The English Constitution
10 best books like The English Constitution (Walter Bagehot): The Invasion of Canada: 1812-1813, Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar, The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana, Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750-1914, Queen Victoria, From her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort, Gladstone: A Biography, Does the 21st Century Belong to China?: Kissinger and Zakaria vs. Ferguson and Li, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison, Disraeli, The Age of Revolution
| Author | Pierre Berton |
| ISBN | 0385658397 |
To America's leaders in 1812, an invasion of Canada seemed to be "a mere matter of marching," as Thomas Jefferson confidently predicted. How could a nation of 8 million fail to subdue a struggling colony of 300,000? Yet, when the campaign of 1812 ended, the only Americans left on Canadian soil were prisoners...
| Author | Adam Nicolson |
| ISBN | 0060753625 |
In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the Franco-Spanish fleets at the great battle of Trafalgar. It was the foundation of Britain's nineteenth-century world-dominating empire. Adam Nicolson's...
| Author | Peter Hitchens |
| ISBN | 1893554392 |
A surprise best seller in England, The Abolition of Britain is bitingly witty and fiercely argued, yet also filled with somber appreciation for what “the idea of England” has always meant to the West and to the world at large. One English critic called The Abolition of Britain “an elegant jeremiad”...
Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750-1914
| Author | Richard Holmes |
| ISBN | 0007137532 |
From the bestselling author of Tommy and Redcoat, a magnificent and rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire, making full use of personal accounts of soldiers who served in the vast and varied nation that made up the jewel in Britain's imperial crown. Sahib is a broad...
Queen Victoria, From her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort
| Author | Cecil Woodham-Smith |
Absolutely outstanding material. Written in a literary style and solid on the facts of the case. The author has a strong feel for personality and makes the people and events come alive as if they were a remarkably good movie. I'm VERY hard to please with biographies so you can be assured this book is as good...
| Author | Roy Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0812966414 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill, a towering historical biography, available for the first time in paperback.
William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three...
Does the 21st Century Belong to China?: Kissinger and Zakaria vs. Ferguson and Li
| Author | Henry Kissinger |
| ISBN | 1770890629 |
Is China s rise unstoppable? Powered by the human capital of 1.3 billion citizens, the latest technological advances, and a comparatively efficient system of state-directed capitalism, China seems poised to become the global superpower this century. But the Middle Kingdom also faces a series of...
| Author | James Madison |
| ISBN | 0393304051 |
This handsome, affordable paperback edition contains James Madison's entire narrative of the stirring historic debates that led to the creation of one of the free world's most respected documents: the Constitution of the United States. Madison's clear and precise account of the historic summer...
| Author | Robert Blake |
| ISBN | 1853752754 |
Benjamin Disraeli, perhaps the best known & certainly the most colorful of Queen Victoria's Prime Ministers, has long merited a full-scale biography. This is it, the 1st since the official & monumental study by Monypenny & Buckle which appeared deecades ago. Blake deals with Disraeli's...
| Author | Winston S. Churchill |
| ISBN | 0304363928 |
The third volume of Sir Winston Churchill's classic history. During the long period of 1688 to 1815, three revolutions took place and all led to war between the British and the French. The English Revolution of 1688 made a new enemy of an old foe; the American Revolution of 1775 saw the United States finally...
| Author | Andrew Carroll |
| ISBN | 0767903315 |
Letters of a Nation is a unique and timeless collection of extraordinary letters spanning more than 350 years of American history, from the arrival of the Pilgrims to the present day. Many of the more than 200 letters are published here for the first time, and the correspondents are the celebrated and...
The Portable Thomas Jefferson
| Author | Thomas Jefferson |
| ISBN | 0140150803 |
You're not going to find me recommending the portable Nietzsche, but this edition works for students and scholars. You not only get the notes on the State of Virginia, the Declaration of Independence complete with the parts edited out by others (it's from his Autobiography, if I remember correctly),...
| Author | Charles Fourier |
| ISBN | 0521356148 |
This remarkable book, written soon after the French Revolution, has traditionally been considered one of the founding documents in the history of socialism. It introduces the best known and most extraordinary Utopia written in the past two centuries. Charles Fourier was among the first to formulate...
| Author | Georges Sorel |
| ISBN | 0486437078 |
Sorel developed an original and provocative theory on the positive, even creative, role of myth and violence in the historical process. Sorel was a civil servant who fervently believed that only the clearest and most brutal expression of class war could effect lasting social change. This, his most...
| Author | Robert Michels |
| ISBN | 0029212502 |
This is now probably one of my favorite books of political theory. It contains some excellent insights into the oligarchical nature of democracies (and of human organization in general) from a psychological and sociological point of view.
The author, Robert Michels, was a member of the Social...
| Author | John Buchan |
| ISBN | 1406501298 |
“The function of man is to live, not to exist.” Jack London, Tales of Adventure
This is a quote John Buchan would probably have agreed with, as the need for constant challenge in order to prevent decay of the body, mind and spirit is a common theme in his books. In fact, he would probably take...
| Author | Sterling Seagrave |
| ISBN | 0449904563 |
Power corrupts but absolute power corrupts absolutely. The statement was made by Lord Acton, a British historian of the nineteenth century. A person’s sense of morality lessens as his power increases. The history is repleted with countless example of men, who had misutilized their power for their...
After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World
| Author | A.N. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0312425155 |
The distinguished historian A.N. Wilson has charted, in vivid detail, Britain's rise to world dominance, a tale of how one small island nation came to be the mightiest, richest country on earth, reigning over much of the globe. Now in his much anticipated sequel to the classic The Victorians, he describes...
Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady
| Author | Sylvia Jukes Morris |
| ISBN | 0375757686 |
Edith Kermit Carow grew up in New York City in the same circles as did Theodore Roosevelt. But only after TR's first wife died at age twenty-two did the childhood friends forge one of the most successful romantic and political partnerships in American history. Sylvia Jukes Morris's access to previously...
| Author | Oliver North |
| ISBN | 0060183349 |
I found this book disorganized, tedious and long. Oliver North jumps around from the present to a few years ago to his childhood to two days ago to the early years of his marriage. It is just too hard to follow, and much of it is boring and not applicable to the Iran- Contra affair. I wanted to read this book...
The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded political writers.
The first volume of Richard Gwyn’s definitive biography of John A. Macdonald follows his life from his birth in Scotland in 1815 to his...
