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      The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant

      Richard Tuck

      This is an historical account of the formative period of modern theories of international law. It examines the arguments over the moral basis for war, and links the debates to…

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      The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant

      Richard Tuck

      A historical account of the formative period of modern theories of international law. After setting the scene from antiquity to the 17th century, the author examines arguments over the moral…

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      Free Riding

      Richard Tuck

      Richard Tuck makes careful distinctions between the prisoner’s dilemma problem, threshold phenomena such as voting, and free riding. He analyzes the notion of negligibility, and shows some of the logical…

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      The Left Case for Brexit: Reflections on the Current Crisis

      Richard Tuck

      Why opposing Brexit means opposing socialism and democracy –

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      The Left Case for Brexit: Reflections on the Current Crisis

      Richard Tuck

      Why opposing Brexit means opposing socialism and democracy –

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      Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development

      Richard Tuck

      This book shows how political argument in terms of rights and natural rights began in medieval Europe, and how the theory of natural rights was developed in the seventeenth century…

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      Active and Passive Citizens

      Richard Tuck

      A powerful case for why majority rule not representation is the defining feature of democratic politics.

      The idea that democratic governance rests on active self-rule by citizens plays surprisingly little…

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      Philosophy and Government 1572-1651

      Richard Tuck (University of Cambridge)

      A study of European political thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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      The Sleeping Sovereign: The Invention of Modern Democracy

      Richard Tuck (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

      An exploration of the important distinction in political theory between a ‘sovereign’ and a ‘government’ state, from its first appearance in Bodin’s writings in the late sixteenth century, through its…

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      The Sleeping Sovereign: The Invention of Modern Democracy

      Richard Tuck (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

      An exploration of the important distinction in political theory between a ‘sovereign’ and a ‘government’ state, from its first appearance in Bodin’s writings in the late sixteenth century, through its…

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      Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction

      Richard Tuck (Professor of Government, Harvard University)

      Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was the first great English political philosopher, and his book Leviathan was one of the first truly modern works of philosophy. Richard Tuck shows that while Hobbes…

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      Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

      Thomas Hobbes

      Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan’ is arguably one of the greatest works of political philosophy. This is a revised edition of Richard Tuck’s text with a much amplified introduction.

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      Rights of War & Peace, Books 1-3

      Hugo Grotius

      Features translated version of Hugo Grotius’ Rights of War and Peace , which is a work in modern public international law, laying the foundation for a universal code of law…

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      Hobbes: On the Citizen

      Thomas Hobbes

      De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all time. Professors Tuck and Silverthorne have…

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      Hobbes: On the Citizen

      Thomas Hobbes

      De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all time. Professors Tuck and Silverthorne have…

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      The Monocle Book of Photography: Reportage from Places Less Explored

      Tyler Brule,Andrew Tuck,Joe Pickard,Richard Spencer Powell

      The best photo assignments from the Monocle archive, published to mark the magazine’s fifteenth anniversary.

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      Markets, Morals, Politics: Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought

      When Istvan Hont died in 2013 the world lost a giant of intellectual history. Markets, Morals, Politics brings together a celebrated cast of Hont’s contemporaries to explore his influence, ideas…

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