Postmodernist thinkers consider history to be not very far removed from a work of fiction, something dependent on historians’... Læs mere
War Without Mercy examines Japanese-American relations during World War II and investigates links between popular culture, stereotypes, and extreme... Læs mere
Dikötter’s 2010 masterpiece catalogues the tragedy and the cover-up of the hideous famine caused by the Great Leap Forward—Mao Zedong’s disastrous attempt to jumpstart industrialization in China in the late 1950s.
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
Slavery had been accepted in Western culture for centuries. So why did a movement suddenly rise up in the... Læs mere
Crosby’s landmark 1972 work argues that environmental factors shape our history just as much as—and sometimes more than—human factors.
Before the publication of Nature’s Metropolis in 1991, historians generally treated urban and rural areas as distinct from one another, each following separate lines of development and maturity.
Before Browning’s 1992 book, most Holocaust scholarship focused either on the experience of the victims or on the Nazi political ideology driving the slaughter. Browning investigates something else: the men who carried out acts of extreme violence.
A critical analysis of Centuries of Childhood, an important example of the critical thinking skill of interpretation in which the French historian Philippe Aries offers a fundamentally fresh interpretation of what childhood is and what the institution means for society at large.
In the century before the Black Death swept across the world, economic relations flourished between Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, interacting on essentially equal terms.
Sen’s 1997 work argues that the success or failure of international development cannot be measured by income alone.
Lovelock wrote Gaia for the general public, not for scientists. But there is a lot of science in this 1979 work. Lovelock suggests that the Earth is a superorganism, made up of all living things, interacting with the air, the oceans, and the surface rocks of the planet.