Victoria Shepherd, "A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse" (Oneworld, 2022)New Books in SociologyThe King of France - thinking he was made of glass - was terrified he might shatter...and he wasn't alone. After the Emperor met his end at Waterloo, an epidemic of Napoleons piled into France's asylu...4 years agoVictoria Shepherd, "A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse" (Oneworld, 2022)New Books in Sociology0:00 / 0:00Use this feed in your RSS readerCopy the publisher’s public feed URL, or build an OPML reading list for another reader.Copy RSS URL Open RSS feed · Find feeds & export OPMLKeep up with this sourceFollow this sourceKeep this source in your dashboard and return to its latest articles. Email alerts are managed separately in Settings.FetchFeeds groups articles by feed so you can follow sources, compare coverage, and save stories for later.Back to all articles from New Books in SociologyMore from this feedChoose another story from New Books in Sociology.Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success" (PublicAffairs, 2022)Moisés Lino e Silva, "Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela" (U Chicago Press, 2022)James S. Bielo, "Materializing the Bible: Scripture, Sensation, Place" (Bloomsbury, 2021)Laura Clancy, "Running the Family Firm: How the Monarchy Manages Its Image and Our Money" (Manchester UP, 2021)Alshimaa Aboelmakarem Farag et al., "School Farms: Feeding and Educating Children" (Routledge, 2021)Yujie Zhu, "Heritage Tourism: From Problems to Possibilities" (Cambridge UP, 2021)Joshua Neves, "Underglobalization: Beijing's Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy" (Duke UP, 2020)Joshua Citarella, "Politigram and the Post-Left" (Blurb, 2021)