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Crosby’s landmark 1972 work argues that environmental factors shape our history just as much as—and sometimes more than—human factors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sen’s 1997 work argues that the success or failure of international development cannot be measured by income alone.
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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.
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The Selfish Gene is that rarest of things: an outstanding work of scholarship that has seeped into popular culture.
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The idea of evolution and that earth’s species descended from common ancestors had already been around for some time when Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859.
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Considered his most important work, Mahbub ul Haq’s Reflections on Human Development appeared at the end of his career in international development, and consolidates his revolutionary contribution to the discipline.
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A critical analysis of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, in which economist Thomas Piketty provides detailed evaluations of the significance of a vast amount of data explaining why incomes is distributed in the ways it is.
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One of the most influential books on economics ever written, Malthus' work remains one of the most controversial, too.... Læs mere