A short history of western political thought
By: W.M. Spellman
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780230545595
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General; Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / Political; Western Civilization; Political science; HISTORY / Civilization; History
Description: "This book provides a highly accessible narrative survey of political thought over the past two millenia. Exploring many key ideas in the Western tradition, it begins with the classic political thought of the ancient Greeks, it moves through the medieval and early Christian views of politics, and concludes by exploring the modern re-interpretation of political life"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Civil Society and Human Flourishing; title: City States and Republics, c.400 BCE-400; title: Heavenly Mandates, 400-1500; title: The Emergence of the Sovereign State, 1500-1700; title: From Subject to Citizen, 1700-1815; title: Ideology and Equality, 1815-1914; title: Breakdown and Uncertainty, 1914-2010; title: Conclusion; title: Endnotes; title: Index.