Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 46 No. 15

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Bringing to life the world of Spanish royal tailor Mateo Aguado and his colleagues during the reign of Philip IV, and exploring the distinctive look of the court in seventeenth-century Madrid Spanish Fashion in the Age of…

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A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453.In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its…

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A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day—published for the alliance’s seventy-fifth anniversary For seven decades, NATO’s stated aim has been the achievement of world peace—but…

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The history of the world’s most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that only…

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Armed internationalism - on NATO's history and futureFollowing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fortunes of NATO - pronounced "braindead" only a few years prior - have been miraculously revived. The alliance, buoyed by surging European…

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The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created "the left" as we know it today In the middle years of the Great Depression, the antifascist movement became a global political force, powerfully uniting people…

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A philosopher examines the complicated phenomenon of gaslighting“Gaslighting” is suddenly in everyone’s vocabulary. It’s written about, talked about, tweeted about, even sung about (in “Gaslighting” by…

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'Lively and well researched ... [Bodichon] was a vital cog in the wheel of social change for women. Her energy is contagious.' The TimesJane Robinson is brilliant at putting the women back into history and her biography of Barbara Leigh…

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An eye-opening account of how violence was experienced not just on the frontlines of colonial terror but at home in imperial Britain.When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world after 1945, Britain responded with…

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‘A brilliant, bleak moral maze of a novel‘ Guardian‘Dazzling… by turns comic, lyrical and heartbreaking’ Monica Ali‘Profound and beautiful’ Paul Murray, author of The Bee Sting‘A…

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Translated by Michael Beaney'what can be said at all can be said clearly; and of what one cannot talk, about that one must be silent'Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in German in 1921 and in English…

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Translated by Alexander BoothOne of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century‘We could capture the whole sense of the book as follows: what can be said at all can be said…

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Translated by Damion Searls"What I love about Searls's translation of the Tractatus is that it captures the literariness of the text. And so, one can better follow the nuanced movement and construction. This is not just another…