History, science, thrillers … award-winning books in every category; published in more than twenty-five languages. In his journalism Peter Watson has been partly responsible for jailing nine criminals and securing the release of one man wrongly convicted of murder, and subsequently pardoned.
Universities Press Review
Universities Press Review 8 (July/August 2020)
Dear Reader,
Thank you for getting in touch. (If you have done so recently then you are doing your best to lead a normal life at an abnormal time – good for you.) I am currently working on a cultural history of modern France (a sort of companion to my book, The German Genius), which will be delivered to the publisher in September 2020, and published – all being well – about a year after that. Meanwhile, here is a new feature for my website. If you have got in touch with me because you have read one or another of my books, the chances are that our interests overlap or coincide, in particular in regard to the history of ideas.
Titles reviewed in this edition
- The Year of Peril: America in 1942, by Tracy Campbell
- Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India, by Andrew B. Lui
- Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS Crisis, by Ross A. Slotten
- Today Sardines are Not For Sale: A Street Protest in Occupied Paris, by Paula Schwartz
- God at War: A Meditation on Religion and Warfare, by Mark Juergensmeyer
- Empire of the Black Sea: The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World, by Duane W. Roller
- The New Book of Opera Anecdotes, by Ethan Marsden
The Discovery of Fatherhood
Special feature
In my history books – some of them anyway – I have tried to draw attention to most of the important intellectual developments in the past, even the distant past.
One breakthrough, which I regard as arguably the most important breakthrough of all (for its effects on the way we think about ourselves and our social organisation), has received almost no reporting, and so I have created a special space for it here. It is just a few pages long, but if the argument is correct, the consequences are momentous. Read on …
READ AND RESPOND
