By Chris Brown, Terry Nardin
This specified assortment offers texts in diplomacy that variety from historical Greece to the 1st international battle. it's the biggest anthology presently to be had and comprises extracts from works through fifty thinkers, together with Thucydides, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, and John Stuart Mill. The texts are prepared into greatly chronological sections, every one headed by way of an advent putting the paintings in its old and philosophical context. excellent for college students and students, the quantity additionally contains biographies and courses to extra examining.
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