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: 9781912128198
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: 9781912128167
Analysis of Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Kennedy sought to understand the social, economic, and military forces that shape great powers....
EAN: 9781912128150
Analysis of Eric Hoffer's The True Believer
Hoffer began writing The True Believer in the 1940s, as Nazism and fascism spread across Europe....
EAN: 9781912128143
Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression
A critical analysis of African-American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston' 1934...
EAN: 9781912128112
Analysis of James E. Lovelock's Gaia
Lovelock wrote Gaia for the general public, not for scientists. But there is a lot of science in...
EAN: 9781912128099
Analysis of Charles P. Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes
When Manias, Panics, and Crashes was published (1978), the world was entering a new period of...
EAN: 9781912128051
Analysis of Frank Dikotter's Mao's Great Famine
Dikötter’s 2010 masterpiece catalogues the tragedy and the cover-up of the hideous famine caused...
EAN: 9781912128044
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: 9781912128020
Analysis of Hamid Dabashi's Theology of Discontent
Hamid Dabashi suggests that the Iranian Revolution of 1978-9 would not have taken place had it...
EAN: 9781912127993
Analysis of St. Augustine's Confessions
Written around 397, Confessions is one of the most referenced works in the Western literary...
EAN: 9781912127986
Analysis of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs & Steel
Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer, Guns, Germs, and Steel attempts to answer why human history unfolded...
EAN: 9781912127979
Analysis of Edward Said's Orientalism
Advertisements for soap. The image of a lm star. We accept these common objects as a normal part...
EAN: 9781912127948
Analysis of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
First published in 1790, Burke’s Reflections rejects the ideas that had inspired radical...
EAN: 9781912127931
Analysis of Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
In his highly influential 1996 book, Huntington offers a vision of a post-Cold War world in which...
EAN: 9781912127924
Analysis of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man
Published in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man argues that capitalist democracy is the...
EAN: 9781912127917
Analysis of John Maynard Keyne's The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Classical economics suggests that market economies are self-correcting in times of recession or...
EAN: 9781912127900
Analysis of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War
Few works can claim to form the foundation stones of one entire academic discipline, let alone...
EAN: 9781912127894
Analysis of Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt’s 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the...
EAN: 9781912127887
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: 9781912127863
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: 9781912127856
Analysis of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
Woolf’s focus on the everyday suppression of women was a turning point in feminism, marking a...
EAN: 9781912127825
Analysis of Abraham H. Maslow's A Theory of Human Motivation
Maslow’s 1943 essay established his idea of humanistic psychology as a “third force” in the...
EAN: 9781912127801
Analysis of Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue
Alasdair MacIntyre’s 1981 After Virtue was a ground-breaking contribution to modern moral...
EAN: 9781912127795
