books.google.co.in - This book is an extended argument on the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative scholars of Latin American studies. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practice in the...http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Local_Histories_Global_Designs.html?id=rEW-9Kx2MZ8C&q=theory&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareLocal Histories/Global Designs