Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Neacsu, Dana, Socialism: the 100-Year-Old Misnomer. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 349) 264 pp. 2025:11 (Brill, NE) <761-787>
ISBN 978-90-04-74720-3 hard ¥37,224.- (税込) EUR 144.00

What if everything you thought you knew about socialism was wrong? Socialism: the 100-Year-Old Misnomer invites you to rethink a century of political and cultural myth-making. Dana Neacsu distinguishes real socialism-rooted in democracy and wealth redistribution-from its authoritarian counterfeit: Soviet-style state capitalism. Drawing on political theory, political economy, law, and culture, and using layered textual analysis, Neacsu exposes how language, ideology, and legal systems conspired to mislabel repression as revolution. Featuring rare visuals and sharp close readings, this book equips you to separate fact from fiction and rethink what justice, ownership, and power could truly mean.

Arvidsson, Stefan, Humanist Socialism and the Religion of Socialism: Red Faith II. (Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism) 280 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <761-791>
ISBN 978-1-032-71086-0 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

This book explores the historical relationships between socialist ideologies and religious or secular beliefs and cultures that shaper the modern socialist. Portraying the cultural preferences and existential attitudes of leading Marxists, exploring the British tradition of 'the religion of socialism' and excavating the forgotten interwovenness of Wagnerism with social democracy as well as Bolshevism, it brings to the fore how socialists have aspired to revolutionize modern art, culture and forms of living. Since the birth modern socialism in the first decades of the 19th century, socialism has been represented by its enemies as an intoxicating, seductive form of religion. The fact that this is an anti-socialist trope does not mean that socialists themselves haven't given voice to the same idea. This book examines the views of socialists who have held that their political views are grounded in a special view of life and think of this in terms of its being a form of immanent humanism. Offering an evaluation of the usefulness of terms such as 'religion', 'myth' and 'ritual', Humanist Socialism and the Religion of Socialism explores the history of modern socialist movements. It will therefore appeal to scholars of intellectual history, political theory, political philosophy and cultural history with interests in varieties of socialism and its connection with 'ultimate concerns'.

Andrews, Gregg, Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri: The Rise and Fall of Manufacturing in America's Hometown, 1890-1970. 264 pp. 2026:5 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <761-1661>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8583-4 hard ¥10,048.- (税込) US$ 45.00

In Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri, Gregg Andrews examines the history of factory laborers in a celebrated Mississippi River town. In the late 1890s, shoe manufacturing transformed Mark Twain's boyhood home from a steamboat village to a factory town. By the mid-1920s, the St. Louis-based International Shoe Company, the world's largest shoe manufacturer at the time, controlled all shoe production in Hannibal and continued to do so until it shut down production lines in the 1960s. The company kept a tight grip on the town as it battled to keep out unions and maintain labor at a low cost and in a malleable state. When Hannibal's shoe workers claimed their right to organize under the New Deal during the Great Depression, the shoe corporation was defiant. The company's stance sparked mob violence against outside union organizers, nurtured a company union, pitted unionists against company loyalists, and badly divided Hannibal. At the same time, the town was engaged in yearlong festivities to celebrate the centennial of Mark Twain's birth and the opening of a museum named in his honor. Andrews's study of shoe manufacturing and its production workers is thick in detail and rich with the human stories of those whose lives were shaped by the rise and fall of the shoe industry in Hannibal. Andrews captures the shoe workers-white and Black, men and women-in their own words as they describe their jobs, family struggles, and battles to unionize. Andrews examines the prevailing conditions that led the company to close its production facilities in Hannibal, leaving shoe workers and the town to confront the early shock waves of deindustrialization. His study of an industry that has virtually disappeared in the United States leaves a record for the families of thousands of American shoe workers and the citizens of Hannibal to better understand their history and the role shoe manufacturing played in it.

Blin, Alexia, A l'assaut de l'abondance: socialisme et consommation du XIXe siecle a nos jours. (Questions republicaines) 270 p. 2025:10 (PUF, FR) <761-1663>
ISBN 978-2-13-083767-1 paper ¥5,687.- (税込) EUR 22.00

Greer Golda, Nicole, The Detroit Model: Manufacturing American Men and Women in the Industrial City. 288 pp. 2026:4 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <761-1665>
ISBN 978-1-4696-9523-5 hard ¥22,106.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-9524-2 paper ¥6,686.- (税込) US$ 29.95

As Detroit reached dizzying new heights of industrial success and urban growth at the turn of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of migrants flocked to the Motor City. In response, organizations such as the YMCA launched wide-reaching Americanization programs to instill patriotism, conservative gender roles, traditional family values, and industry-favorable labor relations in the city's immigrant communities. As the "Ford Man" became a model for masculinity and the housewife for femininity, supporters of these programs believed Detroit could become a model for the nation. In this impressively researched book, Nicole Greer Golda reveals how the Detroit Model became embedded in American culture and forged the ideal of proper American citizenship. Delving into Immigration Bureau files, migrant letters, and unexplored Ford Motor Company records, Greer Golda examines debates over family order, sexual relationships, race and labor relations, immigration policy, and the status of women. She illustrates how businessmen, government officials, white women, native-born workers, immigrants, and Black Detroiters challenged each other for the power to define the contours of the new American city. Ultimately, the Americanization programs prevailed and their conservative values became the backbone of Cold War sensibilities that enabled the Cold War consensus to gain popularity. As The Detroit Model contends, the backlash to shifting demographics in Detroit shaped American life for decades to come.

Kagan, Marc, Take Back the Power: The Fall and Rise and Fall of NYC's Transport Workers Union Local 100, 1975-2009. (Studies in Political Economy of Global Labor and Work 7) 491 pp. 2025:12 (Brill, NE) <761-1666>
ISBN 978-90-04-74863-7 hard ¥37,482.- (税込) EUR 145.00

The fifty-year long neoliberal era has been marked by working-class reverses and moribund unions. Grounded in the author's own experiences as a transit worker participating in a decades-long effort to fight management and austerity economics, Take Back the Power presents a new perspective on what activists can do to revitalize the labor movement. Marc Kagan uses his union's story to illuminate key dilemmas their efforts face, among them: fight the boss or fight the union to fight the boss; the tension between leadership and participatory democracy; and the costs and benefits of risk aversion. This book encourages us to think introspectively about the choices we make as we attempt to build a better world.

Marsan, Benoit, L'heure des Petitions est passee: Les luttes des sans-travail au Quebec, 1919-1939. (Studies on the History of Quebec / Etudes d'histoire du Quebec) 328 pp. 2026:4 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <761-1667>
ISBN 978-0-228-02698-3 paper ¥10,036.- (税込) US$ 44.95

Au cours de l'entre-deux-guerres au Quebec, les luttes des sans-travail jouent un role determinant dans la politisation du probleme du chomage. Ce sujet devient alors un enjeu a la fois collectif, social et politique remettant en question la relation entre la democratie et le capitalisme, en plus de participer au processus de formation de l'Etat.Ces mobilisations, jumelees a celles qui se deroulent ailleurs au Canada, expliquent pourquoi le chomage devient une question d'importance qui est soudainement debattue largement dans la sphere publique. Apres la Premiere Guerre mondiale, les manifestations prennent racine a Montreal pour ensuite s'etendre a d'autres villes quebecoises au cours de la Grande Depression. En attirant l'attention des autorites, elles contribuent a poser un regard different sur le chomage et la pauvrete en plus de forcer une intervention etatique accrue. L'heure des petitions est passee explore le repertoire d'action collective et l'economie morale des sans-travail afin de mieux comprendre leur role dans l'histoire du chomage. Considerant que leur incapacite a trouver un travail est independante de leur volonte, les protestataires formulent des revendications annoncant une redefinition de la citoyennete comprenant de nouvelles attentes envers l'Etat. De ce fait, ils considerent avoir droit a une protection sociale leur permettant de satisfaire leurs besoins fondamentaux.S'inscrivant dans une demarche d'histoire vue d'en bas, L'heure des petitions est passee demontre le pouvoir de l'agentivite collective des gens ordinaires, ainsi que leur role dans les processus de transformations sociales.

Sierminski, Michal, Solidarity: A New Perspective on the Workers' Revolution and the Intellectual Opposition. (Historical Materialism Book Series 374) 388 pp. 2026:2 (Brill, NE) <761-1670>
ISBN 978-90-04-69015-8 hard ¥36,190.- (税込) EUR 140.00

This high-profile and award-winning work shows the organic working-class character of the Polish Solidarnosc revolution of 1980-81 and thus debunks the canonical idea that the movement was orchestrated primarily by intellectuals from the democratic opposition, who brought consciousness to the workers 'from the outside'. Sierminski traces the origins of the Polish revolution to the self-activity and self-organisation developed by the Polish working class during earlier protests, strikes, and occupations. The author convincingly demonstrates that Solidarnosc was driven by the working class's own aims, experiences and revolutionary instinct-often in direct opposition to the efforts of intellectuals to contain its radicalism.

O'Neill, Colleen, Waging Sovereignty: Native Americans and the Transformation of Work in the Twentieth Century. 240 pp. 2026:2 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <761-1356>
ISBN 978-1-4696-9327-9 hard ¥22,106.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-9328-6 paper ¥6,686.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Boodrookas, Alex, Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf. 368 pp. 2026:4 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <761-1067>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4565-3 hard ¥31,262.- (税込) US$ 140.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4647-6 paper ¥7,815.- (税込) US$ 35.00

In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful citizen-led movement for noncitizen rights in the history of the Persian Gulf. Their efforts built on decades of wide-ranging struggle over the meanings and outlines of citizenship. During the twentieth century, anticolonial nationalists, pro-democracy reformers, feminists, and labor organizers joined forces to fight for a more equitable citizenship regime. In so doing, they won a remarkable series of victories: political independence, constitutional rights, and oil nationalization, reshaping not just Kuwait, but the global petroleum order. Comrades Estranged reframes the history of labor activism, citizenship, and decolonization in Persian Gulf by centering the history of social movements-especially organized labor. Alex Boodrookas traces how workers and their allies shaped the world-historic transformations witnessed across the region: the consolidation of British sovereignty, formation of autocratic states, inrush of hydrocarbon wealth, onset of decolonization, and rise of both mass migration and mass politics. But unions failed to incorporate noncitizens into their movement, and as Boodrookas argues, this fatally undermined the movements' strength. The contradictions of nationalist and internationalist visions proved insurmountable. Comrades Estranged thus sheds light on both the power, and the limits, of citizenship and the nation-state as the framework for political action.