The Politics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained Hardcover

Political arguments repeat themselves, and knowing where each one came from makes it far easier to judge. This 352-page book traces political thought from the ancient world through Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, and on to liberalism, conservatism, socialism, anarchism, feminism and the ideological contests of the twentieth century. Each thinker's central claim is stated plainly, then placed against what came before it and what answered it. Diagrams and quotation panels keep dense theory readable without flattening out the disagreements that actually drove the argument forward. Built around: • Political thought from the ancient world to the present day • Each thinker's core argument stated in plain language • A map of how ideologies responded to one another • Quotation panels drawn from the original texts For students of politics, general readers and anyone following current debate, published by DK and available through Boipoka.