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We’re excited to share a collection of the reviews we received for this October Reviews Roundup.
These reviews are so important to our authors and are a testament to their hard work and dedicated research. You can find all of these titles on the Peter Lang website, and read the full reviews through the links below. Perhaps find a great addition to your reading list! All titles are available in print or as an ebook.
Review Highlights
Title: The Limerick Boycott in Context edited by Seán William Gannon and Natalie Wynn
Review by: Tony Kushner
University of Southampton
“it provides a superb example for scholars of both the modern Jewish experience and the workings of antisemitism and wider Jewish/nonJewish relations.”
Featured in: Irish Theological Quarterly, Vol 90, Issue 4
Link: Book Review: The Limerick Boycott in Context – Tony Kushner, 2025
Title: Baltic Human-Animal Histories: Relations, Trading, and Representations edited by Linda Kaljundi, Anu Mänd, Ulrike Plath & Kadri Tüü
Review by: Ingvar Svanberg
Uppsala
“there are many essays, offering plenty of information for anyone who wants to learn more about the relationship between humans and animals in the Baltic lands during the Middle Ages and early modern times.”
Featured in: Ethnologia Scandinavica, Vol 55
Link: Ethnologia Scandinavica 2025 | Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur
Title: Kulturpessimismus / Le pessimisme culturel: Analysen & Akteure / Analyses & Acteurs edited by Françoise Lartillot and Uwe Puschner
Review by: Moritz Maurer
University of Vienna
“This insightful overview will also be of interest to scholars of religion, not least because of the role of religious thought in the genesis of cultural pessimism.”
Featured in: Religious Studies Review, Vol 51, No.2
Link: www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rsr.17807
Title: Crises Then as Now: Marshall McLuhan, with Urbanist Jaqueline Tyrwhitt and Artist Gyorgy Kepes by Jaqueline McLeod Rogers
Review by: Ryan McCullough
West Liberty University
“McLeod Rogers, Shoshkes, and Terranova offer a comprehensive overview of scholarly connections that occurred more than 50 years ago. This overview demonstrates that we must continue to build on those connections through research and practice.”
Featured in: Communication Research Trends, Vol 44, No.3
Link: Communication Research Trends | Vol 44 | No. 3
Title: Chercheurs d’or noir : une histoire de la recherche pétrolière française au XXe siècle by Radouan Andrea Mounecif
Review by: Benoît Doessant
“Radouan Mounecif’s study makes it possible to understand and critically evaluate the myth of the oil prospectors for France (as it existed long before in the United States), which had developed with the propaganda around the Saharan epic.”
Featured in: Technology and Culture, Vol 66, No.4
Link: www.muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/971333
Title: Rhetoric, Religion, and Tragic Violence: Sacred Succor and Rancor edited by Christopher Oldenburg and Adrienne Hacker Daniels
Review by: David Frank
University of Oregon
“Oldenburg and Hacker Daniels’s insight into the rancor and succor that result from religious rhetoric, anchored in the notion of pharmakon, is an advance in the field.”
Featured in: Critical Studies in Media Communication
Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2025.2558968
Title: Roads to and from Democracy: Studies in Polish Politics, 1980–2020
Review by: Meng Yang
“The book’s greatest strength lies in its ability to trace the intersections of Polish history and contemporary politics, offering a rich interpretation of Poland’s path through the lens of nationhood, culture and religion.”
Featured in: EUROPE-ASIA STUDIES, Vol 77, No. 8
