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Cambridge Centre for Political Thought

 

Banu Turnaoğlu, The Formation of Turkish Republicanism, (Princeton University Press, 2017)

Paul Sagar, The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith (Princeton University Press, 2018)
Bourke, BurkeRichard Bourke, Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke (Princeton University Press, 2017)

Bourke, Skinner, Popular SovereigntyRichard Bourke and Quentin Skinner (eds), Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2016)

John Dunn, Breaking Democracy's Spell (Yale University Press, 2014)

David Runciman, How Democracy Ends (Profile Press, 2018)

Or Rosenboim, The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939–1950 (Princeton University Press, 2017) 

Emily Jones, Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914: An Intellectual History (Oxford University Press, 2017)

Bell   Reordering the WorldDuncan Bell, Reordering the World:
Essays on Liberalism and Empire
(Princeton University Press, 2016)
Drochon   Nietzsche's Great PoliticsHugo Drochon, Nietzsche's Great Politics (Princeton University Press, 2016)
Politics in a Commercial SocietyIstvan Hont, Politics in a Commercial Society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith, ed. Béla Kapossy and Michael Sonenscher (Harvard University Press, 2015) The Struggle for DemocracyChristopher Meckstroth, The Struggle for Democracy: Paradoxes of Progress and the Politics of Change (Oxford University Press, 2015)

Dmitri Levitin Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science Dmitri Levitin, Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

Dmitri Levitin wins Lesek Kołakowski Honorary Fellowship

The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical ImaginationMartin A. Ruehl, The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
 A Very Short IntroductionJohn Robertson, The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2015) PoliticsDavid Runciman, Politics (Profile Books, 2014)
Chris Brooke Philosophic Pride Chris Brooke, Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau (Princeton University Press, 2012) Canning   Ideas of PowerJoseph Canning, Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages, 1296–1417 (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
 A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the PresentDavid Runciman, The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present (Princeton University Press, 2013)

Hamilton   Freedom is PowerLawrence Hamilton, Freedom is Power: Liberty Through Political Representation (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

baylyChris Bayly, Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2011)  Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to KuhnJoel Isaac, Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn (Harvard University Press, 2012)

Winner of the Gladstone Prize 2013

 Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from Rousseau to FichteIsaac Nakhimovsky, The Closed Commercial State: Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from Rousseau to Fichte (Princeton University Press, 2011) Sonenscher - Sans CulottesMichael Sonenscher, The Sans-Culottes. An eighteenth-century emblem in the French Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2008)
The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought, edited by Gareth Stedman Jones and Gregory ClaeysThe Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought, edited by Gareth Stedman Jones and Gregory Claeys (Cambridge University Press, 2011) Sonenscher - Before the DelugeMichael Sonenscher, Before the Deluge: public debt, inequality and the intellectual origins of the French Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2007)
Annabel Brett, Changes of State. Nature and the Limits of the City in Early Modern Natural Law Annabel Brett, Changes of State. Nature and the Limits of the City in Early Modern Natural Law (Princeton University Press, 2011) DBell - Ethics and World Politicsuncan Bell (ed), Ethics and World Politics
(Oxford University Press, 2010)
 Persons, Passions, and Judgement in Modern Political ThoughtDuncan Kelly, The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions, and Judgement in Modern Political Thought (Princeton University Press, 2010) Bell - Political Thought and International RelationsDuncan Bell (ed), Political Thought and International Relations: Variations on a Realist Theme (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Ira Katznelson and Gareth Stedman Jones (eds), Religion and the Political ImaginationIra Katznelson and Gareth Stedman Jones (eds), Religion and the Political Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Bell - The Idea of Greater BritainDuncan Bell, The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900 (Princeton University Press, 2007)

Co-winner of the 2007 Whitfield Prize

O'Brien - Intellectual Life of the American SouthMichael O’Brien, Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-60, (University of North Carolina Press, 2010)

An abridgement of the prize-winning Conjectures of Order (2004)

Mark Goldie and Robert Wokler (eds), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought (Mark Goldie and Robert Wokler (eds), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Bourke - Political JudgementRichard Bourke and Raymond Geuss (eds), Political Judgement. Essays for John Dunn (Cambridge, 2009) Scurr - Fatal PurityRuth Scurr, Fatal Purity. Robespierre and the French Revolution (Random House, 2006)
Geuss - Politics and the ImaginationRaymond Geuss, Politics and the Imagination (Princeton University Press, 2009)

Hont - Jealously of TradeIstvan Hont, Jealousy of Trade. International Competition and the Nation State in Historical Perspective (Harvard University Press, 2005)

Winner of the J. David Greenstone Book Prize, awarded by the Politics and History Section of the APSA (2007), and the Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Award, sponsored by the History of Economics Society (2007)

Runciman - Political HypocrisyDavid Runciman, Political Hypocrisy: the mask of power from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond (Princeton University Press, 2008) JohnRobertson - The Case for the Enlightenment Robertson, The Case for the Enlightenment. Scotland and Naples 1680-1760 (Cambridge University Press, 2005)