An Introduction to Modern Social and Political Thought [Paperback]

This book is a concise guide to the main doctrines and trends in Western social and political thought since the French Revolution. Clearly and simply written, the book includes brief biographical details of major individual thinkers as well as an annotated bibliography which gives guidance to further reading.

The World and the West.- The State and Civil Society.- Liberalism Socialism.- The National Question The Social Question.- The Spectre of Revolution.

ANDREW GAMBLE is Professor of politics at the University of Sheffield, UK and author of Britain in Decline.