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A pioneering historical work, Town Life in the Fifteenth Century concentrates on a neglected period that previously attracted the attention of only political historians. The book emphasizes aspects of European social history, examining common life in the town, the Commercial Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the towns’ battle for freedom and supremacy, and more.

The immediate cause of this 1770 tract was the violent controversy surrounding a radical member of parliament, John Wilkes, but Burke's commentary transcended this subject to grapple with more enduring questions of the proper apportionment of power, under the spirit of the British constitution, between king and parliament. 

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.  Many of the problems of globalization confronting us today---including finding the right balance between economic growth, technological advance, and international trade, and human welfare---also troubled earlier generations....

Marx wrote this 1847 work in response to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's 1847 book, The System of Economic Contradictions, or Philosophy of Poverty.  Accusing Proudhon of not only wanting to rise above the bourgeoisie, but also adhering to a quasi-religious faith in economic utopianism; Marx, on the contrary, proposes a scientific approach to the study of economic development. 

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Political Economy for Beginners is a timeless introduction to the Classical Political Economy of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill. The book was so well regarded that it broke the record for the number...

When this 1876 volume was published, the notion that employers owed obligations to their workers was considered a radical idea. Walker, one of the most prominent economists of his time, advocates here for profit sharing, improved access to trade and industrial schools, and other reforms. His theories on wages, wealth distribution, money, and social economics revolutionized the field of economics.

Though unfinished at his death, Some Problems in Philosophy demonstrates the psychological insight and devotion to literary excellence that James brought to philosophy. Intended to serve both as a historical overview of metaphysics and a systematic statement of his philosophical beliefs, this volume is one of his seminal works. This edition includes a preface by the author's brother, Henry James.

Psychology is a rich blend of physiology, psychology, philosophy and personal reflection. It introduces the powerful concept of “stream of thought.” James’s landmark work also contains seeds of pragmatism and phenomenology, which have influenced generations of thinkers. This study did much to place psychology among the laboratory sciences based on experimental method.

This 1908 collection of lectures delivered by James constitutes an attack upon the philosophical idea of monistic idealism, which James believes has removed philosophical inquiry from the realms of the actual and experiential.  James champions the idea of pluralism, which stresses the manifold nature of existence.

Published in 1897, this essay was the 1896 Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard University.  James, in a preface to the second edition, writes, "My concern in the lecture was not to discuss immortality in general.  It was confined to showing it to be not incompatible with the brain-function theory of our present mundane consciousness."

This 1918 volume is concerned, as the author writes in his preface, "with the interaction of our logical and psychological nature" to create belief and conviction.  Numerous case studies are included to illustrate the author's arguments.  Chapters include "Belief and Credulity," "The Will to Believe...

Wells’s essay “The Past and the Great State” kicks off this multi-author volume making the basic case for socialism. Contributors consider a wide range of subjects in the light of socialism, including democracy, education, health and medicine, the arts, law, science, religion, work, the countryside,...

John Dewey believed that schools were social institutions. In Moral Principles in Education, Dewey makes a strong case for the importance of schools not only as a place to gain knowledge, but also as a place to learn how to live a moral life.

John Dewey’s first book, published in 1887, outlines his earliest philosophic views. One of the founders of the philosophy of pragmatism and functional psychology, Dewey’s commitment to British neo-Hegelianism is expressed here, providing philosophy students with an indispensable look at Dewey’s developing ideas.