De Gruyter Brill Social Sciences

01/08/2025

📚 New Release from Brill | Caribbean Series, Volume: 42

“26 Years a Slave: Juan Miranda and Other 'Spanish Negroes' in Colonial New York”

Author: Beatriz Carolina Peña

This book is a translated and enriched version of the critically acclaimed Spanish volume “26 años de esclavitud”. A study of the little-known “Spanish Negroes,” or non-white Spanish-speaking sailors enslaved in colonial North America. Bringing to light their history of slavery and resistance, the book tells the incredible story of the free-born Juan Miranda. Enslaved in New York, Miranda fights an arduous legal battle to win his freedom. His attorney, William Kempe, makes a strong case for his rights and against slavery based on skin color. This well-illustrated account touches on legal history, the War of Jenkins’ Ear, and the so-called “Slave Plot” of 1741.

Please visit our website for more information on this title: https://brill.com/display/title/72088

30/07/2025

In the book, Riling up the Base, co-author, Ian Reifowitz argues that stereotypes, especially relating the immigration, race and ethnicity, and gender, not policies, secured Trump’s election win and ongoing support. Covering topics like persuasion, agenda setting, critical race theory, and semiotics, the authors use a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to unpack how Trump motivates his base.

Next week, on August 6th, at 6:30pm EDT, in-person at the Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Smith Haven Mall, Ian will present Riling Up the Base at an author signing. If you are in town, at the following booksellers’ location, please join us! See more information below about how to register for the event:

Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Lake Grove
600 Smith Haven Mall
Lake Grove, NY 11755
(631) 724-0341
Register here: https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062189862-0

30/07/2025

Foreign policy isn’t just about interests – it’s about identity, morality, and values.
"Moral Power Games in Foreign Policy" explores how Russia and Sweden use gendered narratives to gain moral legitimacy on the world stage.
A thought-provoking and original contribution to the study of global power and diplomacy: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111350691/html

28/07/2025

Check out “The Revolutionary Movement in Britain 1900–21: The Origins of British Communism” by Walter Kendall, and edited by John McIlroy and Paul Flewers now available in our Book Series!

📚 Kendall's influential work vividly explores the origins of the British Communist Party, analyzing national and international influences. It critically evaluates predecessors like the British Socialist Party and Socialist Labour Party, the 1910–14 radical upsurge, wartime movements, the impact of the Russian Revolution, and the role of the Comintern. Portraits of key figures like H M Hyndman, John Maclean, Arthur MacManus, and Theodore Rothstein enrich the narrative.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/72520

25/07/2025

Our CEO Carsten Buhr was thrilled to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a chef by speaking to the Scholarly Kitchen's Chefs de Cuisines series. Find out more about his trajectory in academic publishing and what's cooking at De Gruyter Brill.

Bon appétit and enjoy! 🔗 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/25/robert-harington-talks-to-carsten-buhr-ceo-of-de-gruyter-brill-in-this-series-of-perspectives-from-some-of-publishings-leaders-across-the-non-profit-and-for-profit-sectors-of-our-industry/

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25/07/2025

Check out “Project for a Scientific Sociology” by Joan Casser, now available in our Studies in Critical Social Sciences book series!

📚 Cessante causa, cessat effectus (“when the cause ceases, the effect ceases”) applies to every form of social pathology. In Project for a Scientific Sociology, Joan Casser offers an operational overview of inter-individual behavior. Building on the work of Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, Russian neurologist Ivan Pavlov, Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, and others, he examines energy transference within society. Concepts such as prediction, motion, operant conditioning, crime, punishment, security, and law-governed behavior are all explored sociologically. Casser begins with worked matter and concludes with the state, framing a causal configuration of inter-individual behavior.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/64935

23/07/2025

Is the Metaverse just a game – or a new form of society?
In "Society Without People", Pieper and Nelson introduce the theory of Gamism – where the logic of gaming could become our dominant ideology.
This book explores how emerging technologies like AI and virtual reality will reshape identity, institutions, and what it means to live in community.
For readers of tech, culture, and social change: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111236162/html

22/07/2025

21/07/2025

What a pleasure to meet our author Saila-Maria Saaristo at the 5th ISA Forum in Rabat, Morocco! ✨

Here she is holding her latest publication, “Transgressive City-Making and Governance: Housing Struggles, Occupations and Evictions in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area”, part of our New Scholarship in Political Economy series.

Don’t miss it! Check out the book here: https://brill.com/display/title/68199?rskey=V4tadM&result=1

De Gruyter Brill

18/07/2025

Always great to see authors with their books in hand! Congratulations to Marilyn Vogt-Downey, editor and translator of “Notebooks for the Grandchildren” by Mikhail Baitalsky, now published in our Book Series!

📚 These Notebooks are for those seeking to understand what went wrong after the great Russian Revolution of 1917. Through the eyes of young Ukrainians like himself, Baitalsky recounts the Revolution’s hopes—and its tragic unraveling under Stalin. Arrested three times, he survived to tell the story of how Stalin rose to power and carried out a “political counterrevolution” that silenced so many.

A must-read for those interested in , , and .

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/34388

De Gruyter Brill

16/07/2025

Why is government instability such a persistent issue in Italy? Marco Improta's book "Italian Government Instability" offers a comprehensive analysis—tracing its historical, social, and institutional roots and offering data-driven remedies.
For readers of political science, European studies, and governance.

Check it out here: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111329727/html

14/07/2025

We're excited to be at the 2025 World Congress of the International Political Science Association in Seoul! Visit the De Gruyter Brill booth ( #8) to explore our latest publications and chat with Acquisition Editor Jason Prevost about your research and publishing goals!