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Книга "Демократия и тоталитаризм" - один из наиболее известных трудов знаменитого французского политолога и философа, долгое время не издавалась в нашей стране. Работа Р.А...
Первое издание на русском языке историографической работы выдающегося британского антрополога Э. Э. Эванс-Причарда (1902-1973), посвященной роли ученых XVIII - XX вв. (Мон...
Национализм - это одна из самых больших неожиданностей современной истории. Как получилось, что нация, относительно старая форма сообщества, поднялась до столь видного пол...
Книга известного историка Патриса Генифе, вызвавшая во Франции широкий общественный резонанс, посвящена феномену революционного террора. На примере событий 1789-1794 гг. а...
А.Фергюсон (1723-1816) - представитель блестящей плеяды шотландских мыслителей века Просвещения. Его главная книга "Опыт истории гражданского общества" вышла в свет в 1767...
Jacques Necker (1732–1804) was a Swiss statesman and financier who played a crucial role in French political life from 1776 to 1789. Born in Geneva, he was a devout Protes...
A single-volume collection of Gouverneur Morris’s writings. Morris served as Deputy Superintendent of Finance during the American Revolution, in which capacity he devised ...
Алексис Токвиль написал "Американскую демократию", книгу, без изучения которой там до сих пор не обходится ни один уважающий себя политолог. Второй его шедевр - "Старый по...
According to Bruno Leoni, the greatest obstacle to rule of law in our time is the problem of overlegislation. In modern democratic societies, legislative bodies increasing...
A Humane Economy offers an understandable and compelling explanation of how economies operate. Over and over, the great Swiss economist stresses one simple point: You cann...
Students of political theory will welcome the return to print of this brilliant defense of ordered liberty. Impugning John Stuart Mill’s famous treatise, On Liberty, Steph...
Originally written for the Quarterly Review, these essays question the commonly accepted justifications for “popular government” - Rousseauian natural law and Benthamite u...
This is a new and highly accessible rendition of one of the classics of English political writing. Paul Smith presents the text of the first (1867) edition of Bagehot's Th...
Although the term "liberalism" is widely used to describe a variety of social and political ideas, it has been an especially difficult concept for historians to define. Ka...
Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth century were committed to the ideal of reflective autonomy--the principle that each of us should think for ourselves, particularly...
The Whigs were one of the two great English political parties in the 150 years after 1700, vastly influential whether in office or in opposition. Yet the Whigs were much m...
By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal...
First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization o...
Edmund Burke (1730–97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for re...