Politics Books

The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

Charles Duke Yonge

The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France is a biographical work by Charles Duke Yonge was an English historian, classicist and cricketer. He wrote numerous works of modern history, and trans..

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government

Jefferson Davis

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government is a book written by Jefferson Davis, who served as President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis spared litt..

The Gulf and Inland Waters

A. T. Mahan

The Gulf and Inland Waters is part of the multi volume book The Navy In The Civil War written by Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called ..

The Texan Scouts - A Story of the Alamo and Goliad

Joseph A. Altsheler

The Texan Scouts: A Story of the Alamo and Goliad is a sieges fictional story written by Joseph Alexander Altsheler, an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fi..

The Winning of the West, Volume 1

Theodore Roosevelt

The Winning of the West is a multi volume work on US civil war.  Volume 1 narrates the incidents from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776. Written by Theodore Roosevelt, an American sta..

Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914

Sir Edgar R. Jones

A selection of speeches made for the purpose of illustrating the best rhetorical form of British Oratory has already been published in 'The World's Classics'. The governing principle of this volume is..

A School History of the Great War

Charles A. Coulomb

This brief history of the world's greatest war was prepared upon the suggestion of the National Board for Historical Service. Its purpose is to expand into an historical narrative the outline of the s..

The Theory of Social Revolutions

Brooks Adams

The Theory of Social Revolutions is a work on political theory written by American historian Peter Chardon Brooks Adams who was a critic of capitalism.Excerpts:Civilization, I apprehend, is nearly syn..