The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu approaches power within the context of a comprehensive ‘theory of society’ which – like that…
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Hirst, John. The Shortest History of Europe. Black Inc., 2009. John Hist is an Australian historian and intellectual, currently serving…
Quataert, Donald. The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922. Cambridge University Press, New York. 2005. The Donald Quataert (late) was Middle East/ Ottoman historian…
Friedrich Engels (1820 – 1895) was one of the contemporaries of Karl Marx. Both worked in close association and are considered to…
Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is undoubtedly his most acclaimed work published in 1905. It was…
Saint Simon (1760 – 1825) was a nobleman by birth but renounced his title after the French revolution. He participated…
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