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Politics & society
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Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality
A collection of seven essays, published in Lima in 1928 by the founder of the journal Amauta and of the Peruvian Socialist Party, which applies Marxist analysis to…
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A Theology of Liberation
The book that gave liberation theology its name, written by a Peruvian Catholic priest and published in Lima in 1971; the English translation by Caridad Inda and John…
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The Darker Side of Western Modernity
A scholarly book by the Argentine-born semiotician, subtitled Global Futures, Decolonial Options. Its central claim is that modernity and coloniality are two sides of one process: since 1492…
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The Jamaica Letter
A long letter that Bolívar wrote in Kingston in September 1815, in exile after a defeat, replying to questions from Henry Cullen, an English-born merchant on the island.…
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Women and Economics
A book-length essay, subtitled A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, by the American writer and lecturer best known…
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Return to the Source
A short collection of speeches by the agronomist and leader of the independence movement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, published in 1973, the year he was assassinated. Its…
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I Write What I Like
A posthumous collection of writings by the South African leader of the Black Consciousness movement, edited by his friend Father Aelred Stubbs and published after Biko's death in…
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The Road to Serfdom
A polemical book, written in Britain during the Second World War and dedicated to the socialists of all parties, arguing that central economic planning leads toward tyranny. Hayek…
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
A study in historical sociology, first published as articles in 1904 and 1905 and revised in 1920, asking why modern rational capitalism arose first in the Protestant West.…
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Politics as a Vocation
A lecture Weber gave in Munich in January 1919 to a student audience, in the turmoil after Germany's defeat and revolution. He defines the state as a human…
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