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This book rejects a commonplace of European history: that the treaties of Westphalia not only closed the Thirty Years’ War but also inaugurated a new international order driven by the interaction of territorial sovereign states

engrossing story of a new front in the immigration wars

the historian Carlo Ginzburg draws on his work on witchcraft trials in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries to dissect the weaknesses and contradictions of the state’s case in this late-twentieth-century political show-trial and reflects more generally on the similarities and differences between the roles of the historian and the judge

the volume includes responses from philosophers and political and cultural analysts

Forget Camus keyword-white-studies rarely readAlbert Camus is broadly regarded as a philosopher of our time: a freedom fighter and a pioneering anti colonialist. Oliver Gloag rejects the simplicity of this persistent image. A careful reading of Camuss three major novels The Stranger, The Plague, and The First Man reveals a deep seated attachment to colonialism and the colonial way of life. Forget Camus argues that its subjects contradictions are central to understanding both his work and the