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Vending Distorted Afghanistan Through Patriotic ‘Anthropology’

First published in Critique of Anthropology, 2011, 31(3) 256–270 Review Essay: Thomas Barfield, Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010, xi + 389 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-14568-6. $29.95 (hbk) The destabilization and military occupation of Afghanistan by the United States over the past three decades has triggered the hasty production of [.
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CJ Online Review: Cawkwell, Cyrene to Chaeronea

History / Ancient History : Rogue Classicism (9 months ago)

posted with permission: Cyrene to Chaeronea: Selected Essays on Ancient Greek History. By George Cawkwell. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 485. Hardcover, £80.00/$150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-959328-6. Reviewed... Read Post

Renaissance Quarterly Review: Passannante. The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition

History / Ancient History : Rogue Classicism (5 months ago)

posted with permission: Reviewed work(s): Gerard Passannante. The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. 250 pp. $45. ISBN: 978–0–226–64849–1. Jonathan Goldbe... Read Post

CJ Online Review: Strunk on Kapust, Republicanism, Rhetoric and Roman Political Thought

History / Ancient History : Rogue Classicism (last year)

Posted with permission: Daniel J. Kapust, Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought: Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. viii + 196. Hardcover, £55.00/$85.00. ISBN 978... Read Post


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