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Karl Marx: An Essay - Harold J. LASKI
Karl Marx: An Essay - Harold J. LASKI
- Author: Harold J. LASKI
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
Born in Manchester in 1893, Harold Laski was a leading figure in the left-wing of British socialism in the first half of the 20th century. An executive member of the Fabian Society and member of the Socialist League faction of the Labour Party, he...
The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians (Spartans) - Xenophon
The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians (Spartans) - Xenophon
- Author: Xenophon
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Political Science
The Polity of the Lacedaemonians talks about the laws and institutions created by Lycurgus, which train and develop Spartan citizens from birth to old age. It only because of Xenophon that we have most of our knowledge about the Spartans. Xenophon...
Sabotage - Elizabeth Gurley FLYNN
Sabotage - Elizabeth Gurley FLYNN
- Author: Elizabeth Gurley FLYNN
- Genre: Education / Political Science
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a leading American socialist and feminist. Her book "Sabotage, the conscious withdrawal of the workers' industrial efficiency" was written to explain the utility and legality of sabotage. (Summary by Enko)...
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 - Undefined
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Political Science
"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature". Founded in early 1906 and initially edited by Emma Goldman, an activist in the United States, it published...
A Theologico-Political Treatise - Benedict de SPINOZA
A Theologico-Political Treatise - Benedict de SPINOZA
- Author: Benedict de SPINOZA
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
Written by the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus or Theologico-Political Treatise was one of the most controversial texts of the early modern period. It was a preemptive defense of Spinoza's later work, Ethics,...
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume I - Justin McCarthy
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume I - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: War & Military / Law / Political Science
An engaging history of Great Britain in the heyday of Queen Victoria and of her empire by the liberal Irish Member of Parliament, Justin McCarthy. He brings us the larger than life personalities of the day, Victoria and Albert, Russell and Peel,...
The Conquest of Bread - Peter KROPOTKIN
The Conquest of Bread - Peter KROPOTKIN
- Author: Peter KROPOTKIN
- Genre: Political Science
In this work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the fallacies of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism, and how he believes they create poverty and scarcity while promoting privilege. He goes on to propose a more decentralised...
The Philippics - Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Philippics - Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Genre: Political Science / Antiquity / Short non-fiction
A philippic is a fiery, damning speech delivered to condemn a particular political actor. The term originates with Demosthenes, who delivered an attack on Philip II of Macedon in the 4th century BCE.Cicero consciously modeled his own attacks on Mark...
Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 - Friedrich Engels
Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 - Friedrich Engels
- Author: Friedrich Engels
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
This is Engels' first book (since considered a classic account of England's working class in the industrial age), which argues that workers paid a heavy price for the industrial revolution that swept the country. Engels wrote the piece while staying...
Unidentified Flying Objects - UNITED STATES FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Unidentified Flying Objects - UNITED STATES FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
- Author: UNITED STATES FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science
Through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) this series of communications has been de-classified and made public. Most names have been omitted, however much information of the sightings of UFOs in 1947 can be gleaned from these communications...
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York - Jacob A. Riis
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York - Jacob A. Riis
- Author: Jacob A. Riis
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future...
The Masque of Anarchy - Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Masque of Anarchy - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Political Science
The Masque of Anarchy was Shelley's response to the Peterloo massacre at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, where 18 died and hundreds were injured, after Hussars charged into a rally for parliamentary reform. Written in Italy in 1819, the poem was not...
Final Report of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (Watergate Report), Volume 3 - Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign A
Final Report of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (Watergate Report), Volume 3 - Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign A
- Author: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign A
- Genre: Political Science
This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities based on its investigation of the Watergate break-in and coverup, illegal and improper campaign practices and financing, and...
Presidential Farewell and Last Addresses - Various
Presidential Farewell and Last Addresses - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Literary Collections / Political Science
This collection will put in one place, all the Farewell (or last) Addresses made by each of the 43 ex-US presidents.The first, George Washington's "Farewell Address", issued as a public letter in 1796, was one of the most influential statements of...
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1829 - 1836) - Andrew JACKSON
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1829 - 1836) - Andrew JACKSON
- Author: Andrew JACKSON
- Genre: Literary Collections / Political Science
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows...
The Prince (Version 3) - Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince (Version 3) - Niccolò Machiavelli
- Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Genre: Philosophy / Political Science
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus...
Philip Augustus - William Holden HUTTON
Philip Augustus - William Holden HUTTON
- Author: William Holden HUTTON
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
Philip Augustus (Philip II of France 1165-1223), grandfather of Saint Louis, was one of France's greatest kings. While England's Henry II was locked in combat with his rebellious offspring, Philip and his loyal son, Louis, steadily consolidated the...
Common Sense (version 2) - Thomas PAINE
Common Sense (version 2) - Thomas PAINE
- Author: Thomas PAINE
- Genre: Political Science
Thomas Paine has a claim to the title The Father of the American Revolution because of Common Sense, the pro-independence monograph pamphlet he anonymously published on January 10, 1776; signed "Written by an Englishman", the pamphlet became an...
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 3 - Various
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 3 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
This is the third LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings of 10 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1601 and 1960. Readings are of speeches...
Essays on Political Economy - Frédéric BASTIAT
Essays on Political Economy - Frédéric BASTIAT
- Author: Frédéric BASTIAT
- Genre: Political Science
Bastiat asserted that the only purpose of government is to defend the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property. From this definition, Bastiat concluded that the law cannot defend life, liberty and property if it promotes socialist...
The Gray Mills of Farley - Sarah Orne Jewett
The Gray Mills of Farley - Sarah Orne Jewett
- Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
- Genre: Historical Fiction / *Non-fiction / Political Science
As contemporary today as it was over a century ago, this relatively unsentimental tale of labor relations still packs a punch. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
A Modern Utopia - H. G. Wells
A Modern Utopia - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Political Science
H. G. Wells's proposal for social reform was the formation of a world state, a concept that would increasingly preoccupy him throughout the remainder of his life. One of his most ambitious early attempts at portraying a world state was A Modern...
Wage-Labour and Capital - Karl MARX
Wage-Labour and Capital - Karl MARX
- Author: Karl MARX
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science
Orignally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give an overview of Marx’s central threories regarding the economic relationships between workers and capitalists. These theories outlined include...
Democracy - An American Novel - Henry Brooks Adams
Democracy - An American Novel - Henry Brooks Adams
- Author: Henry Brooks Adams
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Political Science
Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the anonymous author of Democracy, which had been published to great acclaim in 1880. Though the book avoids dates and the characters are fictitious, the setting is no doubt that...
Perpetual Peace, A Philosophic Essay (Trueblood Translation) - Immanuel Kant
Perpetual Peace, A Philosophic Essay (Trueblood Translation) - Immanuel Kant
- Author: Immanuel Kant
- Genre: Political Science / Modern
This essay, written in 1795, puts forth a plan for a lasting peace between nations and peoples. Kant puts forth necessary means to any peace, and argues that nations can be brought into federation with one another without loss of sovereignty. In one...
Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy - John Ruskin
Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy - John Ruskin
- Author: John Ruskin
- Genre: Political Science
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Unto This Last is an important work of political economic though that influenced Gandhi, among others....
The Federalist Papers - James MADISON
The Federalist Papers - James MADISON
- Author: James MADISON
- Genre: Political Science
The Federalist Papers (correctly known as The Federalist) are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York...
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story - Henry MORGENTHAU
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story - Henry MORGENTHAU
- Author: Henry MORGENTHAU
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science / Modern (20th C)
Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important primary historical resource for the study of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Genocide....
Inheritors - Susan Glaspell
Inheritors - Susan Glaspell
- Author: Susan Glaspell
- Genre: Plays / *Non-fiction / Political Science
Inheritors, (1921) by American dramatist Susan Glaspell concerns the legacy of an idealistic farmer who wills his highly coveted midwest farmland to the establishment of a college (Act I.) Forty years later, when his granddaughter stands up for the...
Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty - Imbert de SAINT-AMAND
Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty - Imbert de SAINT-AMAND
- Author: Imbert de SAINT-AMAND
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
Paris in 1792 is no longer what it was in 1789. In 1789, the old French society was still brilliant. The past endured beside the present. Neither names nor escutcheons, neither liveries nor places at court, had been suppressed. The aristocracy and...
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln - Francis Fisher BROWNE
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln - Francis Fisher BROWNE
- Author: Francis Fisher BROWNE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
This detailed biography covers the places in Lincoln's life: Indiana, Illinois, Washington. It also traces his various roles as storekeeper, serviceman, state legislator, lawyer, politician, Republican Party leader, and of course President. Along...
England Since Waterloo - John Arthur Ransome MARRIOTT
England Since Waterloo - John Arthur Ransome MARRIOTT
- Author: John Arthur Ransome MARRIOTT
- Genre: War & Military / Law / Political Science
"England Since Waterloo" by Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott (1859-1945) was first published in 1913 and went through many editions. The author taught history at Worcester College, Oxford for thirty-six years and served as a Conservative member of...
Jailed For Freedom - Doris STEVENS
Jailed For Freedom - Doris STEVENS
- Author: Doris STEVENS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
A first-hand account of the 1913-1919 campaign of American suffragettes, detailing their treatment at the hands of the courts, and the true conditions of their incarceration. (Summary by Sarah Jennings)...
The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized and administered. Rousseau sets forth, in his characteristically brazen and iconoclastic manner, the case for...
The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization - George F. DILLON
The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization - George F. DILLON
- Author: George F. DILLON
- Genre: Political Science / Christianity - Other
The War of Anti-Christ with the Church and Christian Civilization is a book written in 1885 by an Irishman, George F. Dillon, DD. It was republished by Fr. Denis Fahey in 1950 as Grand Orient Freemasonry Unmasked as the Secret Power Behind...
The Roman Empire of the Second Century: Or, The Age of the Antonines - William Wolfe CAPES
The Roman Empire of the Second Century: Or, The Age of the Antonines - William Wolfe CAPES
- Author: William Wolfe CAPES
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
This short overview of the Roman Empire from AD 96-180 opens as the murderers of Domitian raise to power the wise old senator, Nerva. Ignoring assassination rumors, his successor, the brave soldier Trajan, "went about the streets almost unguarded"...
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1790 - 1816) - Undefined
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1790 - 1816) - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Literary Collections / Political Science
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows...
The 9/11 Commission Report - THE 9/11 COMMISSION
The 9/11 Commission Report - THE 9/11 COMMISSION
- Author: THE 9/11 COMMISSION
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
9/11 Commission Report, formally titled Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is the official report of the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was prepared by the National...
Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765) - William BLACKSTONE
Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765) - William BLACKSTONE
- Author: William BLACKSTONE
- Genre: Law / Political Science
The Commentaries on the Laws of England are an influential 18th century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1765-1769. The Commentaries were long regarded as the...
Third Class in Indian Railways - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Third Class in Indian Railways - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Author: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 – 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a philosophy firmly...