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Classical World eBook Series

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  • Democracy in Classical Athens

    by Christopher Carey ...
    Series series Classical World
    For two centuries classical Athens enjoyed almost uninterrupted democratic government. This was not a parliamentary democracy of the modern sort but a direct democracy in which all citizens were free to participate in the business of government. Throughout this period Athens was the cultural centre of Greece and one of the major Greek powers. This book traces the development and operation of the ... Read more

    $22.04 CAD

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  • The Social Contract

    by Jean Jacques Rousseau ...
    For the study of the great writers and thinkers of the past, historical imagination is the first necessity. Without mentally referring to the environment in which they lived, we cannot hope to penetrate below the inessential and temporary to the absolute and permanent value of their thought. Theory, no less than action, is subject to these necessities; the form in which men cast their speculations ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • On Liberty and Other Essays

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today - issues of the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of individual liberty, the merits of and costs of democratic government, and the place of ... Read more

    $4.85 CAD

  • Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times

    by Thomas R. Martin ...
    This compact, comprehensive, and generously illustrated history of ancient Greece takes us from the Stone Age roots of Greek civilization to the early Hellenistic period following the death of Alexander the Great.Designed for nonspecialist readers, it will be a welcome and needed resource for all who wish to learn about this important subject.Thomas Martin begins with a prehistory of late Stone ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Ancient Greece

    by Thomas R. Martin ...
    In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C. Focusing on the development of the Greek city-state and the society, culture, and architecture of Athens in its Golden Age, Martin integrates political, military, social, and cultural history in a book that will appeal to students and ... Read more

    $16.01 CAD

  • The Politics

    by Aristotle, R. F. Stalley ...
    Translated by the late Sir Ernest Barker ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants to think seriously about the ways in which human societies are organized and governed. The work of one of the world's greatest philosophers, it draws on Aristotle's own great knowledge of the political and constitutional affairs of the Greek cities. By ... Read more

    $7.28 CAD

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  • Social Contract

    by Jean Jacques Rousseau ...
    In Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourses on the Origin of Inequality, he outlines his own history of the development of human society. He explains in general terms how the differences between social and economic classes arose alongside the formation of modern states. He also explores the means by which these inequalities were actually built into and perpetuated by the foundational notions of modern ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Lectures in the History of Political Thought

    by Michael Oakeshott ...
    Series Book 1 - Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings
    Oakeshott's memorable lectures on the history of political thought, delivered each year at the London School of Economics, will now be available in print for the first time as Volume II of his Selected Writings. Based on manuscripts in the LSE archive for 1966-67, the last year of Oakeshott's tenure as Professor of Political Science, these thirty lectures deal with Greek, Roman, mediaeval, and ... Read more

    $24.20 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics

    by Aristotle, Trevor Saunders ...
    Translated by T. Sinclair ...
    Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish which types of constitution are best - both ideally and in particular circumstances - and how ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War

    by Donald Kagan ...
    "Kagan's book is a contribution of considerable distinction, scrupulously fair, carefully argued, and lucidly written. And, what is more, it is persuasive.... Kagan sets out the story in detail and with acumen. The case has been adumbrated before―but never presented with such thoroughness."―Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryThe first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the ... Read more

    $24.47 CAD

  • The Republic and The Laws

    by Cicero ...
    Translated by Niall Rudd ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    `However one defines Man, the same definition applies to us all. This is sufficient proof that there is no essential difference within mankind.' (Laws l.29-30) Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible governement written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue following Plato. Drawing on Greek political theory, the work embodies the mature ... Read more

    $6.02 CAD

  • The Athenian Constitution

    by Aristotle ...

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