Princeton University Press: 2605 books
Nasser's Gamble
How Intervention in Yemen Caused the Six-Day War and the Decline of Egyptian Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
Nasser's Gamble draws on declassified documents from six countries and original material in Arabic, German, Hebrew, and Russian to present a new understanding of Egypt's disastrous five-year intervention in Yemen, which Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser later referred to as "my Vietnam." Jesse...
Red State Religion
Faith and Politics in America's Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
No state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the place. It is also the place to understand red state religion. The Kansas Board of Education has repeatedly challenged the teaching of evolution, Kansas voters overwhelmingly...
Gentlemen Revolutionaries
Power and Justice in the New American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen—the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite—worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries shows how their struggles...
by Maurizio Viroli
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
To many readers of The Prince, Machiavelli appears to be deeply un-Christian or even anti-Christian, a cynic who thinks rulers should use religion only to keep their subjects in check. But in Machiavelli's God, Maurizio Viroli, one of the world's leading authorities on Machiavelli, argues that Machiavelli,...
by Frank Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution? Frank Lambert explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American...
The Founders on Religion
A Book of Quotations
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
What did the founders of America think about religion? Until now, there has been no reliable and impartial compendium of the founders' own remarks on religious matters that clearly answers the question. This book fills that gap. A lively collection of quotations on everything from the relationship...
Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History
The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Avihu Zakai analyzes Jonathan Edwards's redemptive mode of historical thought in the context of the Enlightenment. As theologian and philosopher, Edwards has long been a towering figure in American intellectual history. Nevertheless, and despite Edwards's intense engagement with the nature of time...
by Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Eliot Howard, Peter Paret
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832, it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of soldiers, statesmen, and intellectuals.
The Expanding Blaze
How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the Americas
The Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....
The Birth of Politics
Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
In The Birth of Politics, Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire. Tracing the origins of our political concepts from Socrates to Plutarch...
A Written Republic
Cicero's Philosophical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy, producing a massive and important body of work. As he was acutely aware, this was an unusual undertaking for a Roman statesman because Romans were often hostile to philosophy, perceiving...
The First Modern Jew
Spinoza and the History of an Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for his "horrible heresies" and "monstrous deeds." Yet, over the past three centuries, Spinoza's...
The Happiness Philosophers
The Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
A colorful history of utilitarianism told through the lives and ideas of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and its other founders
In The Happiness Philosophers, Bart Schultz tells the colorful story of the lives and legacies of the founders of utilitarianism—one of the most influential yet...
by Luke Mayville
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Long before the "one percent" became a protest slogan, American founding father John Adams feared the power of a class he called simply "the few"—the wellborn, the beautiful, and especially the rich. In John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy, Luke Mayville explores Adams’s deep concern...