History

St. Bede

Subject Area: History

Source: Introduction to Bede's The Eccesiastical History of the English Nation (and Lives of Saints and Bishops), with an Introduction by Vida D.… more

Works by John Bright and 18thC Commonwealthmen School of Thought: Philosophical Radicals School of Thought: Manchester School of Economics

19th Century Laissez-faire

This essay first appeared… more

Edward Gibbon Subject Area: History

Source: From Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J.B. Bury with an Introduction by W.E.H. Lecky (New York: Fred de Fau and Co., 1906), in 12… more

Works by Trevor Colbourn Topic: American Revolution & Constitution

McDonald, Founding Fathers' Library

Source: The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the… more

Political Theory

Source: Editorial in Literature of Liberty, Summer 1981, vol. 4, No. 2

David Hume

The French Revolution

Source: Laurence L. Bongie, Introduction to David Hume: Prophet of the Counter-revolution (2nd ed.), Foreword by Donald W. Livingston (Indianapolis:… more

David Hume Subject Area: History

David Hume

Source: William Todd's Foreword to David Hume's The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688,… more

David Hume School of Thought: Scottish Enlightenment Subject Area: History

David Hume

Source: Hume's The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in… more

Works by David Hume

David Hume

Source: David Hume, The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688, Foreword by William B. Todd, 6 vols.… more

James Mill School of Thought: 19thC Utilitarians Subject Area: History

Source: Mill's The History of British India in 6 vols. (3rd edition) (London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1826). Vol. 1.

Works by Trevor Colbourn, Thomas Jefferson Subject Area: History Topic: American Revolution & Constitution

Source: Chapter VIII of Trevor Colbourn's The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual… more

Henry Home, Lord Kames School of Thought: Scottish Enlightenment

Source: Henry Home, Lord Kames, Sketches of the History of Man Considerably enlarged by the last additions and corrections of the author, edited… more

Boethius Subject Area: Philosophy

Boethius

Source: Translator's Introduction to Boethius's King Alfred’s Version of the Consolations of Boethius. Done into Modern English, with an… more

Edward Gibbon W.E.H. Lecky Subject Area: History

Source: Introduction to Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J.B. Bury with an Introduction by W.E.H. Lecky (New York: Fred de… more

W.E.H. Lecky Subject Area: History

Source: Lecky's History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, vol. 1 Third edition, revised (New York: D. Appleton, 1921).

Subject Area: History Livy

Source: Translator's Introduction to Livy's The History of Rome by Titus Livius. Translated from the Original with Notes and Illustrations by George Baker, A.M.. First American, from… more

John Millar School of Thought: Scottish Enlightenment Subject Area: History

Source: John Millar, An Historical View of the English Government, From the Settlement of the Saxons in Britain to the Revolution in… more

Pufendorf Subject Area: History

Source: Introduction to Pufendorf, The Present State of Germany, trans. Edmund Bohun, edited and with an Introduction by Michael J. Seidler (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007).

Augustin Thierry School of Thought: 19thC French Liberalism Subject Area: History

Source: Augustin Thierry, History of the Conquest of England by the Normans; Its Causes, and its Consequences, in England,… more

Works by Trevor-Roper Subject Area: History Topic: English Revolution

Source: An essay in Trevor-Roper's The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: Religion, the Reformation and Social Change (Indianapolis: Liberty… more