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Recommended Reading (A - Z): Politics and History
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
Aaronovitch, D. May 26, 2010. #
Politics and History, Religion and Religious Criticism
The First Crusade: A New History: The Roots of Conflict between Christianity and Islam
Asbridge, T August 2, 2007. #
Politics and History, Religion and Religious Criticism
The Day of the Barbarians
Barbero, A July 27, 2007. #
Politics and History
From Publishers Weekly
Medievalist Barbero (The Battle: A New History of Waterloo) offers a revisionist history of the relatively obscure battle of Adrianople, arguing that the course of world history changed after the...
While Europe Slept
Bawer, B August 2, 2007. #
Politics and History, Religion and Religious Criticism
Terror and Liberalism
Berman, P July 27, 2007. #
Politics and History
From Publishers Weekly
Berman puts his leftist credentials (he’s a member of the editorial board of Dissent) on the line by critiquing the left while presenting a liberal rationale for the war on terror, joining a...
The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims
Bostom, A. May 27, 2010. #
Politics and History, Religion and Religious Criticism
Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
Caldwell, C. May 27, 2010. #
Politics and History, Religion and Religious Criticism
Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews—A History
Carroll, J August 7, 2007. #
Politics and History, Religion and Religious Criticism
Life at the Bottom
Dalrymple, T July 27, 2007. #
Politics and History
From Publishers Weekly
Filled with poignant stories of women and men trapped in destructive behaviors and environments, this volume puts forth a vision of the modern world and of intellectualized modernism as hell but...
The Case for Israel
Dershowitz, A July 27, 2007. #
Politics and History
From Publishers Weekly
Noting that he has been working on versions of these arguments since 1967, famed Harvard law professor Dershowitz offers “a proactive defense of Israel,” a kind of amicus brief to “the court of...
Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking
Dershowitz, A July 27, 2007. #
Politics and History, Religion and Religious Criticism
From Booklist
This author, if it needs explaining, is a renowned lawyer and Harvard law professor, author of several best-selling books, and an abiding advocate and defender of personal rights and freedoms. Although he...
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Diamond, J July 27, 2007. #
Politics and History
Amazon.com
Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist’s answer: geography,...
Sick Societies: Challenging the Myth of Primitive Harmony
Edgerton, R.B. June 2, 2010. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Politics and History
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
Fromm, E. May 28, 2010. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Politics and History
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
Goldberg, M July 27, 2007. #
Politics and History, Religion and Religious Criticism
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. In an impressive piece of lucid journalism, Salon.com reporter Goldberg dives into the religious right and sorts out the history and networks of what to most liberals is an...
