Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
'How To' Guide
Introduction
Prologue: The Story of Human Society
Timeline: From Prehistory to Plato
1. Plato's Utopia
Timeline: From the First Exams to the Renaissance Artists
2. Niccolò Machiavelli and the Psychology of the State
Timeline: From the Age of Discovery to the English Revolution
3. Hobbes' Wicked World
Timeline: From the English Dictatorship to the First Taxes
4. John Locke: The True End of Civil Government
Timeline: From 'Free Trade' to the Slave Trade
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Inequality or Freedom?
Timeline: From Standardising English to Numbering Houses
6. Adam Smith's Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations
Timeline: From Air Travel to the First Railways
7. Marx and Engels: The Communist Manifesto
Timeline: From Roads Paved with Tarmac to Roads Paved with Gold
8. The Principles of Political Economy: J. S. Mill and the Limits of Government
Timeline: From Outbreaks of Cholera to Outbreaks of Panic in Cinemas
9. Positivism and the Science of Society: Emile Durkheim and Max Weber
Timeline: The Modern Era: From Fordism to Fascism
10. Behold the Man! The Deceptive Appeal of Power: Hegel, Nietzsche and the Fascists
Timeline: From the Great Depression to the New Economics
11. Mao's Little Red Book
Timeline: From Atom Bombs to the Triumph of Capitalism
12. The End of History?
References and Sources for Further Reading
Some Internet Sources