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I don’t have a new book to promote, but four of my former students have their first books coming out this academic year and, people, you are going to hear about them.
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Just moving the book thread further down:
September 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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On a related topic, I highly recommend Emily Hauptmann's book on how the rapid growth of political science was due in no small part to massive foundations—Carnegie, Ford, Rockefeller—pouring money into major universities and directing the future of the discipline.
kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700633777/
Foundations and American Political Science
Foundations in the United States have long exerted considerable power over education and scholarly production. Although today’s titans of philanthropy ...
kansaspress.ku.edu
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Revisiting this very interesting book.
November 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Back to proof-reading today, and I'm delighted to share the cover of my new book, featuring an angel with an arquebus. Out in April 2026.
The Firearm Revolution
A groundbreaking account of how firearms changed Europe and the world
press.princeton.edu
October 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Learn more in my book Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire, 1967-1988 www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Also available in Chinese m.douban.com/book/subject...

@cornellupress.bsky.social
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Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
October 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚
Joost Jongerden reviews // “Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado” // By Andrew Ofstehage, @cornellupress.bsky.social, 2025

Find it here in AE 52.4 Early View:
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Intrigued? More insight and praise for his book at the @cornellupress.bsky.social page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
October 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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A captivating history of diplomacy—and an urgent reminder of why we need to revive its lost arts to survive in a dangerous era of great power competition.

Great Power Diplomacy by A. Wess Mitchell arrives October 14 (9 Dec UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
October 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Having some sushi and reading a seasonally appropriate micro history
October 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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I absolutely must find a copy of this. I don’t care what it takes. I don’t care what it costs. This is perfect research material.
October 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Coming soon! Investigates patterns of Irish nationalist self-configuration and uses of memory, counter-memory, and historical amnesia from the late eighteenth century until Ireland’s partition. Click here ➡️ tinyurl.com/5xcccp67 #MansourBonakdarian #IrishNationalism #IrelandHistory
September 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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You've heard me talk about it.
You've seen me write about it.
And now it's your chance to pre-order my forthcoming book Coverage Denied!

Combining survey & administrative data with extensive interviews, my book highlights the harms caused by coverage barriers. Hope you'll read it!
cup.org/4nfM2IM
Coming 2026!

@mirandayaver.bsky.social's Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States is a sobering account of the ways in which coverage denials damage patient health and exacerbate inequalities.

Pre-order now! 🗺️ 🩺📊

https://cup.org/4nfM2IM
September 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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READ THEORY
September 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Look, yes, this is of course bad policy & enabling foreign authoritarians, etc. etc.

But also, let's not pretend that "geofinance" is something new & domestic politics & geopolitics have never before influenced 🇺🇸 international financial policy & the use of the Exchange Stabilization Fund:
September 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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the Napoleonic Wars had been so destabilizing that it motivated such methods

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Empire of Chance — Harvard University Press
Napoleon’s campaigns were the most complex military undertakings in history before the nineteenth century. But the defining battles of Austerlitz, Borodino, and Waterloo changed more than the nature o...
www.hup.harvard.edu
September 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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such an incredible book
September 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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READ THEORY
September 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Listen in to the Ideas Podast with Nan Z. Da and New Books Network host Caleb Zakarin. They discuss a compelling new reading of The Tragedy of King Lear that finds parallels in twentieth-century Chinese history.

press.princeton.edu/ideas/ideas-...

@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #podcast #literature
September 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Get this book by @jeffsharlet.bsky.social it is really helpful for understanding the time we are in.
September 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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September 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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A new book by political economist Pascale Massot examines how China is heavily import-dependent for many raw metals and minerals despite its market size and power. Author Paul French asked her all about it:
“China’s Vulnerability Paradox” | ChinaFile
China’s appetite for critical minerals, fossil fuel, timber, and other commodities is the subject of countless news articles and has created anxiety in capital cities around the world. The dominant narrative is one of concern over Beijing’s dominance of global supply chains. Yet while the country clearly exhibits strengths as a commodity superpower, it also suffers from
www.chinafile.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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I just finished Marketing Science Fiction by Robert Cluley of Uni Birmingham. Marketing combines art, science, and rhetoric. Prof Cluley’s account illustrates the state of play in marketing consultancy and the roles marketers fulfill for their clients. Highly recommended. @brisunipress.bsky.social
Marketing Science Fictions: An Ethnography of Marketing Analytics, Consumer Insight, and Data Science
Marketing Science Fictions: An Ethnography of Marketing Analytics, Consumer Insight, and Data Science - Kindle edition by Cluley, Robert. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Marketing Science Fictions: An Ethnography of Marketing Analytics, Consumer Insight, and Data Science.
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September 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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anyway if you want to find out more about empire, migration and British culture, BUY MY BOOK
Imperial Island
Imperial Island shows how empire, its disintegration and its ever-present aftermath have profoundly shaped the British people, their culture, society and politics, throughout the last seventy years. ...
www.penguin.co.uk
September 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.”

This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
August 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM