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belie

Yet this is largely belied by his account of its actual trajectory.

—p.130 Kaleidoscopics of Power (127) by Anders Stephanson
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adjudication

The initial polarity here is between ideology along Durkheimian lines as a power-enhancing means of solidarity and cohesion in social formations, and ideology as Weberian value-rationality, where there can be no adjudication between ultimate values.

—p.129 Kaleidoscopics of Power (127) by Anders Stephanson
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dialectic

history as civilizational leaps has typically been a dialectical process of material advances followed by marcher lord conquest and a greater geographical stage (empire)

—p.129 Kaleidoscopics of Power (127) by Anders Stephanson
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vertiginous

Growth averaged nearly 5 per cent between 2010 and 2014, while inequality remained vertiginous.

—p.111 The Battle of Bogotá (103) missing author
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scion

Uribe’s senior by one year, Santos is the scion of an elite family

—p.109 The Battle of Bogotá (103) missing author
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