Political Science
Offences Against One's Self
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was a political radical and a leading theor…
A History of Our Own Times
The fourth and concluding volume of this history of Victorian Britain opens with the brutal repression in 1865 of a rebellion by ex-slaves i…
Modern England
This short survey opens with the accession of that portly spendthrift, King George IV. With British support, Greece becomes independent. The…
A Textbook of European History
This short work opens in 1815, at the close of a period of twenty-five years of almost continuous war. The Congress of Vienna assembled to c…
Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address
Long before he was President and having just started his law practice, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln delivered (January 27, 1838) a speech on …
Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution
Samuel Rawson Gardiner was an eminent British historian of the Victorian era whose works on the 17th century remain a respected source. This…
Prison & Prisoners
Constance Lytton worked along Emmeline Pankhurst for the cause of women's suffrage in England. Upset that she was getting preferential trea…
Technocracy
The word technocracy refers to a system of government by technical experts such as scientists, technologists, and engineers. William Henry S…
United Kingdom House of Lords Speeches
This collection comprises recordings of seven historic speeches given to the UK House of Lords between 1641 and 1945. Readings are of speech…
Ukraina and the Peace-conference
The 19th century was the Golden Age of Nationalism in Europe. By the end of the century many countries achieved their national self-determin…
The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy
Lothrop Stoddard's most famous treatise on race. Written in the aftermath of the First World War, Stoddard examines the racial trends of his…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome
Volume III of this History of the Papacy opens with the Council of Basel in revolt against Pope Eugenius IV, who doggedly defends papal auto…
What is Industrial Democracy
An explanation of the concept of industrial democracy and its relation to capitalism. (Summary by progressingamerica)
A History of American Political Theories
"A description and analysis of the characteristic types of political theory that have from time to time been dominant in American polit…
Friends of Ukraine Publications
A number of publications distributed by the Friends of Ukraine in the period after the First World War when the Ukraine was struggling for i…
Theodore Roosevelt
In this insightful biographical tribute, Henry Cabot Lodge reflects on the life and legacy of Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr., the …
Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society
De Cive ("On the citizen") is one of Thomas Hobbes's major works. "The book was published originally in Latin from Paris in 1…
Washington and His Colleagues
This next volume of the Chronicles of American series investigates Washington's development in the day to day world the various dimensions o…
The Masque of Anarchy
The Masque of Anarchy was Shelley's response to the Peterloo massacre at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, where 18 died and hundreds were inju…