Books like Scenes from Deep Time
12 books with a reading profile close to Scenes from Deep Time by M. J. S. Rudwick. Deep and outward-looking; a moderate read.
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Powers and Prospects
by Noam Chomsky
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
In this collection of essays and lectures, Noam Chomsky analyzes the intersection of international relations, geopolitical power, and elite control over economic policy.
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Art Under Control in North Korea
by Jane Portal
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Jane Portal examines the institutional mechanisms through which the North Korean state dictates artistic production.
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Angela Davis connects disparate liberation efforts through a framework of intersectional internationalism.
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History of Beauty
by Umberto Eco
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Umberto Eco examines the shifting definitions of aesthetics in Western civilization from ancient Greece to the dawn of the twenty-first century.
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Richard Rothstein identifies the specific local, state, and federal policies that created and enforced residential segregation across the United States.
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Gordon Campbell coordinates a chronological survey that expands the Renaissance beyond its traditional fifteenth-century Tuscan borders.
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Women, Race & Class
Also deep · history, analytical
Angela Davis maps the historical intersection of abolitionism and the early women’s suffrage movement to demonstrate how the priorities of middle-class white women often excluded the needs of Black women.
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The Third Reich in Power, 1933 - 1939
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Richard J.
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Russia Against Napoleon
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Dominic Lieven recalibrates the history of the Napoleonic Wars by shifting the focus from Western European maneuvers to the Russian imperial perspective.
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The Origins of Freemasonry
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
In this historical study, Margaret Jacob traces the evolution of Freemasonry from its roots in Scottish stonemason guilds to its expansion across eighteenth-century Europe.
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