Date of Original Edition or
Date of Author's Life |
|
Author | |
Title |
Date of Edition |
Edition |
551-479 BC |
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Confucius | |
The Morals of Confucius |
1691 |
1st. English |
427-347 BC |
|
Plato | |
Republic of Plato |
1763 |
1st. English |
384-322 BC |
|
Aristotle | |
Politics & Economics (complete) |
1496 |
1st. |
| |
Aristotle | |
Ethics (complete) |
1496 |
1st. |
325-265 BC |
|
Euclid of Alexandria |
|
The First Six Elements of Geometry |
1705 |
45-120 |
|
Mestrius Plutarch | |
The Virtues of Women and the Parallel Lives |
1485 |
426 |
|
St. Augustine of Hippo |
|
Citie of God |
1610 |
1st. English |
1086 |
|
Domesday | |
Domesday Book (Yorkshire) |
1862 |
1215 |
|
Magna Carta | |
Magna Carta |
1542 |
1st. English |
1509 |
|
Desiderius Erasmus |
|
The Praise of Folly |
1765 |
1520 |
|
Martin Luther | |
To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation |
1553 |
1527 |
|
Niccolo Machiavelli |
|
Works of Machiavelli |
1675 |
1588 |
|
Michel de Montaigne |
|
Essays of Montaigne |
1685 |
3 Volumes |
1625 |
|
Hugo Grotius | |
Treating of the Rights of War & Peace |
1682 |
1st. |
1632 |
|
Galileo Galilei | |
Dialogo di Galileo Galilei linceo matematico supremo dello studio di padova [Galileo's Dialogues] |
1710 |
1644 |
|
John Milton | |
Areopagitica |
1644 |
1st. |
1651 |
|
Thomas Hobbes | |
Leviathan |
1651 |
1st. |
1693 |
|
John Locke | |
Some Thoughts Concerning Education |
1693 |
1st. |
1693 |
|
John Locke | |
Collected Works |
1727 |
3 volumes |
1729 |
|
Isaac Newton | |
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy |
1729 |
2 Volumes, 1st. |
1733 |
|
Françumes, 1st. | |
Letters Concerning the English Nation |
1733 |
1st. |
1748 |
|
David Hume | |
Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding |
1748 |
1st. |
1758 |
|
Emmerich de Vattel |
|
Law of Nations; or Principles of the Law of Nature: Applies to the Conduct & Affairs of Nations & Sovereigns |
1759 |
1st. English |
1759 |
|
Adam Smith | |
The Theory of Moral Sentiments |
1759 |
1st. |
1762 |
|
Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
|
Social Compact |
1797 |
1st. |
1776 |
|
Thomas Paine | |
Common Sense |
1776 |
1st. |
1776 |
|
Adam Smith | |
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations |
1776 |
2 Volumes, 1st. |
1781 |
|
Constitutions | |
The Constitutions of the Several Independent States of America; The Declaration of Independence; The Articles of Confederation Between the Said States; The Treaties Between His Most Christian Majesty and the United States of America |
1781 |
1st. |
1782 |
|
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur |
|
Letters from an American Farmer |
1782 |
1st. |
1787 |
|
John Adams | |
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America |
1787 |
3 Volumes, 1st. |
1788 |
|
Federalist | |
The Federalist |
1788 |
2 Volumes, 1st. |
1790 |
|
Mary Wollstonecraft |
|
Vindication of the Rights of Men, (A) |
1790 |
1st. |
1791 |
|
Henry Mackenzie |
|
The Letters
of Brutus to Certain Celebrated Political Characters |
1791 |
1st. |
1796 |
|
Mary Wollstonecraft |
|
Letters -- written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark |
1796 |
1st. |
1820 |
|
Thomas Robert Malthus |
|
Principles of Political Economy |
1820 |
1st. |
1820 |
|
John Sanderson | |
Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence |
1820-1827 |
9 Volumes, 1st. |
1823 |
|
David Ricardo | |
Political Works |
1846 |
1833 |
|
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
|
Faust |
1833 |
1st. |
1835 |
|
Alexis DeTocqueville |
|
Democracy in America |
1841 |
2 Volumes, 1st English |
1841 |
|
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Essays: including "Self-Reliance" |
1841 |
1st. |
1846 |
|
Corn Laws | |
The Battle for Native Industry. The Debate upon the Corn Laws. |
1846 |
2 volumes, 1st. |
1855 |
|
Frederick Douglass |
|
My Bondage & My Freedom |
1855 |
1862 |
|
Emancipation | |
Emancipation Proclamation |
1862 |
1st. |
1862 |
|
Victor Hugo | |
Les Miserables |
1887 |
1869 |
|
John Stuart Mill | |
On Liberty |
1859 |
1923 |
|
Albert Schweitzer | |
The Decay and The Restoration of Civilization |
1923 |