Macat Library

In his 1988 work Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877, ...

What really happened when the world’s two greatest superpowers went head to head du...

In his 1983 book Nations and Nationalism British Czech intellectual Ernest Gellner puts f...

Published in 1974, Roll, Jordan, Roll is American historian Eugene Genovese’s epic ...

In his 1966 book The Night Battles, Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg detailed the lives o...

American author Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s 1996 work Hitler’s Willing Execution...

English historian Christopher Hill turned thinking about the English Civil Wars (1642&nda...

The story of the Crusades (1095–1291) is of two centuries of repeated invasion and ...

In The Age of Revolution, renowned British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm focuses on the...

Albert Hourani’s 1991 work, A History of the Arab Peoples, is unsurpassed as an ove...

Published in 1938, Cyril Lionel Robert (C. L. R.) James’s The Black Jacobins is the...

London-born, Cambridge-trained historian Tony Judt explains how postwar European history ...

Examining 1,200 years of history from the foundation of Charlemagne’s Holy Roman Em...

Born in 1945, Paul Kennedy grew up in England, watching the new political realities of th...

First published in Germany in 1980, British historian Ian Kershaw’s The “Hitl...

Georges Lefebvre’s 1939 work The Coming of the French Revolution documents the coll...

In Citizen and Subject, Ugandan academic and author Mahmood Mamdani challenges dominant v...

Distinguished British historian Geoffrey Parker spent 15 years writing this ambitious his...

In the 1960s, British historian Jonathan Riley-Smith first began studying the knightly or...

Why has gender inequality persisted for so long without revolutionary change? That’...

US-born historian of Europe Timothy Snyder first published Bloodlands: Europe Between Hit...

“There are many works of history that are revered, but few that are loved as Religi...

It was the vast frontier stretching out to the west of the developed land on the North Am...

The title of Norwegian-born historian Odd Arne Westad’s 2005 work—The Global ...

Nigerian novelist and professor Chinua Achebe was acutely conscious that Western views of...

Advertisements for soap. The image of a film star. The sight of a car as beautiful as a g...

Philosopher Judith Butler’s 1990 work Gender Trouble shook the foundations of femin...

The Second Sex caused uproar when it appeared in 1949, as French writer and existentialis...

Edited and produced from the lecture notes of his students at the University of Geneva, F...

Famous as an accomplished poet, T. S. Eliot was also the author of some highly important ...

African American novelist, anthropologist, and essayist Zora Neale Hurston explains how e...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction—and the first black woman to win the Nobel...

Can the Subaltern Speak? is a classic of postcolonial studies, the discipline that examin...

Philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft’s 1792 work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is...

Even as recently as the 1920s the historical lack of great female writers was often consi...

Western thinking about the Middle and Far East has been distorted by stereotype and inacc...

In her 1958 article "Modern Moral Philosophy", British philosopher Elizabeth (G. E. M.) A...

In her 1958 work The Human Condition, German-born political theorist Hannah Arendt asks t...

How many books can claim to be so influential as to inspire the development of a whole sc...

Aristotle wrote Nicomachean Ethics in Greece in the fourth century b.c.e., a period of ex...

In his 1641 work Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes poses questions about the nat...

How do we know what knowledge is? In his 1963 article “Is Justified True Belief Kno...

In his 1807 work Phenomenology of Spirit, G. W. F. Hegel introduced the world to his phil...

David Hume’s book tackling the subject of belief in God is among the most influenti...

Excited by the possibilities hinted at by the major scientific breakthroughs of the day, ...

Do we need the rules of religion in order to be good people? The German philosopher Imman...

More than two centuries after its initial publication in 1781, Immanuel Kant’s Crit...

What is the nature of our personal relationship with God? That’s the core question ...

Soren Kierkegaard has long been considered the father of the philosophical movement known...

Northern Irish academic, novelist, and broadcaster C. S. Lewis’s 1943 philosophical...