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By: Annie Wood Besant (1847-1933) | |
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The Case for India |
By: John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) | |
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A Problem in Modern Ethics
“Society lies under the spell of ancient terrorism and coagulated errors. Science is either wilfully hypocritical or radically misinformed.” John Addington Symonds struck many an heroic note in this courageous (albeit anonymously circulated) essay. He is a worthy Virgil guiding the reader through the Inferno of suffering which emerging medico-legal definitions of the sexually deviant were prepared to inflict on his century and on the one which followed. Symonds pleads for sane human values in... |
By: Percy Fitzpatrick (1862-1931) | |
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The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs | |
By: Johanna Brandt (1876-1964) | |
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The Petticoat Commando
In introducing the English version of this book I venture to bespeak a welcome for it, not only for the light which it throws on some little-known incidents of the South African war, but also because of the keen personal interest of the events recorded. It is more than a history. It is a dramatic picture of the hopes and fears, the devotion and bitterness with which some patriotic women in Pretoria watched and, as far as they could, took part in the war which was slowly drawing to its conclusion on the veld outside... |
By: Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) | |
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Industrial Conspiracies |
By: Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) | |
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Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society |
By: John R. Lynch (1847-1939) | |
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The Facts of Reconstruction
After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justice of the Peace, and then Mississippi State Representative. He was only 26 when he was elected to the US Congress in 1873. There, he continued to be an activist, introducing many bills and arguing on their behalf. Perhaps his greatest effort was in the long debate supporting the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to ban discrimination in public accommodations.In 1884 Lynch was the first African American nominated after a moving speech by Theodore Roosevelt to the position of Temporary Chairman of the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois... |
By: John Morley (1838-1923) | |
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The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 |
By: Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) | |
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Public Opinion
Public Opinion (1922), by Walter Lippman, is a critical assessment of functional democratic government, especially the irrational, and often self-serving, social perceptions that influence individual behavior, and prevent optimal societal cohesion. (Introduction by author) | |
Preface to Politics
This is the first book in the bibliography of Walter Lippmann, written three years after emerging from Harvard where he studied under the pragmatists Santayana and James. Although the work is a century old, the reader of today may still find in it, with its focus on practical human needs, a refreshing view towards the fundamental purpose (and persistent flaws) of politics, and indeed government itself, just as relevant and meaningful today as when it was written. |
By: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) | |
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What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government
What Is Property?: or, An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (French: Qu'est-ce que la propriété ? ou Recherche sur le principe du Droit et du Gouvernment) is an influential work of nonfiction on the concept of property and its relation to anarchist philosophy by the French anarchist and mutualist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, first published in 1840. In the book, Proudhon most famously declared that “property is theft”. Proudhon believed that the common conception of property conflated two distinct components which, once identified, demonstrated the difference between property used to further tyranny and property used to protect liberty... |
By: Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) | |
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Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 |
By: Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) | |
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Woman and the New Race
Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one point, even served jail time for importing birth control pills, then illegal, into the United States. Woman and the New Race is her treatise on how the control of population size would not only free women from the bondage of forced motherhood, but would elevate all of society. The original fight for birth control was closely tied to the labor movement as well as the Eugenics movement, and her book provides fascinating insight to a mostly-forgotten turbulent battle recently fought in American history. |
By: Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893) | |
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The Ancient Regime | |
The Modern Regime, Volume 1 | |
The Modern Regime, Volume 2 |
By: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) | |
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History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I |
By: Queen of Great Britain Victoria (1819-1901) | |
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The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 |
By: August Bebel (1840-1913) | |
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Woman under socialism |
By: Imbert de Saint-Amand (1834-1900) | |
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Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty
Paris in 1792 is no longer what it was in 1789. In 1789, the old French society was still brilliant. The past endured beside the present. Neither names nor escutcheons, neither liveries nor places at court, had been suppressed. The aristocracy and the Revolution lived face to face. In 1792, the scene has changed."France was now on the verge of the Reign of Terror (la Terreur), the violent years following the Revolution, and this book chronicles the terrible period of French history which culminated in the proclamation: "Royalty is abolished in France... |
By: Thomas W. Rolleston (1857-1920) | |
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Ireland and Poland A Comparison |
By: John Evelyn (1620-1706) | |
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An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661) |
By: Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) | |
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Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward history of the Confederate States of America and as an apologia for the causes that he believed led to and justified the American Civil War. Davis spared little detail in describing every aspect of the Confederate constitution and government, in addition to which he retold in detail numerous military campaigns... |
By: Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) | |
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Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi |
By: Émile Faguet (1847-1916) | |
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The Cult of Incompetence |
By: Joseph Hall (1574-1656) | |
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Ideal Commonwealths |
By: Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) | |
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition, and Duties of Women
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. Her life was short but full. She became the first editor of the transcendentalist journal The Dial in 1840, before joining the staff of the New York Tribune under Horace Greeley in 1844. By the time she was in her 30s, Fuller had earned a reputation as the best-read person in New England, male or female, and became the first woman allowed to use the library at Harvard College... |
By: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address | |
State of the Union Address |
By: Enrico Ferri (1859-1929) | |
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Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) |
By: Edward M. House (1858-1938) | |
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Philip Dru: Administrator
Philip Dru: Administrator: a Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935 is a futuristic political novel published anonymously in 1912 by Edward Mandell House, an American diplomat, politician and presidential foreign policy advisor. His book's hero leads the democratic western U.S. in a civil war against the plutocratic East, and becomes the dictator of America. Dru as dictator imposes a series of reforms that resemble the Bull Moose platform of 1912 and then vanishes. |
By: Alfred W. Pollard (1869-1948) | |
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The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution |
By: Richard W. Church (1815-1890) | |
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Bacon
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days ang progresses to his relationships with Queen Elizabeth and James I. It includes accounts of his positions as solicitor general, attorney-general, and chancellor. The book concludes with Bacon's failure, his overall philosophy, and summaries of his writings. |
By: John Spargo (1876-1966) | |
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Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles | |
The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg |
By: Ralph Centennius | |
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The Dominion in 1983 |
By: John T. Morse (1840-1937) | |
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John Quincy Adams
This biography contains three main sections. the first covers Adams's early years and his time as a diplomat--both in America and overseas. The second tells of his two careers as Secretary of State and President. The last involves his years in the House of Representatives. |
By: Howard B. (Howard Benjamin) Grose (1851-1939) | |
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Aliens or Americans? |
By: Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) | |
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City of the Sun
A dialogue between a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitallers and a Genoese Sea-captain, about the latter's voyage to a utopian city. |
By: George Washington (1732-1799) | |
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State of the Union Address |
By: Justin McCarthy (1830-1912) | |
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History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume 3
In Volume III of this series on the Hanoverian Kings, Justin McCarthy is joined by his son, Justin Hartly McCarthy, a liberal Irish MP like his father. Together they bring to life, poor stubborn George III, the outrageous radical, John Wilkes, the rebellious American Colonies, great-hearted Charles James Fox, the Gordon Riots which set London ablaze, Edmund Burke, Britain's problematic Indian policy, and the brave, enigmatic Younger Pitt, who faced national fears of the spread of revolution across the Channel from France and then confronted the imminent threat of invasion by the armies of Napoleon. |
By: Nathaniel W. Stephenson (1867-1935) | |
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Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North |
By: Alexander Johnston (1849-1889) | |
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American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896) |
By: Albert Bushnell Hart (1854-1943) | |
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Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 |
By: Gerald Stanley Lee (1862-1944) | |
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The Ghost in the White House |
By: Edward Potts Cheyney (1861-1947) | |
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American Nation: a history — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 |
By: William H. Mallock (1849-1923) | |
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A Critical Examination of Socialism |
By: James Bryce Bryce (1838-1922) | |
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Impressions of South Africa |
By: Harry Furniss (1854-1925) | |
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M. P.'s in Session From Mr. Punch's Parliamentary Portrait Gallery |
By: John F. (John Fitzgerald) Kennedy (1917-1963) | |
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State of the Union Address |
By: Dan Smoot (1913-2003) | |
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The Invisible Government |
By: Harold Joseph Laski (1893-1950) | |
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Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham |
By: Valentine Chirol (1852-1929) | |
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India, Old and New | |
Indian Unrest |
By: Scott Nearing (1883-1983) | |
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The Debs Decision |
By: De Alva Stanwood Alexander (1845-1925) | |
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A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 |
By: Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) | |
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State of the Union Address |
By: Sutherland Menzies (fl. 1840-1883) | |
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Political Women, Vol. 1 | |
Political Women, Vol. 2 |
By: United States. Presidents. | |
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United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches |
By: John Adams (1735-1826) | |
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State of the Union Address |
By: Samuel Peter Orth (1873-1922) | |
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The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization |
By: Almroth Wright (1861-1947) | |
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The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage |
By: Newell Dwight Hillis (1858-1929) | |
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The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict |
By: William Henry Hurlbert (1827-1895) | |
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France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 |
By: L. (Lassa) Oppenheim (1858-1919) | |
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The League of Nations and its Problems Three Lectures |
By: Stephen Lucius Gwynn (1864-1950) | |
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The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 |
By: Frederic Austin Ogg (1878-1951) | |
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The Governments of Europe |
By: H. W. (Henry William) Lee (1865-1932) | |
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Bolshevism: A Curse & Danger to the Workers |
By: G. F. (George Frederick) Abbott | |
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Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 |
By: Robert John Buckley | |
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Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule |
By: James Harrington (1611-1677) | |
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The Commonwealth of Oceana |
By: Bede Jarrett (1881-1934) | |
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Mediaeval Socialism |
By: Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Buckingham and Chandos (1797-1861) | |
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Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 | |
Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 |
By: Georg Jellinek (1851-1911) | |
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens |
By: William H. (William Howard) Taft (1857-1930) | |
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Ethics in Service | |
State of the Union Address |
By: Various | |
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Shield
This is not merely a book about the Russian Jews. It is a marvellous revelation of the Russian soul. It shows not only that the overwhelming majority of the Russian intellectuals, including nearly all of her brilliant literary geniuses, are opposed to the persecution of the Jews or any other race, but that they have a capacity for sympathy and understanding of humanity unequalled in any other land. I do not know of any book where the genius and heart of Russia is better displayed. Not only her leading litterateurs but also her leading statesmen and economists are represented—and all of them speak as with a single voice. |
By: L. T. (Leonard Trelawny) Hobhouse (1864-1929) | |
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Liberalism |
By: William McKinley (1843-1901) | |
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State of the Union Address |
By: John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) | |
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State of the Union Addresses of John Quincy Adams |
By: Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria Czernin von und zu Chudenitz (1872-1932) | |
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In the World War |
By: Catherine Radziwill (1858-1941) | |
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Cecil Rhodes Man and Empire-Maker |
By: Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856-1918) | |
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Anarchism and Socialism |
By: David Hunter Miller (1875-1961) | |
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The Geneva Protocol |
By: Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1841-1919) | |
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Russia |
By: Henry Jones Ford (1851-1925) | |
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The Cleveland Era; a chronicle of the new order in politics |
By: Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) | |
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Conflict of Northern and Southern Theories of Man and Society Great Speech, Delivered in New York City |
By: Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894) | |
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Female Suffrage: a Letter to the Christian Women of America |
By: John Holladay Latané (1869-1932) | |
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From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy |