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Royalist Reading List

Below is an expanding list of reading material; great resources for all of our members, supporters, and anyone curious about our movement 

- This list is still subject to change -

A blog created by the Chancellor of the UMP covering a multitude of topics and issues through an overt monarchist lens

Primary List
  1. De Regno; by St. Thomas Aquinas

  2. De Monarchia; Dante

  3. Kingship and Law in the Middle Ages; Fritz Kern

  4. The Habsburg Way; by Eduard von Habsburg, Archduke of Austria

  5. The Royalist Revolution; by Eric Nelson

  6. The King’s Three Faces; by Brendan McConville

  7. Why Liberalism Failed; by Patrick J. Deneen

  8. Star-Spangled Crown; by Charles Coulombe

  9. Puritans Empire; by Charles Coulombe

  10. Blessed Charles of Austria; by Charles Coulombe

  11. Liberty or Equality; by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  12. Leviathan; by Thomas Hobbes

  13. Patriarcha; by Robert Filmer

  14. Major Works, Vol. I (Publisher: Imperium Press); by Joseph de Maistre

  15. The White King; by Leanda de Lisle

  16. In the Shadow of the Gods; by Dominic Lieven

  17. The Last King of America; by Andrew Roberts​

  18. Revolt Against the Modern World; by Julius Evola

  1. The Enduring Crown Commonwealth; by Smith & Klimczuk-Massion

  2. Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture; by J. B. Bossuet

  3. Democracy – The God that Failed; by Hans Herman Hoppe

  4. The Cousins' Wars; by Kevin Phillips

  5. The Republic; by Plato

  6. The Politics; by Aristotle

  7. The Assassination of the Archduke; by King & Woolmans

  8. Hitler and the Habsburgs; by James Longo

  9. The Two Lives of Charlemagne; by Einhard

  10. Reflections on the Revolution in France; by Edmund Burke

  11. The Eikon Basilike; by King Charles I of Eng. Scot. & Ire.

  12. The Basilikon Doron; by King James I of Eng. & Ire., VI of Scot.

  13. The Anti-Machiavel; by King Frederick II of Prussia

  14. Louis XIV; by Josephine Wilkinson

  15. The Life of Louis XVI; by John Hardman

  16. Bonnie Prince Charlie; by Frank McLynn

  17. The Habsburg Empire; by Pieter Judson

  18. Democracy in America; by Alexis de Tocqueville

  19. Metternich; by Wolfram Siemann

  20. Harmony; by King Charles III (written and published while Prince of Wales)

  21. Persians; by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

  22. The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire; by A. Wess Mitchell

  23. Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning; by Nigel Biggar

  24. Not Stolen; by Jeff Fynn-Paul

  25. The Last Imperialist; by Bruce Gilley

  26. The Case for Colonialism; by Bruce Gilley

  27. What's Wrong with Rights?; by Nigel Biggar

  28. The Emergence of Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages (Trilogy); by Francis Oakley

    1. Empty Bottles of Gentilism

    2. The Mortgage of the Past

    3. The Watershed of Modern Politics

  29. Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites; by Plinio Correa de Oliveira

  30. Revolution and Counter-Revolution; by Plinio Correa de Oliveira

  31. Regime Change; by Patrick J. Deneen

  32. Reminiscences of a Jacobite; by Michael Nevin

  33. Empress Dowager Cixi; by Jung Chang

  34. The Last Manchu; by Henry Pu Yi (the Xuantong Emperor of Qing)

  35. History of Imperial China; by Mark Edward Lewis, Dieter Kuhn, Timothy Brook, William T. Rowe

    1. The Early Chinese Empires

    2. China between Empires

    3. China’s Cosmopolitan Empire

    4. The Age of Confucian Rule

    5. The Troubled Empire

    6. China's Last Empire

  36. Emperor of Rome; by Mary Beard

  37. Justinian; by Peter Sarris

  38. The New Roman Empire; by Anthony Kaldellis

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