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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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Tony Judt was born in London in 1948, but spent most of his career in America. He studied history at Cambridge and then earned his doctorate in France. His first major writings were about France’s historical left-wing movements, particularly the French Socialist Party.
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Albert Hourani’s A History of the Arab Peoples is unsurpassed as an overview of Arab history from the rise of Islam to the late twentieth century. Going far beyond political history, it provides a deep analysis of social, cultural and economic structures.
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Goldstone examines the causes of revolutions and uprisings between 1500 and... Læs mere
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Roll Jordan Roll (1974) is a study of the relationship between master and slave in the United States in the late 18th and 19th... Læs mere
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Ernest Gellner — a Jew who escaped from Czechoslovakia in 1939 after Hitler invaded — knew first-hand the catastrophic effects of excessive nationalism, and he was determined to understand the phenomenon that had shaped so much of 20th century history.
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Eric Foner’s 1988 account of the decade following the American Civil War shows that black people were integral in ending slavery and were often key drivers of what successes there were in the `Reconstruction’ period.
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Postmodernist thinkers consider history to be not very far removed from a work of fiction, something dependent on historians’... Læs mere
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War Without Mercy examines Japanese-American relations during World War II and investigates links between popular culture, stereotypes, and extreme... Læs mere
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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.
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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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Slavery had been accepted in Western culture for centuries. So why did a movement suddenly rise up in the... Læs mere