Liberty Fund Inc imprint: 143 books

by Joseph Addison
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2004

First produced in 1713, Cato: A Tragedy inspired generations toward a pursuit of liberty. Liberty Fund’s new edition of Cato: A Tragedy, and Selected Essays brings together Addison’s dramatic masterpiece along with a selection of his essays that develop key themes in the play. Christine...

The Life of George Washington

Special Edition for Schools

by John Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2000

Used throughout the first half of the nineteenth century in schools and colleges, John Marshall’s own abridgment of his monumental five-volume biography of George Washington is now available in a Liberty Fund edition that once again brings the spirit of George Washington alive in America’s classrooms. Within...

To Secure the Blessings of Liberty

Selected Writings of Gouverneur Morris

by Gouverneur Morris
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012

Liberty Fund is pleased to present this single-volume collection of Gouverneur Morris’s writings. This edition will be a welcome addition to scholars of American and French history as the volume contains many writings that have never before been published. Morris served as Deputy Superintendent...

The Man and the Statesman

The Correspondence and Articles on Politics

by Frédéric Bastiat
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011

The Man and the Statesman, the first volume in Liberty Fund’s six-volume series, may be considered the most complete edition of Bastiat’s works published to date, in any country, and in any language. The main source for this translation is the seven-volume Œuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat,...

Union and Liberty

The Political Philosophy of John C. Calhoun

by John C. Calhoun
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 1992

Calhoun’s most important constitutional and political writings are now available as complete, unabridged texts and in a single volume, many for the first time since the 1850s. These writings address such issues as states’ rights and nullification, slavery, the growth of the Federal judicial power,...

Encyclopedic Liberty

Political Articles in the Dictionary of Diderot and D’Alembert

by Denis Diderot, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016

Often described as the culmination of the French Enlightenment, the Encyclopédie was collected not only to serve as a comprehensive reference work, but to “change the way men think” about every aspect of the human and natural worlds. In his celebrated “Preliminary Discourse” to the compilation,...

The Lamp of Experience

Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution

by Trevor Colbourn
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1998

In a landmark work, a leading scholar of the eighteenth century examines the ways in which an understanding of the nature of history influenced the thinking of the founding fathers. As Jack P. Greene has observed, “[The Whig] conception saw the past as a continual struggle between liberty...
by James Bryce
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995

In Democracy in America (1835) the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville interpreted American society through the lens of democratic political theory. A half-century later the Scotsman James Bryce examined “the institutions and the people of America as they are.” Bryce presented his findings in The...

Democracy, Liberty, and Property

The State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820s

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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010

In one volume, Democracy, Liberty, and Property provides an overview of the state constitutional conventions held in the 1820s. With topics as relevant today as they were then, this collection of essential primary sources sheds light on many of the enduring issues of liberty. Emphasizing the connection...

Exploring the Bounds of Liberty

Political Writings of Colonial British America from the Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution

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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018

Exploring the Bounds of Liberty presents a rich and extensive selection of the political literature produced in and about colonial British America during the century before the American Revolution. Most colonial political pamphlets and broadsides were printed in London, but even in the mid-seventeenth...
by James Fitzjames Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1993

Students of political theory will welcome the return to print of this brilliant defense of ordered liberty. Impugning John Stuart Mill’s famous treatise, On Liberty, Stephen criticized Mill for turning abstract doctrines of the French Revolution into “the creed of a religion.” Only the...

An Account of Denmark

With Francogallia and Some Considerations for the Promoting of Agriculture and Employing the Poor

by Robert Molesworth
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011

The Liberty Fund edition of An Account of Denmark is the first modern edition of Molesworth’s writings. This volume presents not only An Account, but also his translation of Francogallia and Some Considerations for the Promoting of Agriculture and Employing the Poor. These texts encompass Molesworth’s...

Liberty in Mexico

Writings on Liberalism from the Early Republican Period to the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012

Liberty in Mexico presents sixty-four essays and writings on liberty and liberalism, from the early republican period to the late twentieth century, from a variety of authors. The texts in this edition will refute commonly held notions that the liberal project in Latin America had no indigenous roots....
by Frédéric Bastiat
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012

“The Law,” “The State,” and Other Political Writings, 1843–1850, collects nineteen of Bastiat’s “pamphlets,” or articles, ranging from the theory of value and rent, public choice and collective action, government intervention and regulation, the balance of trade, education, and trade...
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