Analysis of David Graeber's Debt
Born in 1961, US anthropologist and activist David Graeber was weaned on leftist politics, and...
EAN: 9781912128792
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: 9781912128778
Analysis of Janet L. Abu-Lughod's Before European Hegemony
Abu-Lughod's portrait of a more balanced world is a masterpiece of synthesis driven by one highly...
EAN: 9781912128761
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: 9781912128754
Analysis of Jay MacLeod's Ain't No Makin' It
MacLeod’s 1987 work, ground-breaking for the way it combines field research with theory, follows...
EAN: 9781912128747
Analysis of Alan D. Baddeley and Graham Hitch's Working Memory
In the 1960s, researchers began to understand memory as operating under two systems: a short-term...
EAN: 9781912128723
Analysis of Michael R. Gottfredson and Travish Hirschi's A General Theory of Crime
In their 1990 work, Gottfredson and Hirschi introduce a new and comprehensive theory of crime. At...
EAN: 9781912128716
Analysis of Mahmood Mamdani's Citizen and Subject
In Citizen and Subject, Mahmood Mamdani challenges dominant views of the crisis of postcolonial...
EAN: 9781912128693
Analysis of Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Published in 1776, when America was teetering on the brink of war with Britain, Common Sense...
EAN: 9781912128679
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...
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Analysis of John A. Hobson's Imperialism
Hobson’s 1902 book presents a controversial interpretation of Britain’s motivations to conquer...
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Analysis of C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity is a perfect example of one of the most effective aspects of...
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Analysis of Immanuel Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Do we need religion to be good people? When Immanuel Kant tackled this question in 1793, he...
EAN: 9781912128624
Analysis of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities
American author, journalist, and activist Jane Jacobs was born in 1916 in Scranton, Pennsylvania....
EAN: 9781912128594
Analysis of Odd Arne Westad's The Global Cold War
Westad’s seminal 2005 work shifts the focus of Cold War studies from Europe to the post-World War...
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Analysis of Ian Kershaw's The "Hitler Myth"
The ‘Hitler Myth’ is recognized as one of the most important books yet written about Adolf Hitler...
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Analysis of Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect
Philip Zimbardo is fascinated by why people can behave in awful ways.
EAN: 9781912128556
Analysis of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon’s 1961 masterpiece is both a powerful analysis of the psychological effects of...
EAN: 9781912128532
Analysis of Albert Bandura's Aggression
Much of what we now know about the influence of early childhood environments on delinquency and...
EAN: 9781912128518
Analysis of Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve
Published in 1994, The Bell Curve caused uproar. Herrnstein and Murray claim that intelligence is...
EAN: 9781912128488
Analysis of Robert E. Lucas Jr.'s Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?
Because the potential returns appear to be greater in poorer countries than in the developed...
EAN: 9781912128433
Analysis of Hamid Dabashi's Iran
Written amid the political fallout and ‘war on terror’ following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on...
EAN: 9781912128402
Analysis of Franz Boas's Race, Language and Culture
Born in 1858, Franz Boas permanently changed the standards and practices of anthropology. His...
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Analysis of Aristotle's Politics
Politics was one of the first books to investigate the concept of political philosophy and the...
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