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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 | |