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  • Methods in World History

    A Critical Approach

    Edited by Arne Jarrick, Janken Myrdal, Maria Wallenberg Bondesson ...
    Series series Nordic Academic Press Checkpoint
    Methods in World History is the first international volume that systematically addresses a number of methodological problems specific to the field of World History. Prompted by a lack of applicable works, the authors advocate a considerable sharpening of the tools used within the discipline. Theories constructed on poor foundations run an obvious risk of reinforcing flawed assumptions, and of ... Read more

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  • Methods in world history : a critical approach

    by Rodney Edvinsson, Arne Jarrick, J. R. McNeill, Eva Myrdal, Janken Myrdal, Maria Wallenberg, Rikard Warlenius, Mats Widgren ...
    Intresset för världshistoria är större än på länge - både bland den läsande allmänheten och bland forskare. Globaliseringen har bidragit till att historiker kommit ut ur den fixering vid det nationella som kännetecknat deras forskning ända sedan 1800-talet. Men med den nya globala arenan för forskning följer också nya metodproblem. Det är hög tid att de världshistoriskt orienterade forskarna tar ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Climate Change and the Unthinkable

    by Amitav Ghosh ...
    Series series Berlin Family Lectures
    A " concise and utterly enlightening" look at why we can't wrap our minds around climate change ( Publishers Weekly).Are we deranged? Award-winning essayist and novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? The Great Derangement examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to ... Read more

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  • The Social Life of Things

    Commodities in Cultural Perspective

    Edited by Arjun Appadurai ...
    The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • What is Marxism?

    by Alan Woods, Rob Sewell, Karl Marx ...
    In this epoch of instability, crisis, war and ever‑growing inequality, Marxism is becoming an increasingly attractive proposition to millions of workers and young people around the world. The old mole of revolution, to use Karl Marx's own phrase, is burrowing deep into the foundations of society.Marxism — or scientific socialism — is the name given to the body of ideas first worked out by Karl ... Read more

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  • The Eurasian Miracle

    by Jack Goody ...
    The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human culture and society in the nineteenth century. It was commonly believed that there was a natural progression from Antiquity through Feudalism to Capitalism which could not have taken place elsewhere. Today there are many who still believe that this progression was part of a European miracle that ... Read more

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  • The Infinite Desire for Growth

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Why society’s expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth--and the hope of better things to come—is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the United States, eighty percent of the population has seen no increase in purchasing power over the last thirty years and the situation is not much ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Colonizer's Model of the World

    Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

    by J. M. Blaut ...
    This influential book challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time--that Europe rose to modernity and world dominance due to unique qualities of race, environment, culture, mind, or spirit, and that progress for the rest of the world resulted from the diffusion of European civilization. J. M. Blaut persuasively argues that this doctrine is not grounded in the facts of ... Read more

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  • World History

    An Introduction

    by Eric Vanhaute ...
    World History: An Introduction provides readers with the knowledge and tools necessary to understand the global historical perspective and how it can be used to shed light on both our past and our present. A concise and original guide to the concepts, methods, debates and contents of world history, it combines a thematic approach with a clear and ambitious focus.Each chapter traces connections ... Read more

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  • Twenty Observations on a World in Turmoil

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    Translated by Ciaran Cronin.The world is a state of turmoil. From the financial crisis to the chaos in the eurozone, from the Arab uprisings to protests in Athens, Barcelona, New York and elsewhere, many of the familiar frameworks are collapsing and we have to find new ways to orient ourselves in a world undergoing rapid change. Of course, it is necessary for political leaders to address local ... Read more

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  • How Societies Change

    by Daniel Chirot ...
    Series series Sociology for a New Century Series
    How have societies changed over the past 5,000 years? Welcome to the brief, manageable macro-sociology text that takes your students on a journey to answer this question.This book, the only brief and affordable macro-sociology text available for undergraduates, describes how societies have changed over the past five thousand years. The discussion focuses on the idea that industrial societies, ... Read more

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  • The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader

    Edited by Sandra Harding ...
    For twenty years, the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding has argued that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist critique must inform one another. In The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader, Harding puts those fields in critical conversation, assembling the anthology that she has long wanted for classroom use. In classic and recent essays, ... Read more

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