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History of Medieval Political Thoughtby Joseph Canning
Routledge 1996; US$ 34.95Incorporating research previously unavailable in English, this clear guide gives a synthesis of the latest scholarship providing the historical and intellectual context for political ideas. An ideal introduction to medieval political thought. more...
Stateby Richard English; Charles Townshend
Routledge 1998; US$ 130.00The State tackles the problems of defining and studying the state and the role the nation state has played as the basic political unit in Europe and throughout the world. more...
Modern Stateby Christopher Pierson
Routledge 2004; US$ 53.95The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state. more...
Aquinas: Political Writingsby Thomas Aquinas; R. W. Dyson; Raymond Geuss; Quentin Skinner
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 26.00In this major addition to the Cambridge Texts series Robert Dyson has chosen texts by Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) that manifest the full range of his thinking. The lucid translations are supported by many features designed to assist the student reader, including brief biographies and a concise critical introduction. more...
The Rise and Decline of the Stateby Martin van Creveld
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 29.00The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important of all modern institutions, is in decline. Many existing states are either combining into larger communities or falling apart. This unique volume traces the history of the state from its beginnings to the present day. more...
The Critique of the Stateby Jens Bartelson
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 30.00Bartelson argues that we cannot imagine what might lurk 'beyond' the state, because our basic concepts of political order are conditioned by our experience of statehood. Bartelson's critique of the concept of statehood will interest scholars and students of political theory and social theory, and philosophy of social science. more...
The Idea of the Stateby Peter J. Steinberger; Ian Shapiro
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 35.00The Idea of the State seeks to reaffirm the importance of systematic philosophical inquiry into the foundations of political life, and to show how such an approach can cast a new and highly instructive light on a variety of controversial, seemingly intractable problems of tolerance, civil disobedience, democracy and consent. more...
Modern Stateby Christopher Pierson
Routledge 1996; US$ 57.95This clear and comprehensive introduction sets out to answer baffling questions about the state. Having established what the state is and placing it in an historical context it deals with a set of key relationships for modern states. more...
Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of the Peaceby Marsilius of Padua; Annabel Brett; Raymond Geuss; Quentin Skinner
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 30.00Annabel Brett's authoritative rendition of the Defensor Pacis is the first new translation in English for fifty years of this classic of western political thought, and includes a chronology, notes for further reading, and up-to-date annotation aimed at the student reader encountering this major text for the first time. more...
Global forces and State Restructuringby Martin Doornbos
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2006; US$ 95.00Explores a range of dynamics in state-society relations which are crucial to an understanding of the contemporary world. This book addresses themes, such as strategies of state construction, and trajectories of state decline, collapse and re-start, the politics of statelessness and the dynamics of identity and power. more...









