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One-Dimensional Man
A work of social criticism, subtitled Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, written in the United States during the post-war boom. Marcuse argues that modern industrial…
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Capital, Volume I
The only volume of Capital that Marx saw through the press; the second and third were edited by Engels from his drafts. It is a critique of political…
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The Communist Manifesto
A short pamphlet written for the Communist League and published in German in London in February 1848, just before revolutions broke out across Europe. It opens by announcing…
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The Subjection of Women
A book-length essay written in 1861 and published in 1869, in which Mill argues for full legal and social equality between women and men. He credited much of…
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Civil Disobedience
An essay first given as a lecture in Concord in 1848 and published in 1849 as 'Resistance to Civil Government'; the title 'Civil Disobedience' was used in a…
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Democracy in America
A two-volume study of American society and government by a young French aristocrat who travelled through the United States in 1831–32 with Gustave de Beaumont, officially to report…
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Rights of Man
Paine's reply to Burke's Reflections, published in two parts in 1791 and 1792 and read very widely in Britain and America. Part One defends the French Revolution and…
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The Federalist Papers
Eighty-five essays published in New York newspapers in 1787 and 1788 under the shared pen name Publius, to persuade voters to ratify the new United States Constitution. Alexander…
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Perpetual Peace
A short essay, published in 1795 soon after Prussia made peace with revolutionary France, and written in the form of a draft peace treaty. The title comes from…
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A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
A work in two parts by the English writer Mary Astell, the first published anonymously in 1694 and signed only 'by a Lover of Her Sex'. Its starting…
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