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In his 1994 collection of essays The Location of Culture, Bhabha investigates concepts such as `hybridity’ (ideas being informed by all the... Læs mere
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Advertisements for soap. The image of a film star. We accept these common objects as a normal part of our life. But each also carries hidden messages that none of us even suspect – as... Læs mere
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Westad’s seminal 2005 work shifts the focus of Cold War studies from Europe to the post-World War II interventions by both the Soviet Union and the United States in the affairs of developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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Turner’s much-anthologized 1893 essay argues that the vast western frontier shaped the modern American... Læs mere
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ‘Hitler Myth’ is recognized as one of the most important books yet written about Adolf Hitler and the Nazi State.... Læs mere