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Filed under: Aboriginal Australians -- Politics and government

Making Change Happen: Black and White Activists Talk to Kevin Cook about Aboriginal, Union and Liberation Politics (Canberra: ANU E Press, c2013), by Kevin Cook and Heather Goodall (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
In Good Faith? Governing Indigenous Australia Through God, Charity and Empire, 1825-1855 (2011), by Jessie Mitchell (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family (2010), by Gordon Briscoe (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

Filed under: Acholi (African people) -- Politics and government

The Scars of Death: Children Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)

Filed under: Acre (Israel) -- Politics and government

The Limits of Coexistence: Identity Politics in Israel (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Rebecca L. Torstrick (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Adelaide (S.A.) -- Politics and government

Behind the Scenes: The Politics of Planning Adelaide (c2012), by Michael Llewellyn-Smith (PDF and Epub with commentary at Adelaide)

Filed under: Afghanistan -- Politics and government

Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy (2002), by Stephen D. Biddle (multiple formats at Google)

Filed under: Africa -- Politics and government

Africa, Soviet Imperialism and the Retreat of American Power (SD Papers #2, reprinted from Commentary; c1977), by Bayard Rustin and Carl Gershman (multiple formats at archive.org)
Scarcity, Choice and Public Policy in Middle Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Donald S. Rothchild and Robert L. Curry (HTML at UC Press)
Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa: Future Imperfect? (London: UCL Press, 2017), ed. by Andrew W. M. Smith and Chris Jeppesen (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
Africa: New Crises in the Making (Headline series #91; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1952), by Harold R. Isaacs and Emory Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
The New Map of Africa (1900-1916): A History of European Colonial Expansion and Colonial Diplomacy (New York: The Century Co., 1916), by Herbert Adams Gibbons
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Acte Général de la Conférence de Berlin (with its protocols, in French; ca. 1885), by Berlin West Africa Conference (1884-1885 : Berlin, Germany)
- page images in Germany
- page images at HathiTrust
African Anarchism: The History of a Movement, by Sam Mbah and I. E. Igariwey (HTML at theanarchistlibrary.org)
King Leopold II: His Rule in Belgium and the Congo (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1905), by John de Courcy MacDonnell
- multiple formats at Google; US access only
- multiple formats at archive.org

Filed under: Africa, North -- Politics and government

States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco (2001), by M. Charrad (HTML at UC Press)

Filed under: Africa, Southern -- Politics and government

The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by Leroy Vail (HTML at UC Press)

Filed under: African Americans -- Politics and government

Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics (Brooklyn: Punctum Books, c2015), by Lester K. Spence (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
The Republic of New Africa Short Official Basic Documents (ca. 1968), by Republic of New Africa (Organization) (page images with commentary at Brown)
The Color of Representation: Congressional Behavior and Black Interests (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1997), by Kenny J. Whitby (page images at HathiTrust)
Let Us Build a National Negro Congress (Washington: National Negro Congress, 1935), by John P. Davis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Modern Philanthropy Illustrated: How They Tried to Make a White Man of a Negro Twenty-Five Hundred Years Ago; Will the Experiment Succeed Any Better Now? (1868) (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Negro and Politics: Campaign of Nineteen Hundred and Ten, by Hannibal Democratic Club of Brooklyn
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Negro as a Political Problem: Oration by the Hon. George W. Williams of Massachusetts at the Asbury Church, Washington, D.C., April 16, 1884 (Boston: A. Mudge and Son, printers, 1884), by George Washington Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Republican Party and the Afro-American: A Book of Facts and Figures (Washington: Republican National Committee, 1912), by Cyrus Field Adams
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Back to Barbarism (New York: American Defense Society, ca. 1923), by R. M. Whitney (page images at HathiTrust)
The Colored American Republican Text Book: A Book of Facts and Figures, Showing What the Republican Party has Done for the Afro-American (Washington: Colored American Pub. Co., ca. 1900)
- page images at Emory
- page images at HathiTrust
Negroes Menaced by Red Plot (third edition; Charleston, SC: Grass Roots League, 1955) (page images at Preservica)
The Case Against Taft and Roosevelt, From the Standpoint of the Colored Voters (Pamphlet #8; 1912), by National Independent Political League, Washington, D.C.
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society, ed. by Gerald David Jaynes and Robin M. Williams (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
The Prostrate State: South Carolina Under Negro Government (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1874), by James Shepherd Pike
- page images at HathiTrust
- page images at MOA
Zuid-Carolina Onder Negerbestuur: Eene Bijdrage tot de Kennis van Amerika (in Dutch; Doesborgh: R. v. Hinloopen Labberton, 1875), by James Shepherd Pike, trans. by B. Scholten (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Alabama -- Politics and government

How We are Governed in Alabama and the Nation (revised edition; Richmond, VA: Bell Book and Stationery Co., 1913), by Howard Lee McBain and I. W. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
Alabama Democracy: United Democracy and Party Harmony vs. Heflin Republicanism and Party Disruption (1930), by Democratic Party (Ala.) (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Algeria -- Politics and government

Human Rights and Reform: Changing the Face of North African Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Susan Eileen Waltz (HTML at UC Press)
Essai sur le Fellah Algérien (in French; Paris: A. Rousseau, 1903), by Joost van Vollenhoven (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: America -- Politics and government

Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Judith Sierra-Rivera (PDF at Ohio State)
The Progress and Prospects of America: or, The Model Republic, Its Glory, Its Fall; With a Review of the Causes of the Decline and Failure of the Republics of South America, Mexico, and of the Old world; Applied to the Present Crisis in the United States (new edition; New York: E. Walker, ca. 1855), by Frederick Saunders and Thomas Bangs Thorpe (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Arabian Peninsula -- Politics and government

British Imperialism in Southern Arabia (Information paper #6; New York: Arab Information Center, 1958), by Arab Information Center Research Section
- main text: multiple formats at archive.org
- included map: multiple formats at archive.org

Filed under: Arctic regions -- Politics and government

China's Arctic Ambitions, and What They Mean for Canada (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2018), by P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Adam Lajeunesse, James Manicom, and Frédéric Lasserre (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

Filed under: Argentina -- Politics and government

The Sorrows of Carmencita: Argentina's Crisis in a Historical Perspective (Stockholm: Timbro, c2002), by Mauricio Rojas, trans. by Roger G. Tanner (PDF at hacer.org)

Filed under: Arizona -- Politics and government

Memoir of the Proposed Territory of Arizona, by Sylvester Mowry (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Armenia (Republic) -- Politics and government

Conditions in the Near East: Report of the American Military Mission to Armenia (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920), by United States American Military Mission to Armenia, contrib. by James G. Harbord
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: Asia -- Politics and government

The Military and Democracy in Asia and the Pacific (2004), ed. by R. J. May and Viberto Selochan (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

Filed under: Asia, Central -- Politics and government

The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Adeeb Khalid (HTML at UC Press)
Alpamysh: Central Asian Identity Under Russian Rule, by H. B. Paksoy
- HTML in Italy
- text files with commentary at Euronet

Filed under: Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government

The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora (second edition; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004), by Mabel L. Lang and John McK. Camp, illust. by Alison Frantz and Craig A. Mauzy (page images at Google)
Athens From Cleisthenes to Pericles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Charles W. Fornara and Loren J. Samons (HTML at UC Press)

Filed under: Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government

William Berry Hartsfield, Mayor of Atlanta (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1978), by Harold H. Martin (PDF at Georgia)

Filed under: Australia -- Politics and government

Australian Politics and Policy (multiple editions, including junior and senior editions for 2019 and 2021), ed. by Open Textbook Editorial Group (multiple formats with commentary at Sydney University Press)
A Democratic Way to Australia's Republic (Sydney: Putney Publishing, 2012), by W. R. Dawson (PDF with commentary in Australia)
Australian Politics in a Digital Age (c2013), by Peter John Chen (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
The Principles of Government (Peak Hill, NSW: Printed at the Peak Hill Express Office, 1903), by Thomas Bridle
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
The Australian Achievement: From Bondage to Freedom (1996), by L. J. M. Cooray (HTML at ourcivilisation.com)

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