
Alan Ryan
London : Penguin Books, 2013
XXV, 1114 pages
ISBN 9780140285185
Softcover used book in good condition
Two volumes in one
Book 1. Herodotus to Machiavelli -- Book 2. Hobbes to the present.
Deals with the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising politicians and would-be revolutionaries have given to one question: how should human beings best govern themselves?