Monthly Archives: December 2021

New book by Dr Caroline Ashcroft

We’re pleased to announce the publication of a new book by Dr Caroline Ashcroft, entitled Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt (Penn Press, 2021)

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CFP: London Graduate Conference in HPT

The 13th Annual London Graduate Conference will explore the theme of ‘Classes and Masses in the History of Political Thought‘.

The conference will take place in person at UCL (Gustave Tuck LT, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT) from 30 June to 1 July 2022. The keynote address will be delivered by Prof. Adom Getachew (University of Chicago), and Prof. Gareth Stedman Jones (QMUL) will deliver the opening remarks.

 

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New book by Prof. Andrew Fitzmaurice

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Professor Andrew Fitzmaurice’s King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton University Press) – an intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free State.

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