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Subject: History: 130 records

Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy 1933-1941

Charles Callan Tansill Updated 11/6/2012

This professionally prepared ebook is an electronic edition of the book that is designed for reading on digital readers like Nook, Kindle, iPad, Sony Reader, and other products including iPhone and Android smart phones. The text reflows depending o...
Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government

Thomas J. DiLorenzo Updated 8/3/2012

Politics and thieves, coercion and regulation, fascism and the Fed, centralization and liberty, workers and unions, trade and freedom, free-market achievements and government disasters in American history—this book covers it all!...
A Century of War: Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt

John V. Denson Updated 7/24/2012

The horrors of the twentieth century could hardly have been predicted in the nineteenth century, which saw the eighteenth century end with the American Revolution bringing about the creation of the first classical liberal government in history. Th...
Conceived in Liberty

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/14/2012

The new single-volume edition of Conceived in Liberty is here! After so many years of having to juggle four volumes, the Mises Institute has finally put it altogether in a single, 1,616-page book. This makes it easier to read, and makes clearer just...
The Great Depression

Lionel Robbins Updated 1/24/2012

The New Deals of America and Britain were a decade-long calamity that exceeded the damage of the economic downturn itself. The theory behind the policy was all wrong, but no one can say that the correct theory was not in circulation. This splendi...
Planned Chaos

Ludwig von Mises Updated 12/27/2011

This new edition (completely reset) of Planned Chaos features a new introduction by Chris Westley of Jacksonville State University. The introduction brings this classic up to date - not that it has ever fallen out of date or ever will. The title c...
America's Great Depression

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 12/14/2011

Applied Austrian economics doesn't get better than this. Murray N. Rothbard's America's Great Depression is a staple of modern economic literature and crucial for understanding a pivotal event in American and world history. The Mises In...
Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 11/3/2011

This fiery monograph shows a side of Murray Rothbard not seen in his theoretical treatise: his ability to employ "power elite" analysis to understand the relationship between money, power, and war. Rather than allow the left to dominate...
Fiat Money Inflation in France

Andrew Dickson White Updated 10/3/2011

In Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White presents the still-largely-unknown story of a major factor behind the French Revolution. As John Mackay writes in the foreword, It records the most gigantic attempt ever made in the history...
The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 9/30/2011

The panic of 1819 was America's first great economic crisis. And this is Murray Rothbard's masterful account, the first full scholarly book on the topic and still the most definitive. It was his dissertation, published in 1962 but nearly impo...
Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Papers

Charles Holt Carroll Updated 9/20/2011

Charles Holt Carroll defended sound money in a blazing series of essays appearing in the latter decades of the 19th century. They are all collected here, in The Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Papers. Little is known of Charles Holt Car...
The Production of Security

Gustave de Molinari Updated 6/27/2011

The introduction to this stunning work is by Murray Rothbard, who calls French radical Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) the great innovator in the market provision of security. Indeed, he might be regarded as the first proponent of what is called anar...
The Free Man's Library

Henry Hazlitt Updated 6/25/2011

Henry Hazlitt did an incredible thing with this book. He created in a mere 180 pages an anthology of short reviews of 550 books on economics and politics, old and new, from the point of view of an Austro-libertarian. Hazlitt wrote it because he bel...
On Doing the Right Thing

Albert Jay Nock Updated 6/7/2011

This wonderful collection of essays by Albert Jay Nock, first published in 1928, includes his "Anarchist's Progress," "Thoughts on Revolution," "The Decline of Conversation," and other classics by this great American...
The Decline of the American Republic

John T. Flynn Updated 5/26/2011

In 1955, John T. Flynn saw what few others journalist did: the welfare-warfare state conspired to bring down American liberty. The New Deal combined with World War Two had fastened leviathan control over a country born in liberty. This early analy...
Myth of National Defense, The: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 5/13/2011

With eleven chapters by top libertarian scholars on all aspects of defense, this book edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe represents an ambitious attempt to extend the idea of free enterprise to the provision of security services. It argues that "nat...
Tariff History of the United States

F.W. Taussig Updated 5/10/2011

The Mises Institute has completely retypeset F.W. Taussig’s definitive work on the tariff of the 19th century in the United States, a history that in some sense is the most important ever written because it was so decisive in leading to the sectional...
The Road to Serfdom

Friedrich A. Hayek Updated 5/5/2011

Finally, here is an edition of Road to Serfdom that does justice to its monumental status in the history of liberty. It contains a foreword by the editor of the Hayek Collected Works, Bruce Caldwell. Caldwell has added helpful explanatory notes and c...
Century of War, A

John V. Denson Updated 3/31/2011

The horrors of the twentieth century could hardly have been predicted in the nineteenth century, which saw the eighteenth century end with the American Revolution bringing about the creation of the first classical liberal government in history. Th...
History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 10/25/2010

Hardcover Edition The master teacher of American economic history covers money and banking in the whole of American history, to show that the meltdown of our times is hardly the first. And guess what caused them in the past? Paper money, loose cre...
Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution

Ludwig von Mises Updated 6/11/2010

New hardcover edition, introduction by Murray N. Rothbard Like Hayek, Mises moved beyond economics in his later years to address questions regarding the foundation of all social science. But unlike Hayek's attempts, Mises's writings on t...
The Discovery of Freedom

Rose Wilder Lane Updated 5/14/2010

With new forewords by Roger Lea MacBride and Hans F. Sennholz What an American original was Rose Wilder Lane! What a treasure! She lived from 1886 until 1968, the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and widely considered a silent collaborator on t...
Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom

John V. Denson Updated 5/14/2010

American Despots Amazing low sale price in defense of authentic freedom as versus the presidency that betrayed it! Everyone seems to agree that brutal dictators and despotic rulers deserve scorn and worse. But why have historians been so willi...
War Collectivism in World War I

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 4/20/2010

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69. 'The Shot Heard Round the World': The Final Conflict Begins

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 10/19/2009

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Omnipotent Government: The Rise of Total State and Total War

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/27/2009

At the close of the Second World War, Mises saw the destruction of the old world and the beginnings of a new one that did not look promising, especially for European politics. Socialism appeared to sweep all before it, and the social democratic varie...
One Year After

Virgil Jordan Updated 11/2/2007

Virgil Jordon (1946) One Year After...
Money and Man

Elgin Groseclose Updated 4/20/2007

Elgin Groseclose Money and Man...
A Time is Born

Garet Garrett Updated 1/30/2007

Garet Garrett (1944) A Time is Born...
"World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

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"Great Depression Tax Revolts Revisited, The"

Mark Thornton Updated 1/15/2007

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"Foreign Policy of the Old Right, The"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Development of Municipal Fire Departments in the United States"

William L. Anderson Updated 1/15/2007

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"Culture of Individualist Anarchism in Late 19th Century America"

Wendy McElroy Updated 1/15/2007

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"World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

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"Introduction to the French Edition of Ethics of Liberty"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

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"Woodrow Wilson's Defeat in Yugoslavia: The End of a Multicultural Utopia"

Tomislav Sunic Updated 1/15/2007

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"Bureaucracy and the Civil Service in the United States"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

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"Murray N. Rothbard as a Critic of Socialism"

Yuri N. Maltsev Updated 1/15/2007

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"Millenialism and the Progressive Movement"

Gary North Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Fall and Rise of Puritanical Policy in America"

Mark Thornton Updated 1/15/2007

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"Origins of the Welfare State in America"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Schism between Individualist and Communist Anarchism in the Nineteenth Century"

Wendy McElroy Updated 1/15/2007

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"Book Review: Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital"

Gabriel Calzada Alvarez Updated 1/15/2007

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"A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1: 1913–51 by Allan H. Meltzer"

Greg Kaza Updated 1/15/2007

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"Book Review of The Debates of Liberty: An Overview of Individualist Anarchism, 1881–1908, by Wendy McElroy"

Robert Bass Updated 1/15/2007

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"It's the Economy, Stupid: Rudy Giuliani, the Wall Street Prosecutions, and the Recession of 1990-91"

William L. Anderson Updated 1/15/2007

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"Carson's Rejoinders"

Kevin A. Carson Updated 1/15/2007

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"Review of Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society by Robert Higgs"

William L. Anderson Updated 1/15/2007

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People's Pottage

Garet Garrett Updated 1/15/2007

Garet Garrett The People's Pottage...