Political Thought

1902

Dunning, William Archibald: History of Political Theories. 4 Vol. New York: Macmillan 1902–1920.

1903

Carlyle, Robert W. / Carlyle, Alexander J.: A History of Mediæval Political Theory in the West. 6 Vol. Edingburgh / London: Blackwood 1903-1936.

Merriam, Charles Edward: A History of American Political Theories. New York / London: Macmillan 1903. [Transl. to Japanese 1982, Chinese 1988] [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1907

Figgis, John Neville: Studies of Political Thought from Gerson to Grotius: 1414-1625. The Birbeck Lectures delivered in Trinity College, Cambridge, 1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1907. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1908

Macpherson, Hector Carsewell: A Century of Political Development. Edinburgh / London: W. Blackwood and Sons 1908. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1915

Barker, Ernest: Political Thought in England from Herbert Spencer to the Present Day. New York: Holt / London: Williams and Norgate 1915. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1918

Barker, Ernest: Greek Political Theory: Plato and His Predecessors. London: Methuen 1918. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Hearnshaw, Fossey John Cobb: Democracy at the Crossways: A Study in Politics and History, with Special Reference to Great Britain. London: Macmillan 1918. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive] [Transl. to Japanese 1950, 1953]

1920

Laski, Harold J.: Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham. London: Thornton Butterworth 1920. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Merriam, Charles Edward: American Political Ideas: Studies in the Development of American Political Thought, 1865–1917. New York / London: Macmillan 1920. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1923

Gettell, Raymond G.: History of Political Thought. London: Allen & Unwin / New York: The Century 1923, ²1953 (ed. by Lawrence C. Wanlass). [Transl. to Japanese 1928, Spanish 1930, Chinese 1932, Korean 1960] [Internet Archive 1st Edition / 2nd Edition]

1924

Merriam, Charles Edward / Barnes, Harry Elmer (eds.): A History of Political Theories, Recent Times: Essays on Contemporary Developments in Political Theory. New York / London: Macmillan 1924. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Morris, Charles Richard: A History of Political Ideas. New York: G.P. Putnam / London: Christophers 1924. [Table of Contents]

1925

Vaughan, Charles Edwyn: Studies in the History of Political Philosophy Before and After Rousseau. 2 Vol. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press 1925. [New York: Russel & Russel 1960]

1928

Allen, John William: A History of Political Thought in the Sixteenth Century. London: Methuen 1928, 1960. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Gettell, Raymond G.: History of American Political Thought. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts 1928. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1930

Qichao Liang: History of Chinese Political Thought During the Early Tsin Period. Übers. von Li-T'Ing Ch'en. London: Trench, Trubner / New York: Harcourt, Brace 1930. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1936

Aris, Reinhold: History of Political Thought in Germany 1789–1815. London: Allen & Unwin 1936. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Cook, Thomas Ira: History of Political Philosophy from Plato to Burke. New York: Prentice Hall 1936. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1937

Lewis, Edward Rieman: A History of American Political Thought from the Civil War to the World War. New York: Macmillan 1937. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Sabine, George Holland: A History of Political Theory. New York: Henry Holt 1937. (4^th ed. rev. by Thomas Landon Thorson 1973) [Internet Archive]

1942

Sherwani, Haroon Khan: Studies in the History of Early Muslim Political Thought and Administration. Lahore: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf / Delhi: Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli 1942. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1948

Bhandari, Des Raj: History of European Political Philosophy. Bangalore: Bangalore Printing & Publishing 1948, ¹⁰1970. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1952

Sinclair, Thomas Alan: A History of Greek Political Thought. London: Thames & Hudson 1952. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul ²1967. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1954

Zagorin, Perez: A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1954. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1960

Schmandt, Henry J.: A History of Political Philosophy. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Company 1960. [Transl. to Swedish 1965, Indonesian 2002] [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Wolin, Sheldon S.: Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought. Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1960. (exp. ed. Princeton Univ. Press 2004) [Transl. to Japanese 1975, Italian 1996, Korean 2007, Chinese 2009, Spanish 2012] [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1963

Konar, Narayan Das: A History of Political Philosophy. Calcutta: Modern Publishers 1963.

Strauss, Leo / Cropsey, Joseph (eds.): History of Political Philosophy. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press 1963, ³1987. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

[Spanisch 1946] Romero, José Luis: A History of Argentine Political Thought. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press 1963. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1965

Harrison, Wilfrid: Conflict and Compromise: History of British Political Thought, 1593-1900. New York: The Free Press / London: Collier-Macmillan 1965. [Table of Contents]

Kagan, Donald: The Great Dialogue: History of Greek Political Thought from Homer to Polybius. New York: The Free Press 1965. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Ullmann, Walter: A History of Political Thought: The Middle Ages. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1965, 1970. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1967

Suda, Jyoti Prasad: History of Political Thought. 2 Vol. Meerut City: Jai Prakash Nath 1967.

1968

Runkle, Gerald: A History of Western Political Theory. New York: Ronald Press 1968. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1970

Sibley, Mulford Quickert: Political Ideas and Ideologies: A History of Political Thought. New York: Harper & Row 1970. [Table of Contents]

1972

[Italian 1937] Mosca, Gaetano: A Short History of Political Philosophy. Transl. by Sondra Z. Koff. New York: Crowell 1972. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1974

[Japanese 1952] Maruyama, Masao: Studies in the Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan. (orig. "Studies in the History of Japanese Political Thought") Transl. by Mikiso Hane. Tokyo: Univ. of Tokyo Press 1974. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1976

Mukhi, H. R.: A Simple History of Western Political Thought [from Marx to Present Day] in [Question and Answer Form]. Delhi: Surjeet Book Depot 1976.

1978

Sabia, Daniel Robert: A Historiography of Histories of Political Theory. (Dissertation) 2 Vol. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota 1978.

Skinner, Quentin: The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. 2 Vol. Cambridge / New York: Cambridge Univ. Press 1978. [Transl. to French 2001, Chinese 2002, Korean 2004, Greek 2005, Portuguese 2006, Japanese 2009]

1979

Hsiao, Kung-chuan: History of Chinese Political Thought, Vol. 1: From the Beginnings to the Sixth Century A.D. Transl. by F.W. Mote. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press 1979. [Table of Contents]

Okin, Susan Moller: Women in Western Political Thought. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press 1979. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Paolucci, Henry: A Brief History of Political Thought and Statecraft: From Socrates to Rousseau, Hegel and Marx. S.L.: Griffon House Publications 1979, 2003. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1981

Rai, Hameed A. K.: History of Political Philosophy. 2 Vol. Lahore, Pakistan: Aziz Publishers 1981.

1982

Nelson, Brian R.: Western Political Thought: From Socrates to the Age of Ideology. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall 1982, ²1996, 2015. [Table of Contents]

1983

Wiser, James L.: Political Philosophy: A History of the Search for Order. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall 1983. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1984

[Gernan 1982] Bracher, Karl Dietrich: The Age of Ideologies: A History of Political Thought in the Twentieth Century. New York: St. Martin’s Press 1984. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1985

Saxonhouse, Arlene W.: Women in the History of Political Thought: Ancient Greece to Machiavelli. New York: Praeger 1985. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1988

Burns, James Henderson (ed.): The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c.350-c.1450. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 1988. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Sheldon, Garrett Ward: The History of Political Theory: Ancient Greece to Modern America. New York: Peter Lang 1988. [Table of Contents]

1991

Burns, James Henderson / Goldie, Mark (eds.): The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 1991. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1992

Black, Antony: Political Thought in Europe, 1250-1450. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 1992. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Hampsher-Monk, Iain: A History of Modern Political Thought: Major Political Thinkers from Hobbes to Marx. Oxford / Cambridge: Blackwell 1992. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1993

Klosko, George: History of Political Theory: An Introduction. 2 Vol. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers 1993. [Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press ²2012]

Pocock, J. G. A. / Schochet, Gordon J. / Schwoerer, Lois: The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 1993. [Table of Contents]

1995

Gagarin, Michael / Woodruff, Paul (eds.): Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists. Rev. and transl. by Michael Gagarin and Paul Woodruff. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 1995. [Transl. to Chinese 2003] [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1996

Canning, Jospeh: A History of Medieval Political Thought: 300–1450. London / New York: Routledge 1996, ²2005. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Dunn, John: The History of Political Theory and Other Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 1996. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

McClelland, John Scott: A History of Western Political Thought. London / New York: Routledge 1996, 2008. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

1997

Hallowell, John Hamilton / Porter, Jene M.: Political Philosophy: The Search for Humanity and Order. New York: Prentice Hall 1997.  [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Jayapalan, N.: A History of Political Thought. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers 1997. [Comprehensive History of Political Thought, 2001] [Table of Contents]

Voegelin, Eric: History of Political Ideas. 8 Vol. (The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Vol. 19–26) Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press 1997.

1998

Morrow, John: History of Political Thought: A Thematic Introduction. New York: New York Univ. Press 1998. [History of Western Political Thought ²2005, ³2019] [Transl. to Chinese 2014] [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Spellman, W. M.: European Political Thought 1600-1700.  Basingstoke: Macmillan / New York: St. Martin's Press 1998. [Table of Contents]

1999

Mukherjee, Subrata / Ramaswamy, Sushila: A History of Political Thought: Plato to Marx. New Delhi: Prentice-Hall of India 1999. [Table of Contents]

Oakley, Francis: Politics and Eternity: Studies in the History of Medieval and Early Modern Political Thought. Leiden: Brill 1999. [Table of Contents]

2000

Coleman, Janet: A History of Political Thought. 2 Vol. Oxford: Blackwell 2000.

Jones, H. Stuart: Victorian Political Thought. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan 2000. [Table of Contents]

Ohlmeyer, Jane H.: Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Ireland: Kingdom Or Colony. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 2000. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Rowe, Christopher / Schofield, Malcolm (eds.): The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 2000. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

2001

Black, Antony: The History of Islamic Political Thought: From the Prophet to the Present. New York: Routledge 2001, ²2011. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

2002

Boucher, David / Kelly, Paul Joseph: Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present. New York : Oxford Univ. Press 2002, ²2009, ³2017. [Transl. to Polish 2008, Romanian 2008] [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Jones, Tudor: Modern Political Thinkers and Ideas: An Historical Introduction. London: Routledge 2002. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

2003

Ball, Terence / Bellamy, Richard (eds.): The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 2003. [Table of Contents]

Chaurasia, Radhey Shyam: History of Political Thought. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers 2003. [Table of Contents]

Frost, Bryan-Paul / Sikkenga, Jeffrey (eds.): History of American Political Thought. Lanham: Lexington Books 2003, ²2019. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Sharma, Suresh Kant / Sharma, Urmila: Western Political Thought. 2 Vol. New Delhi: Atlantic 2003.

White, Michael J.: Political Philosophy: An Historical Introduction. Oxford: Oneworld 2003. [Oxford Univ. Press ²2012] [Table of Contents]

2005

Keene, Edward: International Political Thought: An Historical Introduction. Cambridge: Polity Press 2005. [Table of Contents]

2006

Fierlbeck, Katherine: Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History. Peterborough: Broadview Press 2006. [Table of Contents]

Goldie, Mark / Wokler, Robert (eds.): The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 2006. [Table of Contents]

Oakeshott, Michael Joseph: Lectures in the History of Political Thought. Exeter / Charlottesville: Imprint Academic 2006. [Table of Contents]

2007

Angelov, Dimiter: Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 2007. [Table of Contents]

Martin, Guy: African Political Thought. New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2007. [Table of Contents]

Thornhill, Chris: German Political Philosophy: The Metaphysics of Law. London / New York: Routledge 2007. [Table of Contents]

2008

Haddock, Bruce: A History of Political Thought: From Antiquity to the Present. Cambridge: Polity 2008. [Table of Contents]

Wood, Ellen Meiksins: Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages. London: Verso 2008. [Transl. to Turkish 2009, Spanish 2011, Romanian 2018, Chinese 2019] [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

2009

Black, Antony: A World History of Ancient Political Thought: Its Significance and Consequences. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press 2009, ²2016. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Broad, Jacqueline / Green, Karen: A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 2009. [Table of Contents]

Rawls, John: Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy. Rev. by Samuel Freeman. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press 2009. [Transl. to Spanish 2009, Italian 2009, Japanese 2011] [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

2010

Behr, Hartmut: A History of International Political Theory: Ontologies of the International. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2010. [Table of Contents]

Howard, Dick: The Primacy of the Political: A History of Political Thought from the Greeks to the French & American Revolutions. New York: Columbia Univ. Press 2010. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Kelly, Paul Joseph: British Political Theory in the Twentieth century. Chichester / Malden: Wiley-Blackwell 2010. [Table of Contents]

Jha, Shefali: Western Political Thought: From Plato to Marx. Delhi: Longman 2010. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

2011

Das, Prangobinda: History of Political Thought: A Lucid and In-Depth Analysis of the History of Political Ideas from Ancient Greece to Mao Zedong. London: New Central Book Agency 2011. [Table of Contents]

Jennings, Jeremy: Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France Since the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press 2011. [Table of Contents]

Jones, Gareth Stedman / Claeys, Gregory (eds.): The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 2011. [Table of Contents]

Klosko, George (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press 2011. [Table of Contents]

Spellman, W. M.: A Short History of Western Political Thought. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2011. [Transl. to Chinese 2019] [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

2012

Korab-Karpowicz, W. Julian: On the History of Political Philosophy: Great Political Thinkers from Thucydides to Locke. Boston (and others): Pearson 2012. [Routledge 2017] [Table of Contents]

Ryan, Alan: On Politics: A History of Political Thought from Herodotus to the Present. New York: Liveright 2012. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Tongdong, Bai: China: The Political Philosophy of the Middle Kingdom. London: Zed Books / New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2012. [Table of Contents]

[Japanese 2010] Watanabe, Hiroshi: A History of Japanese Political Thought: 1600-1901. Transl. by David Noble. Tokyo: International House of Japan 2012. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

Wood, Ellen Meiksins: Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political Thought from the Renaissance to Enlightenment. London: Verso Books 2012. [Transl. to Turkish 2012, French 2014, Chinese 2019] [Table of Contents]

2013

[French 1998] Nemo, Philippe: A History of Political Ideas from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Transl. by Kenneth Casler. Pittsburgh: Duquesne Univ. Press 2013. [Table of Contents] [Internet Archive]

2014

Cohen, G. A.: Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press 2014. [Table of Contents]

Hammer, Dean: Roman Political Thought: From Cicero to Augustine. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 2014. [Table of Contents]

2016

Trencsényi, Balázs et al.: A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe. 2 Vol. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press 2016-2018.

Browning, Gary: A History of Modern Political Thought: The Question of Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press 2016. [Table of Contents]

2017

Casey, Gerard: Freedom's progress? A History of Political Thought. Exeter: Imprint Academic 2017. [Table of Contents]

2018

Babb, James: A World History of Political Thought. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing 2018. [Table of Contents]

Atkins, Jed W.: Roman Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 2018. [Table of Contents]

Kim, Youngmin: A History of Chinese Political Thought: From Antiquity to the Present. Cambridge / Medford: Polity Press 2018. [Table of Contents]

Levine, Alan / Merrill, Thomas W. / Stoner, James Reist: The Political Thought of the Civil War. Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas 2018. [Table of Contents]

Yoh, John Gai: The Idea of South Sudan: The History of Political Thought. Osborne Park, Western Australia: Africa World Books 2018.

2019

Sariyannis, Marinos: A History of Ottoman Political Thought Up to the Early Nineteenth Century. (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 1: The Near and Middle East, Vol. 125) Leiden / Boston: Brill 2019. [Table of Contents]

2020

Mukhopadhyay, Amal Kumar: Western Political Thought: From Ancient Greeks to Modern Political Scientists. New Delhi (and others): SAGE Publ. 2020. [Table of Contents]

2021

Rogers, Melvin L. / Turner, Jack: African American Political Thought: A Collected History. Chicago: The Univ. of Chicago Press 2021. [Table of Contents]

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