Political Science
Imperialism and World Politics
Moon’s Iᴍᴘᴇʀɪᴀʟɪsᴍ ᴀɴᴅ Wᴏʀʟᴅ Pᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄs is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…
Mother Earth
"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literat…
Technocracy
The word technocracy refers to a system of government by technical experts such as scientists, technologists, and engineers. William Henry S…
Problems in American Democracy
Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson offers a thorough examination of the complexities and challenges inherent in democratic …
The Winning of Popular Government
In the 1830's, Canada was a ideologically divided country. Political upheaval and even riots occurred over Canada's future. Would it remain …
Lives of Greek Statesmen
In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate A…
Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address
Long before he was President and having just started his law practice, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln delivered (January 27, 1838) a speech on …
Life of Viscount Palmerston
This is a short life of Henry John Temple (1784-1865), Third Viscount Palmerston, Great Britain's affable, able, and always available Foreig…
Finland and the Tsars
Fisher’s treatment of the history of Finland, in the context of its relations with Russia, was released in 1899—at the start of the first at…
America's Retreat from Victory
Senator Joseph McCarthy examines the life of General George Catlett Marshall, particularly his role in government beginning in 1945 as Unite…
Ukraina and the Peace-conference
The 19th century was the Golden Age of Nationalism in Europe. By the end of the century many countries achieved their national self-determin…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome
Volume Four of Creighton's "History of the Papacy" opens with the election of Pope Paul II, whom the author describes as "a m…
A History of Our Own Times
The fourth and concluding volume of this history of Victorian Britain opens with the brutal repression in 1865 of a rebellion by ex-slaves i…
The American Credo
The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind, published in 1920, is a commentary on US politics, specif…
Reflections on Violence
Considered one of the more controversial books from the 20th century, Sorel's Reflections on Violence argues in favor of uprisings and strik…
From Dictatorship to Democracy
From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dict…
Twenty Years of the Republic
Excerpt: At the time when Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated there had been no Democratic President for a full quarter of a century. A whole gene…
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection
This is the second LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings …
The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw
The novel begins with the arrival of a family staking a claim in the black delta of the Deep South. Whitlaw is a brutish sort who bullies hi…
Mother Earth
"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literat…