World History

The Menace of the Herd, or Procrustes at Large

Tags: Legal System, World History

06/15/1943 • Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

This exceedingly rare book is by one of the great men of the 20th century. Written soon after his immigration to the United States, he signed the book “Francis Stuart Campbell” because he was a refugee from Austria and didn’t want to endanger...

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An Outline of International Price Theory

Tags: Global Economy, World History

03/15/1940 • Chi-Yuen Wu

Greatness often comes from the most unlikely corners. Chi-Yuen Wu began this treatise while a student at LSE during the Great Depression, then returning to an anxious China, on the verge of war, and in the throes of economic instability...

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The Vampire Economy

Tags: World History

09/15/1939 • Günter Reimann

Here is a study of the actual workings of business under national socialism. Written in 1939, Reimann discusses the effects of heavy regulation, inflation, price controls, trade interference, national economic planning, and attacks on private...

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The New Deal in Old Rome

Tags: Booms and Busts, U.S. History, World History

05/15/1939 • H. J. Haskell

What a fantastic way to learn ancient history: via the parallels with modern times. This book was a smash hit when it first came out in 1939, and yet it went out of print, and hasn’t been in print in half a century. H.J. Haskell was a journalist...

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The Gold Standard and Its Future

Tags: World History

01/27/1935 • T.E. Gregory

Between 1919 and 1925 a co-operative and successful effort was made to replace the monetary systems of the world upon a:firm foundation, and the international gold standard was thereby restored. In the last few years a variety of circumstances...

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The Merchants of Death

Tags: War and Foreign Policy, World History

06/15/1934 • H.C. Engelbrecht • F. C. Hanighen

Here is the archetype of all post–World War I revisionism of a particular variety: the hunt for the people who made the big bucks off the killing machine. The Merchants of Death was, in many ways, the manifesto of a generation of people who...

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Fiat Money Inflation in France

Tags: Money and Banks, World History

06/15/1933 • Andrew Dickson White

In Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White presents the still-largely-unknown story of a major factor behind the French Revolution. As John Mackay writes in the foreword, It records the most gigantic attempt ever made in the history...

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The Development of Economics

Tags: World History

01/01/1933 • William A Scott

Scott groups the topics to be studied around the development of the Classical Political Economy of England by considering first, the background of that development in the economic life and thought of the preceding period; second, the development...

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The Myth of a Guilty Nation

Tags: War and Foreign Policy, World History

08/11/1922 • Albert Jay Nock

This was Albert Jay Nock’s first great anti-war book, a cause he backed his entire life as an essential component of a libertarian outlook. The book came out in 1922 and has been in very low circulation ever since. The narrative has incredible...

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Lectures on Modern History

Tags: World History

07/22/1921 • Lord Acton

It was announced in February 1895 that John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton, had been appointed to the Chair of Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge in succession to the late Sir John Seeley, who had held the office...

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