Alexander Hamilton rose from his humble beginnings as an illegitimate West Indian orphan and emigrant to become the premier statebuilder and strategic thinker of the American Founding generation.

A successful author and Liberal MP with a loving and benevolent wife, Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party.

Reprint of the Praeger edition originally published in 1986 in the series Women and Politics . Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), commonly regarded as one of the founders of the Scientific Revolution, exerted a powerful influence on the intellectual development of the modern world. This book provides an account of the sweep of his thought and its influence. It begins by sketching Bacon's complex personality and troubled public career.

A broad new interpretation of the events and beliefs of seventeenth-century England.

Presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the significant thinkers of modern Europe. This book combines social and military history and psychological interpretation with a study of Clausewitz's military theories and of his unduly neglected historical and political writing. It is useful for anyone interested in Clausewitz and his theories.

The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power is derived from the family bank. This book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank.

Lucrezia Borgia - an infamous murderess or simply the victim of bad press? Lucrezia Borgia's name has echoed through history as a byword for evil - a poisoner who committed incest with her natural father, Pope Alexander VI, and with her brother, Cesare Borgia. Long considered the most ruthless of Italian Renaissance noblewomen, her tarnished reputation has prevailed long since her own lifetime. ..

Subtitled 'The First Scientist', this new one-volume biography places science at the centre of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work

In 1950, international communism seemed on the offensive. As Britain once more finds itself in a global confrontation with an implacable ideological enemy, this title provides an account of the strategic dynamics that drove this age, beginning with the Second World War and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire from the 1540s to the 1740s. Winner of the History Today Book of the Year prize for 2000.

Introducing the world of Machiavelli, this title covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest of schemers.

This work brings together the complete texts or substantial selections from many works of modern political theory. The volume includes studies by Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel and Marx, and contributions by Spinoza, Montesquieu, Hume, Adam Smith, Kant, Burke, Bentham and Tocqueville.

This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It includes The Advancement of Learning, the Essays, and New Atlantis as well as other texts, in modernized spelling and with generous annotation.

In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus' encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas and the humiliation of Edward II in his fall from power and influence.

This guide aims to be a manifesto of women's power, drawing on the tactics of historical princessas, such as Joan of Arc, as well as contemporary examples. It features power strategies in today's business world, and shows how women can embrace challenge - not competition but provocation.

War cannot be controlled in future without an understanding of its past. These essays analyse war, its strategic characteristics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries.

This narrative tells how Irish monks and scribes saved classical and religious heritage by copying the manuscripts of writers such as Homer and Aristotle, while libraries on the continent were lost forever.

An energetic, engaged and lucid account of the most important political thinkers and enduring themes of the last two and a half millennia. McClelland presents original and controversial views of both canonical and neglected theorists.