Political Science
212 books
War & Military
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William Wolfe Capes - Roman History: The Early Empire, from the Assassination of Julius Caesar to that of Domitian
William Wolfe Capes (1834-1914) was an Anglican cleric, a classicist, and a historian. This is his short chronicle of the early Roman Empire, from the aftermath of the murder of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.E. to the...
7 hours 39 minutes
War & Military
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William Richard Ward Stephens - Hildebrand and his Times
W.R.W. Stephens, the Anglican Dean of Winchester, writes a short, lively biography of the great church reformer, Hildebrand of Sovana (1015-1085), afterwards Pope Gregory VII, setting his life within the larger...
5 hours 54 minutes
Political Science
1.7K
William Jennings Bryan - World’s Famous Orations, Vol. IV: Great Britain - II
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period,...
7 hours 10 minutes
Literary Collections
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James K. Polk - State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1845 - 1848)
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, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition...
8 hours 27 minutes
War & Military
780
Osmund Airy - English Restoration and Louis XIV: From the Peace of Westphalia to the Peace of Nimwegen
In this trim volume the British historian, Osmund Airy writes of the period between 1648 and 1679 when Cardinal Mazarin, having concluded the masterly Peace of Westphalia for France, confronts the rebellions of the...
9 hours 19 minutes
Political Science
1.6K
James Bryce - Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question
The issue of Irish home rule was the dominant political question of British and Irish politics in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Published in 1887, this work contains articles in favour of the measure. (Irish home...
11 hours 13 minutes
War & Military
709
John Howard Bertram Masterman - Dawn of Mediaeval Europe: 476-918
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 author writes of Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, who sought to impose...
6 hours 48 minutes
War & Military
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William Holden Hutton - King and Baronage (A.D. 1135-1327)
William Holden Hutton (1860-1930) was a British historian and Dean of Winchester Cathedral. In this slim volume, Hutton writes of the long period of feudal anarchy following the death of King Henry I in 1135, during...
3 hours 58 minutes
