Modern Political Thought

Modern Political Thought: A Reader is an excellent introduction to the key works of the major political thinkers from the end of the English Civil War through to the 19th Century, including Machiavelli; Montesquieu; Rousseau; and Marx.
Provides an introduction to the key works of the major political thinkers from the English Civil War to the end of the 19th Century. It draws together the important parts of seminal works of political thought such as Hobbes' "Leviathan" , Locke's "Treatises" , Rousseau's "The Social Contract" , and Mill's "On Liberty", and offers substantial extracts of seminal texts from Machievelli's "The Prince" to Marx's "Capital", with accessible introductions to each thinker, explaining their lives and works, and placing them in the historical context in which they worked and wrote. Political thinkers included in this book are: Machiavelli; Milton and the Levellers; Hobbes; Locke; Hume; Montesquieu; Smith; Rousseau; Madison and Hamilton; Burke; Paine; Wollestonecraft; Bentham; Mill; and Marx.