Humanities - Page 346

You Say You Want a Revolution?: Radical Idealism and its Tragic Consequences

Why have so many of the iconic revolutions of modern times ended in bloody tragedies? And what lesso...

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Imperialism and the Developing World: How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery

How did Western imperialism shape the developing world? In Imperialism and the Developing World, Atu...

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Culture in the Third Reich

'It's like being in a dream', commented Joseph Goebbels when he visited Nazi-occupied Paris in the s...

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Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World

All complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hi...

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Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion

A landmark account that reveals the long history behind the current Catalan and Scottish independenc...

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Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

'Appeasing Hitler is an astonishingly accomplished debut. Bouverie writes with a wonderful clarity a...

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Science and the Production of Ignorance: When the Quest for Knowledge is Thwarted

An introduction to the new area of ignorance studies that examines how science produces ignorance—bo...

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Natural: The Seductive Myth of Nature’s Goodness

Without our realising it, a single, slippery concept has become a secular deity throughout the moder...

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Radical Sacrifice

A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social or...

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Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s a...

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Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard

Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement'This lucid and riveting new biograph...

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Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs

There is growing alarm over how drugs empower terrorists, insurgents, militias, and gangs. But by lo...

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Reading Hume on the Principles of Morals

Hume's Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals is one of the landmark works in the history of mo...

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Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg

Music is filled with mathematical elements. The works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like...

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Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy

The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects,...

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