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• Religion in politics

• Debating the Divine: Religion in 21st Century American Democracy (Washington, DC: Center for American Progress, 2008), ed. by Sally Steenland (PDF files at americanprogress.org)

• Historia delle Guerre Civili di Francia, by Arrigo Caterino Davila (multiple editions)

• An Enquiry How Far Papists Ought to be Treated Here as Good Subjects; and, How Far They Are Chargeable with the Tenets Commonly Imputed to Them (London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, 1746), by Arthur Ashley Sykes (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Catholic Layman (Dublin: W. Curry, 1852-1858) (full serial archives)

• The Interpreters, by George William Russell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• The Strange Career of Bishop Sterling: A Novel (published under "Stephen Endicott" pseudonym; New York: Meteor Press, 1932), by Walter Adolphe Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000), by Ussama Makdisi (HTML at UC Press)

• Christians: Why This Muslim Violence? (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v3; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2004), by Jan H. Boer (with other series volumes: PDF files at socialtheology.com)
• Nigeria's Decades of Blood, 1980-2002 (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v1; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2003), by Jan H. Boer (with other series volumes: PDF files at socialtheology.com)
• Christians: Why We Reject Muslim Law (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v7; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2008), by Jan H. Boer (with other series volumes: PDF files at socialtheology.com)
• Muslims: Why Muslim Sharia Law (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v6; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2007), by Jan H. Boer (with other series volumes: PDF files at socialtheology.com)

• Christians: Why We Reject Muslim Law (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v7; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2008), by Jan H. Boer (with other series volumes: PDF files at socialtheology.com)
• Muslims: Why Muslim Sharia Law (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v6; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2007), by Jan H. Boer (with other series volumes: PDF files at socialtheology.com)

• The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Basil Dufallo (PDF at Ohio State)

• Sameness and Difference: Problems and Potentials in South African Civil Society, ed. by James R. Cochrane and Bastienne Klein (PDF at crvp.org)

• Phakamani, by ANC Dept. of Religious Affairs (partial serial archives)

• The State of the Religious Right (annual report; online for 2006-2009), by Texas Freedom Network Education Fund (full serial archives)

• Angelic Troublemakers: Religion and Anarchism in America (New York et al.: Bloomsbury, c2014), by Anthony Terrance Wiley
  • HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Change and the Politics of Certainty (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, c2019), by Jenny Edkins (PDF files with commentary at Manchester Openhive)
• Serpents in the Sand: Essays on the Nonlinear Nature of Politics and Human Destiny (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Courtney Brown (PDF with commentary at courtneybrown.com)
• Regarding Politics: Essays on Political Theory, Stability, and Change (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Harry Eckstein (HTML at UC Press)
• A Theory of Governance (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2013), by Mark Bevir (page images and PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)
• To Nonviolent Political Science: From Seasons of Violence (1993), by Glenn D. Paige (PDF with commentary at globalnonviolence.org)
• The Elements of Political Science (revised edition, 1962), by Alfred De Grazia
  • volume 1: HTML at grazian-archive.com
  • volume 2: HTML at grazian-archive.com
• Collected Works of John Stuart Mill (32 volumes (omits 33rd index volume); Toronto: University of Toronto Press; London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963-1991), by John Stuart Mill, ed. by John M. Robson (at oll.libertyfund.org)
• Alpaca (Dallas: H. L. Hunt Press, 1960), by H. L. Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Grammar of Politics (4th edition, 8th impression, 1941), by Harold J. Laski (page images in India; NO US ACCESS)
• The Impasse of Democracy: A Study of the Modern Government in Action (New York: Harrison-Hilton Books, c1939), by Ernest S. Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Politics: Who Gets What, When, How (New York and London: Whittlesey House, c1936), by Harold D. Lasswell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home: A Lecture (c1933), by Bernard Shaw (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness (edited and abridged edition, 2 volumes; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by William Godwin, ed. by Raymond A. Preston (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Address Delivered at Cumming, Georgia, February, 1844, on the Rise and Progress of Society and the Formation of Government (New Haven: Printed for the author, 1844), by S. Watson Royston (page images at HathiTrust)
• African and European Addresses (1910), by Theodore Roosevelt, contrib. by Lawrence F. Abbott (Gutenberg text)
• De l'Esprit des Loix (4 volumes in French; 1769-1784), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elements of Political Science (revised edition, c1913), by Stephen Leacock (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness (fourth edition, 2 volumes; London: J. Watson, 1842), by William Godwin
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes bound together: page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at pitzer.edu
• Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions (Boston: Little and Brown, 1847), by Joseph Marie Maistre (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Essay Upon Government: or, The Natural Notions of Government (London: Printed for J. Baker and T. Warner, 1716), by Thomas Burnett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Karl Ludwig v. Haller's Staatsrechtliche Grundsätze, Nach Dessen Restauration der Staatswissenschaft (in German; Darmstadt: E. W. Leske, 1842), by Karl Ludwig von Haller, ed. by Karl Riedel
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• La Politique Naturelle: ou, Discours sur les Vrais Principes du Gouvernement (2 volumes in 1, in French; Tours: A. Vauquer et Lhéritier, ca. 1795), by Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Pública Felicidad Objeto de los Buenos Principes (translated into Spanish; Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1790), by Lodovico Antonio Muratori
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1896), by Adam Smith, ed. by Edwin Cannan (multiple formats at libertyfund.org)
• The Nation: The Foundations of Civil Order and Political Life in the United States (New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1870), by Elisha Mulford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Oceana and Other Works of James Harrington Esq., Collected, Methodiz'd, and Review'd, with an Exact Account of His Life Prefix'd, by John Toland; To Which is Added, an Appendix, Containing All the Political Tracts Wrote by this Author, Omitted in Mr. Toland's Edition (third edition; London: Printed for A. Millar, 1747), by James Harrington, contrib. by John Toland and John Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Oceana of James Harrington, Esq., and His Other Works, With an Account of His Life Prefix'd (with "Grounds and Reasons of Monarchy" by Hall, and "Plato Redivivus" by Neville; Dublin: Printed by R. Reilly, for J. Smith, and W. Bruce, 1737), by James Harrington, ed. by John Toland, contrib. by John Hall and Henry Neville
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Philosophical Theory of the State (second edition), by Bernard Bosanquet (PDF at McMaster)
• Physics and Politics, by Walter Bagehot
  • PDF at McMaster
  • Gutenberg text
• Political Ideals, by Bertrand Russell (Gutenberg text)
• Politics for Better or Worse, by Alfred De Grazia (page images at grazian-archive.com)
• Primitive Folk-Moots: or, Open-Air Assemblies in Britain (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1880), by George Laurence Gomme (PDF at McMaster)
• Principles of Government: or, Meditations in Exile (2 volumes; Dublin: J. Duffy, 1856), by William Smith O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Problems of National and International Politics (New York: Theosophical Association of New York, c1922), by B. P. Wadia
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Process of Government (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1908), by Arthur F. Bentley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Reconciliation of Government with Liberty (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1915), by John William Burgess
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Road Away From Revolution (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, c1923), by Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Social Contract, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by G. D. H. Cole (HTML at Wikisource)
• The Spirit of Laws (2 volumes; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896-1897), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, ed. by J. V. Prichard, trans. by Thomas Nugent
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Writings of Thomas Paine (4 volumes; New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894-1896), by Thomas Paine, ed. by Moncure Daniel Conway
  • Volume I (1774-1779): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1779-1792): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (1791-1804): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• A Disquisition on Government (with a new introduction by Levy; New York: Poli Sci Classics, 1947), by John C. Calhoun, contrib. by Naphtaly Levy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Disquisition on Government (reprint of the 1853 edition; New York: P. Smith, 1943), by John C. Calhoun, ed. by Richard K. Crallé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Talks on Sound Government (Wichita, KS: Defender Publishers, c1938), by Gerald B. Winrod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marxism and Political Thought (New York: New Workers School, ca. 1936), by Will Herberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Worker Looks at Government (New York: International Publishers, c1927), by Arthur W. Calhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny, by Orestes Augustus Brownson
  • HTML at terrenceberres.com
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images and text at MOA
• Ausgewählte Schriften und Reden (2 volumes; Berlin: O. Häring, 1911), by Georg Jellinek, ed. by Walter Jellinek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, by Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy, trans. by Thomas Jefferson (HTML at econlib.org)
• The Commonwealth of Oceana (London et al.: G. Routledge and Sons, 1887), by James Harrington, contrib. by Henry Morley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Disquisition on Government; and A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States (Columbia, SC: Printed by A. S. Johnston, 1851), by John C. Calhoun, ed. by Richard K. Crallé
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Disquisition on Government; and A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1853), by John C. Calhoun, ed. by Richard K. Crallé (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness (London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793), by William Godwin (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
• Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on Morals and Happiness (first American edition, from the second London edition corrected; 2 volumes; Philadelphia: Printed by Bioren and Madan, 1796), by William Godwin
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on Morals and Happiness. (third edition corrected, 2 volumes; London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on the Progress of Nations, in Productive Industry, Civilization, Population, and Wealth, by Ezra C. Seaman (page images at MOA)
• Lectures on the Early History of Institutions, by Henry Sumner Maine (text files at McMaster)
• On Human Nature, by Arthur Schopenhauer, ed. by T. Bailey Saunders (Gutenberg text)
• The Phantom Public (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1925), by Walter Lippmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Theological Works of Thomas Paine (with a life of Paine by Blanchard; Chicago: Belford, Clarke, and Co.; St. Louis: Belford and Clarke, 1882), by Thomas Paine, contrib. by Calvin Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by G. D. H. Cole (HTML at Wikisource)
• A Discourse Upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (John Adams's copy, with his handwritten annotations; London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1761), by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, contrib. by John Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Discourse Upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Gutenberg text)
• Discourses on Davila: A Series of Papers, on Political History, Written in the Year 1790, and Then Published in the Gazette of the United States, by an American Citizen (Boston: Printed by Russell and Cutler, 1805), by John Adams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law (2 volumes; Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1891), by John William Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Deutschland Über Alles": Die Deutsche Gesinnung und der Krieg (in German; Paris: A. Colin, 1917), by Émile Durkheim, trans. by Jacques Hatt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Fragment on Government, by Jeremy Bentham (HTML at McMaster)
• "Germany Above All": German Mentality and War (Paris: A. Colin, 1915), by Émile Durkheim, trans. by J. S.
  • PDF at Colorado
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• "L'Allemagne au-Dessus de Tout": La Mentalité Allemande et la Guerre (in French; Paris: A. Colin, 1915), by Émile Durkheim (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Man Versus the State, by Herbert Spencer (text at McMaster)
• Philosophy of Right, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, trans. by S. W. Dyde (PDF at McMaster)

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