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• Acknowledgments-- Introduction-- Note on the Texts-- Part I. Political Liberties:
• 1. The Peoples Ancient and Just Liberties Asserted (1670)--
• 2. Englands Present Interest Discover'd (1675)--
• 3. England's great interest in the choice of this Parliament (1679)--
• 4. The Great and Popular Objection Against the Repeal of the Penal Laws and Tests (1688)-- Part II. Toleration and Liberty of Conscience:
• 5. The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience (1670)--
• 6. The Proposed Comprehension (1673)--
• 7. One Project for the good of England (1679)--
• 8. A Perswasive to Moderation (1686)-- Part III. Pennsylvania:
• 9. Some account of the Province of Pennsilvania in America (1681)--
• 10. The Fundamental Constitutions of Pennsilvania (unpublished, summer 1681)--
• 11. The Frame of Government and Laws agreed upon in England (1682)--
• 12. The Charter of Privileges (1701)-- Part IV. Broader Perspectives:
• 13. An Essay Towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe (1693)--
• 14. A Brief and Plain scheame (unpublished, 1697)--
• 15. Proposal for the Advancement of Trade in America (unpublished, 1697)-- Bibliography-- Index.
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William Penn (1644-1718) - Quaker activist, theorist of liberty of conscience, and colonial founder and proprietor - played a central role in the movement for religious liberty on both sides of the Atlantic for more than four decades. This volume presents, for the first time, a fully annotated scholarly edition of Penn's political writings over the course of his long public career, tracing his thinking from his early theorisation of religious toleration and liberty of conscience in England, as a leading member of the Society of Friends during the 1670s, to his colonial undertaking in Pennsylvania a decade later, his controversial role in the years leading up to the 1688 Revolution, and the ongoing consequences of that Revolution to his future prospects. Penn's political writings provide an illuminating window into the increasingly sophisticated and influential movement for liberty of conscience in the early modern world.
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• Discourse on the sciences and arts or First discourse
• Discourse on the origin and foundations of inequality among men or Second discourse
• Rousseau's notes
• Letter to Voltaire
• Essay on the origin of languages
• Idea of the method in the composition of a book
• Discourse on the virtue a hero most needs or On heroic virtue.

"A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's important early political writings in faithful English translations. This volume includes the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts and the Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality Among Men - the so-called First and Second Discourses - together with Rousseau's extensive Replies to Critics of these Discourses; the Essay on the Origin of Languages; the Letter to Voltaire on Providence; as well as several minor but illuminating writings - the Discourse on Heroic Virtue and the essay On the Method on the Composition of a Book. In these as well as in his later writings, Rousseau probes to the very premises of modern thought. His influence was wide-reaching from the very first, and it has continued to grow since his death. The American and the French Revolutions were profoundly affected by his thought, as were Romanticism and Idealism"-- Provided by publisher.

• Editorial note-- Introduction-- Principal events in Machiavelli's life-- Bibliographical note-- Translator's note-- Map: northern and central Italy, c.1500-- Dedicatory letter: Niccolo Machiavelli to His Magnificence Lorenzo de' Medici--
• 1. How many kinds of principality there are, and by what means they are acquired--
• 2. Hereditary principalities--
• 3. Mixed principalities--
• 4. Why the Kingdom of Darius, which Alexander occupied, did not rebel against his successors after Alexander's death--
• 5. By what means cities or provinces that lived under their own laws before they were occupied ought to be administered--
• 6. New principalities acquired by one's own arms and ability--
• 7. New principalities acquired through the arms and fortune of others--
• 8. Those who become rulers through crime--
• 9. The civil principality--
• 10. In what ways the strengths of all principalities should be measured--
• 11. Ecclesiastical principalities--
• 12. How many kinds of soldiers there are, and mercenary troops--
• 13. Auxiliaries, mixed troops and one's own troops--
• 14. How a ruler should act concerning military matters--
• 15. The things for which men, and especially rulers, are praised or blamed--
• 16. Liberality and parsimony--
• 17. Cruelty and mercifulness-- and whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the contrary--
• 18. In what way rulers should keep their promises--
• 19. How contempt and hatred should be avoided--
• 20. Whether building fortresses, and many other things that rulers frequently do, are useful or useless--
• 21. What a ruler should do in order to be thought outstanding--
• 22. On those whom rulers employ in secret matters--
• 23. How flatterers should be shunned--
• 24. Why the rulers of Italy have lost their states--
• 25. How much control fortune has over human affairs, and by what means she can be resisted--
• 26. An exhortation to seize possession of Italy and assert her liberty from the barbarians-- Appendix A. Letters relevant to The Prince-- Appendix B. Notes on the vocabulary of The Prince-- Biographical notes-- Index of subjects-- Index of proper names.
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This new edition of the acclaimed translation of Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince - revised for the first time after thirty years - includes a rewritten and extended introduction by Quentin Skinner. Niccolo Machiavelli is arguably the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought. The Prince remains his best-known work, and throws down a challenge that subsequent writers on statecraft and political morality have found impossible to ignore. Quentin Skinner's introduction offers a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text both as a response to the world of Florentine politics and as a critical engagement with the classical and Renaissance genre of advice-books for princes. This new edition also features an improved timeline of key events in Machiavelli's life, helping the reader place the work in the context of its time, in addition to an enlarged and fully updated bibliography.
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• Preface-- Preface to the second edition-- Introduction-- Chronology of Jean-Jacques Rousseau-- A brief guide to further reading-- A note on the texts-- A note on the translations-- A note on the editorial notes and index-- Discourse on Political Economy-- Of the Social Contract-- Book I-- Book II-- Book III-- Book IV-- From: Of the Social Contract or essay about the form of the Republic (known as the Geneva Manuscript): Book I, ch. 2 and Book II, ch. 4-- Principles of the Right of War-- Considerations on the Government of Poland-- Selected Letters: Letter to D'Offreville-- Letter to Usteri-- Letter to Mirabeau-- Letter to Franquieres-- List of abbreviations and textual conventions-- Editorial notes-- Index of editors, translators, and annotators-- General index.
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A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's major later political writings in up-to-date English translations. This volume includes the essay on Political Economy; The Social Contract; the extensive, late Considerations on the Government of Poland; as well as the important draft on The Right of War and a selection of his letters on various aspects of his political thought. The Social Contract, Rousseau's most comprehensive political work - he called it a 'small treatise' - was condemned on publication by both the civil and the ecclesiastical authorities in France as well as in Geneva, and warrants for its author's arrest were issued. Rousseau was forced to flee and it is during this period that he wrote some of his autobiographical works. This new edition features an expanded Introduction, and an extensive editorial apparatus designed to assist students at every level access these seminal texts.
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• Acknowledgments-- Chronology-- The works of Richard Bartlett Gregg-- Editor's introduction: integral nonviolence-- Bibliography-- Preface to the 1934 edition Richard Bartlett Gregg-- Foreword to a Discipline for Nonviolence 1941 Mohandas Gandhi-- Foreword to the 1944 edition Rufus Matthew Jones-- Preface to the 1944 edition Richard Bartlett Gregg-- Foreword to the 1959 edition Martin Luther King, Jr-- Preface to the 1959 edition Richard Bartlett Gregg-- Preface to the 1960 Indian publication of the 1959 edition Richard Bartlett Gregg--
• 1. Modern examples of nonviolent resistance--
• 2. Moral Jiu-Jitsu--
• 3. What happens--
• 4. Utilizing emotional energy--
• 5. How is mass nonviolence possible?--
• 6. The working of mass nonviolent resistance--
• 7. An effective substitute for war--
• 8. The class struggle and nonviolent resistance--
• 9. Nonviolence and the state--
• 10. Persuasion--
• 11. The need for training--
• 12. Training-- Notes by chapter-- Index.
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The Power of Nonviolence, written by Richard Bartlett Gregg in 1934 and revised in 1944 and 1959, is the most important and influential theory of principled or integral nonviolence published in the twentieth century. Drawing on Gandhi's ideas and practice, Gregg explains in detail how the organized power of nonviolence (power-with) exercised against violent opponents can bring about small and large transformative social change and provide an effective substitute for war. This edition includes a major introduction by political theorist, James Tully, situating the text in its contexts from 1934 to 1959, and showing its great relevance today. The text is the definitive 1959 edition with a foreword by Martin Luther King, Jr. It includes forewords from earlier editions, the chapter on class struggle and nonviolent resistance from 1934, a crucial excerpt from a 1929 preliminary study, a biography and bibliography of Gregg, and a bibliography of recent work on nonviolence.
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• Acknowledgments-- Chronology-- The works of Richard Bartlett Gregg-- Editor's introduction: integral nonviolence-- Bibliography-- Preface to the 1934 edition Richard Bartlett Gregg-- Foreword to a Discipline for Nonviolence 1941 Mohandas Gandhi-- Foreword to the 1944 edition Rufus Matthew Jones-- Preface to the 1944 edition Richard Bartlett Gregg-- Foreword to the 1959 edition Martin Luther King, Jr-- Preface to the 1959 edition Richard Bartlett Gregg-- Preface to the 1960 Indian publication of the 1959 edition Richard Bartlett Gregg--
• 1. Modern examples of nonviolent resistance--
• 2. Moral Jiu-Jitsu--
• 3. What happens--
• 4. Utilizing emotional energy--
• 5. How is mass nonviolence possible?--
• 6. The working of mass nonviolent resistance--
• 7. An effective substitute for war--
• 8. The class struggle and nonviolent resistance--
• 9. Nonviolence and the state--
• 10. Persuasion--
• 11. The need for training--
• 12. Training-- Notes by chapter-- Index.
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The Power of Nonviolence, written by Richard Bartlett Gregg in 1934 and revised in 1944 and 1959, is the most important and influential theory of principled or integral nonviolence published in the twentieth century. Drawing on Gandhi's ideas and practice, Gregg explains in detail how the organized power of nonviolence (power-with) exercised against violent opponents can bring about small and large transformative social change and provide an effective substitute for war. This edition includes a major introduction by political theorist, James Tully, situating the text in its contexts from 1934 to 1959, and showing its great relevance today. The text is the definitive 1959 edition with a foreword by Martin Luther King, Jr. It includes forewords from earlier editions, the chapter on class struggle and nonviolent resistance from 1934, a crucial excerpt from a 1929 preliminary study, a biography and bibliography of Gregg, and a bibliography of recent work on nonviolence.
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• Part I. Book 1-- Part II. Book Two-- Part III. Book Three-- Part IV. Book Four-- Part V. Book Five-- Part VI. Book Six-- Part VII. Book Seven-- Part VIII. Book Eight-- Part IX. Book Nine-- Part X. Book Ten-- Part XI. Appendix A-- Part XII. Appendix B-- Part XIII. Appendix C-- Part XIV. Appendix D.
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Niccol- Machiavelli's seminal work, The Prince, argued that a ruler could not govern morally and be successful. Giovanni Botero disputed this argument and proposed a system for the maintenance and expansion of a state that remained moral in character. Founding an anti-Machiavellian tradition that aimed to refute Machiavelli in practice, Botero is an important figure in early modern political thought, though he remains relatively unknown. His most notable work, Della ragion di Stato, first popularised the term 'reason of state' and made a significant contribution to a major political debate of the time - the perennial issue of the relationship between politics and morality - and the book became a political 'bestseller' in the late sixteenth and the seventeenth century. This translation of the 1589 volume introduces Botero to a wider Anglophone readership and extends this influential text to a modern audience of students and scholars of political thought.
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• Editor's note
• Introduction
• Text and translation
• Bibliography
• Chronology
• Synopsis
• On the Commonwealth
• On the Laws.

"Cicero's On the Commonwealth and On the Laws were his first and most substantial attempts to adapt Greek theories of political life to the circumstances of the Roman Republic. They represent Cicero's understanding of government and remain his most important works of political philosophy. On the Commonwealth survives only in part, and On the Laws was never completed. The new edition of this volume has been revised throughout to take account of recent scholarship, and features a new introduction, a new bibliography, a chronological table and a biographical index. James E. G. Zetzel offers a scholarly reconstruction of the fragments of On the Commonwealth and a masterly translation of both dialogues. The texts are further supported by notes and synopsis, designed to assist students in politics, philosophy, ancient history, law and classics"-- Provided by publisher.
"Cicero's On the Commonwealth (De re publica) and On the Laws (De legibus) represent the most significant surviving contribution to political thought in the 700+ years between the death of Aristotle and Augustine's City of God. They are ambitious and complex works, difficult to interpret not merely because so little survives of the Hellenistic philosophy on which Cicero drew, but because we possess only parts of them: On the Commonwealth is fragmentary, and perhaps a third of it is still extant, while On the Laws not only survives only in part (three books out of at least five), but was apparently left unfinished at Cicero's death. The goal of this introduction is to offer some background for reading these texts and some explanation of their form, structure, and arguments"-- Provided by publisher.

• Acknowledgements and a note on the text-- A note on the revised edition-- Editor's introduction: on Nietzsche's critique of morality-- Chronology-- Guide to further reading-- Biographical synopses-- On the Genealogy of Morality-- Supplementary material to On the Genealogy of Morality-- 'The Greek State'-- 'Homer's Contest'-- Index of names-- Index of subjects.
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Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers of the past 150 years and On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is his most important work on ethics and politics. A polemical contribution to moral and political theory, it offers a critique of moral values and traces the historical evolution of concepts such as guilt, conscience, responsibility, law and justice. First published in 1994, and revised in 2006, the third edition of this best-selling, concise introduction and translation has been revised and updated throughout, to take account of recent scholarship. Featuring an expanded introduction, an updated bibliography and a guide to further reading, the third edition also includes timelines and biographical synopses. The Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought edition of Nietzsche's major work is an essential resource for both undergraduate and graduate courses on Nietzsche, the history of philosophy, continental philosophy, history of political thought and ethics.
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• Introduction-- Synopsis-- Principal dates-- A guide to further reading-- The Laws: Book 1-- Book 2-- Book 3-- Book 4-- Book 5-- Book 6-- Book 7-- Book 8-- Book 9-- Book 10-- Book 11-- Book 12-- Appendix-- Index.
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Plato's Laws is one of the most important surviving works of ancient Greek political thought. It offers sustained reflection on the enterprise of legislation, and on its role in the social and religious regulation of society in all its aspects. Many of its ideas were drawn upon by later political thinkers, from Aristotle and Cicero to Thomas More and Montesquieu. This book presents the first translation of the complete text of the Laws for thirty-five years, in Tom Griffith's readable and reliable English. Malcolm Schofield, a leading scholar of Greek philosophy, introduces the main themes and characteristics of the work, as well as supplying authoritative notes on the structure and detail of Plato's argument, together with a guide to further reading. The book will be a key resource for those interested in Greek philosophy and of the history of political thought.
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• Preface-- Textual practices-- Introduction-- Chronology-- Suggestions for further reading-- Thomas More to Peter Giles-- Book I-- Book II-- Ancillary materials from the first four editions-- Index.
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This is a fully revised edition of one of the most successful volumes in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series. Incorporating extensive updates to the editorial apparatus, including the introduction, suggestions for further reading, and footnotes, this third edition of More's Utopia has been comprehensively re-worked to take into account scholarship published since the second edition in 2002. The vivid and engaging translation of the work itself by Robert M. Adams includes all the ancillary materials by More's fellow humanists that, added to the book at his own request, collectively constitute the first and best interpretive guide to Utopia. Unlike other teaching editions of Utopia, this edition keeps interpretive commentary - whether editorial annotations or the many pungent marginal glosses that are an especially attractive part of the humanist ancillary materials - on the page they illuminate instead of relegating them to endnotes, and provides students with a uniquely full and accessible experience of More's perennially fascinating masterpiece.
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• Preface-- Acknowledgements-- Editor's introduction-- Further reading-- Chronology-- Notes-- A note on the texts-- Reflections on the Revolution in France-- The first Letter on a Regicide Peace-- Appendix A (variant reading from A Regicide Peace)-- Index.
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Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France was the first sustained theoretical critique of the French Revolution; and is now recognised as the classic statement of modern conservatism. Reflections surveys the British political culture of traditionalism, gradualism and deference, and contrasts it with the French Revolutionaries' programme of appeal to abstract right, transformational change and popular agency. Ultimately Burke advocated a counterrevolutionary war and the restoration of the French monarchy. This accessible new edition brings together for the first time Burke's first and last published thoughts on the revolution including as it does the first Letter on a Regicide Peace; a work that has contributed to a particular view of international society. Featuring a comprehensive introduction and extensive annotations, Iain Hampsher-Monk's edition helps readers new to Burke to better understand the historical, political and philosophical context behind his writings, and the significance of contemporary and classical allusions.
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• Machine generated contents note: I. Political Writings and Speeches
• 1. Autobiographical sketch (c. June 1860)
• 2. "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions": Address to the Springfield Young Men's Lyceum (January 27, 1838)
• 3. Limits of Presidential Power: To William H. Herndon (February 15, 1848)
• 4. Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act (October 16, 1854)
• 5. To Joshua F. Speed (August 24, 1855)
• 6. Speech on the Dred Scott Decision (June 26, 1857)
• 7. "A House Divided" Speech: Acceptance Speech for the Republican Senatorial Nomination (June 16, 1858)
• 8. Portion of a Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois (September 11, 1858)
• 9. Seventh Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Lincoln's Reply (October 15, 1858)
• 10. On Thomas Jefferson: To Henry L. Pierce and Others (April 6, 1859)
• 11. Cooper Union Address (February 27, 1860)
• 12. Speech at Indianapolis, Indiana (February 11, 1861)
• 13. Speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia (February 22, 1861)
• 14. First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861)
• 15. Message to Congress in Special Session (July 4, 1861)
• 16. Appeal to Border-State Representatives for Compensated Emancipation (July 12, 1862)
• 17. Address on Colonization to a Committee of Colored Men (August 14, 1862)
• 18. To Horace Greeley (August 22, 1862)
• 19. Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (September 22, 1862)
• 20. Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus (September 24, 1862)
• 21. Second Annual Message to Congress (December 1, 1862)
• 22. Final Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)
• 23. To General John A. McClernand (January 8, 1863)
• 24. To Erastus Corning and Others (June 12, 1863)
• 25. To Matthew Birchard and Others: Reply to the Ohio Democratic Convention (June 29, 1863)
• 26. To James C. Conkling (August 26, 1863)
• 27. Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)
• 28. Third Annual Message to Congress (December 8, 1863)
• 29. Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (December 8, 1863)
• 30. Reply to the New York Working-men's Democratic Republican Association (March 21, 1864)
• 31. To Albert G. Hodges (April 4, 1864)
• 32. To Charles D. Robinson (August 17, 1864)
• 33. Reply to a Southern Woman (December 6, 1864)
• 34. "With Malice toward None": Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1865)
• 35. Speech on Reconstruction (Lincoln's last speech) (April 11, 1865)
• II. Notes and Fragments
• 36. On Government (1854?)
• 37. On Slavery (1854?)
• 38. On Slavery and Democracy (1858?)
• 39. On Pro-slavery Theology (1858?)
• 40. On the Struggle against Slavery (c. July 1858)
• 41. On Racial (In)equality 1: First Lincoln-Douglas Debate (August 21, 1858)
• 42. On Racial (In)equality 2: Fourth Lincoln-Douglas Debate (September 18, 1858)
• 43. Declaration of Independence includes all men: Fifth Lincoln-Douglas Debate (October 7, 1858)
• 44. On Slavery, Property, and the Constitution: Fifth Lincoln-Douglas Debate (October 7, 1858)
• 45. On Labor and Capital 1 (1846 or 1847)
• 46. On Labor and Capital 2: Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (September 30, 1859)
• 47. On Labor and Capital 3: Speech at New Haven, Connecticut (March 6, 1860)
• 48. On Liberty: Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland (April 18, 1864)
• 49. On the Thirteenth Amendment (abolition of slavery): Fourth Annual Message to Congress (December 6, 1864).

Abraham Lincoln occupies a unique place in the American pantheon. Symbol, sage, myth and martyr, he is an American icon - Honest Abe and The Great Emancipator, a Janus-faced demigod sculpted in marble. But this is the post-assassination Lincoln. During his lifetime Lincoln elicited very different reactions. The writings and speeches presented in this scholarly edition illuminate Lincoln as a political thinker in the context of his own time and political situation. Opening with a concise yet rich introduction, the texts that follow are complete and carefully edited, with extensive annotation and footnotes to provide a clearer insight into Lincoln the man, the politician and political thinker. His views on race and slavery, on secession and civil war and on the contradiction (as his saw it) between the Declaration of Independence ('all men are created equal') and the original Constitution (which condones slavery) are laid out in Lincoln's own well-crafted words.

"Thucydides' classic work is a foundational text in the history of Western political thought. His narrative of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC is now seen as a highly sophisticated study of the nature of political power itself: its exercise and effects, its agents and victims, and the arguments through which it is defended and deployed. It is therefore increasingly read as a text in politics, international relations and political theory, whose students will find in Thucydides many striking contemporary resonances. This edition seeks to present the author and the text in their proper historical context. The new translation is particularly sensitive to the risks of anachronism, and the notes and extensive reference material provide students with all the necessary historical, cultural and linguistic background they need to engage with the text on its own terms."-- Publisher's website.