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Preface | |
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How to Read a Document | |
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The Ancient R�gime | |
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The Wars of Religion | |
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The Edict of Nantes (1598) | |
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The Political Testament (1638) | |
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Simplicissimus (1669) | |
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Subjects and Sovereigns | |
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True Law of a Free Monarchy (1598) | |
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A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants (1579) | |
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The Putney Debates (1647) | |
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Leviathan (1651) | |
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Second Treatise of Government (1689) | |
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The English Bill of Rights, (1689) | |
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Memoirs (1694-1723) | |
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Science and Commerce | |
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Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615) | |
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Discourse on Method (1637) | |
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England's Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664) | |
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The Wealth of Nations (1776) | |
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Enlightened Monarchy | |
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Catherine the Great, Memoirs (ca. 1755) | |
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Testament (1749-1750) | |
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The Idea of a Patriot King (1749) | |
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The Enlightenment | |
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Voltaire, Candide (1759) | |
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The Social Contract (1762) | |
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Montesquieu, Spirit of the Laws (1748) | |
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Journals (1769) | |
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Notes on the French Slave Trade (1784-1785) | |
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The Declaration of Independence (1776) | |
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On Crimes and Punishments (1764) | |
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The Progress of the Human Mind (1793) | |
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The French Revolution | |
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What Is the Third Estate? (1789) | |
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789); Olympe de Gouges; The Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791) | |
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Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) | |
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The Age of Reform | |
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Industrialization in Britain | |
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The Iron Law of Population Growth (1798) | |
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Self-Help (1859) | |
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Inquiry into the Condition of the Poor (1842) | |
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The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) | |
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Nineteenth-Century Society and Culture | |
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Pride and Prejudice (1813) | |
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Memoirs (1820-1843) | |
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Modern Housewife (1850); Isabella Beeton,Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861) | |
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Documents of the Irish Potato Famine (1845-1849) | |
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Political Critiques | |
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On Liberty (1859) | |
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What Is Property? (1840) | |
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The Great Charter (1842) | |
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Letter to the Shogun (1844);Bakufu, Reply to the Government of Holland (1845) | |
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The Communist Manifesto (1848) | |
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The Emancipation of the Serfs (1861) | |
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Reflections and Reminiscences (1898);Speech to the Reichstag (1879) | |
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Rerum Novarum (The Condition of Labor) (1891) | |
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Emancipating the Mind and the Body | |
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The Descent of Man (1871) | |
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Beyond Good and Evil (1886) | |
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The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) | |
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On the Nature of the Psyche | |
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History of the Suffrage Movement (1912) | |
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Thoughts on Empire | |
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Imperialism (1902) | |
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Confession of Faith (1877) | |
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Social Life of the Swahilis (late 19th century) | |
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"The White Man's Burden" (1899) | |
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"Shooting an Elephant" (1936) | |
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Twentieth-Century Europe | |
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War and Revolution | |
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Voices from the Battle of the Somme (1916) | |
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Storm of Steel (1920) | |
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The Fourteen Points (1918) | |
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What Is to Be Done? (1902) | |
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The Second World War | |
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) | |
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Women and a Changing Civilization (1934) | |
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Fascist Doctrine (1932) | |
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Mein Kampf (1923) | |
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Memories of the Holocaust (1938-1945) | |
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Speeches (1940) | |
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The Last Christmas of the War (1971) | |
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Testimony (1961) | |
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The Twentieth-Century Imagination | |
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A Room of One's Own (1929) | |
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) | |
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Existentialism (1946) | |
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The Second Sex (1949) | |
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The Transformation of Eastern Europe | |
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"The Iron Curtain" (1946) | |
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Report to the Communist Party Congress (1961) | |
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Perestroika (1987) | |
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The End of History? (1989) | |
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Toward a New World | |
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Charter of the United Nations (1946) | |
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The Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States (1974) | |
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Report on the Fall of Srebrenica (1999) | |
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Report of the 9/11 Commission (2004) | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Photo Credits | |