/ including ones on Sartre, Binswanger, Axelos, Boko Haram, Ebola, Lefebvre, etc. and this popular page on Georges Bataille - progressivegeographies.com/resources/ge...

Thank you Martin - that's very kind of you to say.

He's a fascinating figure. I'd see that pair as more of a supplement to Saussure, who he teaches and discusses in detail. The importance of subjectivity in language is crucial for him. He's a very interesting writer and I have learned a lot while writing this book.

Walter Benjamin - Yale University Press London An accessible and authoritative biography of Walter Benjamin that guides the reader through the complexity of his intellectual legacy and the turbulence of h...

Peter E. Gordon, Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver - @yalepress.bsky.social, April 2026
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

A Guide to Mao's China by Gavin Healy | Paperback | Cornell University Press A Guide to Mao's China explores how personnel within China's state tourism bureaucracy during the Mao era struggled to balance inbound foreign tourism as a form of political, historical, and cultural....

Gavin Healy, A Guide to Mao's China: Showing the Nation to Foreign Guests - @cornellupress.bsky.social, June 2026
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Foucault Resources A list of the resources on this site relating to Foucault – bibliographies, audio and video files, some textual comparisons, some short translations, etc. For details of English translations …

Much more extensive research resources on Foucault are listed here - progressivegeographies.com/resources/fo... - bibliographies, textual comparisons, audio and video links, etc.

I've not shared many research resources from my Indo-European thought project, but there are a few other resources, including some textual comparison for texts by Georges Dumézil, and audio and video recordings of him, here
progressivegeographies.com/resources/in...

Saussure’s notes on German legends – cross-references between the different editions of these manuscripts I’ve previously discussed reading Ferdinand de Saussure’s work, mainly around the variant texts of his posthumously published Course on General Linguistics, and some of his early work on …

There is also a list of Ferdinand de Saussure’s notes on German legends – and cross-references between the different editions of these manuscripts. If you've ever tried to find one of these texts, I hope this concordance is useful. progressivegeographies.com/resources/in...

Émile Benveniste, Problèmes de linguistique générale – Problems in General Linguistics and other English translations Only a limited amount of Émile Benveniste’s work is available in English translation. Problèmes de linguistique générale was published in two volumes in 1966 and 1974 by Gallimard, and l…

I've updated the list of English translations of Émile Benveniste's work to include a couple of articles - progressivegeographies.com/resources/in...

Diego Donna, Spinoza and the Rise of Systems: Reception and Critique in the French Enlightenment - trans. Brent Waterhouse, @edinburghup.bsky.social, February 2026
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...

The Anthem Companion to Henri Lefebvre | Anthem Press Explore more about this title.

Tilman Schwarze and Matt Dawson eds. The Anthem Companion to Henri Lefebvre - Anthem, March 2026
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NAPOLÉON ET L'ISLAM « La religion de Mahomet est la plus belle » ; « J’aime l’islam, vénère le Prophète, respecte le Coran » ; « J’aime mieux la religion de Mahomet. Elle est moins ridicule que la nôtre ». Ainsi parla Na...

Louis Blin, Napoléon et l'Islam, Erick Bonnier, 2025 - www.erickbonnier-editions.com/boutique/NAP...
A sequel on Napoléon et l'Arabie is forthcoming.

Author Phil Harris on his retirement with a view of the Round Reading Room of 1857. Photo: BL Corporate Archive, PH 034/342

We’re delighted to share that A History of the British Museum Library, 1753–1973 by P. R.

Harris is now digitised and freely available to all interested in the history of the Museum and librarianship.

Find out more here: link.bl.uk/vvx

The Faces of the Adversary: The Enigma of Jacob and the Angel The Faces of the Adversary: The Enigma of Jacob and the Angel, Roberto Esposito's poetic and historically layered new book draws on a famous, and famously opaque, passage from the Old Testament to she...

Roberto Esposito, The Faces of the Adversary: The Enigma of
Jacob and the Angel – trans. Zakiya Hanati, @politybooks.bsky.social, February 2026
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

The Plantation Ideal by Wendy Wolford - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Wendy Wolford, The Plantation Ideal: Landscapes of
Extraction in Mozambique – @ucpress.bsky.social, November 2025
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-pl...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Books discussion with Miranda Melcher
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Axis of Empire Ironic plot twists and colorful characters abound in Afshin Matin-Asgari’s accessible history of relations between the United States and Iran. The missionaries and educators who descended on Iran in t...

Afshin Matin-Asgari, Axis of Empire: A History of Iran–US Relations – @versobooks.bsky.social , January 2026
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Women Working the Past This book offers a new history of women's integral contribution to archaeology, history, and heritage in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain and beyond. Born out of the Beyond Notability project...

Amar Thorton and Katherine Harloe, Women Working the Past: Archaeology, History and Heritage in Britain, 1870–1950 - University of London Press, December 2026
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Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
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A Line Is Followed, a Strategy Is Constructed – An Interview with Henri Lefebvre (1979) - Historical Materialism This interview with Henri Lefebvre was conducted for the French Communist Party (PCF) journal La Nouvelle Critique in 1979. As the interview shows, Lefebvre's renewed engagement with the PCF was neith...

Now online: 'A Line Is Followed, a Strategy Is Constructed – An Interview with Henri Lefebvre (1979)' trans. Roberto Mozzachiodi.