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History of Political Thought

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1History of Political Thought

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  1. Niccolò Machiavelli · Florentine Histories
  2. Herodotus · The Histories
  3. St. Augustine · City of God
  4. Plato · The Republic of Plato
  5. Machiavelli · The Prince (Bilingual Edition, Musa, ed.)
  6. Machiavelli · The Prince and the Discourses (Lerner, ed.)
  7. Anonymous · Holy Bible (Revised Standard Version)
  8. Niccolò Machiavelli · Discourses on Livy (Mansfield and Tarcov, eds.)
  9. Niccolò Machiavelli · The Prince (Mansfield, ed.)
  10. Niccolò Machiavelli · The Prince: Text and Commentary (Barricelli, ed.)
  11. Niccolò Machiavelli · The Discourses (Crick, Walker, and Richardson, eds.)
  12. Thomas Hobbes · Three Discourses
  13. Machiavelli · The Prince (Adams, ed.)
  14. Niccolò Machiavelli · The Prince (Ricci and Vincent, trans.)
  15. Richard McKeon (ed.) · The Basic Works of Aristotle
  16. Machiavelli · Selected Political Writings (Wooton, ed.)
  17. Niccolò Machiavelli · The Prince (Bull, trans.)
  18. Niccolò Machiavelli · The Prince (Skinner and Price, eds.)
  19. Machiavelli · The Prince (Ricci and Vincent, trans.)
  20. Burke · Reflections on the Revolution in France
  21. Rousseau · The First and Second Discourses (Masters and Masters, ed)
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2History of Political Thought

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  1. John Milton · Areopagitica
  2. Baruch Spinoza · Theological-Political Treatise
  3. Richard Tuck · Hobbes
  4. François de La Rochefoucauld · Collected Maxims and Other Reflections
  5. Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon · Selections from Clarendon
  6. James B. Atkinson and David Sices, eds. · Machiavelli and His Friends: Their Personal Correspondence
  7. Francis Bacon · Essays
  8. Francis Bacon · The Advancement of Learning and New Atlantis
  9. Francis Bacon · Essays
  10. Thomas Hobbes · On the Citizen
  11. Thomas Hobbes · Man and Citizen
  12. Thomas Hobbes · Leviathan (Oakeshott, ed.)
  13. Guicciardini, Francesco · Maxims and Reflections
  14. Guicciardini, Francesco · Selected Writings
  15. Moses Hadas (ed.) · Selections from Greek Historians
  16. Johannes Althusius · Politica
  17. Desiderius Erasmus · The Praise of Folly
  18. Milton, John · Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Milton
  19. Bartolomé de las Casas · A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
  20. Thomas More · Utopia
  21. Balthasar Gracián · The Art of Worldly Wisdom
  22. G. Huehns (ed.) · Selections from Clarendon
  23. Thomas Hobbes · Leviathan (McPherson, ed.)
  24. Hugo Grotius · The Rights of War and Peace
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3History of Political Thought

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  1. Desiderius Erasmus · The Education of a Christian Prince
  2. Pieter Geyl · The Dutch Revolt
  3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Collected Writings of Rousseau, Vol. 5: The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes
  4. Samuel Pufendorf · The Political Writings of Samuel Pufendorf
  5. Francesco Guicciardini · The History of Italy
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Collected Writings of Rousseau, Vol. 3: Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (Second Discourse), Polemics, and Political Economy
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Collected Writings of Rousseau, Vol. 4
  8. Niccolò Machiavelli · The Prince and the Discourses
  9. Frederick the Great · Anti-Machiavel
  10. John Locke · Political Writings
  11. Adam Ferguson · An Essay on the History of Civil Society
  12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · Political Writings
  13. Michel de Montaigne · In Defense of Raymond Sebond
  14. Richard Price · Political Writings
  15. Joseph Priestley · Political Writings
  16. Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke · Defence of the Treaty of Utrecht
  17. James Harrington · The Commonwealth of Oceana
  18. Montesquieu · Réflexions sur la monarchie universelle en Europe
  19. David Hume · Political Essays
  20. David Hume · A Treatise of Human Nature · 2nd ed.; L. A. Selby-Bigge, ed., revised by P. H. Nidditch
  21. Alexander Pope · Essay on Man and Other Poems
  22. Samuel Pufendorf · On the Natural State of Men
  23. Edmund Burke · Edmund Burke on the American Revolution (Elliott R. Barkan, ed.)
  24. Immanuel Kant · The Philosophy of Kant
  25. Anthony Quinton · Francis Bacon
  26. Jean-Jacques Rousseau · The Government of Poland
  27. Fletcher · Political Works
  28. Henry Home, Lord Kames · Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion
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4History of Political Thought

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  1. Benjamin Constant · Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments
  2. Benjamin Constant · De l'Esprit de Conquête et de l'Usurpation
  3. Rohan, Duke of · A Treatise of the Interest of the Princes and States of Christendome (Henry Hunt, ed.)
  4. Claude Adrien Helvétius · De l'Esprit
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau · The Confessions
  6. David Hume · An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
  7. Thomas Paine · The Thomas Paine Reader
  8. Immanuel Kant · On History
  9. David Hume · Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary
  10. Edmund Burke · Reflections on the Revolution in France
  11. Voltaire · Candide and Related Texts
  12. Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat · The Spirit of the Laws
  13. Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat · My Thoughts
  14. Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Basic Political Writings
  15. Andrea Bosco (ed.) · The Federal Idea, Vol. I
  16. Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat · Persian Letters
  17. Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat · Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline
  18. Voltaire · Political Writings
  19. Thomas Hobbes · Leviathan
  20. John Locke · Two Treatises of Government
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5History of Political Thought

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  1. Francis Bacon · Selected Writings
  2. Max Weber · From Max Weber · Oxford
  3. Schneider, Herbert, ed. · Adam Smith's Moral and Political Philosophy · Liberty Fund
  4. Bartolomé de las Casas · A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies · Penguin
  5. Herder, Johann Gottfried · Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings
  6. Lord Acton · Essays in the Liberal Interpretation of History · Chicago
  7. Benjamin Constant · Political Writings · Cambridge
  8. Denis Diderot · Political Writings · Cambridge
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Rousseau's Political Writings · Norton
  10. Edmund Burke · Further Reflections on the Revolution in France · Liberty Fund
  11. Germaine de Staël · Major Writings of Germaine de Staël · Columbia
  12. Alexis de Tocqueville · Democracy in America, Vol. I · Vintage
  13. Alexis de Tocqueville · The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville · Meridian
  14. Alexis de Tocqueville · Democracy in America · Norton
  15. Marx and Engels · The Communist Manifesto (Samuel Beer, ed.)
  16. Burckhardt, Jacob · The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
  17. Manent, Pierre · Democracy Without Nations? The Fate of Self-Government in Europe · Everyman's
  18. John Stuart Mill · On Liberty · Gateway
  19. John Stuart Mill · Mill (Alan Ryan, ed.) · Hackett
  20. Alexis de Tocqueville · The Old Regime and the French Revolution
  21. John Stuart Mill · On Liberty · Hackett
  22. Immanuel Kant · Kant's Political Writings · Cambridge
  23. Wilhelm von Humboldt · The Limits of State Action · Liberty Fund
  24. Oakeshott · Rationalism in Politics
  25. Oakeshott · On Human Conduct
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6History of Political Thought

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  1. Phillipson and Skinner · Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain
    (1993)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain

  2. Traub · What Was Liberalism?: The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea
    (2019)

    First publication of the work

    Source: What Was Liberalism? — Hachette

  3. Berlin · Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
    (1979)
  4. Carr · The Soviet Impact on the Western World
    (1946)
  5. Saul · Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
    (1992)
  6. Zuckert and Zuckert · The Truth About Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy and American Democracy
    (2006)
  7. Putnam · The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays
    (2002)
  8. Forster · Two Cheers for Democracy
    (1951)
  9. Mencken · Friedrich Nietzsche
    (1908; ed. 1993)

    First publication of the work

    Originally published as The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1908); the pictured Transaction edition uses the shorter title Friedrich Nietzsche.

    Source: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche - H. L. Mencken - Google Books

  10. Aron · Progress and Disillusion: The Dialectics of Modern Society
    (1968)
  11. Israel · Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750–1790
    (2011)
  12. Hirschman · The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph
    (1977)
  13. McIntyre · Herbert Butterfield: History, Providence, and Skeptical Politics
    (2011)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Herbert Butterfield — Regnery

  14. Berlin · Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty
    (2002)
  15. Israel · Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx: The Fight for a Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights
    (2021)
  16. Müller · What Is Populism?
    (2016)

    First publication of the work

    Source: What Is Populism? – Penn Press

  17. Pagden · The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters
    (2013)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Enlightenment — UCLA

  18. Wade · The Origin of Politics: How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations
    (2025)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Origin of Politics - HarperCollins Publishers

  19. Tuck · Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development
    (1979)
  20. Skinner · Hobbes and Republican Liberty
    (2008)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Education and Republican Liberty | EERA

  21. Levin · The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
    (2013)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Great Debate — Hachette

  22. Trevor-Roper · History and the Enlightenment
    (2010)

    First publication of the work

    Source: History and the Enlightenment — Yale University Press

  23. Aron · Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflection
    (1990)

    First English translation

    French original Mémoires appeared in 1983.

    Source: Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflection - Raymond Aron - Google Books

  24. Bourke · Empire & Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke
    (2015)
  25. Bukovansky, Keene, Reus-Smit, and Spanu · The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations
    (2023)
  26. Malcolm · Aspects of Hobbes
    (2002)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Aspects of Hobbes | Oxford Academic

  27. Stuurman · The Invention of Humanity: Equality and Cultural Difference in World History
    (2017)
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7History of Political Thought

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  1. Hazony · Conservatism: A Rediscovery
    (2022)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Conservatism: A Rediscovery - National Conservatism

  2. Arendt · The Human Condition
    (1958)
  3. Gray · Two Faces of Liberalism
    (2000)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Two Faces of Liberalism - John Gray - Google Books

  4. Rose · A World After Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right
    (2021)

    First publication of the work

    The later paperback uses the subtitle Five Thinkers Who Inspired the Radical Right.

    Source: A World after Liberalism — Yale / De Gruyter

  5. Slezkine · The Jewish Century
    (2004)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Jewish Century | JSTOR

  6. Moyn · Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
    (2023)
  7. Vico (Bergin and Fisch, trans.) · The New Science of Giambattista Vico
    (1725; ed. 1744)

    First publication of the work

    First Italian publication 1725; third Italian edition 1744. Bergin and Fisch first translated it in 1948, with a revised translation in 1968. The printing of the pictured copy is not established.

    Source: The New Science of Giambattista Vico - Giambattista Vico - Google Books

  8. Venner · The Shock of History: Religion, Memory, Identity
    (2015)
  9. Wolin · Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought
    (1960; ed. 2004)

    First publication of the work

    The pictured Princeton edition is the expanded edition; the original work appeared in 1960.

    Source: Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought - Expanded Edition | JSTOR

  10. Moyn · Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World
    (2018)
  11. Fontana · Germaine de Staël: A Political Portrait
    (2016)
  12. Krieger · An Essay on the Theory of Enlightened Despotism
    (1975)
  13. Schuyler, Robert Livingston, ed. · Josiah Tucker: A Selection from His Economic and Political Writings
    (1931)

    Title, editor, and publication year supplied by the collection owner

  14. Bromwich · The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence
    (2014)
  15. Kloppenberg · Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought
    (2016)
  16. van den Haag · Political Violence and Civil Disobedience
    (1972)
  17. Skinner · Liberty Before Liberalism
    (1998)
  18. Kloppenberg · The Virtues of Liberalism
    (1998)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Virtues Of Liberalism | Oxford Academic

  19. Hörnqvist · Machiavelli and Empire
    (2004)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Machiavelli and Empire

  20. Hobhouse · Liberalism
    (1911)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Liberalism — Project Gutenberg

  21. Gray · Liberalism
    (1986)

    First publication of the work

    First edition 1986; second edition 1995. The photograph does not establish which edition this copy contains.

    Source: Liberalism — University of Minnesota Press

  22. Hulliung, ed. · The American Liberal Tradition Reconsidered: The Contested Legacy of Louis Hartz
    (2010)
  23. Schopenhauer · Essays and Aphorisms
    (1970)

    First publication of this selected English collection

    Selected and translated by R. J. Hollingdale from Parerga and Paralipomena (1851).

    Source: Essays and aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer | Open Library

  24. Augustine · Confessions
    (c. 397–400)

    Approximate composition dates of the ancient work

    The date of the pictured Oxford translation is not established.

    Source: Confessiones — BiblIndex

  25. Naimark · Stalin's Genocides
    (2010)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Stalin's Genocides | JSTOR

  26. Löwith · Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History
    (1949)
  27. Forsyth, Keens-Soper, and Hoffman · The Political Classics: Hamilton to Mill
    (1993)
  28. Edelstein · The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution
    (2009)
  29. Shklar · Ordinary Vices
    (1984)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Ordinary Vices - Judith N. Shklar - Google Books

  30. Hartz · The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought since the Revolution
    (1955)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Liberal Tradition in America (Chapter 1)

  31. Minogue · The Liberal Mind
    (1963)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Liberal Mind - Kenneth R. Minogue - Google Books

  32. Nietzsche · The Portable Nietzsche
    (1954)

    First publication of the Walter Kaufmann anthology and translations

    Source: The Portable Nietzsche - Friedrich Nietzsche - Google Books

  33. Sauer · The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality
    (2024)

    First English publication

    German original Moral: Die Erfindung von Gut und Böse appeared in 2023.

    Source: The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality - Hanno Sauer - Google Books

  34. Williamson Jr. · The End of Liberalism
    (2023)

    Publication year confirmed by the collection owner

  35. Nietzsche · Basic Writings of Nietzsche
    (1968)

    First publication of the Walter Kaufmann English anthology

    Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche — Open Library

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  1. Catherine H. Zuckert, ed. · Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Authors and Arguments
    (2011)
  2. Niccolò Machiavelli · The Prince
    (1532)

    First publication of the work

    First printed publication 1532; written in 1513. The pictured edition date is not established.

    Source: The Prince — New West Press

  3. Blaise Pascal · Pensées and The Provincial Letters
    (1656–1657; 1669)

    Original publication dates of the two works

    The Provincial Letters appeared in 1656–1657; Pensées was first published posthumously in 1669. This Modern Library combination was first issued in 1941; the pictured printing is not established.

    Source: Editions of Pensées and the Provincial Letters by Blaise Pascal

  4. James · The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire
    (2006)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Roman Predicament — Princeton / JSTOR

  5. Muldoon · The Americas in the Spanish World Order: The Justification for Conquest in the Seventeenth Century
    (1994)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Americas in the Spanish World Order — Penn Press

  6. Pinker · Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
    (2018)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Enlightenment Now — Penguin Random House

  7. Franco · Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human
    (2021)
  8. Oakeshott (Fuller, ed.) · The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism
    (1996)
  9. Hadfield · Shakespeare and Renaissance Politics
    (2004)
  10. Wright · Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
    (2017)

    First publication of the work

    Source: WHY BUDDHISM IS TRUE | Kirkus Reviews

  11. Muthu · Enlightenment Against Empire
    (2003)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Enlightenment against Empire — Google Books

  12. Mazower · No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations
    (2009)
  13. Holmes · Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism
    (1984)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism

  14. Gibbon · The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I
    (1776)

    First publication of Volume I

    The original six-volume work appeared in 1776–1789. The publication year of this Penguin printing is not established.

    Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by GIBBON, Edward | Search for Rare Books | ABAA

  15. Yack · The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche
    (1986; ed. 1992)

    First publication of the work

    Originally published by Princeton in 1986; the pictured University of California Press edition appeared in 1992.

    Source: The Longing for Total Revolution — Brandeis

  16. Hulliung · Citizen Machiavelli
    (1983)
  17. Bobbio · Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition
    (1993)

    First English translation

    Italian collection Thomas Hobbes appeared in 1989.

    Source: Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition - Norberto Bobbio - Google Books

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9History of Political Thought

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  1. Kaufman, Walter · Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
    (1950)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Nietzsche - Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

  2. Kanan Makiya · Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World
    (1993)
  3. Cuomo, Mario M. · Why Lincoln Matters: Today More Than Ever
    (2004)
  4. Weber, Cynthia · Simulating Sovereignty: Intervetnion, the State and Synbolic Exchange
    (1995)
  5. Mill, John Stuart · Considerations on Representative Government
    (1861)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Mill-Considerations on Representative Government

  6. Sabine, George · A History of Political Theory
    (1937)

    First publication of the work

    First edition 1937. The photograph does not establish the edition of this copy.

    Source: A HISTORY OF POLITICAL THEORY

  7. Taylor, John · An Inquiry Into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States
    (1814)
  8. Horowitz, Donald L. · Ethnic Groups in Conflict
    (1985)

    First publication of the work

    First edition 1985; second edition 2000. The pictured edition is not established.

    Source: Ethnic groups in conflict /

  9. Hedges, Chris · War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
    (2002)

    First publication of the work

    Source: War is a force that gives us meaning

  10. James M. Smith & Paul L. Murphy (eds.) · Liberty and Justice, Volume II: The Modern Constitution—American Constitutional Development Since 1865
    (1965)

    Publication of this revised two-volume edition

    Volume II of the revised 1965 edition.

    Source: Liberty and Justice — Constitutional Commentary review

  11. Hersh, Seynmour · Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
    (2004)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Chain Of Command The Road From 9 11 To Abu Ghraib

  12. Myers, Gerald E. · William James: His Life and Thought
    (1986)

    First publication of the work

    The pictured spine identifies Myers as the author; this is Gerald E. Myers’s biography, not a collection of James’s writings.

    Source: William James: His Life and Thought | JSTOR

  13. West, Rebecca · Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
    (1941)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon — Open Library

  14. Paterson, Thomas G.; Clifford, J. Garry; Hagan, Kenneth J. · American Foreign Policy: A History Since 1900
    (1977; ed. 1983)

    First publication of the work

    The work first appeared in 1977. The pictured Volume II, A History Since 1900, matches the 1983 second edition.

    Source: American Foreign Policy, second edition — Open Library

  15. Newhouse, John · Imperial America: The Bush Assault on the World Order
    (2003)
  16. Morris, Richard · The Basic Ideas of Alexander Hamilton
    (1957)

    First publication of the work

    Source: CiNii Books - The basic ideas of Alexander Hamilton

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  1. Wildavsky · Beyond Containment
    (1983)
  2. Wayne Fields · Union of Words
    (1996)

    First publication of the work

    Bibliographic records identify the author as Wayne Fields; the former catalog attribution was incorrect.

    Source: Union of Words — Journal of American History

  3. American Assembly · U.S. Foreign Policy and the United Nations System
    (1996)
  4. Ferguson, Robert A. · Law and Letters in American Culture
    (1984)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Law and letters in American culture / | Library Search

  5. McLean, Edward B · Common Truths: New Perspectives on Natural Law
    (2000)
  6. Ritter, Scott · Frontier Justice: Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Bushwhacking of America
    (2003)
  7. Pierre Serna, Antonino De Francesco & Judith A. Miller (eds.) · Republics at War, 1776-1840: Revolutions, Conflicts, and Geopolitics in Europe and the Atlantic World
    (2013)
  8. Michael Walzer · Interpretation and Social Criticism
    (1987)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Interpretation and Social Criticism

  9. David Gordon · Secession, State, & Liberty
    (1998)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Secession, State, and Liberty

  10. Wassterstrom, Richard A. · Morality and the Law
    (1971)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Morality and the Law - Google Books

  11. Taylor · Toward World Sovereignty
    (2002)
  12. Zelikow, Philip D., and Robert B. Zoellick · America and the Muslim Middle East: Memos to a President
    (1998)
  13. T. V. Smith · Toward World Sovereignty
    (Year to confirm)

    Identification pending

    The photograph shows a book attributed to Smith, but no reliable publication record matching this attribution and title was found. A title-page check is needed; the Taylor book listed separately is not evidence for this entry.

  14. Schoultz, Lars · Human Rights and United States Policy Toward Latin America
    (1981)
  15. Gompert, David C, and F. Stephen Larrabee · America and Europe: A Partnership for a New Era
    (1997)
  16. Roger Parkinson · The Encyclopedia of Modern War
    (1977)
  17. Samuels, Ernest · Henry Adams: The Major Phase
    (1964)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Henry Adams - The Major Phase

  18. Paul A. Rahe · Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty
    (2009)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty

  19. Nicolson, Harold · Benjamin Constant
    (1949)

    First publication of the work

    Source: BENJAMIN CONSTANT

  20. Jaime E. Rodríguez O. · The Emergence of Spanish America
    (1975)
  21. Ernst H. Kantorowicz · The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology
    (1957)
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  1. Kramnick, Isaac, ed. · The Portable Enlightenment Reader
    (1995)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Portable Enlightenment Reader

  2. Ikle, Fred Charles · Every War Must End
    (1971)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Every war must end | WorldCat.org

  3. Orwell, George · A Collection of Essays
    (1953; ed. 1954)

    First publication of the work

    The collection is cataloged with a 1953 copyright; the Doubleday Anchor edition shown was published in 1954.

    Source: A collection of essays | WorldCat.org

  4. Stern, Fritz, ed. · The Varieties of History From Voltaire to the Present
    (1956)
  5. Toulmin, Stephen · Return to Reason
    (2001)
  6. Lipson, Charles · How to Write a BA Thesis
    (2005)

    First publication of the work

    Source: How to Write a BA Thesis

  7. Popper, Karl R. · The Poverty of Historicism
    (1957)

    First publication as a standalone book

    Originally published serially in Economica, 1944–1945.

    Source: The Poverty of Historicism

  8. Butterfield, Herbert · The Whig Interpretation of History
    (1931)
  9. Hayek, F. A. · The Counter-Revolution of Science
    (1952)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Counter-Revolution of Science | Mises Institute

  10. Green, Donald P., and Shapiro, Ian · Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory
    (1994)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory

  11. Jackson, Patrick Thaddeus · The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations: Philosophy of Science and its Implications for the Study of World Politics
    (2011)
  12. Stiglitz, Joseph, et al · Mis-Measuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn't Add UP
    (2010)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Mismeasuring Our Lives - Why GDP Doesn't Add Up

  13. Monroe, Kristen Renwick · Perestroika! The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science
    (2005)

    First publication of the work

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  14. Bell, Daniel · The Coming of Post-Industrial Society
    (1973)
  15. Bishop, Robert C · The Philosophy of the Social Sciences
    (2007)

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  16. Gordon, Scott · The History and Philosophy of Social Science
    (1991)

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  17. Linklater, Andro · Measuring America
    (2002)

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  18. Oakeshott, Michael, ed. Timothy Fuller · On History and Other Essays
    (1983; ed. 1999)

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    Source: On History and Other Essays - Michael Oakeshott
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  19. Ryan, Alan, ed. · The Philosophy of Social Explanation
    (1973)

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  20. Dray, William H. · Philosophical Analysis and History
    (1966)

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  21. Winch, Peter · The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy
    (1958)
  22. Popper, Karl R. · The Open Society and Its Enemies, 1 Plato
    (1945)
  23. Ryan, Alan · The Philosophy of the Social Sciences
    (1970)

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  24. Hollis, Martin · The Philosophy of Social Science
    (1994)

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  25. Chandler, David P. · The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War, and Revolution since 1945
    (1991)
  26. Mueller, John · Policy and Opinion in the Gulf War
    (1994)

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  27. Bailey, Thomas A. · A Diplomatic History of the American People
    (1940; ed. 1964)

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  2. Gay, Peter · The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Rise of Modern Paganism
  3. Berlin, Isaiah · The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
  4. Wiener, Philip P. (ed.) · Dictionary of the History of Ideas (5 vols.)
  5. Edwards, Paul, ed. · The Encyclopedia of Philosphy (8 books in 4 vols.)
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  1. Franco, Paul · Nietzsche's Enlightenment
  2. Vital, David · The Future of the Jews
  3. Seneca · Moral and Political Essays
  4. Mansfield, Harvey C. · Machiavelli's Virtue
  5. Pagden, Anthony (ed.) · The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe
  6. Browne, Lewis · The Wisdom of Israel: An Anthology
  7. Lessnoff, Michael · Political Philosophers of the Twentieth Century
  8. Pocock, J. G. A. · The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Revpublican Tradition
  9. Cohler, Anne M. · Montesquieu's Comparative Politics and the Spirit of American Constitutionalism
  10. Hulliung, Mark · Montesquieu and the Old Regime
  11. Gray, John · Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture in the Close of the Modern Age
  12. Pocock, J. G. A. · The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century
  13. Norton, David Fate, and Jacqueline Taylor · The Cambridge Companion to Hume (Second Edition)
  14. Pocock, J. G. A. · Barbarism and Religion, Vol. II
  15. Pocock, J. G. A. · Barbarism and Religion, Vol. III
  16. Pocock, J. G. A. · Barbarism and Religion, Vol. I
  17. Pocock, J. G. A. · The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History
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  1. Hirschman, Albert O. · Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States
  2. James, C. L. R. · The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
  3. Aron, Raymond · Main Currents in Sociological Thought, I: Montesquieu, Comte, Marx, Tocqueville
  4. Kaufmann, Walter, ed. · The Portable Nietzsche
  5. Nietzsche, Friedrich · The Will to Power
  6. Easton, Loyd D., and Guddat, Kurt H. (eds.) · Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society
  7. Hart, H. L. A. · Law, Liberty and Morality
  8. Avineri, Shlomo · The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx
  9. Shklar, Judith N. · Montesquieu
  10. Himmelfarb, Gertrude · The Roads to Modernity
  11. Kahan, Alan · Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burchhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville
  12. Ball, Terence · Reappraising Political Theory: Revisionist Studies in the History of Political Thought
  13. Hayek, F. A. · The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
  14. Skinner, Quentin · The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
  15. Gilbert, Felix · Machiavelli and Guicciardini
  16. Empson, William · Milton's God
  17. Bloom, Allan, and Jaffa, Harry V. · Shakespeare's Politics
  18. McIlwain, Charles Howard · Constitutionalism Ancient and Modern
  19. Hexter, J. H. · The Vision of Politics on the Eve of the Reformation
  20. Gray, John · Mill on Liberty: A Defence
  21. Nadler, Steven · A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
  22. Sigler, Jay A., ed. · The Conservative Tradition in American Thought
  23. Tilly, Charles · Coercion, Capital, and European States
  24. Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount · The Idea of a Patriot King
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  1. Israel, Jonathan I. · The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848
  2. Gentz, Friedrich · Three Revolutions: The French and American Revolutions Compared. Reflections on the Russian Revolution by Stefan T. Possony
  3. Riesenberg, Peter · Citizenship in the Western Tradition: Plato to Rousseau
  4. Woodard, Colin · Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood
  5. Wood, Gordon S. · The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787
  6. Morgan, Lewis Henry · League of the Iroquois
  7. Taylor, Alan · American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804
  8. Hofstadter, Richard · The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington
  9. Keyssar, Alexander · The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
  10. Berger, Raoul · Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment
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  1. Strauss, Leo · Thoughts on Machiavelli
  2. King, Ross · Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power
  3. Scruton, Roger · Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction
  4. de Grazia, Sebastian · Machiavelli in Hell
  5. Gray, John · Isaiah Berlin
  6. Bobbitt, Philip · The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made
  7. Strauss, Leo · Thoughts on Machiavelli
  8. Viroli, Maurizio · Niccolo's Smile: A Biography
  9. McDermott, John J. ed. · The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition
  10. Pocock, J. G. A. · Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century
  11. Becker, Carl L. · The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers
  12. Pocock, J. G. A., and Ball, Terence · Conceptual Change and the Constitution
  13. Pocock, J. G. A. · Barbarism and Religion, Vol. V
  14. Pocock, J. G. A. · Barbarism and Religion, Vol. IV
  15. Pocock, J. G. A. · Three British Revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1776
  16. McKitterick, Rosamond, and Roland Quinault · Edward Gibbon and Empire
  17. O'Brien, Karen · Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon
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  1. Pangle, Thomas L. · The Spirit of Modern Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke
  2. Hall, Calvin S. · A Primer of Freudian Psychology
  3. Holmes, Stephen · Benjamin Constant and the Post-Revolutionary Mind
  4. Blum, Carol · Rousseau and ther Republic of Virtue: The Language of Politics in the French Revolution
  5. Todorov, Tzvetan · A Passion for Democracy
  6. Burrow, J. W. · Gibbon
  7. Pocock, J. G. A. · Politics, Language, and Tine: Essays on Political Thought and History
  8. Israel, Jonathan I. · Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Reolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre
  9. White, Andrew Dickson · Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfore of Humanity With Unreason
  10. Aron, Raymond · Main Currents in Sociological Thought, II: Durkheim, Pareto, Weber
  11. Skinner, Quentin · The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Vol. 2
  12. Rawls, John · A Theory of Justice
  13. Israel, Jonathan I. · Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750
  14. Israel, Jonathan I. · Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man, 1670-1752
  15. Wolin, Sheldon S. · Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life
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  1. Nagel, Ernest · The Structure of Science: Provlems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation
  2. Sen, Amartya · The Argumentative Indian
  3. Bettelheim, Bruno · The Uses of Enchantment
  4. Buckley, William F., ed. · American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century
  5. Kuehn, Manfred · Kant
  6. Rosen, Stanley · The Ancients and the Moderns
  7. Havelock, Eric A. · The Liberal Temper in Greek Politics
  8. Wilson, James Q. · The Moral Sense
  9. Schmidt, James (ed.) · What Is Enlightenment?
  10. Gray, John · Liberalism
  11. Fried, Charles · Modern Liberty and the Limits of Government
  12. Crick, Bernard · In Defence of Politics
  13. Ryan, Alan · John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism
  14. Glazer, Nathan · We Are All Multiculturalists Now
  15. Scruton, Roger · Kant
  16. Sandel, Michael J. · Justice
  17. May, Henry F. · The Enlightenment in America
  18. Gay, Peter · The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism
  19. Benn, S.I, and R.S. Peters · The Principles of Political Thought: Social Foundations of the Democratic State
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  1. Maliks, Reidar · Kant's Politics in Context
  2. Rieff, David · In Praise of Forgetting
  3. Sarpi, Paolo · History of the Council of Trent
  4. Koo, Richard C. · The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics
  5. Hart, H. L. A. · The Concept of Law
  6. Kelly, George Armonstrong · The Humane Comedy: Constant, Tocqueville, and French Liberalism
  7. Gray, John · Voltaire
  8. MacIntyre, Alasdair · Three Rival Visions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopedia, Geneology, and Tradition
  9. Nussbaum, Martha C. · Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions
  10. Williams, Raymond · Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, rev. ed
  11. Russell, Bertrand · Why I Am Not a Christian
  12. Cranston, Maurice · Political Dialogues
  13. Leavis, F.R., and Michael Yudkin · Two Cultures? The Significance of C.P. Snow
  14. Sen, Amartya · Development as Freedom
  15. Hayek, F. A. · Law, Legislation and Liberty
  16. MacIntyre, Alasdair · A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy fron the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century
  17. Okin, Susan Moller · Women in Western Political Thought
  18. Nisbet, Robert · Twilight of Authority
  19. Hirschman, Albert O. · The Rhetoric of Reaction
  20. Gray, John · Straw Dogs
  21. Green, Philip, and Michael Walzer · The Political Imagination in Literature
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  1. Oakeshott, Michael · On History
  2. Coker, Christopher · Twilight of the West
  3. Daedelus · Europe Through a Glass Darkly (Spring 1994)
  4. Mansfield, Harvey C. · Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction
  5. Kirk, Russell · The Conservative Mind
  6. Collingwood, R. G. · The New Leviathan: Man, Society, Civilization, and Barbarism
  7. Gellner, Ernest · Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals
  8. Cranston, Maurice · Philosophers and Pamphleteers: Political Theorists of the Enlightenment
  9. Himmelfarb, Gertrude · On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society
  10. Crick, Bernard · In Defence of Politics
  11. de Ruggiero, Guido · The History of European Liberalism
  12. Lessnoff, Michael · Political Philosophers of the Twentieth Century
  13. Bickel, Alexander M. · The Morality of Consent
  14. Fukuyama, Francis · The Origins of Political Order From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
  15. Taylor, Charles · Reconciling the Solitudes: Essays on Canadian Federalism and Nationalism
  16. Cranston, Maurice · Freedom: A New Analysis
  17. Thomson, David (ed.) · Political Ideas (European Thinkers of last hundred years)
  18. Hegel, G. W. F. · The Philosophy of History
  19. Ryan, Alan · Property
  20. Kammen, Michael · Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture
  21. Ryan, Alan, ed. · The Idea of Freedom: Essays in Honor of Isaiah Berlin
  22. Lowi, Theodore J. · The End of Liberalism: Ideology, Policy, and the Crisis of Public Authority
  23. Mansfield, Harvey · Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power
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  1. Posner, Richard A. · Sex and Reason
  2. Wolin, Sheldon S. · Democracy Inc.: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
  3. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick · Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding: Community Action in the War on Poverty
  4. Johnson, Paul · Intellectuals
  5. Deane, Herbert A. · The Political and Social Ideas of St. Augustine
  6. Berlin, Isaiah · The Crooked Timber of Humanity
  7. Cahn, Steven M. · Classics of Modern Political Theory
  8. Aron, Raymond · An Essay on Freedom
  9. Guttman, Marc, ed. · Why Peace
  10. Sandel, Michael J. · Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy
  11. Toulmin, Stephen · Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity
  12. Lilla, Mark · The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics
  13. George Pitcher, ed. · Wittgenstein: The Philosophical Investigations
  14. Nisbet, Robert · Conservatism
  15. Gissurarson, Hannes · Hayek's Conservative Liberalism
  16. Frankel, Charles · The Case for Modern Man
  17. Eisenstadt, Abraham S. · Reconsidering Tocqueville's Democracy in America
  18. Deadelus · Rousseau For Our Time (Summer 1978)
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  1. Lessnoff, Michael · Social Contract
  2. Whitehead, Alfred North · Adventures of Ideas
  3. Lilla, Mark · The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West
  4. Hill, Roland · Lord Acton
  5. Sen, Amartya · The Idea of Justice
  6. Bernstein, Richard · You Can't Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties From Antidiscrmination Laws
  7. Thompson, Norma · The Ship of State: Statecraft and Politics from Ancient Greece to Democratic America
  8. Pelikan, Jaroslav · The Idea of the University: A Reexamination
  9. French, David, et al · FIRE's Guide to Free Speech on Campus
  10. Silvergate, Harvey A., and Josh Gewolmb · FIRE's Guide to Due Process and Fair Procedure on Campus
  11. Hirschman, Albert O. · The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy
  12. Hoff Sommers, Christina · The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies Are Harming Our Young Men
  13. Hirschman, Albert O. · A Propensity to Self-Subversion
  14. Hexter, J. H. · On Historians
  15. Higgs, Robert · Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government
  16. Nisbet, Robert · Community and Power
  17. Gerth, H.H., and C. Wright Mills · From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
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  2. Gray, J. Glenn · The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle
  3. Lieber, Robert J. · No Common Power: Understanding International Relations (Third Edition)
  4. Roche, George Charles · The Fall of the Ivory Tower
  5. Murray, R. Emmett · The Lexicon of Labor
  6. Sumner, William Graham · On Liberty, Society, and Politics: The Essential Essays of William Graham Sumner (Robert C. Bannister, ed.)
  7. Walzer, Michael · Spheres of Justice
  8. Spengler, Oswald · The Decline of the West
  9. Holmes, Stephen, and Sunstein, Cass R. · The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes
  10. Tocqueville, Alexis de · Democracy in America (Heffner ed.)
  11. Heinemann, F. H. · Existentialism and the Modern Predicament
  12. Nelson, Brian · The Making of the Modern State: A Theoretical Evolution
  13. Constant, Benjamin · Écrits politiques
  14. Foucault, Michel · Discipline and Punish
  15. Barzun, Jacques · Darwin, Marx, Wagner
  16. Masters, Roger · The Nature of Politics
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  1. Fuller, Timothy, ed. · The Prospects of Liberalism
  2. Gleason, Abbott · Totalitarianism
  3. Fuller, Timothy, and Hittinger, John, eds. · Reassessing the Liberal State: Reading Maritain's Man and the State
  4. Pells, Richard H. · The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s
  5. Luce, Edward · The Retreat of Western Liberalism
  6. Deneen, Patrick J. · Why Liberalism Failed
  7. Laski, Harold J. · Liberty in the Modern State
  8. Judis, John B. · The Populist Explosion
  9. Dædalus · On Political Leadership (Summer 2016, Vol. 145, No. 3)
  10. Dahl, Robert A. · A Preface to Democratic Theory
  11. Hand, Learned · The Spirit of Liberty (Irving Dillard, ed.)
  12. Haidt, Jonathan · The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
  13. Manent, Pierre · The City of Man
  14. Bronze Age Pervert · Bronze Age Mindset
  15. Bell, Duncan · Dreamworlds of Race
  16. Anderson, Amanda · Bleak Liberalism
  17. Burrow, J. W. · Whigs and Liberals: Continuity and Change in English Political Thought
  18. Barry, Brian · The Liberal Theory of Justice
  19. Müller, Jan-Werner · A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought
  20. Gottfried, Paul Edward · After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State
  21. Kristol, Irving · On the Democratic Idea in America
  22. Shklar, Judith N. · Redeeming American Political Thought
  23. Howse, Robert · Leo Strauss: Man of Peace
  24. Rosen, Michael, and Wolff, Jonathan · Political Thought
  25. Minogue, Kenneth · On Liberty and Its Enemies: Essays of Kenneth Minogue (Timothy Fuller, ed.)
  26. Mapel, David R. · Social Justice Reconsidered
  27. Whitehead, Alfred North · Adventures of Ideas
  28. Dædalus · What Future for the State? (Spring 1995, Vol. 124, No. 2)
  29. Minogue, Kenneth, ed. · Conservative Realism: New Essays in Conservatism
  30. Bromwich, David · Moral Imagination
  31. Oakeshott, Michael · The Voice of Liberal Learning: Michael Oakeshott on Education (Timothy Fuller, ed.)
  32. Bakewell, Sarah · At the Existentialist Café
  33. Manuel, Frank · The Changing of the Gods

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