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Provides one of the most substantial statements about the importance, relevance, and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry.

Quentin Skinner focuses on three major works, The Prince, the Discourses, and The History of Florence, and distils from them an introduction to Machiavelli's doctrines of exemplary clarity.

Second of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading historians.

First of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading historians.

Third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading historians.

An outstanding new interpretation of Hobbes, one of the most difficult and challenging of political philosophers.

A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century.

A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century.

Offers new insights into the works of Machiavelli, Shakespeare and especially Hobbes by focusing on their use of rhetoric.

This collection examines the relationship between families, states and civil society in the major countries of Western Europe since 1945.