The Politics Book

Plato, Marx, democracy, nationalism, globalisation and populism are handled as a connected argument rather than a list of isolated terms. Infographics, timelines and concise summaries explain what each theory claims and what problem it was written to solve. Readers can follow one ideology forward through history or compare several at the same moment, which helps considerably when political vocabulary taken from the news needs unpacking before it can be argued about. Where it helps most: • Political thought traced from ancient philosophy to present debates • Timelines showing when ideas emerged and what preceded them • Infographics that summarise arguments without flattening them • Issued within DK's Big Ideas reference line Written for students, classrooms and engaged general readers, published by DK Publishing and available through Boipoka.