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Product: Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume II: New Modes and Orders in Early Modern Political Thought Used Book in Good Condition The University of North Carolina Press

Product: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge

More than 2,500 years ago, a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most powerful empire in the world. In this meticulously researched study, historian Paul Rahe argues that Sparta was responsible for the initial establishment of the Hellenic defensive coalition and was, in fact, the most essential player in its ultimate victory.

Drawing from an impressive range of ancient sources, including Herodotus and Plutarch, the author veers from the traditional Athenocentric view of the Greco-Persian Wars to examine from a Spartan perspective the grand strategy that halted the Persian juggernaut. Rahe provides a fascinating, detailed picture of life in Sparta circa 480 BC, revealing how the Spartans' form of government and the regimen to which they subjected themselves instilled within them the pride, confidence, discipline, and discernment necessary to forge an alliance that would stand firm against a great empire, driven by religious fervor, that held sway over two-fifths of the human race.

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Product: Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory Under the English Republic Modern republicanism - distinguished from its classical counterpart by its commercial character and jealous distrust of those in power, by its use of representative institutions, and by its employment of a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances - owes an immense debt to the republican experiment conducted in England between 1649, when Charles I was executed, and 1660, when Charles II was crowned. Though abortive, this experiment left a legacy in the political science articulated both by its champions, John Milton, Marchamont Nedham, and James Harrington, and by its sometime opponent and ultimate supporter, Thomas Hobbes. This volume examines these four thinkers, situates them with regard to the novel species of republicanism first championed in the early 1500s by Niccolò Machiavelli, and examines the debt that he and they owed the Epicurean tradition in philosophy and the political science crafted by the Arab philosophers Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroës.

Product: Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume III: Inventions of Prudence: Constituting the American Regime Used Book in Good Condition The University of North Carolina Press

Product: Republics Ancient & Modern, Vol. 1: The Ancien Régime in Classical Greece Used Book in Good Condition The University of North Carolina Press

Product: The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy (Yale Library of Military History) Yale University Press Yale University Press

Product: Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy Used Book in Good Condition Cambridge University Press

Product: Sparta's Second Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 446-418 B.C. (Yale Library of Military History) Yale University Press