Title: The politics book
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.
Subjects: World politics, Political science, History, Political science, history
People: Michael 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)