Political Science: Theory and Practice

Political Science: Theory and Practice, with 134 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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Table of Contents

• 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
• 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 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 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?
• Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
• Bolshevism by John Spargo
• 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
• The Marx He Knew by John Spargo
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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