Political Science
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…
The Citizen's Almanac
New citizens of the United States were given this pamphlet when they became citizens. The Citizen's Almanac contains information on the hist…
A Woman and the War
It is not without serious reflection that I have collected these thoughts in war time to offer in book form to those who may care to read an…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome
Mandell Creighton's history of the Papacy continues in Volume II with the condemnation in 1415 of Jan Hus by the Council of Constance and hi…
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection
This is the third LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings o…
Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays
Sumner's popular essays were to give him a wider audience to distribute his anti-imperialism, his advocacy of free markets and the gold stan…
Philip Dru: Administrator
Philip Dru: Administrator: a Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935 is a futuristic political novel published anonymously in 1912 by Edward Mandell Ho…
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…
The Christian Commonwealth
John Eliot, a North American missionary, advocates for post-civil-war England to adopt a representative democracy, using the Mosaic Law as a…
Report of the Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contracto…
The Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan, which reported in September 2010, was precipitated b…
The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States hist…
The World’s Famous Orations
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations…
The Time is Not Yet Ripe
The Time is Not Yet Ripe is a political comedy by Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson that explores the complexities of social change and the human c…
Why Armenia Should Be Free
Here is a trenchant argument for the Allied Supreme Council, established at the close of World War One, to recognize and defend the independ…
A Political Pilgrim in Europe
Written in the aftermath of Word War I, Viscountess Snowden recounts her travels in post war Europe in, as she describes it, "an attemp…
Revolution
The collapse of the U.S.S.R. in the future. What would happen after a collapse? This story is set many years before the actual collapse of t…
State of the Union Addresses
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
State of the Union Addresses
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
Your Pay Envelope
A Critique of Classical Socialism presented in a series of letters to a Mr. Smith. The author was the editor of the New York-based "Com…