Political Science
Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society
Read by Jeffrey Church
Thomas Hobbes
De Cive ("On the citizen") is one of Thomas Hobbes's major works. "The book was published originally in Latin from Paris in 1…
The Life-Story of a Russian Exile
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Marie Sukloff
Hero or assassin? Victim or criminal? Marie Sukloff fits no easy category. A young peasant woman who became a political radical and activ…
The Masque of Anarchy
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Masque of Anarchy was Shelley's response to the Peterloo massacre at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, where 18 died and hundreds were inju…
Voltaire and the French Enlightenment
Read by Pamela Nagami
Will Durant
In this Little Blue Book Number 512, Will Durant describes François-Marie Arouet, the writer, historian, and philosopher known as Vol…
There Are Realistic Alternatives
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Gene Sharp
Violence in society and politics, whether in the form of war, terrorism, dictatorship, oppression, usurpation, or genocide, is widely recogn…
Wellington
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George Hooper
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852), was born in Dublin, the younger son of an Irish Protestant aristocrat. He served with…
Six Months In Mexico
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Nellie Bly
This is an account of Nellie Bly's travels through Mexico in 1885. The book was originally a series of individual articles that she submitte…
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 1
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Various
This collection comprises recordings of 17 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1628 and 1956. Readings are of speeche…
John Brown
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W. E. B. Du Bois
This is a moving and deeply felt biography of abolitionist John Brown, which defends its subject against the popular notion of him as a delu…
A Preface to Politics
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Walter Lippmann
This is the first book in the bibliography of Walter Lippmann, written three years after emerging from Harvard where he studied under the pr…
Theodore Roosevelt; An Address Delivered Before The Congress Of The United Stat…
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Henry Cabot Lodge
A biographical encomium delivered on the occasion of Roosevelt's death. Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. (1858 – 1919) was an Amer…
Early Rome, from the Foundation of the City to its Destruction by the Gauls
Read by Pamela Nagami
Wilhelm Ihne
In this short scholarly work the German historian, Wilhelm Ihne, elucidates what is known or can be deduced about Rome's early history, from…
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
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Karl Marx
As a precursor to Capital, Marx outlines his analysis of capitalism and critiques classical economic theories. - Summary by Tray
The Insurrection in Dublin
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James Stephens
The Easter Rising was a rebellion staged in Ireland in Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was an attempt by militant Irish republicans to win ind…
The English Constitution
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Walter Bagehot
The English Constitution is an extremely accessible work of political and legal science by Walter Bagehot, first published in serialized for…
The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America
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D. W. Griffith
The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America was D.W. Griffith's first response to the attacks made on The Birth of a Nation. In it he played…
The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. III: Great Britain - I
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William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey and Various,William Jennings Bryan
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations…
The Roman Empire of the Second Century: Or, The Age of the Antonines
Read by Pamela Nagami
William Wolfe Capes
This short overview of the Roman Empire from AD 96-180 opens as the murderers of Domitian raise to power the wise old senator, Nerva. Ignori…
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 18)
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
This is volume 4 chapter 18 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resum…
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 3
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Various
This is the third LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings o…