Analysis of Frederick Jackson Turner's The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Turner’s much-anthologized 1893 essay argues that the vast western frontier shaped the modern...
EAN: 9781912302789
Analysis of Joan Wallach Scott's Gender and the Politics of History
In His book Gender and the Politics of History (1998), Scott draws attention to the fact that...
EAN: 9781912302758
Global Crisis
Geoffrey Parker spent 15 years writing this ambitious history of the tumultuous 17th century, a...
EAN: 9781912302734
Analysis of Georges Lefebvre's The Coming of the French Revolution
Lefebvre, renowned as a pioneer of ‘history from below,’ believed that the origins of the...
EAN: 9781912302710
Analysis of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
More than a classic work on the history and philosophy of science, Kuhn’s 1962 book is considered...
EAN: 9781912302703
Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Kennedy sought to understand the social, economic, and military forces that shape great powers....
EAN: 9781912302680
Analysis of C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins
Published in 1938, The Black Jacobins tells the story of the only successful slave revolution in...
EAN: 9781912302659
Analysis of Carole Hillenbrand's The Crusades
The story of the crusades has been told and retold in Western histories—but invariable from...
EAN: 9781912302628
Analysis of Eugene Genovese's Roll, Jordan, Roll
Roll Jordan Roll (1974) is a study of the relationship between master and slave in the United...
EAN: 9781912302581
Reconstruction in America
Eric Foner’s 1988 account of the decade following the American Civil War shows that black people...
EAN: 9781912302550
Analysis of Richard J. Evans's In Defence of History
Postmodernist thinkers consider history to be not very far removed from a work of fiction,...
EAN: 9781912302529
War Without Mercy
War Without Mercy examines Japanese-American relations during World War II and investigates links...
EAN: 9781912302512
Analysis of Natalie Zemon Davis's The Return of Martin Guerre
The bizarre story of Martin Guerre–a peasant who disappears from a small village in...
EAN: 9781912302499
Analysis of David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
Slavery had been accepted in Western culture for centuries. So why did a movement suddenly rise...
EAN: 9781912302482
Columbian Exchange
Crosby’s landmark 1972 work argues that environmental factors shape our history just as much...
EAN: 9781912302475
Analysis of Bernard Bailyn's The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Before Bailyn’s 1967 work, it was generally accepted that the American Revolution was driven by...
EAN: 9781912302437
Analysis of Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees's Our Ecological Footprint
Our Ecological Footprint presents a powerful model for measuring humanity’s impact on the Earth...
EAN: 9781912302406
Analysis of Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom
Sen’s 1997 work argues that the success or failure of international development cannot be...
EAN: 9781912302390
Gaia
Lovelock wrote Gaia for the general public, not for scientists. But there is a lot of science in...
EAN: 9781912302383
Analysis of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene is that rarest of things: an outstanding work of scholarship that has seeped...
EAN: 9781912302376
Analysis of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
The idea of evolution and that earth’s species descended from common ancestors had already been...
EAN: 9781912302369
Analysis of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Carson’s 1962 work Silent Spring was one of the first books ever to highlight environmentalist...
EAN: 9781912302352
Analysis of The Brundtland Commission's Our Common Future
Our Common Future, produced in 1987 by a United Nations commission, responded to a growing number...
EAN: 9781912302345
Analysis of Mahbub ul Haq's Reflections on Human Development
Considered his most important work, Mahbub ul Haq’s Reflections on Human Development appeared at...
EAN: 9781912302338
