Books in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series

The Short Discourse is a passionate but compelling statement of Ockham's position on the most fundamental political problem of the medieval period.

Sally Jenkinson's masterful selection from Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique presents the reader with a coherent path through Bayle's vast work. Her authoritative translation, careful text selection, and lucid introduction will be welcomed by scholars and students of the history of ideas, political theory, cultural history and French studies.

In his Treatise of Orders and Plain Dignities, Charles Loyseau set out to harmonise with law his fellow citizens' values and behaviour in the crucial sphere of possession and exercise of public power. This edition sets Loyseau's text in the context of his own political thesis and the intellectual milieu of those who administered early-modern France.

The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832) is a classic of nineteenth-century English jurisprudence, a subject on which Austin had a profound impact. This edition includes a comprehensive introduction, bibliography and biographical synopses of the principal figures mentioned in the text.

James Mill (1773-1836) is today best known as Jeremy Bentham's chief disciple and John Stuart Mill's father. Yet he was himself a formidable and important Utilitarian thinker in his own right. This 1992 volume presents a wide sampling of Mill's political writings and polemical essays.

On the Duty of Man and Citizen (1673) is Pufendorf's succinct and condensed presentation of the natural law political theory. James Tully's introduction sets the text in its context, discusses the main arguments and points out their long term relevance.

More than any other single thinker, William of Ockham (c.1285-1347) is responsible for the widely held modern assumption that religious and secular-political institutions should operate independently of one another.The writings in this volume chart his engagement with the conflicting issues of political and religious authority in society.

The historical significance of Auguste Comte's early writings is explored in Stuart Jones's substantial introduction, which explains the origins and development of Comte's ideas. Other scholarly apparatus include a chronology, biographical details of key figures, and a bibliographical note, making this edition fully accessible to students of nineteenth-century political thought.

Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (Community and Civil Society) is a classic of social and political theory, exploring the tension between close-knit 'communities' and an emerging global market 'society'. This new translation and introduction make this seminal work accessible to students of social and political theory and the history of European ideas.

Presents Spencer's classic attempt to expose the flaws in socialism and to assert political individualism as the best way to guarantee social progress.

This collection will be the first to make accessible to students Priestleys' Essay on the First Principles and The Present State of Liberty, encapsulating the political ideology of arguably the most important English theorist of the English Enlightenment.

This volume presents a selection of the political writings of one of the most significant figures of the French enlightenment.

Telemachus was the most widely-read work in 18th-century France, excepting the Bible. It was also among the most influential, since its attempt to combine monarchism with republican virtues was of obvious importance for Montesquieu and Rousseau. It is also a commentary on Louis XIV's rule.

Viscount Bolingbroke was one of the most creative political thinkers in eighteenth-century Britain. This volume includes some of his most important work, A Dissertation upon Parties, the letter, 'On the Spirit of Patriotism', and The Idea of the Patriot King, which influenced radicals in Britain as well as revolutionaries in both America and France.

This collection brings together thirty-five letters and sermons of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, that deal with political matters. These texts complement Augustine's classic City of God, and treat many essential themes, including the responsibilities of citizenship, the relationship between the church and secular authority, religious coercion, and war and peace.

Thoreau's political writing is intensely personal and direct, and this 1996 edition includes some of his most heartfelt and influential work. Nancy L. Rosenblum also examines Thoreau's life and analyses the themes of citizenship and resistance that have made him an enduring influence in political philosophy and practice.

This is a major student edition by a senior Renaissance scholar of the text described as 'the first modern classic of English history'. Generous editorial footnotes explain the historical and political issues of the period, and a substantial glossary clarifies Francis Bacon's rich but sometimes unfamiliar vocabulary.

A wide-ranging 1994 collection of Gramsci's pre-prison writings which reveals the genesis of much of his later innovatory work.

Sir John Fortescue was arguably the founder of English political science. This convenient volume brings together for the first time new editions of his two major works - In Praise of the Laws of England and The Governance of England - with references and suggestions for further reading for the student.

This 1994 edition of Hobhouse's classic Liberalism, which includes a number of his other contemporaneous writings, provides a valuable introduction to the political philosophy of one of the most important British liberal thinkers of the twentieth century.

This 1992 book provides a student audience with the best scholarly edition of Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population. Written in 1798 as a polite attack on post-French-revolutionary speculations on the theme of social and human perfectibility, it remains one of the most powerful statements of the limits to human hopes set by the tension between population growth and natural resources.

In this new rendition of Bagehot's English Constitution, Paul Smith presents the first (1867) edition, together with the original conclusion, as well as Bagehot's introduction to the second edition of 1872. All the usual student-friendly features of the Cambridge Texts series are present, including introduction, bibliography, biographies and annotation.

Demonstrates the relevance and importance of the politico-religious project Hooker undertook, showing that The Laws offer more than an apologia for the Elizabethan religious settlement.

This major contribution to the series of Cambridge Texts includes the first ever modern edition of the Divers Orations of Margaret Cavendish, together with a new rendition of her classic imaginary voyage, A New World called the Blazing World. Susan James provides all of the usual student-friendly editorial features.

The writings of Mary Astell (1666-1731) are a remarkable contribution to the constitutional debates of the time. Astell's political pamphlets have never been reprinted in their entirety. This new edition makes accessible three major works by an important political theorist.

This volume makes available to a student readership one of the central texts in the utilitarian tradition, in the authoritative 1977 edition prepared by Professors Burns and Hart as part of Bentham's Collected works.

This selection of Marx's early political writings presents new translations and a sequence of texts that illuminates the development of his thought. It will be an invaluable guide to the formation of one of the most influential doctrines in the history of political thought.

This is a 1994 translation of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's What is Property? (1840), one of the classics of political thought and a notorious and influential critique of the central institution of modern Western society, the private ownership of property.

A version of Peter Laslett's acclaimed Two Treatises of Government, widely recognised as one of the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas. This 1988 edition revises Dr Laslett's second edition (1970) and includes an updated bibliography, a guide to further reading and a fully reset and revised introduction which surveys advances in Locke scholarship.

This book is the first complete modern edition of the political works of Andrew Fletcher, who in his day was the most acute commentator on Anglo-Scottish relations and the political future of Europe. An introduction by the editor and a fully annotated text will enable readers to appreciate the extent of Fletcher's analysis.