Modern Political Thought - A Reader (Hardcover)

Provides an introduction to the key works of the major political thinkers from the English Civil War to the end of the 19th Century. It draws together the important parts of seminal works of political thought such as Hobbes' "Leviathan" , Locke's "Treatises" , Rousseau's "The Social Contract" , and Mill's "On Liberty", and offers substantial extracts of seminal texts from Machievelli's "The Prince" to Marx's "Capital", with accessible introductions to each thinker, explaining their lives and works, and placing them in the historical context in which they worked and wrote. Political thinkers included in this book are: Machiavelli; Milton and the Levellers; Hobbes; Locke; Hume; Montesquieu; Smith; Rousseau; Madison and Hamilton; Burke; Paine; Wollestonecraft; Bentham; Mill; and Marx.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1999
First published:	2000
Editors:	John Gingell • Adrian Little • Christopher Winch
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-19461-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
LSN:	0-415-19461-X
Barcode:	9780415194617

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