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History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
John H. Arnold
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's addition to Oxford's popular Very Short Introductions series is...
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The Idea of History: With Lectures 1926-1928
R. G. Collingwood
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
The Idea of History is the best-known work of the great Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.G. Collingwood. It was originally published posthumously in 1946, having been mainly reconstructed from Collingwood's manuscripts, many of...
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The Revolt of the Masses
Jose Ortega y Gasset
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
From his perspective as one of the intellectual leaders of the Spanish Republican government, the author defines the masses as those opposed to excellence and inclined toward conformed thinking. Therefore any revolt of the masses seeks to obliterate...
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War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires
Peter Turchin
Plume
Plume
Like Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel , Peter Turchin in War and Peace and War uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to make a highly original argument about the rise and fall of empires. Turchin argues that the key to the formation...
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Revolt Against the Modern World
Julius Evola
Inner Traditions
Inner Traditions
In what many consider to be his masterwork, Evola contrasts the characteristics of the modern world with those of traditional societies, from politics and institutions to views on life and death.
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The Philosophy of History (Great Books in Philosophy)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Prometheus Books
Prometheus Books
Within the body of his work, Hegel's philosophy of history stands as a fascinating example of this influential German thinker's efforts to capture the multidimensional character of a broad theoretical framework. Hegel describes history as the...
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