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  • The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 1, The Renaissance

    by Quentin Skinner ...
    A 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 to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. Quentin Skinner gives an outline account ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Liberty as Independence

    The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal

    by Quentin Skinner ...
    What 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. Quentin Skinner traces the understanding of liberty as independence from the classical ideal to early modern Britain, culminating in the claims of the Whig oligarchy to have transformed this idea into ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • From Humanism to Hobbes

    Studies in Rhetoric and Politics

    by Quentin Skinner ...
    The 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 judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, while two others concentrate on the technique of rhetorical redescription, pointing to its use in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Machiavelli

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Quentin Skinner ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Niccolò 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 reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner traces the course of Machiavelli's adult life, from his time as Second Chancellor of the Florentine republic, during which he met with kings, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Visions of Politics: Volume 1, Regarding Method

    by Quentin Skinner ...
    The 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 statements written over the past four decades, each carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of seminal essays Professor Skinner sets forth the intellectual principles that inform his ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 2, The Age of Reformation

    by Quentin Skinner ...
    A 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 to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. Quentin Skinner gives an outline account ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Freedom and the Construction of Europe: Volume 2, Free Persons and Free States

    Edited by Quentin Skinner, Martin van Gelderen ...
    Freedom, 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 richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 2 considers free persons and free states, examining differing views about freedom of thought and action ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Liberty before Liberalism

    by Quentin Skinner ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    This 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 modern Britain. This analysis leads on to a powerful defence of the nature, purposes and goals of intellectual history and the history of ideas. As Quentin Skinner says, 'the intellectual historian can ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Machiavelli: The Prince

    by Niccolo Machiavelli ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
    This new edition of the acclaimed translation of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince - revised for the first time after thirty years - includes a rewritten and extended introduction by Quentin Skinner. Niccolò 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 ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • Freedom and the Construction of Europe: Volume 1, Religious Freedom and Civil Liberty

    Edited by Quentin Skinner, Martin van Gelderen ...
    Freedom, 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 richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 1 examines debates about religious and constitutional liberties, as well as exploring the tensions ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • History in the Humanities and Social Sciences

    Edited by Richard Bourke, Quentin Skinner ...
    This interdisciplinary volume explores the relationship between history and a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences: economics, political science, political theory, international relations, sociology, philosophy, law, literature and anthropology. The relevance of historical approaches within these disciplines has shifted over the centuries. Many of them, like law and economics ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective

    Edited by Richard Bourke, Quentin Skinner ...
    This collaborative volume offers the first historical reconstruction of the concept of popular sovereignty from antiquity to the twentieth century. First formulated between the late sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries, the various early modern conceptions of the doctrine were heavily indebted to Roman reflection on forms of government and Athenian ideas of popular power. This study, edited by ... Read more

    $31.99 USD