Causes
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Narrower terms:- Death -- Causes
- France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Causes
- Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 -- Causes
- Israel-Arab War, 1967 -- Causes
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Causes
- Paraguayan War, 1865-1870 -- Causes
- South African War, 1899-1902 -- Causes
- Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1955-1972 -- Causes
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes
- United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763 -- Causes
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes
- United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Causes
- War -- Causes
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes
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Observation Intéressante et Mémoire a Consulter Sur la Maladie d'une Petite Fille et l'État de Son Cadavre: Où L'on Invite les Habiles Médecins du Royaume À Prononcer Sur la Cause de Sa Mort (in French; 1778), by Gabriel-Hubert Retz (page images at NIH)
- Domestic Anecdotes of the French Nation, During the Last Thirty Years, Indicative of the French Revolution (anonymously published, but attributed to Disraeli; London: Printed for C. and G. Kearsley, 1794), by Isaac Disraeli (page images at Google)
- De l'Influence Attribuée aux Philosophes, aux Francmaçons et aux Illuminés, Sur la Révolution de France (in French; Tubingen: J. G. Cotta, et al., 1801), by Jean Joseph Mounier (page images at HathiTrust)
- On the Influence Attributed to Philosophers, Free-Masons, and to the Illuminati, on the Revolution of France (London: Printed by W. and C. Spilsbury, 1801), by Jean Joseph Mounier, trans. by James Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
- De l'Influence Attribuée aux Philosophes, aux Francmaçons et aux Illuminés, Sur la Révolution de France (in French; Paris: Ponthieu, 1822), by Jean Joseph Mounier (page images at HathiTrust)
- De l'Influence Attribuée aux Philosophes, aux Francmaçons et aux Illuminés, Sur la Révolution de France (second edition, in French; Paris: Schubart et Heideloff; Leipzig: Ponthieu, Michelsen et cie., 1828), by Jean Joseph Mounier (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Revolutionary Spirit in France and America: A Study of Moral and Intellectual Relations Between France and the United States at the End of the Eighteenth Century (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1927), by Bernard Faÿ, trans. by Ramon Guthrie (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Story of the French Revolution (New York: New York Labor News Co., 1956), by Ernest Belfort Bax, contrib. by Daniel De Leon (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Eve of the French Revolution, by Edward J. Lowell (Gutenberg text)
- The Psychology of Revolution, by Gustave Le Bon (HTML at Virginia)
- Secret Societies and the French Revolution, Together With Some Kindred Studies (London and New York: John Lane, 1911), by Una Pope-Hennessy
- The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789, and the Causes Which Led to That Event (third edition; Londond: J. Murray, 1888), by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. by Henry Reeve (HTML at archive.org)
- The Political Writings of Joel Barlow: Containing Advice To The Privileged Orders; Letter To The National Convention; Letter To The People Of Piedmont; The Conspiracy Of Kings (new edition corrected; New York: Printed by Mott and Lyon, 1796), by Joel Barlow
- The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793 (2 volumes; New York: Vanguard Press, 1927), by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, trans. by N. F. Dryhurst (page images at HathiTrust)
- The French Revolution (London: Williams and Norgate, n.d.), by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The French Revolution (London: Williams and Norgate, 1915), by Hilaire Belloc (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Rights of Man, by Thomas Paine (Gutenberg text)
- The Political Writings of Joel Barlow (reprint of the 1796 edition, with an added Barlow bibliography from 1935), by Joel Barlow, contrib. by Florence S. Hellman (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Socialism and Unsocialism of Thomas Carlyle: A Collection of Carlyle's Social Writings, Together With Joseph Mazzini's Famous Essay Protesting Against Carlyle's Views (2 volumes; New York: Humboldt Pub. Co., c1891), by Thomas Carlyle, ed. by William Dwight Porter Bliss, contrib. by Giuseppe Mazzini (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die Genesis der Emser Depesche (in German; Berlin: Verlag von Gebrüder Paetel (Dr. G. Paetel), 1915), by Richard Fester
- Rational Decision-Making: Israel's Security Choices, 1967 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1980), by Janice Gross Stein and Raymond Tanter (PDF at Ohio State)
- Why War Came in Korea (New York: Fordham University Press, 1950), by Robert T. Oliver (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conduct (second edition; Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2018), by Thomas Whigham (PDF files at Calgary)
- Selected Official Documents of the South African Republic and Great Britain: A Documentary Perspective of the Causes of the War in South Africa (1900), ed. by Hugh Williams and Frederick C. Hicks, contrib. by Orange Free State and South African Republic
- Native Races and the War, by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler (HTML at Indiana)
- British Policy and Mission Education in the Southern Sudan, 1928-1946, by David Sconyers (HTML in Italy)
- The Causes of the American Civil War: A Letter to the London Times (New York: J. G. Gregory, 1861), by John Lothrop Motley
- The Church and the Rebellion: A Consideration of the Rebellion Against the Government of the United States, and the Agency of the Church, North and South, in Relation Thereto (New York: Derby and Miller, 1864), by R. L. Stanton
- Address at the Dedication of The Monument to the Confederate Dead, University of Virginia, June 7, 1893 (Richmond, VA: Taylor and Taylor, printers, 1893), by Robert Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Rebellion, Its Origin and Life In Slavery, Position and Policy of Missouri: Speech of Charles D. Drake. Delivered, By Request, in Mercantile Library Hall, St. Louis, April 14, 1862; Having Been Previously Spoken, In Substance, at Union, Mo., April 7, 1862 (ca. 1862), by Charles D. Drake
- The Slaveholder's War: A Lecture (1863), by Ernest Charles Jones (illustrated HTML in the UK)
- A Confederate Catechism: The War of 1861-1865 (third edition; Holdcroft, VA: L. G. Tyler, 1929), by Lyon Gardiner Tyler (Javascript-dependent page images at scv.org)
- A Confederate Catechism: The War of 1861-1865 (ca. 1920), by Lyon Gardiner Tyler (PDF at wm.edu)
- Fanaticism, and its Results: or, Facts Versus Fancies; By a Southerner (Baltimore: J. Robinson, 1860), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States (2 volumes; Philadelphia et al.: National Pub. Co.; Chicago and St. Louis: Zeigler, McCurdy and Co., c1868-1870), by Alexander H. Stephens
- The Gray Book (1920), by Sons of Confederate Veterans Gray Book Committee (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Truths of History (ca. 1920), by Mildred Lewis Rutherford (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The War: Its Causes and Consequences, by C. C. S. Farrar (page images at MOA)
- Mr. Soulé's Speech, at Opelousas, Louisiana, Delivered on the 6th of September 1851 (New Orleans: Printed by J. L. Sollée, 1851), by Pierre Soulé
- Jefferson Davis, President of the South (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by H. J. Eckenrode
- The Journal of Major George Washington, Sent by the Hon. Robert Dinwiddie, Esq., His Majesty's Lieutenant-Governor, and Commander in Chief of Virginia, to the Commandant of the French Forces on Ohio; To Which Are Added, the Governor's Letter, and a Translation of the French Officer's Answer (Williamsburg, VA: Printed by W. Hunter., 1754), by George Washington (HTML at Evans TCP)
- The Journal of Major George Washington, Sent by the Hon. Robert Dinwiddie, Esq., His Majesty's Lieutenant-Governor, and Commander in Chief of Virginia, to the Commandant of the French Forces on Ohio; To Which Are Added, the Governor's Letter, and a Translation of the French Officer's Answer, With a New Map of the Country As Far As the Mississippi (London: Reprinted for T. Jefferys, 1754), by George Washington (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Journal of Major George Washington (based on Williamsburg 1754 first edition), by George Washington, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
- An Address of the Twelve United Colonies of North-America by Their Representatives in Congress to the People of Ireland (Philadelphia: W. and T. Bradford, 1775), by United States Continental Congress (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress, Held at Philadelphia, May 10, 1775 (Philadelphia: W. and T. Bradford, 1775), by United States Continental Congress (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Rights of Great Britain Asserted Against the Claims of America: Being an Answer to the Declaration of the General Congress (with a copy of the 1775 Continental Congress declaration on taking up arms; third edition; London: T. Cadell, ca. 1776), by James Macpherson, contrib. by United States Continental Congress (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Letter to the Right Honourable Wills, Earl of Hillsborough, on the Connection Between Great Britain and Her American Colonies (London: Printed for T. Becket, 1768), by George Canning (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies (New York: The Outlook Co., 1903), by John Dickinson, ed. by R. T. Haines Halsey (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Richard Price and the Ethical Foundations of the American Revolution: Selections from His Pamphlets, with Appendices (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1979), by Richard Price, ed. by Bernard Peach, contrib. by Jon Erik Larson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Charles Howard McIlwain (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Extracts from the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental Congress, Held at Philadelphia, on the Fifth of September, 1774: Containing the Bill of Rights, a List of Grievances, Occasional Resolves, the Association, an Address to the People of Great-Britain, a Memorial to the Inhabitants of the British American Colonies (originally printed in Philadelphia; London: Reprinted for J. Almon, 1774), by United States Continental Congress
- An Oration, Delivered March 5, 1774, At the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston. To Commemorate the Bloody Tragedy of the Fifth of March 1770 (Boston: Edes and Gill, 1774), by John Hancock
- Orations, Delivered at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, to Commemorate the Evening of the Fifth of March, 1770 (second edition; Boston: W. T. Clap, 1807), contrib. by James Lovell, Joseph Warren, Benjamin Church, John Hancock, Peter Thacher, Benjamin Hichborn, Jonathan Williams Austin, William Tudor, Jonathan Mason, Thomas Dawes, George Richards Minot, Thomas Welsh, Perez Morton, and James Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Trial of William Wemms, James Hartegan, William M'Cauley, Hugh White, Matthew Killroy, William Warren, John Carrol, and Hugh Montgomery, Soldiers in His Majesty's 29th Regiment of Foot, for the Murder of Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, and Patrick Carr, on Monday-Evening, the 5th of March, 1770 (Boston: J. Fleeming, 1770)
- An Appeal to the World: or, A Vindication of the Town of Boston, From Many False and Malicious Aspersions, Contained in Certain Letters and Memorials, Written by Governor Bernard, General Gage, Commodore Hood, the Commissioners of the American Board of Customs, and Others, and By The Respectively Transmitted to the British Ministry (Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill, 1770)
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