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Old 10-28-2007, 06:09 AM
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Default University Reading List (politcal books). Any recommended additions?

I'm starting a degree in Politic's next year and have complied a list of books (loosely categorised) to read in preperation (and of general interest) and was wandering if anyone has any recommendations for either books to take off, or to add. I have already read alot of the anarchist and socialist writings (other than those listed) and as such would most like to hear recommendations for economic books and books concerning current issues; globalisation, Iraq, etc. Below is the list I have compiled so far all of which I have yet to read (in their entirety):
Classics
Hobbes's Leviathan
Plato, The Republic
Aristotle’s Politics,
Hobbes’s Leviathan,
Locke’s Two Treatises
Rousseau’s 2nd Discourse & Social Contract,
Marx-collected works
Mill’s On Liberty,
Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia
David Hume's Philosophical Politics
Principles of Government
Hegel-Elements of the Philosophy of Right
-Philosophy of history
Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch
Thomas Paine- Rights of Man
Jeremy Bentham- The Works Of…

Afganistan
-On the Road to Kandahar: Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World/ Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam, Jason Burke

Socialism
Robert Owen, A New View of Society
Alexander Herzen- My Past and Thoughts

Iraq
-Galbraith, Peter (2006), The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End
A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq- Christopher Hitchens

US- Current
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace - Gore Vidal

Russian Revolution
-A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes


Kosovo
?

Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War - Canto S. by Gerald Brenan
The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas

Globalization
-False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, John Gray


Philosophy
The Theory of Moral Sentiment; Adam smith
Civilisation, its Cause and Cure, Edward Carpenter (socialist)
Any Rand; Atlas Shrugged
Singer, Peter, 2001. Hegel: A Very Short Introduction.
Nietzsche- The Birth of Tragedy
Anthony Kenny- The Oxford History of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell- History of Western Philosophy

Other
-Out of Place: A Memoir - Edward Said
-Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World -Edward Said
-KOBA THE DREAD, Martin Amis
-Bertrand Russell- Why I am not a Christian
- The Autobiography
-Locke, John. 1988. Two Treatises of Government,
-Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. 1987. The Basic Political Writings,
-On Regionalism: History, Identity and Politics (Berg, 1996). Dt Carl Levy
-Arendt, The Human Condition
-On Regionalism: History, Identity and Politics (Berg, 1996). Dt Carl Levy
-Kenneth Waltz-Theory of International Politics
-Trial of Henry Kissinger- Christopher Hitchens
-Democracy in America, de Tocqueville
-The Twenty Years' Crisis-EH Carr
-Chomsky on 9/11
-Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens
-The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams
-Max Stirner; the ego and his own
E.P. Thompson; The Making of the English Working Class
Michael McClintock; Instruments of Statecraft
-Gabriel Kolko; Politics of War in 1968
-Martin Amis, Experience

Religion
-The Essence of Christianity, Feuerbach
-Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years, Israel Shahak
-The Holocaust Industry, Norman G. Finkelstein


Economics
-Hayek-The Constitution of Liberty
-The Road to Serfdom- Hayek
-The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936), Keynes
-Modern Macroeconomics: Its Origins, Development And Current State
-Capitalism and Freedom- Milton Friedman
-Freakonomics, Levitt

Collections:
-Greek Philosophers: From Thales to Aristotle
-The Portable Renaissance Reader, McLaughin
-Hazard, Paul European Thought in the Eighteenth Century: From Montesquieu to Lessing
-Wolff, J. (1996) An Introduction to Political Philosophy
-Carver and J. Martin (eds), Palgrave Advances in Continental Political Thought
-Fleisher, Martin ed. Machiavelli and the Nature of Political Thought
-Anthony Kenny The Oxford History of Philosophy
-History of Philosophy; Vorlander

Liberalism
-Ackerman, Bruce A. Social Justice in the Liberal State
-Galston, William A. Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State Cambridge
-Gerber, Larry G. The Limits of Liberalism
-Rawls, Political Liberalism


Marx
-Bottomore, Tom ed. Modern Interpretations of Marx
-Marx, Karl and Engels, Friedrich. 1978. The Marx-Engels Reader, ed., R. Tucker.
-Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx

Anarchism
-Gramsci and the Anarchists (Berg, 1999)
-No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism, Daniel Guerin
-Chosmky on Anarchism
-Alexander Berkman, ABC of Anarchism
-A Concise History of the Great Trial of the Chicago Anarchists, by Dyer Lum
-Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within you, War and Peace. 1900 essay, "On Anarchy"
-Fourier, Charles. Design for Utopia: Selected Writings. Studies in the Libertarian and Utopian Tradition
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