The Macat Library: Great Works for Critical Thinking
About the Book Series
Making the ideas of the world’s great thinkers accessible, affordable, and comprehensible to everybody, everywhere.
With a growing list of over 180 titles across a broad range of subject areas, Macat works with leading academics from the world’s top universities to produce new analyses that focus on the ideas and the impact of the most influential works ever written. By setting them in context – and looking at the influences that shaped their authors, as well as the responses they provoked – Macat encourages readers to look at these classics and game-changers with fresh eyes.
An Analysis of Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations
1st Edition
By Ramon Pacheco Pardo
August 17, 2017
Hans Morgenthau’s Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science, built on the firm foundation of Morgenthau’s watertight reasoning skills. The central aim of reasoning is to construct a logical and persuasive argument that carefully organizes and supports its conclusions – often around a...
An Analysis of Henry Kissinger's World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History
1st Edition
By Bryan Gibson
August 17, 2017
Henry Kissinger’s 2014 book World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History not only offers a summary of thinking developed throughout a long and highly influential career–it is also an intervention in international relations theory by one of the most famous statesmen...
An Analysis of Homi K. Bhabha's The Location of Culture
1st Edition
By Stephen Fay, Liam Haydon
August 17, 2017
Homi K. Bhabha’s 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolonialism has many strands, at its heart lies the question of interpreting and understanding encounters between the western colonial powers and the nations...
An Analysis of Janet L. Abu-Lughod's Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350
1st Edition
By William Day
August 17, 2017
The modern vision of the world as one dominated by one or more superpowers begs the question of how best to understand the world-system that existed before the rise of the first modern powers. Janet Abu-Lughod's solution to this problem, in this highly influential work, is that Before European ...
An Analysis of John C. Calhoun's A Disquisition on Government
1st Edition
By Etienne Stockland, Jason Xidias
August 17, 2017
Nineteenth-century American politician John C. Calhoun occupies a paradoxical place in the history of political thought – and of critical thinking. On one hand, he is remembered as a committed advocate of slavery, consistently espousing views that are now considered indefensible and abhorrent. On ...
An Analysis of Mahmood Mamdani's Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
1st Edition
By Meike de Goede
August 17, 2017
Mahmood Mamdani’s 1996 Citizen and Subject is a powerful work of analysis that lays bare the sources of the problems that plagued, and often still plague, African governments. Analysis is one of the broadest and most fundamental critical thinking skills, and involves understanding the structure ...
An Analysis of Marcel Mauss's The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
1st Edition
By The Macat Team
August 17, 2017
Marcel Mauss’s 1925 essay The Gift is an enduring classic of sociological and anthropological analysis by a thinker who is one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology. The Gift exploits Mauss’s high-level analytical and interpretative skills to produce a brilliant investigation of the forms...
An Analysis of Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees's Our Ecological Footprint
1st Edition
By Luca Marazzi
August 17, 2017
Our Ecological Footprint presents a powerful model for measuring humanity’s impact on the Earth to reduce the harm we are causing the planet before it’s too late. While some people believe we can find a middle ground between environmental conservation and economic development, or that future ...
An Analysis of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality: Vol. 1: The Will to Knowledge
1st Edition
By Rachele Dini, Chiara Briganti
August 17, 2017
Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century’s most innovative and wide-ranging thinkers. The qualities that made him one of the most-read and influential theorists of the modern age find full expression in History of Sexuality, the last project Foucault was able to complete before ...
An Analysis of Milton Friedman's The Role of Monetary Policy
1st Edition
By Nick Broten, John Collins
August 17, 2017
Milton Friedman was one of the most influential economists of all time – and his ideas had a huge impact on the economic policies of governments across the world. A key theorist of capitalism and its relationship to democratic freedoms, Friedman remains one of the most cited authorities in both ...
An Analysis of Odd Arne Westad's The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of our Times
1st Edition
By Patrick Glenn, Bryan Gibson
August 17, 2017
For those who lived through the Cold War period, and for many of the historians who study it, it seemed self-evident that the critical incidents that determined its course took place in the northern hemisphere, specifically in the face-off between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in Europe. In this view, ...
An Analysis of Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
1st Edition
By Alexander O’Connor
August 17, 2017
What makes good people capable of committing bad – even evil – acts? Few psychologists are as well-qualified to answer that question as Philip Zimbardo, a psychology professor who was not only the author of the classic Stanford Prison Experiment – which asked two groups of students to assume the ...