This insightful and wide-ranging volume traces the genesis of international intellectual thought, connecting international and global history with intellectual

Between the early seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, major European political thinkers first began to look outside their national borders and envisage a

Quentin Skinner's classic study The Foundations of Modern Political Thought was first published by Cambridge in 1978. This was the first of a series of outstand

This collection of primary sources from the founding period covers the unique combination of theoretical influences in American political thought.

The purpose of this volume is to explore the medieval inheritance of modern international relations. Recent years have seen a flourishing of work on the history