Interpreters of Machiavelli easily agree that his political writings have influenced our fundamental ideas of state and society, yet these interpreters rarely agree on what Machiavelli really though. This study succeeds in resolving this.

A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century.

Some of the world's foremost historians of ideas consider Machiavelli's political thought in the larger context of the republican tradition.

Drawing on art, architecture, literature, theology and numerous scientific disciplines, the author intends to provide a long entertaining look at sexual attitudes, customs and practices in all the world's major civilizations past and present.

This volume was the first selection published from the Antonio Gramsci's Prison Nobebooks to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s. It contains most of the key writings by Gramsci, including the text of The Modern Prince .