The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
10 best books like The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (J.G.A. Pocock): Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790, The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750, Machiavelli in Hell, The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age, The Political Writings of St. Augustine, Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
| Author | Bernard Bailyn |
| ISBN | 0394757785 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Saloutos Prize of the Immigration History Society
Bailyn's Pulitzer Prize-winning book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776 to reconstruct the lives and motives...
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations--primarily religious and political--that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the cultural anthropologist, Isaac...
The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon
| Author | Anthony Summers |
| ISBN | 0140260781 |
Anthony Summers' biography of Richard Nixon reveals a troubled figure whose criminal behavior did not begin with Watergate. Drawing on more than a thousand interviews and five years of research, Summers reveals a man driven by an addiction to intrigue and power, whose subversion of democracy during...
| Author | Marcus Rediker |
| ISBN | 0521379830 |
The common seaman and the pirate in the age of sail are romantic historical figures who occupy a special place in the popular culture of the modern age. And yet in many ways, these daring men remain little known to us. Like most other poor working people of the past, they left few first-hand accounts of their...
| Author | Sebastian De Grazia |
| ISBN | 0679743421 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
In this intellectual biography, Sebastian de Grazia presents a new vision of Machiavelli that evokes, with uncanny precision, the great Florentine thinker's presence. After providing an engrossing account of Machiavelli's childhood and the period following...
The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century
| Author | Steven Runciman |
| ISBN | 0521437741 |
On 30 March 1282, as the bells of Palermo were ringing for Vespers, the Sicilian townsfolk, crying 'Death to the French', slaughtered the garrison and administration of their Angevin King. Seen in historical perspective it was not an especially big massacre: the revolt of the long-subjugated Sicilians...
| Author | Daniel T. Rodgers |
| ISBN | 0674002016 |
On a narrative canvas that sweeps across Europe and the United States, Daniel T. Rodgers retells the story of the classic era of efforts to repair the damage of unbridled capitalism. He reveals the forgotten international roots of such innovations as city planning, rural cooperatives, modernist...
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
| ISBN | 0895267047 |
Anyone with a better than cursory knowledge of politics knows that a people's deepest values - their religious values - are what determine whether a society will prosper or fail. And anyone with a more than cursory knowledge of history knows that there was once an entity called Christendom - a political...
| Author | Thomas Hobbes |
| ISBN | 0192831216 |
Thomas Hobbes' timeless account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640), which comprises Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, is a direct product of the intellectual and political strife of the seventeenth century. His analysis of the war between the individual and...
| Author | Janice A. Radway |
| ISBN | 0807843490 |
Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Among those who have disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics,...
| Author | Niccolò Machiavelli |
Here are The Prince and the most important of the Discourses newly translated into spare, vivid English. Why a new translation? Machiavelli was never the dull, worthy, pedantic author who appears in the pages of other translations, says David Wootton in his Introduction. In the pages that follow I...
A Coffin for King Charles: The Trial and Execution of Charles I
| Author | C.V. Wedgwood |
| ISBN | 1585790338 |
King Charles I was his own worst enemy. Self-righteous, arrogant, and unscrupulous, he had a penchant for making bad decisions. His troubles began the moment he ascended the throne in 1625 upon the death of his father James I. Charles simultaneously alienated both his subjects and his Parliament,...
| Author | J.R. Hale |
| ISBN | 0689122004 |
Read this for a history of Early Modern Europe course, and found it to be interesting but very much an overview of something I already have a decent idea of . Hale is synthesizing a lot of information here, and because of that there are just some points where the book gets borderline unreadable for a few pages....
Errand into the Wilderness
| Author | Perry Miller |
| ISBN | 0674261550 |
The title of this book by Perry Miller, who is world-famous as an interpreter of the American past, comes close to posing the question it has been Mr. Miller's lifelong purpose to answer: What was the underlying aim of the first colonists in coming to America? In what light did they see themselves? As men...
| Author | Forrest McDonald |
| ISBN | 0700603115 |
This is the first major interpretation of the framing of the Constitution to appear in more than two decades. Forrest McDonald, widely considered one of the foremost historians of the Constitution and of the early national period, reconstructs the intellectual world of the Founding Fathers--including...
| Author | Christopher Hill |
| ISBN | 0140137327 |
Within the English revolution of the mid-17th century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic--the ideology of the propertied class--there threatened another, quite different, revolution. Its success "might have established communal property, a far wider democracy in political...
| Author | Douglas Southall Freeman |
| ISBN | 0684826372 |
"Freeman's treatment of Washington as a Commander in Chief is virtually definitive" (The New York Times Book Review).
Washington is the most complete, definitive one-volume biography of George Washington ever written. In 1948 renowned biographer and military historian Douglas Southall...
When Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office for the presidency in 1801, the United States had just passed through twelve critical years, years dominated by some of the towering figures of our history and by the challenge of having to do everything for the first time. Washington, Hamilton, Madison,...
The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present
| Author | David S. Landes |
| ISBN | 0521094186 |
The Unbound Prometheus by David S. Landes is a work of such remarkable erudition and insight, not to mention detail that it demands of its reader concentration, stamina and perhaps pre-existing interest in its subject matter. The rewards, however, for anyone bold enough to see its project through...
| Author | John K. Thornton |
| ISBN | 0521627249 |
Focusing especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World, this book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the 15th through the 18th centuries. Author John Thornton examines the dynamics that made slaves so necessary to European...
| Author | Daniel Bell |
| ISBN | 0674252306 |
Named by the "Times Literary Supplement" as one of the 100 most influential books since the end of World War II, "The End of Ideology" has been a landmark in American social thought, regarded as a classic since its first publication in 1962. Daniel Bell postulated that the older humanistic ideologies...
| Author | Edmund S. Morgan |
| ISBN | 0061312274 |
I am hesitant to comment too much on this book because my knowledge of this period of history is weak. I still found it very fascinating. The most notable thing from the history section was that required obedience can lead to requited affection. The Puritans were strict and hard in many places. But their...
| Author | Roger Griffin |
| ISBN | 0192892495 |
No political ideology has had a greater impact on modern history, or caused more intellectual controversy, than fascism. It has been identified with totalitarianism, state terror, fanaticism, orchestrated violence, and blind obedience, and was directly associated with the horrors of the Second...
| Author | Ernst H. Kantorowicz |
| ISBN | 0691017042 |
In 1957 Ernst Kantorowicz published a book that would be the guide for generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. In The King's Two Bodies, Kantorowicz traces the historical problem posed by the "King's two bodies" - the body politic and the body natural -...
