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An Analysis of Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Few social historians had examined the popular religious beliefs of the 1500s at the time Thomas published Religion and the Decline of... Læs mere
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An Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Published in 2010, Bloodlands argues that accounts of World War II have paid too much attention to the atrocities of Adolf Hitler, and not enough to Joseph Stalin’s. Snyder believes a definitive history of the period must depict the suffering of all of the conflict’s victims.
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The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Riley-Smith’s 1986 book gives convincing case for a `revisionist’ view of the crusades, challenging the common belief that the crusades were motivated by fanaticism and were designed to plunder the Holy Lands.
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An Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Geoffrey Parker spent 15 years writing this ambitious history of the tumultuous 17th century, a period in the grip of what historians term the General Crisis (2013).
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An Citizen and Subject:: Contemporary Africa And The Legacy Of Late Colonialism (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In Citizen and Subject, Mahmood Mamdani challenges dominant views of the crisis of postcolonial Africa, particularly that the problems the continent faces are home grown. Citizen and Subject insists that the current crisis is the institutional legacy of colonialism.
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An Analysis of Georges Lefebvre's The Coming of the French Revolution: The Coming of the French Revolution (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Lefebvre, renowned as a pioneer of ‘history from below,’ believed that the origins of the revolution had to be sought not just in the maneuvering of the elites, but in the unpredictable actions of the common people.
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An Analysis of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
More than a classic work on the history and philosophy of science, Kuhn’s 1962 book is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of the 20th century. Kuhn helped change the way everyone looks at science.
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Ecomonic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Kennedy sought to understand the social, economic, and military forces that shape great powers. While earlier scholars of international history had written about `great men’ and their achievements, Kennedy focused on the interdependence of military might and economic growth.
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An Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Tony Judt was born in London in 1948, but spent most of his career in America. He studied history at Cambridge and then earned his doctorate in France. His first major writings were about France’s historical left-wing movements, particularly the French Socialist Party.
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An Analysis of Albert Hourani's A History of the Arab Peoples (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Albert Hourani’s A History of the Arab Peoples is unsurpassed as an overview of Arab history from the rise of Islam to the late twentieth century. Going far beyond political history, it provides a deep analysis of social, cultural and economic structures.
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An Analysis of Carlo Ginzburg's The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Goldstone examines the causes of revolutions and uprisings between 1500 and... Læs mere
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An Analysis of Eugene Genovese's Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Roll Jordan Roll (1974) is a study of the relationship between master and slave in the United States in the late 18th and 19th... Læs mere
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