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• Great Britain -- Politics and government

• The Resurgence of Conservatism in Anglo-American Democracies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988), ed. by Barry Cooper, Allan Kornberg, and William Mishler, contrib. by Joel Smith, Neil Nevitte, Marilyn B. Hoskin, Roy E. Fitzgerald, Norman C. Thomas, William James Booth, F. L. Morton, A. Kenneth Pye, James E. Alt, Ivor Crewe, Donald Searing, Mark N. Franklin, Roger Gibbins, Harold D. Clarke, Henry W. Chappell, William R. Keech, Michael Allen Gillespie, Michael Lienesch, and Morris P. Fiorina (page images at HathiTrust)

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• City Regions and Devolution in the UK: The Politics of Representation (Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press, c2021), by David Beel, Martin Jones, and Ian Rees Jones (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Fabian Tracts, by Fabian Society (Great Britain) (partial serial archives)
• Cobbett's Parliamentary History (36 volumes; London: Printed by T. C. Hansard, 1806-1820), contrib. by William Cobbett (page images at Oxford)
• The History of England: A Study in Political Evolution, by A. F. Pollard (Gutenberg text)
• Liberty and Liberalism: A Protest Against the Growing Tendency Toward Undue Interference by the State, with Individual Liberty, Private Enterprise and the Rights of Property (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887), by Bruce Smith (HTML at econlib.org)
• Political Pamphlets (London: Percival and Co., 1892), ed. by George Saintsbury, contrib. by George Savile Halifax, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Edmund Burke, Sydney Smith, William Cobbett, and Walter Scott (Gutenberg text)
• The English Constitution (second edition, 1873), by Walter Bagehot
  • PDF at McMaster
  • Gutenberg text
• The English Republic, by W. J. Linton, ed. by Kineton Parkes (illustrated HTML in the UK)
• Utopia of Usurers, and Other Essays, by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text)
• The Elements of Reconstruction: A Series of Articles Contributed in July and August 1916 to the Times by "D.P." (third impression; London: Nisbet and Co., 1917), by H. G. Wells
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Past Times and Pastimes (2 volumes; London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1922), by Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin Dunraven
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Works of Walter Bagehot (with memoirs by Hutton; 5 volumes; Hartford, CT: Travelers Insurance Co., 1889), by Walter Bagehot, ed. by Forrest Morgan, contrib. by Richard Holt Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gospel of Wealth, and Other Timely Essays (New York: Century Co., 1901), by Andrew Carnegie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1), by Edward Potts Cheyney (Gutenberg text)
• European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904), by Edward Potts Cheyney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Benedicti Abbatis Petriburgensis, De Vita et Miraculis S. Thomae Cantuar: The Life and Miracles of Saint Thomas of Canterbury (in Latin, with English notes; London: Pub. for the Caxton Society by A. Black, 1850), by Abbot of Peterborough Benedict, ed. by J. A. Giles (multiple formats at Google)

• Magna Carta, ed. by Albert Beebe White and Wallace Notestein (HTML at Fordham)
• Magna Carta (exemplification of 1215, with translation) (illustrated HTML with commentary at the British Library)

• An Anthology of Chancery English, ed. by John H. Fisher, Malcolm Richardson, and Jane L. Fisher (HTML at Michigan)

• England's Conversion and Reformation Compared: or, The Young Gentleman Directed in the Choice of His Religion; To Which is Premised a Brief Enquiry into the General Grounds of the Catholick Faith, in a Conversation Between a Young Gentleman and his Preceptor (Antwerp: Printed for R. C. and C. F., 1725), by Robert Manning (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The History of the Puritans, or Protestant Nonconformists, From the Reformation in 1517, to the Revolution in 1688: Comprising an Account of Their Principles, Their Attempts for a Farther Reformation in the Church, Their Sufferings, and the Lives and Characters of Their Most Considerable Divines (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1855), by Daniel Neal, ed. by John Overton Choules and Joshua Toulmin (page images at HathiTrust)
• European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1), by Edward Potts Cheyney (Gutenberg text)
• European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904), by Edward Potts Cheyney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey (Boston and New York; Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1905), by George Cavendish, illust. by Hans Holbein (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1784), by William Gilpin (multiple formats at Google)

• The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Lauren Working (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)

• Influence in Early Stuart Elections, 1604-1640 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by John K. Gruenfelder (PDF at Ohio State)

• Schemes and Undertakings: A Study of English Politics in the Seventeenth Century (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Clayton Roberts (PDF at Ohio State)
• Cottoni Posthuma: Divers Choice Pieces of that Renowned Antiquary, Sir Robert Cotton, Knight and Baronet (4 volumes in 1; set did not get to all items in volume 1's projected table of contents; Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1884-1888), by Robert Cotton, ed. by Edmund Goldsmid, contrib. by James Howell
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The History of the Puritans, or Protestant Nonconformists, From the Reformation in 1517, to the Revolution in 1688: Comprising an Account of Their Principles, Their Attempts for a Farther Reformation in the Church, Their Sufferings, and the Lives and Characters of Their Most Considerable Divines (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1855), by Daniel Neal, ed. by John Overton Choules and Joshua Toulmin (page images at HathiTrust)

• His Majesties Declaration to Both Houses of Parliament, Martii 21, 1641: Which He Likewise Recommends to the Consideration of All His Loving Subjects, in Answer to That Presented to Him at New-Market the 9. of March 1641 (York: Printed by R. Barker et al., 1642), by King Charles I of England (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Briefe Discourse Concerning the Powers of the Peeres, by John Selden (HTML at McMaster)
• The First Duke and Duchess of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910), by Thomas Longueville (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Mistris Parliament Brought to Bed of a Monstrous Childe of Reformation (1648), by Mercurius Melancholicus
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Radicalism and Reverence: The Political Thought of Gerrard Winstanley (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by George M. Shulman (HTML at UC Press)

• Diary of Thomas Burton, Esq. (4 volumes), by Thomas Burton, ed. by John Towill Rutt, contrib. by Guibon Goddard (HTML at British History Online)

• Orations of Divers Sorts Accommodated to Divers Places (London, 1662), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Plato Redivivus: or, A Dialogue Concerning Government (second edition, 1681), by Henry Neville (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Plato Redivivus, or, A Dialogue Concerning Government: Wherein, By Observations Drawn From Other Kingdoms and States Both Ancient and Modern, an Endeavour is Used to Discover the Present Politick Distemper of Our Own, With the Causes, and Remedies (London: Printed for S.I., 1681), by Henry Neville
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Chain of Facts in the Reign of King James the Second, With a Particular Account of His Design (in Conjunction with Lewis the XIVth of France) to Establish a Popish Successor to the Throne of England (London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1747), by Robert Wilkins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lives of Sir Matthew Hale and John Earl of Rochester (London: Printed for W. Pickering, 1820), by Gilbert Burnet (multiple formats at Google)
• A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions, by William Petty (text at McMaster)

• Lady Rachel Russell: "One of the Best of Women" (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Lois G. Schwoerer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• A Life of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury (Cambridge: At the University Press. 1907), by Thomas Elliot Simpson Clarke and H. C. Foxcroft, contrib. by C. H. Firth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• William Blathwayt, a Late Seventeenth Century English Administrator (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1932), by Gertrude Ann Jacobsen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Essays Upon Peace at Home and War Abroad ("in two parts", but no more apparently published; London: Printed for J. Knapton, 1704), by Charles Davenant (page images at Gallica)
• The Interest of the English Nation Under the Happy Government of King William III, Once More Asserted in Answer to the Challenge of a Jacobite: Wherein is Proved that the Law Which Forbids Taking up Arms Against the King Upon any Pretence Whatsoever is Consistent with the Late Revolution (London: E. Whitlock, 1696), by Philo-kalo-basileos (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Present State of Jacobitism in England: A Second Part, in Answer to the First (attributed to Burnet by Mansell; London, 1702), by Gilbert Burnet (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Character of a Jacobite, by What Name or Title Soever Dignifyed or Distinguish'd (London: Printed for the author, 1690), by A Person of quality (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Second Modest Enquiry into the Causes of the Present Disasters in England, and Who They Are That Brought the French Fleet into the English Channel Described: Being a Farther Discovery of the Jacobite Plot (London: Printed for J. Dunton and J. Harris, 1690) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dryden in Revolutionary England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by David Bywaters (HTML at UC Press)
• The Case Fairly Stated, in a Dialogue Between Moderation and Constitution (London: Printed by T. Warren for T. Bennet, 1702) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Collection of the Debates and Proceedings in Parliament in 1694 and 1695, Upon the Inquiry into the Late Briberies and Corrupt Practices (London, 1695), by England and Wales Parliament
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Essay Concerning the Laws of Nations, and the Rights of Soveraigns (London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1694), by Matthew Tindal (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The True-Born Englishman (based on an 1889 annotated version of Defoe's 1703 edition), by Daniel Defoe, ed. by Henry Morley (HTML at luminarium.org)
• The True-Born Englishman: A Satire (based on an 1855 modernized spelling edition), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)

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