Hier et demain: Pensées Brèves

The History of Freedom, and Other Essays

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

The work is a curated anthology of Lord Acton’s essays, drawn from a range of nineteenth‑century periodicals…

The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth

J. B. Bury

The work is a scholarly investigation into the concept of progress as a driving force of Western…

The Ruins; Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature

C.-F. Volney

Volney’s The Ruins; Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature is an…

The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History

Brooks Adams

The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History

G. E. Partridge

An inquiry into the permanent causes of the decline and fall of powerful and wealthy nations: Designed to shew how the prosperity of the British empire may be prolonged

William Playfair