Politics

American Institutions and Their Influence

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville’s American Institutions and Their Influence is a scholarly examination of United States…

John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address is a single‑volume record of a presidential speech delivered in January…

Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The volume is a collection of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s parliamentary speeches, assembled after a bitter…

The life of Mazzini

Bolton King

This work is a biographical study of Giuseppe Mazzini, the Italian revolutionary, written by Bolton King and…

The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature

Maurice, Arthur Bartlett; Cooper, Frederic Taber

Anticipations of the reaction of mechanical and scientific progress upon human life and thought

H. G. Wells

The work is a speculative essay that treats the future of technology and society as a subject for systematic…

The Framework of Home Rule

Erskine Childers

The work is a political treatise that sets out a reasoned case for Irish self‑government.

A Letter to a Hindu

Leo Tolstoy

The work is a literal translation of Leo Tolstoy’s reply to an inquiry from the editor of Free Hindustan,…

Our Presidents and how we make them

Alexander K. McClure

This work is a sweeping political history that treats every United States presidential election as a mirror…

Races and Immigrants in America

John R. Commons

Socialism as it is: A Survey of the World-wide Revolutionary Movement

William English Walling

The work is a systematic survey of the worldwide revolutionary movement, presented as a study of socialism in…

Fields, factories and workshops: or, Industry combined with agriculture and brain work with manual work

Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

Fields, Factories and Workshops is a scholarly treatise that blends economic analysis with a sweeping survey…

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)

Edmund Burke

The volume gathers a series of Edmund Burke’s parliamentary speeches and accompanying notes from the 1770s,…

The Promise of American Life

Herbert David Croly

Herbert David Croley’s The Promise of American Life is a nonfiction study that situates the United States…

The Catholic World, Vol. 13, April to September, 1871

Various

The Catholic World, Vol. 13 (April‑September 1871) is a nineteenth‑century Catholic periodical that gathers a…

The Battle with the Slum

Jacob A. Riis

Jacob A. Riis’s The Battle with the Slum is a nonfiction follow‑up to his groundbreaking 1889 expose How the…

The English Constitution

Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot’s The English Constitution is a scholarly examination of Britain’s political system as it…

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)

Edmund Burke

The volume gathers a series of Edmund Burke’s political papers and reflections dated between 1792 and 1793, a…

The Catholic World, Vol. 18, October, 1873, to March, 1874. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science

Various

The History of Tammany Hall Second Edition

Gustavus Myers

The work is a painstakingly researched narrative of New York’s most notorious political machine, Tammany…

A history of socialism

Thomas Kirkup

Thomas Kirkup’s A History of Socialism is a scholarly overview that favors the development of core ideas over…

Napoleon the Little

Victor Hugo

The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It

Hinton Rowan Helper

The work is a polemical treatise on the institution of slavery, written in 1857 by Hinton Rowan Helper, a…

Socialism and Democracy in Europe

Samuel Peter Orth

Samuel P. Orth’s Socialism and Democracy in Europe is a scholarly survey of the socialist movement as it…