Political Science
England Since Waterloo
"England Since Waterloo" by Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott (1859-1945) was first published in 1913 and went through many edition…
Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production
Capital, Volume I is the first of three volumes in Karl Marx’s monumental work, Das Kapital, and the only volume to be published during his …
The Old Regime and the Revolution
A calm, philosophical inquiry into the causes of the French Revolution, and the working of the Old Regime. In this work, M. de Tocqueville h…
Political Ideals
This is a book by the famous 20th century British philosopher Bertrand Russell on Political Ideals. It was written during the course of Worl…
Democracy
Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the anonymous author of Democracy, which had been published to great …
On War
On War is a seminal exploration of the philosophy and strategy behind warfare, penned by the Prussian military theorist Carl Von Clausewitz.…
Essay on the Trial by Jury
FOR more than six hundred years that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutiona…
The I.W.W.
“We must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, ‘Abolition of the wage system’”The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), membe…
The Social Contract
The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized a…
Cardinal Wolsey
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473-1530) will always be remembered as the Lord Chancellor who fell from power when he failed to obtain the annulme…
Sybil, or the Two Nations
Sybil is one of the most prominent political novels of the mid-nineteenth century, taking as its subject the "condition of England"…
The Machine
Upton Sinclair is best known for his novel The Jungle, an expose of the meatpacking industry. He was also a playwright whose works for the s…
Leviathan
In Books 3 and 4 of Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes elaborates on the political philosophy set forth in the first two books, by considering the nat…
Propaganda
"Propaganda" incorporates psychological manipulation and social sciences to examine ways of manipulating masses of people. Bernays…
Letters on England
Voltaire spent his early thirties in England as an exile following the Bastille imprisonment for his satires. With passionate admiration, he…
Statesman
Statesman is a philosophical dialogue by Plato that explores the nature of leadership and governance. Through a conversation between Socrati…
Irish Impressions
“For the Irish Question has never been discussed in England. Men have discussed Home Rule; but those who advocated it most warmly, and as I …
Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War
Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War offers a unique perspective on one of the most pivotal conflicts in American history. Authore…
Selected Essays
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.&…
The Emancipation Proclamation
On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, a pivotal document in American history that declared the…