Books like Unthinking Social Science
12 books with a reading profile close to Unthinking Social Science by Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein. Deep and outward-looking; a demanding read.
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
David Graeber and David Wengrow challenge the conventional narrative that human progress follows a linear path from egalitarian bands of hunter-gatherers to complex, hierarchical states.
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Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, Volume One
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
In this study, Richard Taruskin challenges Igor Stravinsky’s self-cultivated image as a detached European cosmopolitan by reconnecting his early development to specific Russian cultural frameworks.
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Geopolitics
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
John Agnew analyzes how the spatial distribution of power shifted from the rise of modern states in the sixteenth century to the post-Cold War era.
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Orientalism
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
Edward Said analyzes how Western academic and artistic institutions created a distorted, artificial image of the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa to justify imperial expansion.
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The Federalist Papers
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
The Federalist Papers comprise eighty-five essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to advocate for the ratification of the United States Constitution.
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Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
Stephen J.
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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art
by Bruno David, Ian J. McNiven
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
This handbook integrates archaeological data with ethnographic perspectives to examine how humans have marked stone surfaces over millennia.
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The Nature of Cultural Heritage, and the Culture of Natural Heritage
by David Lowenthal, Kenneth Olwig
Also deep and outward-looking · academic, dense
This book examines the persistent conceptual divide between natural and cultural heritage, arguing that these categories are defined by a viewer’s intellectual and geographical location.
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The Music of J. S. Bach
Also deep and outward-looking · academic, dense
This volume brings together nine scholars to examine the technical construction and historical performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s instrumental music.
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Democracy in America
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
Alexis de Tocqueville provides a detailed analysis of the American democratic system based on his travels through the United States in the early 1830s.
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From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
Ariadne Staples analyzes the intersection of gender identity and ritual practice in ancient Rome, focusing specifically on how religious participation defined a woman’s civic status.
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