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The politics book

By Richard Gilbert

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Publish Date

2013

Publisher

DK Pub.,DK

Language

eng

Pages

352

Description:

"Exploring more than 100 big ideas on topics as diverse as the rule of law, the extent of liberty, and the justification of warfare, [this book] takes you on a journey through the history of politics, from the influential theories of ancient Greece, Rome, and Asia to modern concepts voiced by today's brightest political thinkers."--Front jacket flap.

subjectsWorld politics,  Political science,  History,  Political science, history

PeopleMichael Oakeshott (1901-1990),  Sharīʻatī, ʻAlī,  John C. Calhoun (1782-1850),  José Martí (1853-1895),  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831),  Fei Han (-233 B.C),  Winston Churchill Sir (1874-1965),  Jean Bodin (1530-1596),  Thomas Paine (1737-1809),  José María Luis Mora (1794-1850),  Auguste Comte (1798-1857),  Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859),  Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790),  Robert S. Nozick,  Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919),  Paulo Freire (1921-1997),  Smedley D. Butler (1881-1940),  Friedrich A. von Hayek (1899-1992),  Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928),  Hirobumi Itō (1841-1909),  Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872),  Plato,  Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944),  Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (1870-1924),  Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862),  Immanuel Kant (1724-1804),  Hannah Arendt (1906-1975),  Edmund Burke (1729-1797),  Confucius,  Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986),  Gianfranco Miglio,  Carl Schmitt (1888-1985),  Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin kni︠a︡zʹ (1842-1921),  Shīrīn ʻIbādī,  Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),  P.-J Proudhon (1809-1865),  Nelson Mandela (1918-2013),  Marcus Tullius Cicero,  Arne Næss,  Leon Trotsky (1879-1940),  Malcolm X (1925-1965),  Beatrice Webb (1858-1943),  Noam Chomsky (1928-),  Michael Walzer (1935-),  Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797),  Aristotle,  Jane Addams (1860-1935),  Simón Bolívar (1783-1830),  Zedong Mao (1893-1976),  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1814-1876),  Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968),  Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274),  Joseph Stalin (1879-1953),  Ayn Rand (1905-1982),  James Madison (1751-1836),  Johannes Althusius (1557-1638),  Ernesto Guevara (1928-1967),  Francisco Suárez (1548-1617),  Georges Sorel (1847-1922),  Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865),  Frantz Fanon (1925-1961),  Michel Foucault (1926-1984),  John Locke (1632-1704),  Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430),  Fārābī,  Robert Anthony Pape (1960-),  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900),  Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937),  Max Weber (1864-1920),  Yat-sen Sun (1866-1925),  Marsilius of Padua (-1342?),  Sunzi (active 6th century B.C),  Jomo Kenyatta,  Aleksandr Herzen (1812-1870),  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778),  Di Mo (active 400 B.C),  Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832),  Giles of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges (approximately 1243-1316),  Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679),  Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919),  Syed Abul ʻAla Maudoodi (1903-1979),  Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938),  Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527),  Ibn Khaldūn (1332-1406),  Karl Marx (1818-1883),  Francisco de Vitoria (1486?-1546),  Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831),  Kauṭalya,  Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932),  Marcus Garvey (1887-1940),  Hugo Grotius (1583-1645),  M. N. Roy (1887-1954),  Charles de Secondat Montesquieu baron de (1689-1755),  Muḥammad Prophet (-632),  John Stuart Mill (1806-1873),  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1931-),  Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803),  José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955),  Theodor Herzl (1860-1904),  Gandhi Mahatma (1869-1948),  John Rawls (1921-2002)