History

About this Collection

Whether it is David Hume’s eighteenth-century account of English history stretching from Julius Caesar to the Glorious Revolution or Edmund Burke’s analysis of the American and French Revolutions as he watched them unfold, our history collection reflects on the events of history and the ways we discuss those events over time.

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)	Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1800-1859)	Henry Sumner Maine (1822-1888)

See also the extracts, chapters, and introductions in the History section of the Ideas page.

Members:

• England, Ireland, and America (Richard Cobden)
• English Works of Thomas Hobbes, 11 vols. (Thomas Hobbes)
• The English Works, vol. VI (Dialogue, Behemoth, Rhetoric) (Thomas Hobbes)
• The English Works, vol. VIII (The Peloponnesian War Part I) (Thucydides)
• The English Works, vol. IX (The Peloponnesian War Part II) (Thucydides)
• Die Entwicklung des gutsherrlich-bäuerlichen Verhältnisses in Galizien (1772-1848) (Ludwig von Mises)
• An Essay on the History of Civil Society (Adam Ferguson)
• Essays Moral, Political, Literary (LF ed.) (David Hume)
• Life and Letters of Montaigne with Notes and Index, vol. 10 (Michel de Montaigne)
• Exploring the Bounds of Liberty: Political Writings of Colonial British America from the Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution (Jack P. Greene)
• Exploring the Bounds of Liberty: Political Writings of Colonial British America from the Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution. Vol. 2 (1734-1755) (Jack P. Greene)
• The Formation and Progress of the Tiers État, or Third Estate in France 2 vols (Augustin Thierry)
• The Formation and Progress of the Tiers État, or Third Estate in France vol. 1 (Augustin Thierry)
• The Formation and Progress of the Tiers État, or Third Estate in France vol. 2 (Augustin Thierry)
• Four Tracts on Political and Commercial Subjects (Josiah Tucker)
• The French Revolution, 3 vols (Hippolyte Taine)
• Friends of the Constitution: Writings of the “Other” Federalists, 1787-1788 (Colleen A. Sheehan)
• General History of Civilization in Europe (François Guizot)
• George Washington: A Collection (George Washington)
• The Goodriches: An American Family (Pierre F. Goodrich)
• The Heimskringla: A History of the Norse Kings, 3 vols. (Snorre Sturlason)
• The Heimskringla: A History of the Norse Kings, vol. 1 (Snorre Sturlason)
• The Heimskringla: A History of the Norse Kings, vol. 2 (Snorre Sturlason)
• The Heimskringla: A History of the Norse Kings, vol. 3 (Snorre Sturlason)
• An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution (Mary Wollstonecraft)