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Selected Political Writings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 1994; US$ 9.95Here are The Prince and the most important Discourses, newly translated into spare, vivid English by one of the most gifted historians of his generation. Why a new translation? "Machiavelli was never the dull, worthy, pedantic author who appears in the pages of other translations", says David Wootton in his Introduction. "In the pages... more...
The Basic Political Writings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2012; US$ 12.50This substantially revised new edition of Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings features a brilliant new Introduction by David Wootton, a revision by Donald A. Cress of his own 1987 translation of Rousseaus most important political writings, and the addition of Cress new translation of Rousseau's State of ?War. New footnotes, headnotes,... more...
Bad Medicine
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 23.99We all face disease and death, and rely on the medical profession to extend our lives. Yet, David Wootton argues, from the fifth century BC until the 1930s, doctors actually did more harm than good. In this controversial new account of the history of medicine, he asks just how much good it has done us over the years, and how much harm it continues... more...
Paolo Sarpi
Cambridge University Press 1983; US$ 29.00A reinterpretation of Sarpi's life as expressing a carefully thought out hostility to doctrinal religion. more...
Candide
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2000; US$ 7.50David Wootton?s scalpel-sharp translation of Candide features a brilliant Introduction, a map of Candide?s travels, and a selection of those writings of Voltaire, Leibniz, Pope and Rousseau crucial for fully appreciating this eighteenth-century satiric masterpiece that even today retains its celebrated bite. "Wootton?s edition is clearly the best... more...
Doctor Faustus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2005; US$ 6.95This edition of Doctor Faustus features annotated versions, with modernized spelling and punctuation, of the 1604 "A-text" and the 1592 text of Marlowe's source, the English Faust Book ?a translation of the best-selling Historia von Johann Fausten published in Frankfurt in 1587, which recounts the strange story of Doctor John Faustus and his pact with... more...
The Prince
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 6.50David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History, University of York. more...
Utopia
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 8.95Woottons translation brings out the liveliness of Mores work and offers an accurate and reliable version of a masterpiece of social theory. His edition is further distinguished by the inclusion of a translation of Erasmuss The Sileni of Alcibiades, a work very close in sentiment to Utopia, and one immensely influential... more...
Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500-1700
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00Explores dramatic, narrative and polemical versions of the 'taming of the shrew' story, from the Middle Ages to the Restoration, in light of recent historical work on the position of early modern women in society. Its essays address shrew narratives as an extended cultural dialogue debating issues of gender and sexual politics more...
The Political Writings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2003; US$ 12.50John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (c. 1681) is perhaps the key founding liberal text. A Letter Concerning Toleration , written in 1685 (a year when a Catholic monarch came to the throne of England and Louis XVI unleashed a reign of terror against Protestants in France), is a classic defense of religious freedom. Yet... more...









