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An Analysis of Hamid Dabashi's Theology of Discontent: The Ideological Foundation of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Hamid Dabashi suggests that the Iranian Revolution of 1978-9 would not have taken place had it not been for the influential ideas set out by eight Iranian Islamic thinkers in the decades before it occurred.
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An Analysis of Charles P. Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
When Manias, Panics, and Crashes was published (1978), the world was entering a new period of global economic turbulence. Economists based their analyses on the assumption that investors act rationally and often communicated their ideas with dry, technical language.
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An Analysis of Karen Z. Ho's Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Liquidated uses ethnographic research, traditionally used to study distant societies, to dissect the culture of high finance on New York’s famous Wall Street.
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An Analysis of Elaine Tyler May's Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
With the ending of World War II in 1945, the Soviet Union and the United States began the decades-long... Læs mere
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An Analysis of Sheila Fitzpatrick's Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Sheila Fitzpatrick’s Everyday Stalinism rejects the simplistic treatment of the Soviet Union as a totalitarian government that tightly controlled its citizens.
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An Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A critical analysis of African-American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston' 1934 essay Characteristics of Negro... Læs mere
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An Analysis of Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Ecomonic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000 (Bog, Paperback / softback, 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 Analysis of David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Slavery had been accepted in Western culture for centuries. So why did a movement suddenly rise up in the... Læs mere
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An Analysis of Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Stephen Pinker's optimistic 2011 book argues that, despite humanity's biological tendency toward violence, we are, in fact, less violent today than ever before citing extensive statistical evidence.
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An Analysis of Robert E. Lucas Jr.'s Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?: Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Because the potential returns appear to be greater in poorer countries than in the developed world, modern... Læs mere
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An Analysis of Albert Bandura's Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Much of what we now know about the influence of early childhood environments on delinquency and anti-social behavior can be traced to Bandura's ground-breaking 1973 book. He uses the subject of aggression to demonstrate the usefulness of social learning theory.
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An Analysis of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities: The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
American author, journalist, and activist Jane Jacobs was born in 1916 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She moved to New York City in 1934, where she became a journalist, writing for magazines including Architectural Forum and Fortune.
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