Political Science
United Nations Agreements
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United Nations
The Charter of the United Nations signed at San Francisco on 26 June 1945 is the constituent treaty of the United Nations. It is as well one…
A History of Our Own Times
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Justin Mccarthy
An engaging history of Great Britain in the heyday of Queen Victoria and of her empire by the liberal Irish Member of Parliament, Justin McC…
England Since Waterloo
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John Arthur Ransome Marriott
"England Since Waterloo" by Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott (1859-1945) was first published in 1913 and went through many edition…
A Short History of Germany
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Mary Platt Parmele
Mary Platt Parmele brings to life the history of Germany and its rise to prominence in Europe. From scheming nobles to treaties created unde…
The New Freedom
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Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Woodrow Wilson
The book is not a discussion of measures or of programs. It is an attempt to express the new spirit of our politics and to set forth, in lar…
Edward the First
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Thomas Frederick Tout
Edward I of England (1239-1307) will always be remembered as the "Hammer of the Scots" who condemned William Wallace (Braveheart) …
The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught
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Charles C. Nott
Charles Pinckney, member of the South Carolina legislature, Confederation Congress, U.S. Congress, and notably the Constitutional Convention…
Causes Of The American Civil War
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Various
Some of the states who rebelled against the Federal Government in the American Civil War issued statements by nascent governing bodies expla…
Bismarck and the Origin of the German Empire
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Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke
Despite its brevity, this Little Blue Book #142 by the Oxford historian, Sir F.M. Powicke, provides a valuable overview of the political his…
A Short History of Mediaeval Italy
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Oscar Browning
The High Middle Ages in Italy, 1250-1409, were a time of incessant strife between rival city-states, some the Ghibelline allies of the Holy …
De Vorst
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Niccolò Machiavelli
Het boek bevat raadgevingen voor vorsten over hoe ze hun staat moeten besturen. De voornaamste bezigheid van de vorst moest volgens hem het …
The Making of the British Empire
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Arthur Hassall
At its height, the British Empire was the largest in history. This short volume traces its development through the long 18th century, from 1…
The English Restoration and Louis XIV
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Osmund Airy
In this trim volume the British historian, Osmund Airy writes of the period between 1648 and 1679 when Cardinal Mazarin, having concluded th…
Six Radical Thinkers
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John Maccunn
A radical is a person who holds extreme or unconventional convictions and who advocates fundamental political, economic, or social reforms. …
Woman and War
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Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a South African writer born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She is credited with being the first Inte…
Sämtliche Schriften
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Carl Von Ossietzky
Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938), Journalist, Pazifist und Friedensnobelpreisträger [1935], zählte zu den herausragenden Persön…
Mother Earth
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Max Baginski, Edwin Bjorkman, Frances Maule Bjorkman, John Russell Coryell, Emma Goldman, Maxim Gorky, Bolton Hall, Harry May Kelly and Grace Potter
"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literat…
The Citizen's Almanac
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United States Department Of Homeland Security, United States Of America and U. S. Citizenship And Immigration Services
New citizens of the United States were given this pamphlet when they became citizens. The Citizen's Almanac contains information on the hist…
Life of Prince Metternich
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George Bruce Malleson
Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859) first foreign minister, and then chancellor of the Austrian Empire was a great diplomat: crafty, manipula…
The Story of Gladstone's Life
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Justin Mccarthy
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), four times Prime Minister of Great Britain, dominated the Liberal Party for thirty years, but ultimatel…