John Stuart: 227 books

In 1849, several hundred thousand Americans and Europeans began streaming across ‘The Great American Desert’ bound for the gold fields of California. Their dream was to strike it rich, but if the Gold Rush epitomizes the American Dream, their trek through the wilderness became the worst of nightmares....

In La servitù delle donne (1869) John Stuart Mill indaga le cause della carenza di diritti civili della donne nella storica subordinazione di queste agli uomini, in una sorta di “dipendenza” che suffraga le forme di organizzazione sociale del passato**. L’asservimento delle donne, ieri come...

Principles of Political Economy (1848) by John Stuart Mill was one of the most important economics or political economy textbooks of the mid-nineteenth century. It was revised until its seventh edition in 1871, shortly before Mill's death in 1873, and republished in numerous other editions. Beside...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), a British philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. He was an advocate of utilitarianism,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: The standard economics textbook for more than a generation, John Stuart Mill’s Principles of Political Economy (1848) was really as much a synthesis of his predecessors’ ideas as it was an original...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The Subjection of Women (1869) by John Stuart Mill contributed to liberal political theory by extending and developing the ideology of individualism to women. Mill's thesis was that "the legal subordination of one sex...

Auguste Comte was a French philosopher who developed the doctrine of positivism—which says that authentic knowledge is only what can be proven by the scientific method—in an attempt to ameliorate the melancholy brought on by the French revolution. He influenced a number of eminent thinkers, including...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism, which first appeared in three installments of Fraser's Magazine in 1861, was intended as a defense of the notorious doctrine identified with the liberal reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)...

The concept of socialism has gotten a lot of negative press in recent years, but few of those who throw this term around with impunity have a keen understanding of what it actually means. In this volume, renowned political philosopher John Stuart Mill provides an overview and critique of socialism. A must-read for anyone who wants to get to the bottom of today's most heated political debates.

John Stuart Mill was a prominent English philosopher and political economist in the 19th century.  Mill is considered to be one of the most influential liberal thinkers in history and he was a significant contributor to many fields such as social theory, political theory, and political economy. Mill...

If you’re truly insane, do you know it?You may toil at science and art and any manner of worthy pursuits. You may work for the betterment of man and fellow creatures. Perhaps you attract other psychotics? If so, do you know they’re crazy too? Strangely, life for those thus afflicted can also be...

The classic liberal philosopher of nineteenth century England, John Stuart Mill, used Considerations on Representative Government to call for reforms to Parliament and voting, calling for proportional representation, the Single Transferable Vote, and the extension of suffrage. Mill was a renowned political...

The gripping third volume of the sweeping Oneiro tetralogy.An audacious contingent desperately casts off the miraculous island of Oneiro in the midst of Earth’s agonizing worldwide death throes. They set themselves on a bold course for a star seven light years distant, confronting an interstellar...

Bibbia delle suffragette inglesi e di tutti i movimenti femministi mondiali, questo saggio scritto da John Stuart Mill nel 1869 è una appassionata e ben documentata difesa dei pieni diritti morali, civili e politici delle donne. Mill sostiene che la sottomissione delle donne agli uomini è uno dei...