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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
A short account written in 1542 by the Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas, who had come to the Caribbean as a settler and later became a defender…
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On the American Indians (De Indis)
A public lecture, or relectio, given at the University of Salamanca in 1539 by the Dominican theologian Francisco de Vitoria, and printed after his death. It asks by…
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The Wealth of Nations
Smith's inquiry into what makes nations prosperous, published in 1776 after more than a decade of work. Book I opens with the pin factory to show how the…
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The Spirit of the Laws
A vast comparative study, in thirty-one books, of how laws relate to a people's government, climate, soil, religion, commerce and customs; Montesquieu worked on it for some twenty…
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On Crimes and Punishments
A short treatise, published anonymously in Livorno in 1764 by a young Milanese nobleman, that became the most widely read case for reforming criminal law in Europe. Beccaria…
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
A long open letter to a young French correspondent, attacking the French Revolution in its first year and its English admirers, above all the dissenting minister Richard Price.…
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Admonitions on Governing the People (Mongmin simseo)
A large practical manual for county magistrates by Jeong Yak-yong, known as Dasan, completed in 1818 near the end of his eighteen years of exile in Gangjin. Dasan,…
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Treatise on Establishing the Right Teaching for the Peace of the Land (Risshō ankoku ron)
A treatise by the Japanese monk Nichiren, submitted in 1260 to Hōjō Tokiyori, the retired regent who still led the Kamakura government. It is written as a dialogue…
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The Prince
A short handbook in 26 chapters, written in 1513 after Machiavelli lost his post in the Florentine republic, and dedicated to Lorenzo de' Medici. It first sorts principalities…
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Discourses on Livy
Machiavelli's longest political work, a commentary in three books on the first ten books of Livy's history of Rome. Where The Prince addresses a single ruler, the Discourses…
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