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Il partito radicale e il radicalismo italiano

Il partito radicale e il radicalismo italiano

Romolo Murri

Il volume di Romolo Murri è un saggio storico‑politico che si propone di analizzare la crisi e le prospettive…

The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I

The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I

Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The book is a scholarly exposition of Sun Yat‑sen’s political thought, focusing on his chief treatise, the…

Public opinion

Public opinion

Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion is a sweeping study of how societies construct and act upon collective…

Cover of Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772

Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772

Great Britain. Board of Trade

The work is a formal report of the British Board of Trade, presented in 1772 to the Crown on a petition…

The Great American Fraud The Patent Medicine Evil

The Great American Fraud The Patent Medicine Evil

Samuel Hopkins Adams

The work is a polemical exposé that sets out to dismantle the patent‑medicine industry of turn‑of‑the‑century…

Cover of Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4

Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4

Thomas Jefferson

This volume gathers a series of Thomas Jefferson’s private letters and memoranda, drawn from the “Memoir,…

Anarchism

Anarchism

Paul Eltzbacher

The work is a scholarly survey of anarchist thought compiled by Paul Eltzbacher, whose own chapters are…

The government class book Designed for the instruction of youth in the principles of constitutional government and the rights and duties of citizens.

The government class book Designed for the instruction of youth in the principles of constitutional government and the rights and duties of citizens.

Andrew W. Young

The work is a nineteenth‑century civics textbook, explicitly written to fill the gap the author saw in…

Cover of A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

Karl Marx

Karl Marx’s A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy is a scholarly work that revisits and expands…

Cover of The heart of the railroad problem
 The history of railway discrimination in the United States, the chief efforts at control and the remedies proposed, with hints from other countries

The heart of the railroad problem The history of railway discrimination in the United States, the chief efforts at control and the remedies proposed, with hints from other countries

Frank Parsons

Frank Parsons’ “The Heart of the Railroad Problem” is a scholarly investigation into the long‑standing…

Cover of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States

Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States

Benjamin Harrison

This volume gathers the public utterances of Benjamin Harrison, the twenty‑third President of the United…

Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England

Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England

John Milton

This work is John Milton’s 1644 parliamentary address defending the freedom to print without prior licensing.

Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado

Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado

Various

The volume is a curated anthology assembled by philosophy faculty at the University of Colorado, intended as…

The Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis A History with Documents

The Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis A History with Documents

Karl Nordlund

The work is a scholarly history of the Swedish‑Norwegian Union crisis, written by Karl Nordlund in 1905.

Cover of American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date: embodying a history of all the political parties, with their views and records on all important questions. Great speeches on all great issues, and tabulated history and chronological events.

American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date: embodying a history of all the political parties, with their views and records on all important questions. Great speeches on all great issues, and tabulated history and chronological events.

Cooper, Thomas V. (Thomas Valentine); Fenton, Hector T.

The work is a sweeping reference that sets out, from the colonial era onward, a systematic account of every…

The History of the Fabian Society

The History of the Fabian Society

Edward R. Pease

Edward R. Pease’s The History of the Fabian Society is a scholarly chronicle of the British socialist…

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Karl Marx

The work is Karl Marx’s analytical essay on the French political upheavals of 1848‑1851, using the February…

Cover of The history of England, from the accession of George III. to the close of Pitt's first administration, 1760-1801

The history of England, from the accession of George III. to the close of Pitt's first administration, 1760-1801

William Hunt

This volume is the tenth in a twelve‑part series that sets out a comprehensive political history of England…

Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913

Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913

Cromer, Evelyn Baring, Earl of

The work is a series of political and literary essays assembled between 1908 and 1913 by Evelyn Baring, Earl…

What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

P.-J. Proudhon

What you hold in your hands is a dense philosophical treatise that sets out, from the outset, a systematic…

Cover of Beer, its history and its economic value as a national beverage

Beer, its history and its economic value as a national beverage

F. W. Salem

The work is a scholarly treatise that frames beer as a temperance‑friendly alternative to distilled spirits.

Cover of The Goslings: A Study of the American Schools

The Goslings: A Study of the American Schools

Upton Sinclair

The Goslings is a polemical study of American public education written by Upton Sinclair, the famed…

The Mother of Parliaments

The Mother of Parliaments

Harry Graham

The work is a comprehensive survey of England’s parliamentary development, presented as a single‑volume guide…

Cover of Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 1
 With a Memoir and Index

Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 1 With a Memoir and Index

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The work is a sprawling collection of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s early critical, historical, and…