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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. Franco, Paul · Nietzsche's Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period
    (2011)
  2. Vital, David · The Future of the Jews: A People at the Crossroads?
    (1990)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Future of the Jews: A People at the Crossroads?

  3. Seneca · Moral and Political Essays
    (1995)

    Publication of the Cooper and Procopé English collection

    Source: Moral and Political Essays

  4. Mansfield, Harvey C. · Machiavelli's Virtue
    (1996)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Machiavelli's Virtue

  5. Pagden, Anthony (ed.) · The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe
    (1987)
  6. Browne, Lewis · The Wisdom of Israel: An Anthology
    (1945)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Wisdom of Israel: An Anthology

  7. Lessnoff, Michael · Political Philosophers of the Twentieth Century
    (1999)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Political Philosophers of the Twentieth Century

  8. Pocock, J. G. A. · The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
    (1975)
  9. Cohler, Anne M. · Montesquieu's Comparative Politics and the Spirit of American Constitutionalism
    (1988)
  10. Hulliung, Mark · Montesquieu and the Old Regime
    (1976)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Montesquieu and the Old Regime

  11. Gray, John · Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age
    (1995)
  12. Pocock, J. G. A. · The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century
    (1957)
  13. Norton, David Fate, and Jacqueline Taylor · The Cambridge Companion to Hume (Second Edition)
    (2009)

    Publication of the second edition, edited by David Fate Norton and Jacqueline Taylor

    Source: The Cambridge Companion to Hume (Second Edition)

  14. Pocock, J. G. A. · Barbarism and Religion, Vol. II: Narratives of Civil Government
    (1999)
  15. Pocock, J. G. A. · Barbarism and Religion, Vol. III: The First Decline and Fall
    (2003)
  16. Pocock, J. G. A. · Barbarism and Religion, Vol. I: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737–1764
    (1999)
  17. Pocock, J. G. A. · The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History
    (2005)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History

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8History of Political Thought

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  1. Pocock, J. G. A. · The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
    (1975; ed. 2003)

    First publication 1975; second paperback edition with a new afterword 2003.

    Source: Publisher copyright page

  2. Strauss, Leo · Thoughts on Machiavelli
    (1958)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Thoughts on Machiavelli

  3. King, Ross · Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power
    (2007)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power

  4. Scruton, Roger · Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction
    (2002)

    First publication under the Very Short Introduction title

    Source: Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction

  5. de Grazia, Sebastian · Machiavelli in Hell
    (1989)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Machiavelli in Hell

  6. Gray, John · Isaiah Berlin
    (1995)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Isaiah Berlin

  7. Bobbitt, Philip · The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made
    (2013)
  8. Strauss, Leo · Thoughts on Machiavelli
    (1958)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Thoughts on Machiavelli

  9. Viroli, Maurizio · Niccolò's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli
    (2000)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Niccolò's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli

  10. McDermott, John J. ed. · The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition
    (1967)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition

  11. Pocock, J. G. A. · Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century
    (1985)
  12. Becker, Carl L. · The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers
    (1932)
  13. Pocock, J. G. A., and Ball, Terence · Conceptual Change and the Constitution
    (1988)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Conceptual Change and the Constitution

  14. Pocock, J. G. A. · Barbarism and Religion, Vol. V: Religion: The First Triumph
    (2010)
  15. Pocock, J. G. A. · Barbarism and Religion, Vol. IV: Barbarians, Savages and Empires
    (2005)
  16. Pocock, J. G. A. · Three British Revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1776
    (1980)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Three British Revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1776

  17. McKitterick, Rosamond, and Roland Quinault · Edward Gibbon and Empire
    (1997)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Edward Gibbon and Empire

  18. O'Brien, Karen · Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon
    (1997)
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9History 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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  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
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  18. Oakeshott, Michael, ed. Timothy Fuller · On History and Other Essays
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    First publication of the work

    Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

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  1. Todd, Emmanuel · L’invention de l’Europe
    (1990)

    First publication of the work

    Source: L’invention de l’Europe

  2. Gray, J. Glenn · The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle
    (1959)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle

  3. Lieber, Robert J. · No Common Power: Understanding International Relations (Third Edition)
    (1988; ed. 1995)

    First published in 1988; third edition shown published in 1995

    Source: No Common Power: Understanding International Relations (Third Edition)

  4. Roche, George Charles · The Fall of the Ivory Tower: Government Funding, Corruption, and the Bankrupting of American Higher Education
    (1994)
  5. Murray, R. Emmett · The Lexicon of Labor: More Than 500 Key Terms, Biographical Sketches, and Historical Insights Concerning Labor in America
    (1998)
  6. Sumner, William Graham · On Liberty, Society, and Politics: The Essential Essays of William Graham Sumner (Robert C. Bannister, ed.)
    (1992)
  7. Walzer, Michael · Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality
    (1983)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality

  8. Spengler, Oswald · The Decline of the West
    (1918–1922)

    German original published in two volumes in 1918 and 1922; English translation published in 1926 and 1928

    Source: The Decline of the West

  9. Holmes, Stephen, and Sunstein, Cass R. · The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes
    (1999)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes

  10. Tocqueville, Alexis de · Democracy in America (Heffner ed.)
    (1835–1840; ed. 1956)

    French original published in two volumes in 1835 and 1840; Richard D. Heffner abridgment first published in 1956

    Source: Democracy in America (Heffner ed.)

  11. Heinemann, F. H. · Existentialism and the Modern Predicament
    (1953)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Existentialism and the Modern Predicament

  12. Nelson, Brian · The Making of the Modern State: A Theoretical Evolution
    (2006)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Making of the Modern State: A Theoretical Evolution

  13. Constant, Benjamin · Écrits politiques
    (1997)

    Publication of the Gallimard Folio collection shown

    Source: Écrits politiques

  14. Foucault, Michel · Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
    (1975; ed. 1977)

    French original published in 1975; English translation in 1977

    Source: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

  15. Barzun, Jacques · Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage
    (1941)

    First publication of the work

    Source: Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage

  16. Masters, Roger · The Nature of Politics
    (1989)

    First publication of the work

    Source: The Nature of Politics

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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. 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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