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Visions of Politics by Quentin Skinner 9780521589260
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £21.88The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological... -
Visions of Politics by Quentin Skinner 9780521890601
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.57The third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important essays on Thomas Hobbes, each of which... -
Forensic Shakespeare by Quentin Skinner 9780198816430
RRP: £26.49Booksplease Price: £25.42Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem... -
Liberty before Liberalism by Quentin Skinner
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.05This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early... -
Visions of Politics by Quentin Skinner 9780521589253
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.67The second of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important essays on the political thought of... -
Visions of Politics by Quentin Skinner 9780521813686
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.79The third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important essays on Thomas Hobbes, each of which... -
Visions of Politics by Quentin Skinner 9780521581059
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £78.17The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological... -
Forensic Shakespeare by Quentin Skinner 9780199558247
Booksplease Price: £24.96Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing some of the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative... -
Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction by Quentin Skinner
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister... -
Hobbes and Republican Liberty by Quentin Skinner 9780521714167
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Quentin Skinner is one of the foremost historians in the world, and in Hobbes and Republican Liberty he offers a dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty. The first... -
Freedom and the Construction of Europe by Quentin Skinner 9781107033061
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.30Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the... -
Hobbes and Republican Liberty by Quentin Skinner 9780521886765
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63Quentin Skinner is one of the foremost historians in the world, and in Hobbes and Republican Liberty he offers a dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty. The first... -
Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes by Quentin Skinner
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.99Quentin Skinner presents a fundamental reappraisal of the political theory of Hobbes. Using, for the first time, the full range of manuscript as well as printed sources, it documents an entirely new... -
Families and States in Western Europe by Quentin Skinner
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £60.46This collection of essays traces the relationship between families and states in the major countries of Western Europe since 1945, examining the power of states to shape family life and the capacity... -
Freedom and the Construction of Europe by Quentin Skinner 9781108817776
Booksplease Price: £38.40Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the... -
Freedom and the Construction of Europe by Quentin Skinner 9781107033078
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.09Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the... -
States and Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects by Quentin Skinner
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.78The imminent demise of the nation-state in the face of global capitalism and supra-national agencies like the United Nations has often been predicted, yet in practice the death of the state seems... -
The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences by Quentin Skinner
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.47The past quarter of a century has seen dramatic developments in social and political thought. These essays offer an indispensable introduction to some of the most influential amongst them. Quentin... -
Families and States in Western Europe by Quentin Skinner 9780521128018
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.60This collection of essays traces the relationship between families and states in the major countries of Western Europe since 1945, examining the power of states to shape family life and the capacity... -
Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric by Kari Palonen 9780745628561
Booksplease Price: £55.77This book is the first comprehensive exposition of the work of one of the most important intellectual historians and political theorists writing today. Quentin Skinner's treatment of political theory... -
Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric by Kari Palonen 9780745628578
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03This book is the first comprehensive exposition of the work of one of the most important intellectual historians and political theorists writing today. Quentin Skinner's treatment of political theory... -
States and Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects by Quentin Skinner 9780521831567
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £71.09The imminent demise of the nation-state in the face of global capitalism and supra-national agencies like the United Nations has often been predicted, yet in practice the death of the state seems... -
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 1: The Renaissance by Quentin Skinner
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £23.18A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended... -
Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal Quentin Skinner 9781107027732
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.29What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? This book surveys the history of rival views of liberty from antiquity to modern times... -
From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics by Quentin Skinner 9781107569362
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.57The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of... -
From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics by Quentin Skinner 9781107128859
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.22The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of... -
Syria and the Chemical Weapons Taboo: Exploiting the Forbidden by Michelle Bentley 9781526104724
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54This book analyses the Syria crisis and the role of chemical weapons in relation to US foreign policy. The Syrian government's use of such weapons and their subsequent elimination has dominated the... -
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 2: The Age of Reformation by Quentin Skinner
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £23.28A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended... -
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 1: The Renaissance by Quentin Skinner 9780521220231
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended... -
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 2: The Age of Reformation by Quentin Skinner 9780521222846
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.70A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended... -
Seeing Things Their Way: Intellectual History and the Return of Religion by Alister Chapman 9780268022983
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.35While religious history and intellectual history are both active, dynamic fields of contemporary historical inquiry, historians of ideas and historians of religion have too often paid little... -
Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History. by Martin Jay 9780812224962
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of an idea and its claim to validity beyond it. Can ideas or... -
Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History. by Martin Jay
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of an idea and its claim to validity beyond it. Can ideas or... -
Politique: Languages of Statecraft between Chaucer and Shakespeare by Paul Strohm
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.88In this book Paul Strohm shifts his recognized talent for textual and cultural analysis to the later fifteenth century, arguing that England experienced its own "pre-Machiavellian" moment between... -
Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence.In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late... -
Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes by Nancy J. Hirschmann 9780271056364
Booksplease Price: £38.34Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes features the work of feminist scholars who are centrally engaged with Hobbes's ideas and texts and who view Hobbes as an important touchstone in modern... -
Second Treatise of Government by John Locke 9780915144938
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £27.03The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence.In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late... -
Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes by Nancy J. Hirschmann 9780271056357
RRP: £72.99Booksplease Price: £65.59Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes features the work of feminist scholars who are centrally engaged with Hobbes's ideas and texts and who view Hobbes as an important touchstone in modern... -
Republicanism – An Introduction by Hammersley
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.89Republicanism is a centuries-old political tradition, yet its precise meaning has long been contested. The term has been used to refer to government in the public interest, to regimes administered by... -
Republicanism – An Introduction by Hammersley 9781509513413
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Republicanism is a centuries-old political tradition, yet its precise meaning has long been contested. The term has been used to refer to government in the public interest, to regimes administered by...