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Here are entered works on government by a non-monarchical ruler with absolute, unlimited power. Works on rule by a monarch with absolute, unlimited power are entered under Despotism.

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• Dictatorship -- Fiction
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• From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation (fourth US edition in many languages, 2010), by Gene Sharp (PDF files at aeintstein.org)
• Cultures latine et teutonne [ressource électronique] / (Québec : [s.n.], 1917), by Alphonse Gagnon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Burma's saffron revolution : hearing before the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, October 3, 2007. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2008), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• La dictature / (Londres : [Impr. S. de Graag, 187-?]), by Eugène Vermersch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Confronting Damascus : U.S. policy toward the evolving situation in Syria : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, December 14, 2011 (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2011), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictatorship over the intellect : an affirmation of the right to free thought and to free imaginative experience / (Girard, Kan. : Haldeman-Julius Publications, c1935), by Isaac Goldberg and E. Haldeman-Julius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cuba's oppressive government and the struggle for justice : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, March 1, 2000. (Washington U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [Congressional Sales Office], 2001), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar, ed. by Monique Skidmore and Trevor Wilson (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Todas las Muertes de Pinochet Según Pedro Gomez Valderrama: Notas Literarias para una Biografia Critica (Ball State Monograph #35, in Spanish; Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 2000), by Luis Correa-Díaz (at libx.bsu.edu)

• The Greek (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1931), by Tiffany Thayer, illust. by Edward Staloff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kill Me if You Can!, by Randall Garrett (Gutenberg ebook)
• Yesterday's Revenge, by H. L. Nichols, illust. by Michael Mirando (Gutenberg ebook)

• Totalitarismus und Demokratie (in German and English; 2017-) (partial serial archives)
• Dictatorships & Democracies (in Spanish, English and Catalan; 2013-) (partial serial archives)

• Unfinished business in Afghanistan : warlordism, reconstruction, and ethnic harmony / (Washington, DC : United States Institute of Peace, [2003]), by Deepa Mary Ollapally and United States Institute of Peace (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• The Wave of the Past (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941), by R. H. Markham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Democratic Despotism (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1936), by Raoul E. Desvernine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louis XIV and Absolutism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), ed. by Ragnhild Marie Hatton (PDF at Ohio State)
• Adolphe. (Paris, Charpentier, 1839), by Benjamin Constant and Gustave i. e. Jean Baptiste Gustave Planche (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della tirannide. (Milano, P. Agnelli, 1812), by Vittorio Alfieri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die geschichte des despotismus in Teutschland. Mit urkunden. (Halle, Verlag des Waisenhauses, 1780), by Friedrich Christoph Jonathan Fischer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Romvlvs and Tarqvin. (London, Printed by I.H. for John Benson, 1637), by Virgilio Malvezzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Killing no murder: briefly discoursed in three questions. ([London?], Reprinted in the year 1689), by Edward Sexby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vindiciae contra tyrannos, sive, De principis in populum populique in principem legitima potestate / (Edimbvrgi [i.e. Basel] : [T. Guarinus?], anno 1579), by Hubert Languet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vindiciae contra tyrannos, siue, De principis in populum, populique in principem, legitima potestate / (Francofurti : Impensis Lazari Zetzneri bibliop. Arg., 1608), by Hubert Languet, Johann Baptist Fickler, and Philippe de Mornay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antimariana, ou, Refutation des propositions de Mariana : pour monstrer que les Princes souuerains ne dépendent que de Dieu en leur temporel, consequemment qu'il n'est loisible d'attenter à leur estat & personne, sous quelque' occasion ou pretexte que ce soit (Paris : P. Mettayer, 1610), by Michel Roussel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wilhelm Nicholls, der H. Schrifft Doctor, Religion eines Fürstens : zeigende, wie die Gebothe der H. Schrifft, denen gottlosen Meynungen des Nocolai Machiavelli, Hobbesii, und anderer, entgegen die besten Staats-Regeln im Regimente seynd : nebst einer Vorrede Val. Ernst Löschers / (Dresden : Bey G.C. Hilschern, 1730), by William Nicholls, Valentin Ernst Löscher, and Carl Gottfried Engelschall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Killing no murder : briefly discoursed in three questions / (London : [s.n.], 1689), by Edward Sexby, William Allen, and Silius Titus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Despotizm : ego print︠s︡ipy, primi︠e︡nenīe ikh i borʹba za despotizm / (S.-Peterburg : Tip. M.M. Stasi︠u︡levicha, 1911), by P. V. Zasodimskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De la puissance legitime du prince sur le peuple, et du peuple sur le prince : traité tres-utile & digne de lecture en ce temps / (Paris : Éditions d'Histoire Sociale, 1977), by Hubert Languet, Philippe de Mornay, and François Estienne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Killing is murder: or, An answer to a treasonous pamphlet entituled, Killing is no murder. (London : Printed for Joseph Moor, and are to be sold by the several booksellers in London and Westminster, 1657), by Michael Hawke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defensa de los pueblos, contra la tirania de los reyes / (Barcelona : Impr. de Juan Oliveres, 1836), by Geronimo Spanzotti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diktatur des Prolétariats oder Demokratie? (Zürich, M. Rascher, 1919), by Charles Naine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tuer un tyran n'est pas un meurtre : traité politique par William Allen... ; traduit de l'anglais. (Bruxelles : [Publisher not identified] ;, 1856), by Edward Sexby, William Allen, and Silius Titus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Robin Hood: a collection of poems, songs, and ballads relative to that celebrated English outlaw. (London, G. Routledge and Sons, 1884), by Joseph Ritson, Joseph Ritson, Camden Press. prt, Dalziel Brothers. prt, and George Routledge and Sons. pbl, illust. by Gordon Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the abuse of unrestrained power; an historical essay. (London : Dilly, 1778), by William Johnston Temple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte Europas im Zeitalter des Absolutismus und der Vollendung des modernen Staatensystems (1660-1789), (Stuttgart, Gotha, F.A. Perthes, 1923), by Kurt Kaser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les chaines de l'esclavage : ouvrage destiné ̀développer les noirs attentats des princes contre les peuples: les ressorts secrets, les ruses, les ménées, les artifices, les coups d'état qu'ils employent pour détruire la liberté, et les scènes sanglantes qui accompagnent le depotisme / (Paris : De l'imprimerie de Marat ..., l'an premier de la République [1792 or 1793]), by Jean Paul Marat (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spirit of despotism ... (Trenton [N.J.] : re-printed by Wilson & Blackwell, 1802), by Vicesimus Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free thoughts on despotic and free governments, as connected with the happiness of the governor and the governed. (London : Printed for Charles Dilly, 1781), by Joseph Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Despotisme des ministres de France : ou exposition des principes & moyens employés par l'aristocratie, pour mettre la France dans les fers. (A Amsterdam ... ; et se trouve à Paris : Chez Godefroy, Libraire ..., 1789), by Billaud-Varenne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rozmowa albo dyjalog około egzekucjej polskiej korony ; i, Quincunx : w wyborze z ryciną / (Warszawa : E. Wende, [1921?]), by Stanisław Okszyc Orzechowski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Padenīe absoli͡utizma v zapadnoĭ Evropi͡e; istoricheskīe ocherki. (S.-Peterburg, Izd. T-va M.O. Volʹf, [1907?]-), by E. V. Tarle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The spirit of despotism / (London : W. Hone, 1822), by Vicesimus Knox, John M'Creery, William Hone, T. Harrison, Ann Harrison, and James Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• İstibdat / (Mısır : Matbaa-yı İctihad, 1908), by Vittorio Alfieri (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The origin and progress of despotism in the Oriental, and other empires of Africa, Europe, and America : this theologico-political research is calculated for an introduction and key to Montesquieu's Spirit of laws, as the author declares in his last section. (Amsterdam [i.e. London?] : [s.n.], Printed in the year MDCCLXIV [1764]), by Nicolas Antoine Boulanger, trans. by John Wilkes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die Nothwendigkeit durchgreifender Reformen bei der gegenwärtigen Lage Deutschlands : mit einleitenden Bemerkungen über die von Herrn von Strombeck vor kurzem abgehandelte Frage--Was ist Rechtens, wenn die oberste Staatsgewalt dem Staatszwecke entgegenhandelt? / (Braunschweig : F. Vieweg, 1831), by Karl Heinrich Jürgens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criminalogía de los gobiernos españoles : estudio político-social / (Barcelona (45 Calle Tallers) : Ramón Pujol, 1906), by J. Just Lloret (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The spirit of despotism : dedicated to Lord Castlereagh / (London : W. Hone, 1821), by Vicesimus Knox, George Cruikshank, and William Hone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Citateur républicain, recueil de principes, de liberté, ou, Choix principaux de traités de démocratie extraits de divers écrits de philosophie, ancienne et nouvelle : nouveau corps d'ouvrage. (Paris : Rouanet, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'esprit de conquête et de l'usurpation : dans leurs rapports avec la civilisation européenne / (Paris : Le Normand, 1814), by Benjamin Constant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contrat social des republiques et essai sur les abus religieux, politiques, civils, etc. parmi toutes les nations et principalement en France. (Paris, Desenne, an VIII, [1800?]), by P. J. B. Nougaret (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oeuvres choisies de Mirabeau. Essai sur le despotisme.--Considérations sur l'ordre de Cincinnatus.--De la liberté de la presse.--Réglemens observés pour les votes en Angleterre. (Paris, Brissot-Thivars, 1821), by Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti Mirabeau and Society of the Cincinnati (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oeuvres. (Amsterdam, 1794), by Nicolas Antoine Boulanger, Peter Annet, and Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur le despotisme. Histoire secréte de la cour de Berlin. (Paris, Lecointe et Pougin, 1835), by Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti Mirabeau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rudolph Zacharias Becker's Leiden und Freuden in siebzehnmonatlicher französischer Gefangenschaft / (Gotha : Becker, 1814), by Rudolph Zacharias Becker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defensa de los pueblos contra la tiranía de los reyes / (Nueva-York : Lanuza, Mendía y C., 1827), by Girolamo Spanzotti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vindiciæ contra tyrannos, sive, De principis in populum : populique in principem, legitima potestate / (Francofurti : Sumpt. Hæred. Lazari Zetzneri, 1622), by Hubert Languet, Philippe de Mornay, and Johann Baptist Fickler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minuta de acusación al ministerio Vicuña-Godoy : presentada por la Cámara de Diputados ante el Senado en sesión de 5 de agosto de 1892. (Santiago de Chile : Impr. Nacional, 1892), by Chile. Congreso Nacional. Senado and Chile. Congreso Nacional. Cámara de Diputados (page images at HathiTrust)
• Karl Marx über den Ursprung der vorherrschaft Russlands in Europa : kritische Untersuchungen / ([Stuttgart, Germany?] : [publisher not identified], [1909]), by D. B. Ri︠a︡zanov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recht und gewalt, (Berlin Leipzig, Vereinigung wissenschaftlicher verleger [etc.], 1921), by Erich Brodmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The spirit of despotism. (London, W. Hone, 1821), by Vicesimus Knox, ed. by William Hone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les chaines de l'esclavage : ouvrage destiné à développer les noirs attentats des princes contre les peuples, les ressorts secrets, les ruses, les menées, les artifices, les coups d'état qu'ils emploient pour détruire la liberté, et les scènes sanglantes qui accompagnent le despotisme / (Paris : Adolphe Havard, 1833), by Jean Paul Marat and Jean-Alexandre Havard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fůrst und volk, (Aarau, Gedruckt bei F. J. Bek, 1821), by Ignaz Paul Vitalis Troxler, George Buchanan, and John Milton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Tyrannis in ihren beiden Perioden bei den alten Griechen : dargestellt nach Ursachen, Verlauf und Wirkungen / (Leipzig : Gumprecht, 1859), by Hermann Gottlob Plass (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin of tyranny, (Cambridge, [Eng.] The University press, 1922), by P. N. Ure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur le despotisme. (Londres, 1776), by Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti Mirabeau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur l'origine du despotisme oriental. Ouvrage posthume de Mr. B.I.D.P.E.C. ... ([Geneva], 1761), by Nicolas Antoine Boulanger (page images at HathiTrust)
• A defence of liberty against tyrants; a translation of the Vindiciae contra tyrannos, (London, G. Bell, 1924), by Hubert Languet, Philippe de Mornay, and Harold J. Laski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die gegenwärtigen Theorieen über den Begriff der gesetzgebenden Gewalt und den umfang des königlichen Verordnungsrechts nach preussischem Staatsrecht / (Tübingen ; Leipzig : Mohr, 1901), by Gerhard Anschütz and K. Asakawa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Grundrisse und Bausteine zur Staats- und zur Geschichtslehre : zusammengetragen zu den Ehren Gustav Schmollers und zum Gedaechtnis des 24. Juni 1908 seines siebenzigsten Geburtstages / (Berlin : G. Bondi, 1908), by Kurt Breysig, Gustav Roethe, Friedrich Andreae, Berthold Vallentin, Fritz Wolters, and Gustav von Schmoller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of auricular confession and indulgences in the Latin church. (Philadelphia : Lea Brothers, 1896), by Henry Charles Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revolution; why, how, when? (New York, Committee for Constitutional Govt., [©1943]), by Robert Hunter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Despotism, a pictorial history of tyranny. (New York, Philosophical Library, [1963]), by Dagobert D. Runes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coluccio Salutati's traktat "Vom tyrannen". (Berlin Leipzig, W. Rothschild, 1913), by Coluccio Salutati, ed. by Alfred von Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The age of the despots. (Gloucester, Mass., P. Smith, 1967), by John Addington Symonds (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Adresse des ouvriers républicains a Juarez / (Londres : Publié par des ouvriers français, [1867?]), by Félix Pyat (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new democracy and the new despotism, (New York, McGraw-Hill book company, inc., [c1939]), by Charles Edward Merriam (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Origin of Tyranny, by P. N. Ure (Gutenberg ebook)
• Adolphe : Anecdote trouvée dans les papiers d'un inconnu: Suivi de quelques réflexions sur le théâtre allemand et sur la tragédie de Wallstein, et de l'esprit de conquête et de l'usurpation (in French), by Benjamin Constant (Gutenberg ebook)
• The learned and loyal Abraham Cowley's definition of a tyrant (published by the present Lord Bishop of Rochester) in his discourse concerning the government of Oliver Cromwell. (London printed : [s.n.], 1688), by Abraham Cowley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A free discourse wherein the doctrines which make for tyranny are display'd the title of our rightful and lawful King William vindicated, and the unreasonableness and mischievous tendency of the odious distinction of a king de facto, and de jure, discover'd / by a Person of Honour. (London : Printed for John Lawrence ... and Richard Baldwin ..., 1697), by Person of honour, Daniel Defoe, and Robert Howard (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Regall tyrannie discovered: or, A discourse, shewing that all lawfull (approbational) instituted power by God amongst men, is by common agreement, and mutual consent.: Which power (in the hands of whomsoever) ought alwayes to be exercised for the good, benefit, and welfare of the trusters, and never ought other wise to be administered: ... In which is also punctually declared, the tyrannie of the kings of England, from the dayes of William the invader and robber, and tyrant, alias the Conqueror, to this present King Charles, ... Out of which is drawn a discourse, occasioned by the tyrannie and injustice inflicted by the Lords, upon that stout-faithful-lover of his country, and constant sufferer for the liberties thereof, Lieut. Col. John Lilburn, now prisoner in the Tower. In which these 4. following positions are punctually handled ... Vnto which is annexed a little touch, upon some palbable miscarriages, of some rotten members of the House of Commons: which house, is the absolute sole lawmaking, and law-binding interest of England. (London : [s.n.], Printed Anno Dom. 1647), by John Lilburne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Killing noe murder.: Briefly discoursed in three quæstions. By William Allen. ([Holland : s.n., 1657]), by Silius Titus, William Allen, and Edward Sexby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Vindiciae contra tyrannos. English (London : Printed by Matthew Simmons and Robert Ibbitson, in Smithfield, neer the Queens-head Tavern, 1648), by Hubert Languet and William Walker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The spirit of despotism. [Eight lines of quotations] ([Philadelphia] : London: printed in the year 1795. Philadelphia: re-printed by Lang and Ustick, for selves and Mathew Carey., Nov. 28, MDCCXCV. [1795]), by Vicesimus Knox (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Defensive arms vindicated; and the lawfulness of the American war made manifest. To which is added, a short receipt for a Continental disease, &c. : Dedicated to His Excellency General Washington. / By a moderate Whig. ([United States] : Printed for the author,, 1783), by Moderate Whig and George Washington (HTML at Evans TCP)

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