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An Analysis of Natalie Zemon Davis's The Return of Martin Guerre (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The bizarre story of Martin Guerre–a peasant who disappears from a small village in sixteenth-century France and whose place is taken by an imposter–has captivated historians for centuries
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An Analysis of The Brundtland Commission's Our Common Future: Our Common Future (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Our Common Future, produced in 1987 by a United Nations commission, responded to a growing number of environmental concerns faced by the global community.
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An Analysis of Richard J. Evans's In Defence of History: In Defence of History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Postmodernist thinkers consider history to be not very far removed from a work of fiction, something dependent on historians’ own interpretations... Læs mere
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An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe’s essay on Joseph... Læs mere
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An Analysis of Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
One of the most widely read books in the social sciences, Purity and Danger established Mary Douglas as... Læs mere
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An Analysis of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak? (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A critical analysis of Spivak's classic 1988 postcolonial studies essay, in which she argues that the poorest and most marginalized in society (the subalterns) have no platform or voice to affect policy debates or demand a fairer share of society’s goods.
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An Analysis of Janet L. Abu-Lughod's Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Abu-Lughod's portrait of a more balanced world is a masterpiece of synthesis driven by one highly creative idea: her world system of interlocking spheres of influence quite literally connected masses of evidence together in new ways. A triumph of fine critical thinking.
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An Analysis of Susan Sontag's On Photography (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
On Photography brought photographic theory into the university classroom with its staunch defense of the medium as art and inspired a new wave of Marxist... Læs mere
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An Analysis of Rene Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
René Descartes posed questions about the nature of knowledge and the nature of being that philosophers still debate today.
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An Analysis of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism and philosophy. An incendiary take on the place of women in... Læs mere
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An Analysis of Eric Hoffer's The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Hoffer began writing The True Believer in the 1940s, as Nazism and fascism spread across Europe. Most analysts studying how these movements became so powerful focused on their leaders and the ideas they trumpeted.
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An Analysis of Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Published in 1994, The Bell Curve caused uproar. Herrnstein and Murray claim that intelligence is the key factor in determining success in life and that it is genetic and, more controversially still, that some ethnic groups are more intelligent than others.
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