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“mark s micale”

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  • The Darker Angels of Our Nature

    Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence

    Edited by Philip Dwyer, Mark Micale ...
    In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the present we are experiencing the most peaceful time in human history. But what do top historians think about Pinker's reading of the past? Does his argument stand up to historical analysis?In The Darker Angels of our ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Traumatic Pasts in Asia

    History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present

    Edited by Hans Pols, Mark S. Micale ...
    In the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept, or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on the topic has overwhelmingly focused on cases, such as World War I or the Holocaust, in which Western experiences and ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • On Violence in History

    Edited by Philip Dwyer, Mark S. Micale ...
    Is global violence on the decline? Scholars argue that Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker’s proposal that violence has declined dramatically over time is flawed.This highly-publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and the general public alike. In this provocative volume, a cast of eminent historians ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Thinking About History

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    What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, ... Read more

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  • History

    Why It Matters

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    Series series Why It Matters
    We justify our actions in the present through our understanding of the past. But we live in a time when politicians lie brazenly about historical facts and meddle with the content of history books, while media differ wildly in their reporting of the same event. Frequently, new discoveries force us to re-evaluate everything we thought we knew about the past.So how can any certainty about history be ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Writing History in the Global Era

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today’s global world and how it should be written.Globalization is emerging as a major economic, cultural, and political force. In Writing History in the Global Era, historian Lynn Hunt examines whether globalization can reinvigorate the telling of history. She looks toward scholars from the East and West collaborating in new ways as they ... Read more

    $17.49 CAD

  • A People's History of Civilization

    by John Zerzan ...
    The American anarchist, primitivist philosopher, and author John Zerzan critiques agriculture-based civilization as inherently oppressive and advocates drawing upon the life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what free society should look like. Subjects of his criticism include domestication, language, symbolic thought, and the concept of time.This book includes sixteen essays ranging from ... Read more

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  • The History of Political Thought

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Richard Whatmore ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thinking about politics has tended to be historical in nature because of the comparisons and contrasts that can be drawn between past and present. Different periods in politics have used the past differently. At times political thought can be said to have been drawn directly from the study of history; at others, perhaps including our own time, the relationship is more indirect. This Very Short ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

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  • Doing History

    by Mark Donnelly, Claire Norton ...
    Series series Doing... Series
    Doing History bridges the gap between the way history is studied in school or as represented in the media and the way it is studied at university level.History as an academic discipline has dramatically changed in recent decades and has been enhanced by ideas from other disciplines, the influence of postmodernism and historians’ incorporation of their own reflections into their work. Doing History ... Read more

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  • Risk: A Study Of Its Origins, History And Politics

    by Matthias Beck, Beth Kewell ...
    Over a period of several centuries, the academic study of risk has evolved as a distinct body of thought, which continues to influence conceptual developments in fields such as economics, management, politics and sociology. However, few scholarly works have given a chronological account of cultural and intellectual trends relating to the understanding and analysis of risks. Risk: A Study of its ... Read more

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  • Society, History, and the Global Human Condition

    Essays in Honor of Irving M. Zeitlin

    by Zaheer Baber, Robert J. Brym, Guang Xia, Maurice Zeitlin, Nedim Karakayali, Parvin Ghorayshi, Randall Collins, Rod Nelson, Meir Amor0, Andrew Eungi Kim1, Irving M. Zeitlin2, J.I. Bakker3, John Keane4, Professor Lord Anthony Giddens5, Michael Zeitlin6, Elijah Anderson7 ...
    This Festschrift for Irving M. Zeitlin honors a scholar whose work has influenced and continues to influence sociology, particularly classical sociological theory, sociology of religion, and historical sociology. Irving M. Zeitlin's scholarship and mentoring has also influenced and inspired a new generation of sociologists. The essays presented here address a wide range of topics that include ... Read more

    $168.49 CAD

  • Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance

    The Power of Story

    by Professor Eric Selbin ...
    Why do revolutions happen? Decades of social science research have brought us little closer to understanding where, when and amongst whom they occur.In this groundbreaking book, Eric Selbin argues that we need to look beyond the economic, political and social structural conditions to the thoughts and feelings of the people who make revolutions. In particular, he argues, we need to understand the ... Read more

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