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The end of the Cold War, which occurred early in the 1990s, brought joy and freedom to millions. But it posed a difficult question to ...
Amartya Sen uses his 1999 work Development as Freedom to evaluate the processes and outcomes of economic development. Having come to the conclusion that development ...
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The power of Frank Dikoetter's ground-breaking work on the disaster that followed China's attempted `Great Leap Forward' lies not in the detail of ...
Mahmood Mamdani's 1996 Citizen and Subject is a powerful work of analysis that lays bare the sources of the problems that plagued, and often ...
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Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality is a sustained feat of incisive interpretation. Well known as one of Nietzsche's greatest works, and ...
Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 essay on the history of the United States remains one of the most famous and influential works in the American ...
Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy - not to mention one of the ...
Keith Thomas's classic study of all forms of popular belief has been influential for so long now that it is difficult to remember how ...
In his wonderfully clear and cogent essay On Liberty, Mill contends that individuals should be as free as possible from interference by government. Proposing that ...
Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinary Men is also ...
American scholar Jared Diamond deploys his powers of interpretation to great effect in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which seeks to understand ...
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