Political Science
What is Industrial Democracy
An explanation of the concept of industrial democracy and its relation to capitalism. (Summary by progressingamerica)
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…
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 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…
The World’s Famous Orations
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations…
The American Credo
The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind, published in 1920, is a commentary on US politics, specif…
The Theory of Social Revolutions
Brooks Adams (1848-1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in p…
Finland and the Tsars
Fisher’s treatment of the history of Finland, in the context of its relations with Russia, was released in 1899—at the start of the first at…
Modern England
This short survey opens with the accession of that portly spendthrift, King George IV. With British support, Greece becomes independent. The…
Reflections on Violence
Considered one of the more controversial books from the 20th century, Sorel's Reflections on Violence argues in favor of uprisings and strik…
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…
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…
America's Retreat from Victory
Senator Joseph McCarthy examines the life of General George Catlett Marshall, particularly his role in government beginning in 1945 as Unite…
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…
Amendments to the United States Constitution
The Constitution has a total of 27 amendments. The first ten, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified simultaneously. The fo…
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 Gray Mills of Farley
The Gray Mills of Farley by Sarah Orne Jewett offers a keen exploration of labor relations in a small New England town during the late 19th …
Russian Realities and Problems
This book is a compilation of scholarly lectures by distinguished experts delivered at Cambridge in August 1916. The titles of the lectures…
The English Constitution
The English Constitution is an extremely accessible work of political and legal science by Walter Bagehot, first published in serialized for…
Anti-Dictator
Étienne de La Boétie was the closest friend of Michel de Montaigne and the subject of the latter's famous essay "On Frien…