Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-195) and index.
The prince / Niccolò Machiavelli -- Common sense / Thomas Paine -- Wealth of nations / Adam Smith -- Essay on the principle of population / Thomas Malthus -- Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau -- Uncle Tom's cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Das Kapital / Karl Marx -- The influence of sea power upon history / Alfred T. Mahan -- The geographical pivot of history / Sir Halford J. Mackinder -- Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler -- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium / Nicolaus Copernicus -- De motu cordis / William Harvey -- Principia mathematica / Sir Isaac Newton -- Origin of species / Charles Darwin -- The interpretation of dreams / Sigmund Freud -- Relativity, the special and general theories / Albert Einstein