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The Prince

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

The work is a historical‑political treatise that traces the life of Niccolò Machiavelli against the turbulent…

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Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan is a foundational treatise of political science that opens with a personal…

The Souls of Black Folk

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

The work is a nonfiction meditation on the condition of African Americans at the turn of the twentieth…

Second Treatise of Government

Second Treatise of Government

John Locke

John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government is a foundational work of political philosophy that argues against…

The Governments of Europe

The Governments of Europe

Frederic Austin Ogg

Frederic Austin Ogg’s The Governments of Europe offers a scholarly survey of political structures, beginning…

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The Philippines a Century Hence

José Rizal

The work is a nonfiction essay by José Rizal, the Philippine nationalist who also authored the novels Noli Me…

Anarchism and Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman’s Anarchism and Other Essays is a polemical collection that opens with a vivid courtroom…

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The Roman assemblies from their origin to the end of the Republic

George Willis Botsford

The work is a scholarly monograph that sets out, for the first time in a single volume, a systematic study of…

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Washington Confidential

Lait, Jack; Mortimer, Lee

Washington Confidential is a hard‑boiled exposé that treats the nation’s capital as a crime‑infested…

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Democracy in America — Volume 1

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America is a sweeping study of the political and social fabric of the…

The Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto

Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich

The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet that sets out the theory and aims of the communist movement…

India, Its Life and Thought

India, Its Life and Thought

John P. Jones

John P. Jones’s India, Its Life and Thought is a scholarly survey of Indian society as seen through the eyes…

My own story

My own story

Emmeline Pankhurst

My Own Story is an autobiographical account by Emmeline Pankhurst, the leading British suffragette, that…

Frenzied Finance, Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated

Frenzied Finance, Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated

Thomas William Lawson

Frenzied Finance, Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated is a nonfiction exposé that dives into the tangled web of…

Utopia

Utopia

More, Thomas, Saint

Thomas More’s Utopia is a sixteenth‑century political satire that begins with a detailed portrait of the…

The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)

The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)

Brodrick, George C. (George Charles); Fotheringham, John Knight

The work is a scholarly political history of Britain covering the period from Addington’s administration…

The Jewish State

The Jewish State

Theodor Herzl

The work is a political pamphlet by Theodor Herzl, first issued in Vienna in 1896 as *Der Judenstaat* and…

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Nationalismus

Rabindranath Tagore

Dieses Werk ist ein essayistischer Beitrag Rabindranath Tagores zum Thema Nationalismus, verfasst in den…

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Common Sense

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense is a polemical pamphlet printed in Philadelphia in early 1776, aimed at the…

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle’s *Past and Present* is a sweeping historical essay that opens with a vivid, almost theatrical…

Union and Democracy

Union and Democracy

Allen Johnson

Allen Johnson’s Union and Democracy is a scholarly survey of the United States from the end of the…

The Federalist Papers

The Federalist Papers

Hamilton, Alexander; Jay, John; Madison, James

The Federalist Papers are a series of essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay in the…

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Powers of the President during crises

Smith, J. Malcolm (John Malcolm); Cotter, Cornelius P.

The work is a scholarly study of the United States president’s emergency authority, tracing statutory…

State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 1 (of 2)

State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 1 (of 2)

The work is a curated anthology of historic British state trials, assembled by H. L.