Author: John Gingell<br />File Type: pdf<br />About the AuthorJohn Gingell and Christopher Winch are lecturers at Nene College of Higher Education, Northampton. Adrian Little is lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Modern Political Thought A Reader is an excellent introduction to the key works of the major political thinkers from the English Civil War to the end of the 19th Century. It draws together the most important parts of seminal works of political thought such as Hobbes Leviathan, Lockes Treatises, Rousseaus The Social Contract, Mills On Liberty, together with substantial extracts from Machiavellis The Prince and Marxs Capital. Accessible introductions are provided for each thinker, explaining their lives and works, and placing them in the historical context in which they worked and wrote.