Books like Debt: The First 5,000 Years
12 books with a reading profile close to Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber. Deep and outward-looking; a moderate read.
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
David Graeber and David Wengrow challenge the conventional narrative that human progress follows a linear path from egalitarian bands of hunter-gatherers to complex, hierarchical states.
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Unthinking Social Science
by Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
Immanuel Wallerstein argues that the analytical structures established in the nineteenth century now obstruct our ability to interpret the modern world-system.
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The Road to Serfdom
Also deep and outward-looking · academic, economics
Friedrich Hayek argues that government economic planning inevitably leads to the erosion of individual liberty and the rise of totalitarianism.
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Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, Volume One
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
In this study, Richard Taruskin challenges Igor Stravinsky’s self-cultivated image as a detached European cosmopolitan by reconnecting his early development to specific Russian cultural frameworks.
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Geopolitics
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
John Agnew analyzes how the spatial distribution of power shifted from the rise of modern states in the sixteenth century to the post-Cold War era.
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The Wretched of the Earth
by Frantz Fanon
Also deep · history, academic
Frantz Fanon analyzes the psychiatric and sociological effects of colonization on both the occupier and the occupied.
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Orientalism
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
Edward Said analyzes how Western academic and artistic institutions created a distorted, artificial image of the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa to justify imperial expansion.
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The Federalist Papers
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
The Federalist Papers comprise eighty-five essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to advocate for the ratification of the United States Constitution.
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
Daron Acemoğlu and James Robinson argue that the fundamental driver of a country’s economic success is the nature of its political and economic institutions.
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Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
Stephen J.
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
Angela Davis argues for the total abolition of the prison system, asserting that incarceration serves as a tool for social control rather than a solution to crime.
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