Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction

Author:   Quentin Skinner (Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
ISBN:  

9780198837572


Pages:   144
Publication Date:   25 July 2019
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

Our Price $19.95 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction


Add your own review!

Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Quentin Skinner (Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 11.30cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 17.30cm
Weight:   0.116kg
ISBN:  

9780198837572


ISBN 10:   0198837577
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   25 July 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1: The Diplomat 2: The Adviser to Princes 3: The Theorist of Liberty 4: The Historian of Florence Further reading Index

Reviews

Quentin Skinner's Machiavelli: A short introduction, published nearly forty years ago and now issued in a new edition, remains a frontrunner in the field. [...] The excellence of Skinner's book lies chiefly in its cool treatment of Machiavelli in his immediate context including his encounters with princes, Florence's political tergiversations, Italy being overrun by foreign armies, and his family background, education and readings in the classics. Skinner's aim was to serve as a recording angel, not a hanging judge , and he therefore sought to avoid the defeasible standards of the present as a means of praising or blaming the past . * Laura Martines, The Times Literary Supplement *


Author Information

Quentin Skinner was born in 1940 and educated at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, where he is now an Honorary Fellow. Between 1974 and 1979 he was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, before returning to Cambridge as Professor of Political Science. He was appointed Regius Professor of History at Cambridge in 1996, a post he held until he moved to Queen Mary University of London in 2008. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a foreign member of many other national academies, including the Academia Europea. He is the author of a number of books, including The Foundations of Political Thought (Cambridge, 1978), and From Humanism to Hobbes: studies in rhetoric and politics (Cambridge, 2018), and his scholarship has won him many awards, such as the Isaiah Berlin Prize, The Wolfson History Prize, and two awards from the American Political Science Association.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

ls

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List