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By Andrea

September 2026 Book cover of "Credit to the Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and the Shaping of American Finance, 1873–1930" by Rebecca Kobrin. The cover is a grid of color blocks and black-and-white archival photographs: a crowd of men in hats outside a Lower East Side storefront bank, a tall early-twentieth-century bank tower, and crowds gathered before the columned entrance of the Bank of United States.

Credit where it's due: Jewish immigrant bankers and American finance

Rebecca Kobrin, 2026

Zachary Mazur

By Andrea

September 2026 Black-and-white archival photo of a domed hall for the Afro-Asian Women's Conference, with a woman's silhouette emblem over a map of Africa and Asia, ringed by national flags. Book cover for "Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World," ed. Su Lin Lewis & Nana Osei-Opare, Bloomsbury.

Socialist modernities and South-South internationalism

Edited by Su Lin Lewis and Nana Osei-Opare, 2024

Anchana Wachira-asakon

By Andrea

September 2026 Book cover of Marxism and the Interpretation of Dreams by Molly Pucci. Abstract constructivist design in red and tan geometric shapes, such as circles, angular blocks, and grids evoking industrial and avant-garde forms. Subtitle reads: Communism in Interwar Czechoslovakia and the Idea of Central Europe.

A mini-Comintern in Central Europe: Rethinking interwar Czechoslovak communism

Molly Pucci, 2026

Václav Kaška

By Andrea

September 2026 **Alt text:** Book cover for "The New Yugoslav Woman: Reproductive Regulation in Socialist Yugoslavia" by Branka Bogdan. The design features a peach and navy geometric background with angular shapes, and a central black-and-white photograph of a young woman operating an industrial sewing machine, focused on stitching a garment.

Women and reproductive politics in socialist Yugoslavia

Branka Bogdan, 2025

Sara Žerić Đulović

By Andrea

July 2026 Alt text: Book cover for The Aesthetics of Populism: Political Struggle and the Aesthetics Experience in Poland after 1989, edited by Leszek Koczanowicz, Michał Stambulski, Wojciech Ufel and Rafał Włodarczyk. On a black background, the title and editors appear in white and red text at the top. The lower half shows a stylized, high-contrast graphic in red, white, black, and orange of a crowd of people with raised arms and clenched fists. The Brill logo and "Value Inquiry Book Series" label appear at the bottom.

What does populism look like?

Edited by Leszek Koczanowicz, Michał Stambulski, Wojciech Ufel, and Rafał Włodarczyk, 2025

Jack Dean

By Andrea

July 2026

Ottoman Greece from a study in Tübingen

Richard Calis, 2025

Paul Csillag

By Andrea

July 2026 Book cover of Engineering Global Socialism by Anna Calori. The title appears in large white capital letters on a dark grey background, with the author's name in orange at the top. The subtitle, Ownership, Non-Alignment, and Corporate Culture in a Bosnian Company, is printed in smaller orange text beneath the title. The lower half of the cover features a black-and-white photograph of a group of suited officials and dignitaries walking together, led by a man in a light-coloured suit at the centre. Thin orange lines and nodes resembling a network diagram overlay the photograph and extend into the background, reinforcing themes of global connections and industry.

Energoinvest and the making of global Yugoslavia

Anna Calori, 2026

Jure Ramšak

By Andrea

July 2026 Book cover for "Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century" (Antinomies series), edited by Dariusz Brzeziński, Kamil Filipek, Kuba Piwowar, and Malgorzata Winiarska-Brodowska. The cover features a pattern of triangles in shades of orange, teal, and cream on a dark navy background, with the title in white and orange text.

The algorithmic condition and its limits

Dariusz Brzeziński, Kamil Filipek, Kuba Piwowar, and Małgorzata Winiarska-Brodowska, eds, 2025

Jan Burzlaff

By Andrea

June 2026 The cover features a black-and-white photograph of a man seated at a desk, dressed in a suit and tie, looking directly at the camera. The title is displayed in bold white text at the top, with the subtitle in orange, and the author's name in white at the bottom.

The life of Aleksandr Tvardovskii

Geoffrey Hosking, 2025

Julia Boechat Machado

By Andrea

June 2026 **Alt text:** Book cover of *Enver Hoxha: Twentieth-Century Tyrant* by Robert C. Austin and Artan R. Hoxha. The cover features a red-tinted historical photograph of Enver Hoxha, the communist leader of Albania, wearing a hat and overcoat and raising his hand in greeting. Large white capital letters spelling “ENVER HOXHA” dominate the centre of the cover, with the subtitle “Twentieth-Century Tyrant” in smaller yellow text across the middle. The authors’ names appear in yellow at the bottom. The overall design uses a stark red, white, and yellow colour scheme, creating a dramatic and authoritarian visual effect.

Enver Hoxha: from playboy to politician

Robert C. Austin and Artan R. Hoxha, 2026

Lucy Jeffery