Political Science
212 books
*Non-fiction
448
Benedict de Spinoza - Theologico-Political Treatise
Written by the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus or Theologico-Political Treatise was one of the most controversial texts of the early modern period. It was a preemptive defense of...
9 hours 59 minutes
*Non-fiction
456
Friedrich Engels - Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
This is Engels' first book (since considered a classic account of England's working class in the industrial age), which argues that workers paid a heavy price for the industrial revolution that swept the country....
12 hours
*Non-fiction
422
Charles C. Nott - Mystery of the Pinckney Draught
Charles Pinckney, member of the South Carolina legislature, Confederation Congress, U.S. Congress, and notably the Constitutional Convention of 1787, may have been regarded by some as perhaps the true author of the...
7 hours 23 minutes
General Fiction
449
Mark Twain - Gilded Age, A Tale of Today (version 2)
Originally published in 1873, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is the only novel Twain co-wrote (C.D. Warner was a good friend and neighbor of the Clemens family in Hartford, and the collaboration sprang from their...
16 hours 9 minutes
*Non-fiction
432
Jane Addams - Spirit of Youth and the City Streets
Much of the material in the following pages has appeared in current publications. It is here presented in book form in the hope that it may prove of value to those groups of people who in many cities are making a...
2 hours 49 minutes
*Non-fiction
453
United States Senate Committee on Armed Services - Report of the Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan
The Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan, which reported in September 2010, was precipitated by events in August 2008, when US forces bombed the Afghan village of...
6 hours 4 minutes
*Non-fiction
460
Jacob A. Riis - How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It...
8 hours 50 minutes
