Category Archives: BB - Reading 2025

READINGJUNE 2025

25406. (Thom Hart­mann) The Hid­den His­to­ry of Neoliberalism
25407. (Alexan­der Wasse) A Joy of Wild Ass­es, A Pas­ture of Flocks: Hunt­ing and 
. . . . . Herd­ing in the Greater Syr­i­an Desert dur­ing the PPNB and Late Neolithic 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
25408. (Eber­hard Zang­ger & Serdal Mut­lu) Arti­fi­cial Ports and Water Engineering 
. . . . . at Troy: A Geoar­chae­o­log­i­cal Work­ing Hypoth­e­sis [arti­cle]
25409. (Erik Ring­mar) Re-Imag­in­ing Swe­den: The Rhetor­i­cal Bat­tle Over EU Membership 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
25410. (Matthew Kel­ly) The Women Who Saved the Eng­lish Countryside
25411. (Jean-Paul Gagnon & Samuel Moyn) Glob­al­iz­ing the Intel­lec­tu­al His­to­ry of 
. . . . . Democ­ra­cy [arti­cle]
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READINGMAY 2025

25393. (Ker­ry Ward) Mar­itime Bondage: Com­par­ing Past and Present [arti­cle]
25394. (Nathaniel Pop­per) Dig­i­tal Gold ― Bit­coin and the Inside Sto­ry of the 
. . . . . Mis­fits and Mil­lion­aires Try­ing to Rein­vent Money
25395. (Anna Mae Duane) “All Boys are Bound to Some­one”: Reimag­in­ing Freedom 
. . . . . in the His­to­ry of Child Slav­ery [arti­cle]
25396. (Mon­ti Narayan Dat­ta & James Brew­er Stew­art) The Pow­er of the Past in 
. . . . . the Present: The Cap­i­tal of the Con­fed­er­a­cy as an Anti­slav­ery City [arti­cle]
25397. (Prim­i­ti­va Bueno Ramirez, et al) Les Grottes arti­fi­cielles et le Campaniforme 
. . . . . à l’intérieur de la pénin­sule Ibérique: La Nécro­p­ole de Valle de Las Higueras 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
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READINGAPRIL 2025

25381. (David Corn) Amer­i­can Psy­chosis ― A His­tor­i­cal Inves­ti­ga­tion of How the 
. . . . . Repub­li­can Par­ty Went Crazy
25382. (Tris­tan Mostert) Scram­ble for Spices ― Makassar’s Role in Euro­pean and Asian 
. . . . . Com­pe­ti­tion in the East­ern Arch­i­pel­ago up to 1616 [arti­cle]
25383. (Daniel Yer­gin) The New Map ― Ener­gy, Cli­mate, and the Clash of Nation
25383. (Martha Chaik­lin) Ivory and Com­mer­cial Net­works in West­ern India [arti­cle]
25384. (Peter Good) The East India Com­pa­ny and the Foun­da­tion of Per­sian Naval Power 
. . . . . in the Gulf under Nadir Shah, 1734–47 [arti­cle]
25385. (Aaron James) Ass­holes ― A Theory
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READINGMARCH 2025

25375. (Aljasil Chi­rakkal, et al) Bio­mark­er Evi­dence on Ear­ly Pale­olith­ic Human-
. . . . . envi­ron­ment Inter­ac­tions from Loess Records in Tajik­istan, Cen­tral Asia [arti­cle]
25376. (Peter MacLeod) The Cana­di­an Iro­quois and the Sev­en Years’ War
25377. (Kewin Pèche-Quili­chi­ni, et al) Influ­enceurs et jet-set­ters de l’Ẫge du Bronze en 
. . . . . Corse: pou­voir, puis­sance et viril­ité en ques­tion [arti­cle]
25378. (Jor­rit M. Kelder) Trade, Pira­cy and the Pro­tec­tion of the Sea-lanes in the 
. . . . . Myce­naean World and Egypt [arti­cle]
25379. (David Nei­w­ert) The Age of Insur­rec­tion ― The Rad­i­cal Right’s Assault on American 
. . . . . Democracy
5380. (Lois Lowry) The Giver

READINGFEBRUARY 2025

25368. (Char­lie Angus) Dan­ger­ous Mem­o­ry ― Com­ing of Age in the Decade of Greed
25369. (The Anh Han, Manh Hong Duong & Mar­jaz Perc) Evo­lu­tion­ary Mech­a­nisms that
. . . . . Pro­mote Coop­er­a­tion May Not Pro­mote Social Wel­fare [arti­cle] [d]
25370. (Blaine Hard­en) Escape from Camp 14 ― One Man’s Remark­able Odyssey from 
. . . . . North Korea to Free­dom in the West
25371. (Ben­jamin Isakhan & Eleanor Childs) Gen­der and Cul­tur­al Vio­lence: Feminist
. . . . . Per­spec­tives on Islam­ic State’s Her­itage Destruc­tion [arti­cle]
25372. (Jason Stan­ley) Eras­ing His­to­ry ― How Fas­cists Rewrite the Past to Control 
. . . . . the Future
25373. (Alice Jane Hamil­ton) Find­ing John Rae
25374. (Rus­sell Shorto) The Island at the Cen­ter of the World ― The Epic Sto­ry of 
. . . . . Dutch Man­hat­tan and the For­got­ten Colony That Shaped America

READINGJANUARY 2025

25358. (Allen Hodges Lind­ley-French) Future War and the Defence of Europe
25359. (Jared Yates Sex­ton) The Mid­night King­dom ― A His­to­ry of Pow­er, Para­noia, and the Coming 
. . . . . Crisis
25360. (Magdeli­na Kitano­va) Youth Polit­i­cal Par­tic­i­pa­tion in the EU: Evi­dence from a Cross-national 
. . . . . Analy­sis [arti­cle]
25361. (T. Man­nar­i­ni, M. Legit­ti­mo & C. Talò) Deter­mi­nants of Social and Polit­i­cal Participation 
. . . . . Among Youth [arti­cle]
25362. (Ted Antho­ny) Chas­ing the Ris­ing Sun ― The Jour­ney of an Amer­i­can Song 
25363. (Clif­ford C. Richey) Ancient Fish Depic­tions [arti­cle]
25364. (Anne Apple­baum) Autoc­ra­cy, Inc. ― The Dic­ta­tors Who Want to Run the World
25365. (Agniesz­ka Szym­czak) Qumayrah Val­ley, North­ern Haj­jar Moun­tains, Oman: Late Islam­ic Period 
. . . . . Remains in the Archae­o­log­i­cal Record [arti­cle]
25366. (Hen­ry A. Giroux) Democracy’s Promise and Education’s Chal­lenge [arti­cle]
25366. (Christi­na Sun­ley) The Trick­ing of Freya
25367. (Elle Reeve) Black Pill ― How I Wit­nessed the Dark Cor­ners of the Inter­net Come to Life, 
. . . . . Poi­son Soci­ety, and Cap­ture Amer­i­can Politics