Books by Charles Tripp
Charles Tripp is Professor Emeritus of Politics at SOAS, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has worked at the IISS in London and at the Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva. At SOAS he has been head of the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies and is one of the co-founders of the Centre for Comparative Political Thought. His research has mainly focused on political developments in the Middle East and includes the nature of autocracy, war and the state, as well as Islamic political thought, the politics of resistance and the relationship between art and power.
Interviews with Charles Tripp
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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
by Ed Conway -
2
Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
by Amitav Ghosh -
3
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers
by Kate Kitagawa & Timothy Revell -
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Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare
by Annabel Sowemimo -
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Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues
by Ross Perlin -
6
The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492
by Marcy Norton
The 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, recommended by Charles Tripp
The 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, recommended by Charles Tripp
The British Academy Book Prize is awarded annually for a nonfiction book that combines rigorous research with engaging writing—and promotes global cultural understanding. Charles Tripp, chair of this year’s judging panel, explains what that means and introduces the six books that made the 2024 shortlist.
