Reviews Roundup – November 2025

We’re delighted to share the positive reception our titles have received in this month’s Reviews Roundup for November 2025.

The reviews featured this month reflect the impact these publications continue to make. Explore the titles that captured reviewers’ attention in November and find some new additions for your shelves. All titles are available to buy on the Peter Lang website in print or as ebooks.

Review Highlights

Title: Construire l’Autre. Regards croisés sur les productions de missionnaires chrétiens en terres lointaines edited by Anne Dalles Maréchal, Marion Robinaud

Review by: Dominique Laperle, Université du Québec à Montréal

Featured in: Laval théologique et philosophique 

Quote: “Cet ouvrage se distingue par sa diversité de perspectives et de terrains d’étude, offrant une analyse riche et nuancée des dynamiques missionnaires dans des contextes variés. La pluralité des approches (historique, sociologique, anthropologique) permet de dépasser une vision simpliste des missions chrétiennes comme instruments de domination ou de civilisation.”

Link: Anne Dalles Maréchal, Marion Robinaud, dir., Cons… – Laval théologique et philosophique – Érudit

Title: Games, Greek and Pluck: Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education and British Sport, 1850–1914 by Andy Carter

Review by: Hans Bolling, PhD in History, Independent scholar

Featured in: idrottsforum.org 

Quote: “Ultimately, Games, Greek and Pluck: Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education and British Sport 1850–1914 is an excellent book …his insistence to reject a “siloed” approach and explore the entwinement of athleticism, education and classicism made me a wiser man.”

Link: The role of English public schools and classicism in the development of modern sports | idrottsforum.org

Title: Reflecting in the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge Edited by Jatinder Mann and Bart Zielinski 

Review by: Patrick Coleman 

Featured in: New Zealand Journal of History Volume 59, Number 2 

Quote: “The essays serve as a testament to Carl Bridge’s scholarly legacy, showing how the concept he helped pioneer has evolved into a robust field of historical inquiry that continues to generate meaningful research.”

Link: Project MUSE – <i>Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge</i> ed. by Jatinder Mann and Bart Zielinski (review) 

Title: Communication and Sport by Francisco García Marcos, Pablo García Mateo

Review by: Mateusz Sobiech, Maria Curie Skłodowska University, Poland 

Featured in: idrottsforum.org 

Quote: “Communication and Sport” is a solid, innovative publication that enriches academic discourse on communication by treating sport as a dynamic system of signs.”

Link: An ambitious interdisciplinary attempt and a solid, innovative publication | idrottsforum.org

Title: Polish Highlanders in Carpathian Bukovina: A Sociolinguistic and Lexical Study by Helena Krasowska 

Review by: Artur Tworek 

Featured in: Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, Vol. 27, 2025 

Quote: “Both the sociolinguistic perspective and the collected reflections on the functional use of the Polish language in the communication space of contemporary Bukovina villages, as well as the rich lexical material examined, make Krasowska’s monograph a work of extremely high documentary and cognitive value.”

Link: Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław – issue

Title: Une question « chaude » : Histoire de l’éducation sexuelle à l’école (France, XXe-XXIe siècle)

Review by: Alain Boissinot 

Featured in: Aef Info  

Quote: “Le livre d’Yves Verneuil ne pouvait paraître à un meilleur moment. Pour retracer lhistoire du développement dune éducation sexuelle à l’école, l’auteur réunit un ensemble exceptionnel de documents et de témoignages qui lui permettent de revisiter un siècle d’histoire, des débuts du XXe siècle à nos jours. “

Link: Éducation sexuelle : comment l’ouvrage “Une question chaude” d’Y. Verneuil… 

Title: Big Data et influence Big Data et influence: Stratégies, design, éthique et régulation edited by Camila Pérez Lagos, Mehdi Ghassemi, Rania Aoun

Review by: Cem Savaş 

 Featured in: Hermès: La Revue 

Quote: “En réunissant des contributions issues de champs disciplinaires variés, allant des sciences de l’information et de la communication à la philosophie, en passant par la science politique, le design et l’économie, l’ouvrage propose une analyse critique, approfondie et multidimensionnelle du Big Data en tant qu’instrument d’influence.”

Link: Le Temps des incommunications – Revue Hermès – Cognition – Communication – Politique