The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued ...
Continue Reading →This forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. Engels paints an unforgettable picture of daily life in the ...
Continue Reading →Often described as the culmination of the French Enlightenment, the Encyclopédie was collected not only to serve as a comprehensive reference work, but to “change ...
Continue Reading →A Treatise on Political Economy by Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy is a foundational text of nineteenth-century, free-market economic thought and remains one of ...
Continue Reading →Procopius’s History of the Wars in 8 books recounts the Persian Wars of emperors Justinus and Justinian down to 550 (2 books); the Vandalic War ...
Continue Reading →On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (19 April 1817) is a book by David Ricardo on economics. The book concludes that land rent ...
Continue Reading →This book shows how Beccaria wove together the various political languages of the Enlightenment into a novel synthesis and argues that his political philosophy, often ...
Continue Reading →Pierre Bayle was one of the most important sceptical thinkers of the seventeenth century. His work was a major influence on the development of the ...
Continue Reading →Henry VI is a series of three history plays by William Shakespeare, set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Henry VI, Part ...
Continue Reading →In medieval warfare, organization, staff services, hierarchy of command, and codes of military law were nonexistent. Machiavelli changed all that. For him, discipline was of ...
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