German sociologist Max Weber's 1919 lecture Politics as a Vocation is widely regarded as a master...

Francis Fukuyama's controversial 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man demonstrates an im...

Thomas Hobbes is a towering figure in the history of modern thought and political philosophy. He ...

'Reconstruction' is the name given to the period that, beginning shortly before the end of the Am...

Martin Luther King's policy of non-violent protest in the struggle for civil rights in the United...

Thomas Paine's 1791 Rights of Man is an impassioned political tract showing how the critical thin...

A critical analysis of David C. Kang's China Rising, which is a fine example of an author making ...

American political theorist Robert Dahl's 1961 work of political theory exhibits deep levels of c...

W.E.B Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk is a seminal work in the field of sociology, a classic of ...

Nineteenth-century American politician John C. Calhoun occupies a paradoxical place in the histor...

John Lewis Gaddis had written four previous books on the Cold War by the time he published We Now...

Some people imagine that nationhood is as old as civilization itself, but Anderson argues that 'n...

War Without Mercy examines Japanese-American relations during World War II and investigates links...

One of the most influential works of political theory ever written, The Federalist Papers collect...

An important Marxist work, Prison Notebooks (1948) argues that we must understand societies both ...

Originally published in 1866, Civil Disobedience asks when - and in what circumstances - an indiv...