Introduction

Chapter 13

Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Clèves

John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government

Chapter 14

Baron de Montesquieu, Persian Letters

Rousseau, The Social Contract

Chapter 15

Frederick the Great, Anti-Machiavel

Chapter 16

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Robespierre, "On the Abolition of the Death Penalty (May 30, 1791)"and "On the Action to be Taken Against Louis XVI (December 3, 1792)"

Chapter 17

Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population

Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

Chapter 18

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles, The Communist Manifesto

George Eliot, Felix Holt

Chapter 19

Garibaldi, Memoirs

Chapter 20

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Cecil Rhodes, "Confessions of Faith"

Chapter 21

Charles Darwin, The Origin of the Species

Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton

Chapter 22

John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

Chapter 23

Anna Akhmatova, Selected Poems

Adolf Hitler, Perish the Jew

Chapter 24

Harry S. Truman, The Truman Doctrine

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

Chapter 25

Mikhail Gorbachev, "Report to the 27th Congress of the Communist Party ofthe Soviet Union, 25 February 1986"

Credits