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Christopher Hill turned thinking about the English Civil Wars (1642-51) on its head with The World Turned Upside Down.Author: Harman Bhogal, Liam HaydonPublisher: Macat LibraryPublication Date: Jul...

Originally published in 1861, Mill's great work systematically details and defends the doctrine of utilitarianism.Author: Tom Patrick, Sander WerkhovenPublisher: Macat LibraryPublication Date: Jul...

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproductioncombats traditional art criticism's treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin, the consequences of...

What really happened when the world's two greatest superpowers went head to head during the Cold War? We Now Know is a major reappraisal of the struggle for political and ideological supremacy...

Because the potential returns appear to be greater in poorer countries than in the developed world, modern economic theory implies that rich countries should continually invest in poor countries...

Why We Can't Wait (1964) is arguably the most vital book by one of the most important men in US history. Martin Luther King Jr. sets out the ideas that fuelled a large part of the 1960s Civil Rights...

Central to the creative process of the Romantic poets that followed him, Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads has been both a gift and a thorn in the side of critics for over a century...

Based on 20 months of fieldwork among the Azande people of the South Sudan, Evans-Pritchard's Work became the founding text in the anthropology of witchcraft, and has been hailed as a classic...

In the 1960s, researchers began to understand memory as operating under two systems: a short-term one handling information for mere seconds, and a long-term one for managing information indefinitely...