Death of a Traveller: A Counter Investigation by Didier
Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social
Science, was published on July 6, 2021, by Polity:
“It is a simple story. A 37-year-old man belonging to the
Traveller community...
Kurt Gödel, a Member of the Institute Faculty in the School of
Mathematics, is the topic of the biography Journey to
the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky, published by W.
W. Norton.
In conducting research for the book, Budiansky worked
closely...
The University of Washington Press has published
Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx: The Fight for a
Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights by Jonathan Israel
in June 2021:
“In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a small
but...
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the
Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam, George F.
Kennan Professor in the School of Historical Studies, was published
May 25, 2021, by Princeton University Press:
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High
Plains (Finalist,
National Book Awards 2021 for Nonfiction) by Lucas Bessire,
past Member in the School of Social Science, was published by
Princeton University Press on May 18, 2021:
Franz Steiner Verlag has published Unveiling
Emotions, Vol. 3: Arousal, Display, and Performance of
Emotions in the Greek World (2020),edited by
Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical
Studies.
Scribal Habits in Near Eastern Manuscript Traditions,
edited by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical
Studies, and George Kiraz past Member and current Research
Associate in the School of Historical Studies, has been published
by...
War and Citizenship: Enemy Aliens and National Belonging
from the French Revolution to the First World War by Daniela
Caglioti, past Member in the School of Historical Studies, was
published by Cambridge University Press on November 19,
2020:
Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval
Europe by Caroline Bynum, Professor Emerita in the School of
Historical Studies, has been published by Princeton University
Press on September 29, 2020:
On the Judgment of History by Joan Wallach Scott,
Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science, was
published September 2020 by Columbia University Press:
“In the face of conflict and despair, we often console ourselves
by saying that history...