Modern Political Thought: A Reader
is an excellent introduction to the key works of the major political thinkers from the English Civil War to the end of the 19th Century. It draws together the most important parts of seminal works of political thought such as Hobbes'
Leviathan,
Locke's
Treatises,
Rousseau's
The Social Contract,
Mill's
On Liberty,
together with substantial extracts from Machiavelli's
The Prince
and Marx's
Capital.
Accessible introductions are provided for each thinker, explaining their lives and works, and placing them in the historical context in which they worked and wrote.