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Books like Qu'est-ce que la propriété?

Loved Qu'est-ce que la propriété? by P.-J. Proudhon? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from politics & society, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    The New Jim Crow

    Michelle Alexander · 2010 · Politics & Society

    How mass incarceration recreates racial caste in America; a powerful, much-cited argument.

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    Between the World and Me

    Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015 · Politics & Society

    A letter to a son about being Black in America; urgent, lyrical and unflinching.

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    The bravo

    James Fenimore Cooper · 1831 · Politics & Society

    Originally published in 1831, this novel is set in Venice in the bygone days of the Doges. It was inspired by Cooper's travels in Italy. The author has intended to give his countrymen, writes Cooper i

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    Life of George Washington

    Washington Irving · 1850 · Politics & Society

    Originally published in five volumes between 1853 and 1859, it is a treasure chest of information on Washington and the Civil War. This work is presumeably the most intimate and fascinating biography

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    Romola

    George Eliot · 1863 · Politics & Society

    Eliot’s only historical novel, set in 15th century Florence under the rule of the Medicis, blends fact with fiction as the reader follows the almost saint-like Romola and the amoral and feckless Tito

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    Max Havelaar of de koffijveilingen der Nederlansche handelmaatschappij

    Multatuli · 1868 · Politics & Society

    Max Havelaar; or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (Dutch: Max Havelaar; of, De koffi-veilingen der Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappy) is an 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Edu

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    Organon der rationellen Heilkunde

    Samuel Hahnemann · 1810 · Politics & Society

    Organon der rationellen Heilkunde (Dresden 1810). Spätere, jeweils vermehrte und veränderte Auflagen unter dem Titel: [Organon der Heilkunst][1]. [1]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL13116389W/Organon_

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    The Gilded Age

    Mark Twain · 1873 · Politics & Society

    A biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America in which Twain and his neighbor attack the greed, lust, and naivete of their time.

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    The way we live now

    Anthony Trollope · 1875 · Politics & Society

    From a review of the Anthony Trollope canon in The Economist (2020/04/08 edition): *“The Way We Live Now” (1875) is as much a portrait of the last few decades as it is of the high Victorian age, and e

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    A Century Of Dishonor

    Helen Hunt Jackson · 1881 · Politics & Society

    Originally published over 100 years ago, A Century of Dishonor is Helen Jackson’s eye- opening sketch of the U.S. government’s often shameful mishandling of what was called the “Indian problem”. Using

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