George C. Comninel
 
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Courses
POLS 3020
Utopia, Power and
Sovereignty

Readings
POLS 3025
A Century of Revolution

Readings
POLS 4030
Classical Political Theory

Readings
POLS 4090
Classical Marxist Thought
  Readings
 
Recommended Bibliography
POLS 6030 / SPT 6101
Theory and Practice
of the State in Historical Perspective
(Not taught in 2017/18)

Readings
Recommended Bibliography
Maps
Open-fields
Main Politics Website
POLS 6030 / SPT 6101 6.0A (F/W)

The Theory and Practice of the State in Historical Perspective 

Readings:

G.C. Comninel:  "Marx's Context"

E. J. Hobsbawm: Introduction, Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations

Aristotle:  The Politics

Machiavelli:  The Prince; Discourses on Livy

New Model Army in Council:  "The Putney Debate"

Hobbes:  Leviathan

Locke:  Second Treatise of Civil Government

Hegel:  The Philosophy of Right

Karl Marx:

"Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations"

Manifesto of the Communist Party

The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

"Labour Rent" (Section II of Ch. 47, Vol III of Capital)

Max Weber:

Economy and Society

Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

Max Weber on the Methodology of the Social Sciences

Sociology of World Religions: Introduction