A History of Private Life, Volume III: Passions of the Renaissance

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• Jonathan Lusthaus, author of Industry of Anonymity, explained the business of cybercrime at the Council on Foreign Relations blog Net Politics.
• Joy Lisi Rankin, author of A People’s History of Computing in the United States, explained her concept of “computing citizenship”—and why it is in decline—on the podcast This Is Not a Pipe.
• At the Harvard Business School blog Working Knowledge, Sophus Reinert, author of The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy, discussed with fellow HBS professor Dante Roscini how global free trade, which they argue “is not the natural order of things,” has ebbed and flowed over recent human history.

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November 15: On Publishing French Philosopher Bruno Latour

The New York Times Magazine recently published a lengthy article on the influence of Bruno Latour's work on science. We got to thinking about Harvard University Press's long history publishing Latour's work. We're celebrating University Press Week with a speech given by Latour's long time editor Lindsay Waters when Latour won the Holberg Prize, which captures the early m…