Political Science
The Problem of China
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Bertrand Russell
In 1920-21 Bertrand Russell lived and taught in Peking (Beijing), publishing this book on his return to England. In 1920 he had visited Bols…
History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 1
Read by Alan Winterrowd
Friedrich Schiller
The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Writ…
Commentaries on the Laws of England. Book 1 (1765)
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William Blackstone
~ BOOK THE FIRST ~The Commentaries on the Laws of England are an influential 18th century treatise on the common law of England by Sir Willi…
The Emancipation Proclamation
Read by John Greenman
Abraham Lincoln
After having written and released an initial draft of this proclamation in September of 1862, minor changes were made and Lincoln signed it …
Areopagitica
Read by Moira Fogarty
John Milton
A prose tract or polemic by John Milton, published November 23, 1644, at the height of the English Civil War... Milton, though a supporter o…
The Dawn of Mediaeval Europe: 476-918
Read by Pamela Nagami
John Howard Bertram Masterman
This volume by the British historian J.H.B. Masterman (1867-1933) is a short survey of the first four centuries after the fall of Rome. The …
The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization
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George F. Dillon
The War of Anti-Christ with the Church and Christian Civilization is a book written in 1885 by an Irishman, George F. Dillon, DD. It was rep…
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln
Read by Bill Boerst
Francis Fisher Browne
This detailed biography covers the places in Lincoln's life: Indiana, Illinois, Washington. It also traces his various roles as storekeeper,…
Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy
Read by Gary Gilberd
John Stuart Mill
This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the…
Presidential Farewell and Last Addresses
Read by John Greenman
Various
This collection will put in one place, all the Farewell (or last) Addresses made by each of the 43 ex-US presidents.The first, George Washin…
Constitución Española de 1978
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Las Cortes Y El Pueblo Español
Constitución vigente en España actualmente, fruto de la Transición a la democracia tras la muerte de Francisco Franco. …
Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule
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Mahatma Gandhi
First written in Gandhi's native language Gujarati, this booklet advocates for Indian non-violent self-rule during the struggle for Indian i…
The End of the Middle Age: 1273-1453
Read by Pamela Nagami
Eleanor Constance Lodge
Eleanor Constance Lodge, (1869-1936), was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from the University of Oxford. In this short sur…
The Facts of Reconstruction
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John R. Lynch
After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justi…
Revolution, and other Essays
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Jack London
A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, "Revolution", outlines how and why Lon…
Karl Marx: An Essay
Read by Phil Benson
Harold J. Laski
Born in Manchester in 1893, Harold Laski was a leading figure in the left-wing of British socialism in the first half of the 20th century. A…
Selected House of Commons Speeches
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Winston S. Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during W…
Vices are not Crimes
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Lysander Spooner
Lysander Spooner (1808 – 1887) was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, supporter of the …
What Prohibition Has Done to America
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Fabian Franklin
In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.…
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
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Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, a classic text in modern philosophy and jurisprudence, first publ…