The politics book
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London ; DK Pub., 2013.
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Book
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1st American ed.
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352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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Main Library - Adult
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Published
London ; DK Pub., 2013.
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English

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Includes index.
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"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.

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Addams, Jane, -- 1860-1935.
Althusius, Johannes, -- 1557-1638.
Arendt, Hannah, -- 1906-1975.
Aristotle.
Atatürk, Kemal, -- 1881-1938.
Augustine, -- of Hippo, Saint, -- 354-430.
Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, -- 1814-1876.
Beauvoir, Simone de, -- 1908-1986.
Bentham, Jeremy, -- 1748-1832.
Bernstein, Eduard, -- 1850-1932.
Bodin, Jean, -- 1530-1596.
Bolívar, Simón, -- 1783-1830.
Burke, Edmund, -- 1729-1797.
Butler, Smedley D. -- (Smedley Darlington), -- 1881-1940.
Calhoun, John C. -- (John Caldwell), -- 1782-1850
Chomsky, Noam.
Churchill, Winston, -- 1874-1965.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Clausewitz, Carl von, -- 1780-1831.
Comte, Auguste, -- 1798-1857.
Confucius.
Fanon, Frantz, -- 1925-1961.
Foucault, Michel, -- 1926-1984
Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790
Freire, Paulo, -- 1921-1997.
Fārābī.
Gandhi, -- Mahatma, -- 1869-1948
Garvey, Marcus, -- 1887-1940.
Gentile, Giovanni, -- 1875-1944.
Giles, -- of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, -- approximately 1243-1316.
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, -- 1931-2022
Gramsci, Antonio, -- 1891-1937.
Grotius, Hugo, -- 1583-1645.
Guevara, Che, -- 1928-1967
Han, Fei, -- -233 B.C.
Hayek, Friedrich A. von -- (Friedrich August), -- 1899-1992.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, -- 1770-1831.
Herder, Johann Gottfried, -- 1744-1803.
Herzen, Aleksandr, -- 1812-1870.
Herzl, Theodor, -- 1860-1904.
Hobbes, Thomas, -- 1588-1679.
Ibn Khaldūn, -- 1332-1406.
Itō, Hirobumi, -- 1841-1909.
Jefferson, Thomas, -- 1743-1826.
Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804
Kauṭalya
Kenyatta, Jomo.
King, Martin Luther, -- Jr., -- 1929-1968.
Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, -- kni͡azʹ, -- 1842-1921
Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, -- 1870-1924.
Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865.
Locke, John, -- 1632-1704
Luxemburg, Rosa, -- 1871-1919
Machiavelli, Niccolò, -- 1469-1527.
Madison, James, -- 1751-1836
Mandela, Nelson, -- 1918-2013.
Mao, Zedong, -- 1893-1976
Marsilius, -- of Padua, -- -1342?
Martí, José, -- 1853-1895
Marx, Karl, -- 1818-1883.
Maudoodi, Syed Abul ʻAla, -- 1903-1979.
Mazzini, Giuseppe, -- 1805-1872.
Miglio, Gianfranco.
Mill, John Stuart, -- 1806-1873.
Mo, Di, -- active 400 B.C.
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, -- baron de, -- 1689-1755.
Mora, José María Luis, -- 1794-1850.
Muḥammad, -- Prophet, -- -632.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, -- 1844-1900
Nozick, Robert S.
Næss, Arne.
Oakeshott, Michael, -- 1901-1990.
Ortega y Gasset, José, -- 1883-1955.
Paine, Thomas, -- 1737-1809.
Pankhurst, Emmeline, -- 1858-1928.
Pape, Robert Anthony, -- 1960-
Plato.
Political science -- History.
Political science.
Proudhon, P.-J. -- (Pierre-Joseph), -- 1809-1865.
Rand, Ayn.
Rawls, John, -- 1921-2002.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, -- 1712-1778.
Roy, M. N. -- (Manabendra Nath), -- 1887-1954.
Schmitt, Carl, -- 1888-1985.
Sharīʻatī, ʻAlī
Sorel, Georges, -- 1847-1922
Stalin, Joseph, -- 1878-1953
Sun, Yat-sen, -- 1866-1925.
Sunzi, -- active 6th century B.C.
Suárez, Francisco, -- 1548-1617.
Thomas, -- Aquinas, Saint, -- 1225?-1274.
Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, -- 1805-1859
Trotsky, Leon, -- 1879-1940
Vitoria, Francisco de, -- 1486?-1546.
Walzer, Michael.
Webb, Beatrice, -- 1858-1943.
Weber, Max, -- 1864-1920
Wollstonecraft, Mary, -- 1759-1797.
World politics.
X, Malcolm, -- 1925-1965
Zapata, Emiliano, -- 1879-1919.
ʻIbādī, Shīrīn.