Books Received

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Balasubramanian, Aditya. Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2023. xxi, 323p., bibl., ill., index, $45. Neoliberalism in postcolonial India.

Binder, Marnie. A Pragmatist Philosophy of History. Lanham, MD.: Lexington, 2023. xvii, 135p., bibl., index. James, Dewey, Peirce, G. H. Mead, Jane Addams, F. C. S. Schiller.

Brandon, Mark A. The Perils of Race-Thinking: A Portrait of Aleš Hrdlička. Budapest: Central European UP, 2023. 222p., bibl., ill., index. The race science of a Smithsonian anthropologist and Czech nationalist in the first half of the twentieth century.

Brooks, Kalia, Cheryl Finley, Ellyn Toscano, and Deborah Willis, eds. Women and Migration(s) II. Cambridge: Open, 2023. xxiv, 378p., ill., index. Forty-one essays on disorientation and dislocation in visual art and nonfiction writing, from a project based at NYU.

Camus, Albert. Travels In the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World. Ed. Alice Kaplan. Trans. Ryan Bloom. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2023. 148p., ill., index, $22.50. Journals, March–June 1946 and June–August 1949.

Cock-Starkey, Claire. The Curious History of Weights and Measures. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2023. 194p., index. Dictionary and conversion tables for historical units of weights, lengths, area, volume, food quantities, and natural phenomena.

Dianda, Alexis. The Varieties of Experience: William James After the Linguistic Turn. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2023. 272p., index. Restoring completeness and consistency to James’s use of the term “experience.”

Hadromi-Allouche, Zohar and Michael Hubbard MacKay, eds. Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality: Mind the Gap. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2023. vi, 320p., index. Twelve essays apply Victor W. Turner’s (1920–83) symbolic anthropology to current social analysis.

Hauser, Emily. How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2023. xvi, 354p., bibl., index, $39.95. The surviving work of thirteen female authors from Sappho to the end of the Hellenistic period and their status in an otherwise all-male canon.

Isabella, Maurizio. Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2023. xvii, 665p., bibl., ill., index, $39.95. Spain, Portugal, Greece, and the Italian states in the 1820s.

Israel, Jonathan. Historical Dictionary of the Enlightenment. Second edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2023. xviii, 377p. Three hundred entries from Academies to Zedler emphasizing major historical events, key books, developments in the arts and sciences, and a sharp schism between moderates and radicals.

Kahan, Alan S. Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2023. xi, 509p., bibl., index, $45. Freedom, markets, and morals as the antidotes to religious fanaticism, revolution and reaction, poverty, and totalitarianism.

Killeen, Kevin. The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2023. x, 262p., index. Literary expressions of inexpressible natural mysteries in the age of scientific revolution and Protestant theology.

Krause, Sharon R. Eco-Emancipation: An Earthly Politics of Freedom. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2023. ix, 208p., bibl., index, $35. Liberationist politics in the mode of the abolitionist, women’s, and labor movements as a solution to the domination of nature in which we are all complicit.

Lane, Melissa. Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2023. xi, 461p., bibl., ill., index, $49.95. Accountability and the temporary authority of public officials in classical Athens as gleaned from the dialogues.

Mazzotti, Massimo. Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2023. 342p., bibl., ill., index. Neapolitan resistance to imperial conquest, 1790s–1830s, through the retention and continued use of local mathematical methods and units.

McCalla, Arthur. Religion and the Post-Revolutionary Mind: Idéologues, Catholic Traditionalists, and Liberals in France. Montreal: McGill-Queens UP, 2023. xi, 449p., bibl., index. Three incompatible visions in conflict, 1794–1830.

Naismith, Rory. Making Money in the Early Middle Ages. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2023. xxi, 516p., bibl., ill., index, $45. Coinage, its production and circulation from the fifth through eleventh centuries, and its usage and meaning when it was scarce.

Ottewill-Soulsby, Sam. The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2023. xviii, 363p., bibl., ill., index, $39.95. Diplomatic practice between the ‘Abbāsids and Umayyads and the Carolingians.

Palabıyık, Nil Ö. Silent Teachers: Turkish Books and Oriental Learning in Early Modern Europe, 1544–1669. New York: Routledge, 2023. xiv, 259p., ill., index. Sixteenth century books on Turkey, its history and language, the first printed grammars, then oriental studies at Leiden down to Jacobus Golius.

Robinson, Andrew. The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young. Cambridge: Open, 2023. xxx, 261p., ill., index. The early nineteenth-century polymath as problem solver: the wave property of light, the Rosetta stone, administration and the public good.

Schacht, Richard. Nietzsche’s Kind of Philosophy: Finding His Way. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2023. xx, 375p., index. Periodization of Nietzsche’s intellectual stages plus the serviceability of categories like “nihilist,” “existentialist,” and others.

Sefat, Kusha. Revolution of Things: The Islamism and Post-Islamism of Objects in Tehran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2023. Xiv, 166p., bibl., index, $29.95. The political agency of material objects (bodies, consumer goods) in the 1980s and 1990s.

Sonenscher, Michael. After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2023. xvi, 567p., bibl., index, $55. Nineteenth-century historiography of civil society.

Thurner, Mark and Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, eds. The Invention of Humboldt: On the Geopolitics of Knowledge. New York: Routledge, 2023. xviii, 323p., ill., index. Twelve essays sort out what was Alexander von Humboldt’s originally, what was later invention, and what belonged to his intellectual and logistical context.

Wheatley, Natasha. The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2023. 406p., index, $45. State building in law and public philosophy in the (post)Habsburg Empire, 1848–1991.

Wolfson, Elliot R. The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes: Between Nihilism and Hope. Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2023. 495p., bibl., index. Biographical (1928–69) reading of letters, diaries, and a novel, Divorcing (1969).

Yazdiha, Hajar. The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2023. xvi, 265p., bibl., index, $29.95. Themes from Civil Rights redeployed in right-wing politics of grievance.

Zreik, Raef. Kant’s Struggle for Autonomy: On the Structure of Practical Reason. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2023. 311p., bibl., index. Law, justice, social order, morality.