ELLEN MEIKSINS WOOD is the author of a number of books, including The Pristine Culture of Capitalism, Peasant-Citizen and Slave, The Origin of Capitalism, Empire of Capital and the first of her multi-volume social history of political thought, Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
.. . This book is clearly written, incisively argued, and immensely informative. --CHOICE a notable book, wide-ranging and perceptive ... [Wood] addresses the heartland of the historiography of political thought from Machiavelli to Rousseau, the territory of its most successful recent practitioners. --Jonathan Clark, TLS ... This book is clearly written, incisively argued, and immensely informative. CHOICE a notable book, wide-ranging and perceptive ... [Wood] addresses the heartland of the historiography of political thought from Machiavelli to Rousseau, the territory of its most successful recent practitioners. Jonathan Clark, TLS . .. This book is clearly written, incisively argued, and immensely informative. -- CHOICE a notable book, wide-ranging and perceptive ... [Wood] addresses the heartland of the historiography of political thought from Machiavelli to Rousseau, the territory of its most successful recent practitioners. --Jonathan Clark, TLS