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

歴史を横断するサバルタン・ハンドブック
Dube, Saurabh / Banerjee, Ishita (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Subalterns across History. 442 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <740-794>
ISBN 978-1-032-57883-5 hard ¥64,009.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

Subaltern Studies has marked both a major departure in South Asian studies and indexed broader shifts in the critical humanities and social sciences. This volume explores what it means to set to work today studies of subaltern subjects in our rapidly mutating social worlds. This handbook spans diverse historical, ethnographic, and geopolitical spaces, drawing in the Antipodes and the Americas, Diasporas and Oceanic worlds, Africa and the Middle East, apart from Europe and many South Asias - overlapping arenas in which the "subaltern" continues to find distinct yet substantive articulations. It also seeks to meaningfully juxtapose practices and processes of gender and race; indigeneity and indenture; age and sexuality; slavery and apartheid; the Adivasi and the Dalit; settler-colonialisms and nations; nature and environment; caste and tribe; diaspora and blackness; capital and property; science and technology; media and cinema; the body and dance; heteronormativity and queerness; state and governance; politics and justice. In these ways, the study un-frames disciplinary boundaries and maps emergent terrains, exactly articulating pressing subjects and rethinking distinct subalternities. This book is aimed at researchers, scholars, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the critical human sciences, especially history, anthropology, social theory and cultural, gender, and literary studies.

Baechler, Jean / Escudier, Alexandre (dir.), Resilience democratique: elements de sociologie historique. 2024:11 (Hermann, FR) <740-710>
ISBN 979-10-370-4059-6 paper ¥8,008.- (税込) EUR 35.00

戦争の経済史
Eloranta, Jari / Land, J. / Kuorelahti, E. et al. (eds.), The Routledge Economic History of War. (Routledge Handbooks in Economic History) 512 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <740-316>
ISBN 978-1-032-23025-2 hard ¥64,009.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

The Routledge Economic History of War presents a broad overview of the latest research on the long-lasting changes and effects that collapsing security in international relations have had on the world's economies and societies.Arranged around five key themes - Fiscal and Military Capacity, Military Spending, Economic Effects of War, War and Institutions, and Business and War - this handbook features contributions from an international range of scholars, on varying methodological approaches, theories, and geographical arenas. Encompassing a range of disciplinary approaches, the main focus is on how economic history can provide insights on the societal impact of war, addressing issues such as how war preparations and arms races affect government spending; the direct economic effects of war; and how societies adjust to the economic realities of rearmament and recovery. The volume also explores whether wars change or alter institutions such as governments, religion, and democracy. It also looks at what lessons we can learn from the past about military spending, state capacity, and the effects of war on both individual societies and global cooperation.Ultimately, this book provides a broad overview of the methodological, geographical, and multidisciplinary range of the economic history of war and demonstrates how war, economics, institutions, and society are inextricably linked throughout history.

情報の歴史ハンドブック
Weller, Toni / Black, Alistair / Mak, Bonnie et al. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Information History. 728 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <740-330>
ISBN 978-1-032-31607-9 hard ¥64,009.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

The Routledge Handbook of Information History offers a definitive, inclusive and far-reaching study of how information practices have influenced, and been influenced by, society, politics, culture and technology over past millennia.Information is often considered a defining characteristic of modern society, but it is far from a modern phenomenon. In the last decades historians have started to ask new questions about how information was understood in the past, suggesting that it has a history which is long, complex and multifaceted. This influential new volume is the first large-scale collection to use the term Information History as its titular focus, situating information within the historiography of the field. It showcases a diverse collection of over forty international contributors who explore information practices from antiquity to the contemporary world, with geographical coverage ranging across Europe, Africa, Asia, as well as North and South America.Including overview essays alongside a wide range of in-depth empirical studies, this ground-breaking collection will appeal to scholars and students in the social sciences, arts and humanities, and offers readers unique insights into how historical practices have influenced the understanding and role of information in our modern world.

ローマ教皇庁の歴史必携
Prudlo, Donald S. (ed.), A Companion to the History of the Roman Curia. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 107) 404 pp. 2025:4 (Brill, NE) <740-160>
ISBN 978-90-04-18462-6 hard ¥54,225.- (税込) EUR 237.00

The Roman Curia is the oldest extant body of institutional administration in the world. Indeed, it was the prototype for the development of centralized government in the monarchies of the Middle Ages. Further, it was the administrative backbone of the first worldwide organization in human history. It developed policies, laws, and procedures that continue to affect the entire world. This book offers scholarly contributions from the origins of the Curia to the early Modern period.

R.シャルチエ著　変動する歴史
Chartier, Roger, L'histoire en mutation: lectures. (Etudes culturelles) 265 p. 2024:11 (Pr. U. de Bordeaux, FR) <740-1402>
ISBN 979-10-300-1121-0 paper ¥5,720.- (税込) EUR 25.00

Davies, Surekha, Humans: A Monstrous History. 336 pp. 2025:2 (U. California Pr., US) <740-1403>
ISBN 978-0-520-38809-3 hard ¥6,556.- (税込) US$ 29.95

A history of how humans have created monsters out of one another-from our deepest fears-and what these monsters tell us about humanity's present and future. Monsters are central to how we think about the human condition. Join award-winning historian of science Dr. Surekha Davies as she reveals how people have defined the human in relation to everything from apes to zombies, and how they invented race, gender, and nations along the way. With rich, evocative storytelling that braids together ancient gods and generative AI, Frankenstein's monster and E.T., Humans: A Monstrous History shows how monster-making is about control: it defines who gets to count as normal. In an age when corporations increasingly see people as obstacles to profits, this book traces the long, volatile history of monster-making and charts a better path for the future. The result is a profound, effervescent, empowering retelling of the history of the world for anyone who wants to reverse rising inequality and polarization. This is not a history of monsters, but a history through monsters.

Deruelle, Benjamin / Hebert, Michel (dir.), Arbitraire et arbitrage: les zones grises du pouvoir (XIIe-XVIIIe siecle). (Histoire et civilisations) 406 p. 2024:11 (Pr. U. du Septentrion, FR) <740-1404>
ISBN 978-2-7574-4237-1 paper ¥6,406.- (税込) EUR 28.00

Veltman, David / Meister, Daniel R. (eds.), Biography across the Digitized Globe: Essays in Honour of Hans Renders. (Biography Studies 4) 250 pp. 2025:4 (Brill, NE) <740-1409>
ISBN 978-90-04-72669-7 hard ¥26,312.- (税込) EUR 115.00

This volume is dedicated to Professor Hans Renders, founder of the Biography Institute of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Throughout his academic career, Renders witnessed a reflexive turn in historical research: biographers became more open about the limitations of their sources, and the subjective nature of their selection. Over this same period, however, the availability of digital sources has increased exponentially, which has profound implications for biographical research and the transnational framework used to approach the genre. Through its thirteen thought-provoking essays, this work seeks to make an intervention in Biography Studies by bringing the well-developed reflexive tradition to bear on the pressing challenge of proliferating digitized sources.

Herva, Vesa-Pekka / Lahelma, Antti, Weirding Civilization: The Strange Foundations of the Modern World. 376 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <740-1125>
ISBN 978-1-032-94118-9 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-94116-5 paper ¥11,128.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Weirding Civilization examines the irrational foundations of civilization, from the Bronze Age to the Anthropocene. Inspired by Twin Peaks and Lovecraftian horror, it reveals how weirdness - disorienting, monstrous, and ambivalent - has shaped human society since the rise of the first complex civilizations.Taking 'weirding' as its conceptual lens, the book examines hallmarks of civilization such as urbanism, money, and writing, uncovering their layered and often non-rational nature. While the concept of weirding has gained traction across disciplines, from literature studies to climate science, this book applies it systematically to early civilizations for the first time. Weirdness emerges as ruptures in experienced reality, arising from the complex interplay between humans and non-humans. The book explores how civilization has unfolded in relation to hidden, invisible, and unknown dimensions of reality. Accessible and thought-provoking, it broadens conceptual horizons, offering fresh insights into the past and present while inviting readers to embrace that which resists categorization. With a primary focus on Europe and the Near East, it also addresses global questions of modernity, technology, and cultural imagination.This book is essential for archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians studying complex societies, as well as for readers fascinated by unconventional approaches to history and civilization. It appeals to anyone seeking to disrupt conventional understandings of humanity's development.