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A Macat analysis of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth

• Quinn, Riley
• Routledge. London, 2018

Frantz Fanon is one of the most important figures in the history of what is now known as postcolonial studies - the field that examines the meaning and impacts of European colonialism across the world. Born in the French colony of Martinique, Fanon worked as a ...

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A Macat analysis of Richard Dawkin's The Selfish Gene

• Davis, Nicola
• Routledge. London, 2018

Richard Dawkins provides excellent examples of his reasoning and interpretation skills in The Selfish Gene. His 1976 book is not a work of original research, but instead a careful explanation of evolution, combined with an argument for a particular interpretation of several aspects of evolution ...

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A Macat analysis of Jared Diamond's Collapse: how societies choose to fail or survive

• Maggio, Rodolfo
• Routledge. London, 2018

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 the meaning behind the available evidence describing societies that have survived and those that have withered and died. Why, for ...

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A Macat analysis of Karen Z. Ho's Liquidated: an ethnography of Wall Street

• Maggio, Rodolfo
• Routledge. London, 2018

Liquidated is a work of anthropology that treats an unusual, despised subculture - that of the Wall Street banker - much as anthropologists have traditionally treated remote 'savage' tribes. But using the techniques of ethnography, including interviews, analysis of daily lives, and fieldwork to investigate a modern ...

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A Macat analysis of Jack A. Goldstone's Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World

• Stockland, Etienne
• Routledge. London, 2018

Understanding why revolutions take place when they do, and as they do, is important in itself. Understanding how they are rooted in the societies they upend - and the ways in which those societies share crucial similarities - is arguably even more so. The enduring influence of ...

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A Macat analysis of David Graeber's Debt: the first 5000 years

• Hakemy, Sulaiman
• Routledge. London, 2018

Debt is one of the great subjects of our day, and understanding the way that it not only fuels economic growth, but can also be used as a means of generating profit and exerting control, is central to grasping the way in which our society ...

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A Macat analysis of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebboks

• Fusaro, Lorenzo
• Xidias, Jason
• Fabry, Adam
• Routledge. London, 2018

Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks is a remarkable work, not only because it was written in jail as the Italian Marxist thinker fell victim to political oppression in his home country, but also because it shows his impressive analytical ability. First published in 1948, 11 ...

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A Macat analysis of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism

• Tom, Patrick
• Werkhoven, Sander
• Routledge. London, 2018

John Stuart Mill's 1861 Utilitarianism remains one of the most widely known and influential works of moral philosophy ever written. It is also a model of critical thinking - one in which Mill's reasoning and interpretation skills are used to create a well-structured, watertight ...

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A Macat analysis of Elizabeth F. Loftus's Eyewitness Testimony

• Jenkins, William J.
• Routledge. London, 2018

Understanding evidence is critical in a court of law - and it is just as important for critical thinking. Elizabeth Loftus, a pioneering psychologist, made a landmark contribution to both these areas in Eyewitness Testimony, a trail-blazing work that undermines much of the decision-making made by ...

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A Macat analysis of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies

• Quinn, Riley
• Routledge. London, 2018

In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an attempt to answer the question of why that history unfolded so differently in various parts of the globe. His results ...

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A Macat analysis of Thomas Robert Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population

• Broten, Nick
• Routledge. London, 2018

Thomas Robert Malthus' 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population helped change the direction of economics, politics, and the natural sciences with its reasoning and problem solving. The central topic of the essay was the idea, extremely prevalent in the 18th and 19th centuries, that ...

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A Macat analysis of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality

• Berry, Don
• Routledge. London, 2018

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 as one of the most important books of nineteenth-century philosophy, On the Genealogy of Morality also provided the inspiration for ...

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A Macat analysis of C. Wright Mill's The Sociological Imagination

• Puga, Ismael
• Easthope, Robert
• Routledge. London, 2018

C. Wright Mills's 1959 book The Sociological Imagination is widely regarded as one of the most influential works of post-war sociology. At its heart, the work is a closely reasoned argument about the nature and aims of sociology, one that sets out a manifesto ...

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A Macat analysis of Janet L. Abu-Lughod's Before European Hegemony: the world system A.D. 1250-1350

• Day, William R.
• Routledge. London, 2018

The modern vision of the world as one dominated by one or more superpowers begs the question of how best to understand the world-system that existed before the rise of the first modern powers. Janet Abu-Lughod's solution to this problem, in this highly influential ...

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A Macat analysis of Marcel Mauss's The Gift

• Whitaker, Elizabeth
• Routledge. London, 2018

Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay The Gift is an enduring classic of sociological and anthropological analysis by a thinker who is one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology. The Gift exploits Mauss's high-level analytical and interpretative skills to produce a brilliant investigation of ...

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A Macat analysis of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

• Moore, Ryan
• Routledge. London, 2018

Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is an unflinching dissection of the racial biases built into the American prison system. Named after the laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United States until the mid-1960s, The ...

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A Macat analysis of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations

• Collins, John
• Routledge. London, 2018

Adam Smith's 1776 Inquiry into The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - more often known simply as The Wealth of Nations - is one of the most important books in modern intellectual history. Considered one of the fundamental works of classical economics, it ...

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A Macat analysis of Charles P. Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes: a history of financial crises

• Burton, Nick
• Routledge. London, 2018

Perhaps the most peculiar feature of a financial bubble - one that Charles Kindleberger's classic work Manias, Panics and Crashes draws particular attention to - is the inability of those trapped inside it to grasp the seriousness of their predicament. They know in principle that bubbles ...

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A Macat analysis of Jay Macleod's Ain't no Makin' it: aspirations and attainment in a low income neighborhood

• Seiferle-Valencia, Anna
• Routledge. London, 2018

Why is it that children from disadvantaged backgrounds find it so difficult - and often impossible - to achieve? Few questions are of such fundamental importance to the functioning of a fair and effective society than this one, yet the academic and political narratives that exist to ...

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A Macat analysis of Sheila Fitzpatrick's Everyday Stalinism: ordinary life in extraordinary times Soviet Russia in the 1930's

• Petrov, Victor
• Quinn, Riley
• Routledge. London, 2018

How was the Soviet Union like a soup kitchen? In this important and highly revisionist work, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick explains that a reimagining of the Communist state as a provider of goods for the 'deserving poor' can be seen as a powerful metaphor for understanding ...

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