Political Science: Theory and Practice

Political Science: Theory and Practice, with 142 books, includes classics of theory, plus works of history with a theoretical bent, plus books about national constitutions and the governments based on them, plus documents dealing with the purpose, structure and history about the United Nations. To provide contemporary global context, it also includes the 2005 CIA World Factbook.

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Political Science

• Ancient Times
• A Treatise on Government by Aristotle, translated by William Ellis
• The Republic by Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett
• Sun Tzu on the Art of War, translated by Lionel Giles
• Medieval and Renaissance
• Niccolo Machiavellli
• The Prince
• Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius
• Machiavelli, volume 1
• The Art of War, translated by Peter Whitehouse, 1560
• The Prince, translated by Edward Dacred, 1640
• Description of the Methods Adopted by the Duke Valentino when Murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke di Gravina Orsini (short)
• The History of Florence
• Life of Castruccio Castracani of Luccai (short)
• 16th Century
• The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639)
• The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Utopia by Thomas More (1478-1535
• 17th Century
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
• Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
• 18th Century
• A Discourse Upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Discours civique de Danton (in French) by George Jacques Danton
• Edmund Burke
• Burke by John Morley
• Burke's Writings and Speeches volume 1
• Speech on Conciliation with America by Edmund Burke
• Selections, Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
• Thomas Malthus
• Effects of the Corn Laws
• An Essay on the Principle of Population
• Importation of Foreign Corn
• An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent
• Thomas Paine
• The American Crisis
• Common Sense
• The Rights of Man
• The Age of Reason
• 19th Century
• Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
• News from Nowhere by William Morris
• On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry Thoreau
• The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Benjamin Disraeli
• Samuel Butler
• Erewhon
• Erewhon Revisited
• John Stuart Mill
• Auguste Comte and Positivism
• Autobiography
• Utilitarianism
• Considerations of a Representative Government
• Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill
• Review of the Work of John Stuart Mill by George Grote
• Alexis de Tocqueville
• American Institutions and Their Influence
• Correspondence and Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior 1834 to 1859, volume 2
• Democracy in America by
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Africa
• Boer Politics by Yves Guyot
• Colony or Free State by Alpheus Snow
• Asia
• New Ideas in India by Rev. John Morrison
• Europe
• Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Laski
• Une Politique Europeene by Etienne Grossclaude
• Physics and Politics by Walter Bagehot
• The United States
• American First: Patriotic Readings by Jasper L. McBrien
• American Political Ideas by John Fiske
• Aliens or Americans by Howard R. Grose
• Civil Government in the US by John Fiske
• Direct Legistlation by the Citizenship Through the Initiative and Referendum by J.W. Sullivan
• The Ghost in the White House by Gerald Stanley Lee
• The New Freedom by Woodrow Wilson
• Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson
• An Essay on the American Contribution to the Democratic Idea by Winston Churchill (American cousin of Sir Winston Churchill)
• The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
• Anarchism/Socialism/Communism
• Karl Marx
• The Communist Manifesto (short)
• Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
• Selected Essays
• Frederick Engels
• The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
• Joseph-Pierre Proudhon
• The Evolution of Capitalism, System of Economic Contradictions or the Philosophy of Misery
• What Is Property?
• John Spargo
• Bolshevism
• Socialism
• The Marx He Knew
• Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
• The Communes of Lombardy by William Klapp Williams
• Communistic Societies of the United States by Charles Nordhoff
• A Critical Examination of Socialism by W.H. Mallock
• Mediaeval Socialism by Bede Jarrett
• Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin
• The Red Conspiracy by Joseph Mereto
• Socialism and American Ideals by William Myers, 1919
• Socialism As It Is by William English Walling
• Der Soziallismus einst und jetzt by Eduard Bernstein, 1922
• Le Socialisme en Danger by Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, 1897
• The Inhumanity of Socialism by Edward Adams
• General
• Civics and Health by William Allen
• Essays in Liberalism
• Essays on Political Economy, by M. Frederic Bastiat, 1874
• Fundamentals of Prosperity by Roger Bacon
• The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg
• The Growth of Thought as Affecting the Progress of Society by William Withington, 1851
• Human Nature in Politics by Graham Wallas
• Ideal Commonswealths (Plutarch's Lycurgus, More's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis, Campanella's City of the Sun, and a fragment of Hall's Mundus Alter et Idem)
• The New Frontiers of Freedom by E. Alexander Powell
• The New Society by Walther Rathenau
• Proportional Representation by John Humphreys
• Proportional Representation Applied to Pary Government by H.P.C. Ashworth
• The Psychology of Nations by G.E. Partridge
• The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon
• The Soul of Democracy by Edward Griggs
• Speculations from Political Economy by C.B. Clarke
• The Unity of Western Civilization by F.S. Marvin
• Women and Politics by Charles Kingsley
• The World in Chains: Some Aspects of War and Trade by John Mavrogordato

History with a Theoretical Perspective

• The American Republic by O.A. Brownson
• The Development of the European Nations 1870-1914 by J. Holland Rose
• The Digger Movement int he Days of the Commonwealth by Lewis Berens
• Europe -- Whither Bound? by Stephen Graham
• The Expansion of Europe: the Culmination of Modern History by Ramsay Muir
• The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
• Historical and Political Essays by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
• The Idea of Progress: an Inquiry into its Origins and Growth by J.B. Bury
• The Influence of Sea Power upon History 1660-1783 by Alfred Thayer Mahan 1889
• An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation by Thorstein Veblen
• An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations by William Playfair, 1807
• Inside of the Peace Conference by E.J. Dillon
• The Insurrection in Paris as related by an Englishman, 1871
• Paris Under the Commune by John Leighton
• A Political History of the Sate of New York by DeAlva Stanwood Alexander volume 1, 1906
• A Political and Social History of Modern Europe 1500-1815, volume 1 by Carlton Hayes
• The Rise of Democracy by Joseph Clayton
• The Rise of the New West 1819-1829 by Frederick Jackson Turner
• The Ruins or Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature by C.F. Volney
• The Soul of Democracy: The Philosophy of the World War in Relation to Human Liberty by Edward Howard Griggs, 1918
• Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed
• The World War and What Was Behind It by L.P. Benezet

Constitutions

• England
• The Constitutional History of England 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge
• The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot
• Magna Carta (text of the document)
• Japan
• Constitution of Japan 1889 (short)
• Constitution of Japan 1946 (short)
• The Constitutional Development of Japan 1863-1881 by Toyokichi Iyenaga, 1891
• Native Americans
• Constitution of the Iroquois Nations (short)
• Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts by William Apes, 1835
• United States
• The American Judiciary by Simeon Baldwin
• Civil Government of Virginia by William Fox
• Community Civics and Rural Life by Arthur Dunn
• The Constitution of the United States by James Beck
• Experiments in Goverment and the Essentials of the Constitution by Elihu Root, 1913
• The Federalist Papers
• Observations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions, 1788. Pamphlet against the Constitution, formerly attributed to Elbridge Gerry, now acknowledged as written by Mercy Otis Warren

Introduction to Observations on the New Constitution by Mercy Otis Warren by King Dykeman, Philosophy Department, Fairfield University
• Count the Cost [Proposition for a New Constitution] Jonathan Steadfast, 1804
• Our Changing Constitution by Charles Pierson, 1922
• John Marshall And The Constitution, A Chronicle Of The Supreme Court by Edward S. Corwin
• A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessons of the Conference convetion for Proposing Amerndments to theConstitution of the US, 1861 by L.e. Chittenden
• Documents of the American Revolution
• Charlotte Town Resolves 1775
• Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms 1775
• Declaration of Independence 1776
• Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776
• Declaration and Resolves of First Continental Congress 1777
• Paris Peace Treaty 1783
• Articles of Confederation
• Annapolis Convention 1786
• Articles of Confederation
• Northwest Ordinance 1787
• US Constitution
• Letter Transmitting the Constitution 1787
• Constitution 1787
• Bill of Rights
• Amendments to the Constitution
• State Constitutions
• Massachusetts
• New York
• Pennsylvania
• Virginia
• Documents of the Early Republic
• Washington's Farewell Address 1796
• The Monroe Doctrine 1823

The United Nations

• The UN in brief
• Information guide for the public about the UN
• Permanent missions to the UN -- New York contact information

• Basic Facts
• Overall organization
• Human rights
• Economic and social development
• International peace and security
• International law
• Humanitarian action
• Decolonization
• Image and Reality
• Chapter 1: What is the UN?
• Chapter 2: Who works at the UN?
• Chapter 3: What does the UN do to promote development?
• Chapter 4: What does the UN do for human rights?
• Chapter 5: What does the UN to promote peace?
• Chapter 6: Is the UN a good investment?
• Chapter 7: How can I support the work of the UN?
• Main Documents
• UN Charter
• Introduction
• Preamble
• Chapter 1: Purposes and principles
• Chapter 2: Membership
• Chapter 3: Organs
• Chapter 4: The General Assembly
• Chapter 5: The Security Council
• Chapter 6: Pacific settlement of disputes
• Chapter 7: Action with respect to threats to the peace
• Chapter 8: Regional arrangements
• Chapter 9: International economic and social cooperation
• Chapter 10: The Economic and Social Council
• Chapter 11: Declaration regarding non-self-governing territories
• Chapter 12: International trustee system
• Chapter 13: The Trusteeship Council
• Chapter 14: The International Court of Justice
• Chapter 15: The Secretariat
• Chapter 16: Miscellaneous provisions
• Chapter 17: Transitional security arrangements
• Chapter 18: Amendments
• Chapter 19: Ratification and signature
• Statute of the International Court of Justice
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• UN History
• Atlantic Charter 1941
• Brief UN history
• Major achievements of the UN
• Milestones in UN history

Context of the contemporary world

• The CIA World Factbook.  With maps, flags, and up-to-date information on every country in the world  this is an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents. You should open it with your Web browser.

• Country list
• Other files

Crime and Criminals

• An Account of the Proceedings ont he Trial of Susan B. Anthony
• A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H.B. Irving
• Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas -- 18 books in a single file
• The Borgias
• The Cenci
• Massacres of the South
• Mary Stuart
• Karl-Ludwig Sand
• Urbain Grandier
• Nisida
• Desrues
• La Constantin
• Joan of Naples
• The Man in the Iron Mask (an essay, reflecting on the history behind the novel)
• Martin Guerre (source of the movies "The Return of Martin Guerre" and "Somersby")
• Ali Pacha
• The Countess of Saint Geran
• Murat
• The Marquise de Brinvilliers
• Vaninka
• The Marquise de Ganges
• Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
• Courts and Criminals by Arthur Train
• Danger! a True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations, the Veil Lifed and Light Thrown on Crime and Its Causes and Crmiinals and Thir Haunts by Howe and Hummel, 1886
• Notebooks of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
• Crime and Its Causes by William Morrison, 1902
• Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow
• Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practicioners and Students by Hans Gross, translated by Horace Kallen
• Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri
• The Detection of forgery. A Practical handbook. by Douglas Blackbuirn and Waithman Caddell, 1909
• Disputed Handwriting by Jerome Lavay, 1909
• The Goop Directory of Juvenile Offenders, 1913
• History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard by Daniel Defoe
• The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding
• Hunted Outlaw or Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy
• The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by George Alfred Townsend
• Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals, 1735. edited by Arthur Hayward
• London's Underword by Thomas Holmes, 1846-1918
• Mob Rule in New Orleans by Ida Wells-Barnett, 1900
• The Olden-Time Series, Some Strange and Curious Punishments, selected by Henry Brooks, 1886
• Peine, Torture, et Supplices (in French) 1868
• The Pirates Own Book by Charles Ellms, 1837
• The Positive School of Criminology by Enrico Ferri
• Proces des Templiers (in French) volume 1 by M. Michelet
• Secret Band of Brothers by Jonathan Green
• Secret Chambers and Hiding-Places by Alan Fea
• Secret Societies and Subversive Movements by Nesta Webster
• A Short View of the Frauds and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries by Christopher Merrett, 1669
• Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases 1982, 1893, 1894 by Ida Wells-Barnett
• The Story of the Outlaw: a Study of the Western Desperado by Emerson Hough
• A Treatise on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons by Frederick Accun, 1820
• The Trial of Mary Blandy by William Roughead
• True Stories of Crime by Arthur Train, 1908

Law

• Ancient Law by Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
• The Case of Edith Cavell, a Study of the Rights of Non-Combatants by James Bech
• The Classification of Patents, US Patent Office, 1915
• The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• The Common Law by Robert Chambers
• Conditions in Utah [polygamous marriage] by Thomas Kearns
• Copyright Law of the United States
• The Debs Decision by Scott Nearing
• The Discovery of Witches by Matthew Hopkins, 1647
• Disputed Handwriting by Jerome Lavay
• The Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
• An Essay on Trial by Jury by Lysander Spooner
• Experiences of a Barrister by Samuel Warren, 1890
• Hindu Law and Judicature by Yajnavalkya
• International Copyright, Considered in Some of its Relations to Ethics and Political Economy by George Haven Putnam, 1879
• The Laws of War Affecting Commerce by H. Byerley Thomson, 1854
• Legal Status of Women in Iowa by Jennie Lansley Wilson
• The Man in Court by Frederic Dewitt Wells, 1917
• Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders [New Zealand], 1928
• Mining Laws of Ohio, 1921
• Monopolies and the People by Charles Whiting Baker
• Moral Principles and Medical practice, the Basis of Medical Jurisprudence by Charles Coppens
• The Oldest Code of Laws in the World by Hammurabi, translated by C.H.W. Johns
• Patent Laws of the Republic of Hawaii, 1897
• The Path of the Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (short)
• Popular Law-Making by Frederic Jesup Stimson
• Practical Pointers for Patentees by F.A. Cresee
• Professional Ethics by George Sharswood
• Projet d'une Loi Portant Defense d'Apprendre a Lire aux Femmes (in French) 1801
• Six Years in Prisons of England
• Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases by B. Wells-Barrett
• A Vindication of the Press by Daniel Defoe, 1718
• A Law Dictionary Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and the Several States of the American Union by John Bouvier, 1856 (from The Constitution Society web site at http://www.constitution.org Included here with permission.
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• Fugutive Slave Law
• The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act by L. Maria Child, 1860
• The Fugutive Slave Law. The Religious Duty of Obedience to Law. a sermon by Ichabod Spencer, 1850
• The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1856
• A Plea for Captain John Brown
• Constitutions
• United States
• Constitution of the United States
• The Constitution of the USA, Analysis and Interpretation, edited by Edward Corwin, 1952
• The Constitution of the United States by James Beck
• A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention for Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the US Held at Washington DC in February 1861 by L.E. Chittenden
• Experiments in Goverment and the Essentials of the Constitution by Elihu Root, 1913
• Our Changing Constitution by Charles Pierson, 1922
• Woman Suffrage by Federal Constitutional Amendment, 1917
• Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts by William Apes, 1835
• Constitution of Massachusetts
• Constitution of Virginia
• Constitution of Pennsylvania
• Constitution of New York
• England
• The Constitutional History of England 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge
• The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot
• Japan
• Constitution of Japan 1889 (short)
• Constitution of Japan 1946 (short)

The Constitutional Development of Japan 1863-1881 by Toyokichi Iyenaga, 1891