Mperience!

First published on 1845

Mprint:
civilization and barbarism, culture and civilization, history and politics, dictatorship and tyranny, culture and savagery, history and culture, absolute power, lawyer and politician, civil war, interpretive and political hegemony

Discourses on Livy

Written by Niccolò Machiavelli

First published on 1531

Mprint:
political theorist, civic virtue, history and philosophy, historical generalizations, structure of the republic, political history, individual leadership, overthrowing a republic, american political traditions, political landscape

Histories

Written by Herodotus

Mprint:
revolt and death, abandonment of the ionian fleet, accidental death, defeat of the ionian fleet, burial rites, statue of the egyptian goddess, speedy escape, traditions and politics, destruction by storm, backgrounds of the tyrants

Power: A New Social Analysis

Written by Bertrand Russell

First published on 1938

Mprint:
social philosophy, social organisation, political philosophy, creeds and habits, rational persuasion, courage and sagacity, individual creativeness, freedom of speech, human nature, philosophical and political thought, history and politics

Notes on Muscovite Affairs

First published on 1549

Mprint:
despotic absolute monarchy, fairness and equity, politics and history, absolute power, wide range, detailed eyewitness ethnography, stricken with fear, fanatical loyalty, violent political struggle, cruel tyrant

The History of British Political Parties

First published on 2001

Mprint:
history and politics, patient student, liberal democrats, history and influence, students of both history, politics, liberal, historic, monarchy, conservative

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Written by Mary Wollstonecraft

First published on 1792

Mprint:
revolutionary feminism, knowledge and virtue, midwifery and decency, rationality and sensibility, educational and political theorists, feminist thinker, masculine and feminine roles, inalienable rights, excessive emotion, benevolence and honesty, history and politics

The God of Small Things

Written by Arundhati Roy

First published on 9 Jun 1997

Mprint:
forbidden love, dizygotic twins, innocence and love, thoughts and remembrances, police chief, desperation and desire, history and politics, sadness and horror, lower class, college education

In the Shadow of Your Wings

First published on 1956

Mprint:
history and culture, desire for fame, concentration camp, politics and history, young girl, protection from deportation, opponent of the nazi regime, arbitrary arrests, slapping in the face, suicide thought

R. B. Kitaj

29 Oct 1932 - 21 Oct 2007

Mprint:
abstraction and modernism, figurative paintings, disjointed architecture, historical madness, bright colour, political history, leading draftsmen, disorienting landscapes, mild heart attack, greater awareness

Middlemarch

Written by George Eliot

First published on 1874

Mprint:
idealism and asceticism, apt pupil, idealism and talent, great unhappiness, lower class, upper class, kindred spirit, verve and idealism, humour and poignancy, alienating patients, political history

A Tale of a Tub

Written by Jonathan Swift

First published on 1704

Mprint:
politics and religion, political and religious sentiments, schism and riots, politics and theology, baptists and presbyterians, faulty allegory, modern scientism, spiritual and spiritual qualities, forcefulness and imaginativeness, political leaders, political tradition

The Invention of the Jewish People

First published on 2008

Mprint:
modern jewish nationalism, history of judaism, politics or sociology, exiled as a punishment, passion and erudition, political or historical work, historical truth, nationalist historical myth, common sense, virulent denunciation

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Written by John Foxe

First published on 1563

Mprint:
nature of catholicism, protestant reformation, risking persecution, cathedral church, historical justification, critical apparatus, attacking catholicism, english church from papal authority, endurance unto death, chronicle history, history of the political situation

I, the Supreme

Written by Augusto Roa Bastos

First published on 1974

Mprint:
despotic populism, absolute power, symbolism and interpretation, political and social history, fiction and diatribes, praise and condemnation, mythic and mythological, musings and ramblings, prison camp, torture and intolerance

The Great Indian Novel

Written by Shashi Tharoor

First published on 24 Aug 1989

Mprint:
lawyer and president, now prime minister, threatening revolt, social satire, epic poem, struggle over the throne, heart attack, abusive brother, puns and allusions, sexual desire, personal and political histories

Liberal Fascism

Written by Jonah Goldberg

First published on 8 Jan 2008

Mprint:
fascism and ideas, war and fascism, nature of fascism, political and intellectual history, technocratic authoritarianism, bigotry and genocide, witty intelligence, long discredited fascism, enlightened nazism, caricaturing of reality

Why Not Me?

Written by Al Franken

First published on 12 Jan 1999

Mprint:
presidential election, deceit and avarice, illegal and unethical activities, apologizing for slavery, bizarre behavior, do nothing, highly stereotypical impression, successful biblical archeologist, real life, violent and alcoholic, president in history

The Gulag Archipelago

Written by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

First published on 1973

Mprint:
political prisoner, journalism and history, powerful single indictment, revolts and uprisings, poetic images, prison indignities, crimes and atrocities, dark humour, economic and political ideology, surprising and noteworthy elements, political and historical legacy

Carlos Francisco Chang Marín

26 Feb 1922 -

Mprint:
political activism, culture and identity, presidential campaign, social problems, journalist and activist, culture and nature, historical events, humour and optimism, proletarian struggle visions, sensibilities and awareness, historical and political areas

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