The series is intended to make available for students the most important texts required for an understanding of the history of political thought.The scholarship of the present generatanding of
the history of political thought.The scholarship of the present generation has greatly expanded our sense of the range of authors indispensable for such an understanding,for such an
understanding ,and the seres will reflect those developments .It will also include a number of less well-known works, in particular those needed to establish the intellectual contexts that in
turn help to make sense of the major texts.The principal aim,however,will be to produce new versions of the major texts themselves,based on the most up-to-date scholarship.The preference will
always be for comlete texts ,and a special feature of the series will be to complement individual texts,within the compass of a single volune,with subsidiary contextual material.Each volume
will contain an introduction on the historical identity and contemporary