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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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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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A critical analysis of African-American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston' 1934 essay Characteristics of Negro... Læs mere
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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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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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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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Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those... Læs mere
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Because the potential returns appear to be greater in poorer countries than in the developed world, modern... Læs mere
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The modern world has been marked by social revolutions that have transformed the states where they occurred. Theda Skocpol examines three of these uprisings—the French, Russian, and Chinese revolutions—to consider the forces that make such dramatic upheaval possible.
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Goldstone examines the causes of revolutions and uprisings between 1500 and 1800 in both Europe and Asia. Many... Læs mere
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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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The ‘Hitler Myth’ is recognized as one of the most important books yet written about Adolf Hitler and the Nazi State.... Læs mere