Machiavelli: The Prince (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) - Hardcover

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107145864 ISBN 13: 9781107145863

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Fully updated for the first time after thirty years, this new edition includes a thoroughly revised introduction by Quentin Skinner.

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About the Authors

Quentin Skinner is Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary University of London. He was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University between 1974 and 1979 and Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge between 1996 and 2008. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a foreign member of many other national academies, including the Academia Europea, the American Academy and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. His scholarship, which is available in more than two dozen languages, has won him many awards, including the Wolfson History Prize, the Bielefeld Wissenschaftspreis and a Balzan Prize. He has been the recipient of honorary degrees from numerous leading universities, including Athens, Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. His two-volume study, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (Cambridge, 1979), was listed by The Times Literary Supplement in 1996 as one of the hundred most influential books published since World War II. His other books include Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes (Cambridge, 1996), Liberty before Liberalism (Cambridge, 1997), Machiavelli (2000), Hobbes and Republican Liberty (Cambridge, 2008), Forensic Shakespeare (2014), From Humanism to Hobbes (Cambridge, 2018) and a three-volume collection of essays, Visions of Politics (Cambridge, 2002).

Russell Price, who died in 2011, was Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Lancaster.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107145864
• ISBN 13: 9781107145863
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 202
• Editor: Skinner Quentin, Price Russell