Contains many of the most important texts in western political and social thought from the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries. A number of key works, including Machiavelli's The Prince, Locke's Second Treatise, and Rousseau's The Social Contract, are included in their entirety. Each selection has been painstakingly annotated.

PrefaceNICCOLO MACHIAVELLIThe Prince (1513) from Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius (1512-1517)MARTIN LUTHER from Temporal Authority: To What Extent It Should Be Obeyed (1523)JOHN CALVIN from On Civil Government (1534)THOMAS HOBBES from Leviathan (1660)JOHN LOCKE The Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690) from A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689)MARY ASTELL from Some Reflections upon Marriage (1700)MONTESQUIEU from The Spirit of the Laws, Part 2, Book 11 (1748)DAVID HUME from A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740) from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751)Of the Original Contract (1748)JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men (1755)On the Social Contract or Principles of Political Right (1762)ADAM SMITH from The Wealth of Nations (1776)IMMANUEL KANT from Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (1795)THOMAS JEFFERSON The Declaration of Independence (1776)ALEXANDER HAMILTON and JAMES MADISON The Federalist No. 9 (1787)The Federalist No. 10 (1787)The Federalist No. 51 (1788)The Federalist No. 78 (1788)OLYMPE DE GOUGES from Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791)MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)EDMUND BURKE from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) from On "Geographical Morality" (1788)BENJAMIN CONSTANT The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns (1816)GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL from The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) from Philosophy of Right (1821)JEREMY BENTHAM from An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1780)Offences against One's Self: Paederasty, Part 1 (1785) from Panopticon; or the Inspection-House (1789)JOHN STUART MILL from On Liberty (1859) from Considerations on Representative Government (1861) from Utilitarianism (1863) from The Subjection of Women (1869)HARRIET (HARDY) TAYLOR MILL from The Enfranchisement of Women (1851)SOJOURNER TRUTH Speech Delivered at the Akron, Ohio Convention on Women's Rights (1851)ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE from Democracy in America (1840)HENRY DAVID THOREAU from Civil Disobedience (1849)KARL MARX and FRIEDRICH ENGELS On Bruno Bauer's On the Jewish Question (1843)On Bruno Bauer's The Capacity for the Present-day Jews and Christians to Become Free (1843) from Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844) from The German Ideology (1845)Theses On Feuerbach (1845)The Communist Manifesto (1848)Critique of the Gotha Program (1875)FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE from Beyond Good and Evil (1886) from On the Genealogy of Morals (1887)

Comments on The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought""This is a wonderful collection, with great introductory essays. We should all be grateful to the editors for selecting and contextualizing so rich a body of materials."" - Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University""The selections are broader than in other works I have seen. ... The annotation is, as advertised, fuller than is usual in such works, and consistently helpful. ... All in all, this is an impressive work-by far the best political anthology I have seen."" - George Klosko, Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor, University of Virginia""Quite simply, this is a fantastic anthology. It includes not just the standard readings from the western canon but also important ones left out of most anthologies, including several by women. The anthology includes concise, accurate, and extremely helpful introductions, which include, uniquely, a discussion of `common misperceptions' of each work. These introductions are perfectly pitched for an undergraduate audience."" - Darren Walhof, Grand Valley State University