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A Study of History
by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell
THE starting-point of this book was a search for fields of historical study which would be intelligible in themselves wi...
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...
Ab urbe condita
by Titus Livius
At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.
The Muqaddimah, an introduction to history
by Ibn Khaldūn, عبد الرحمن ابن خلدون Abdel Rahman Ibn Khaldun
It should be known that history, in matter of fact, is informan about human social organization, which itself is identic...
De bello judaico
by Flavius Josephus
THE war of the Jews against the Romans was the greatest of our time; greater too, perhaps, than any recorded struggle wh...
Sozialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur
by Arnold Hauser, S. Godman
If the purpose of historical research is the understanding of the present-and what else could it be?
Lies My Teacher Told Me
by James W. Loewen
THIS CHAPTER IS ABOUT HEROIFICATION, a degenerative process (much like calcification) that makes people over into heroes...
Description of Greece
by Pausanias, Jean Pouilloux
Like Pausanias gazing from the sea at the promontory of Sounion (I.I.I), let us for a moment entertain a prospect simult...
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
Humanoids existed on Earth for around four million years as hunters and gatherers living in small communal groups that t...
Istorie Fiorentine
by Niccolò Machiavelli, Félix Fernández Murga
THE peoples who live in northern parts beyond the Rhine and the Danube rivers, having been born in a productive and heal...
Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since ...
by Sir Walter Scott
THE title this work has not been chosen without the grave and solid deliberation which matters of importance demand from...
Discourses on Livy
by Niccolò Machiavelli, Harvey C. Mansfield
Book One deals with 'such events due to public decrees' as the author judges to be worthy of comment, and with their con...
