本书对中国历史上的皇权主义与王权主义做了政治形态性区别，并对皇权主义在后战国时代的发生过程进行了分析，方法上采用历史、制度、实践三者相结合的技术方法，观点上提出并论证了“天高皇帝远”的命题。

《中國古代朝代更迭——易姓革命的思想正當化以及正當性研究》的研究目的，乃在於從中國政治思想的内在結構與其在中國政治史裹演變之角度，分析中國歷代易姓革命之理論、正當化以及正當性。在此目的之下，將要具體分析中國易姓革命的典範及模式、中國易姓革命正當化的思想來源(天命論、五德終始說、符命說及讖緯說)、中國歷代易姓革命之正當化措施以及中國歷代知識分子對各易姓革命的正當(統)性之評估(正統論)，來企圖重構中國易姓革命的理論及其之正當化理論。 《中國古代朝代更迭——易姓革命的思想正當化以及正當性研究》供高等院校的教師、學生、科研院所的研究人員，以及其他有關學者、讀者參考使用。

The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of seminal essays Professor Skinner sets forth the intellectual principles that inform his work. Writing as a practising historian, he considers the theoretical difficulties inherent in the pursuit of knowledge and interpretation, and elucidates the methodology which finds its expression in his two successive volumes. All of Professor Skinner's work is characterised by philosophical power, limpid clarity, and elegance of exposition; these essays, many of which are now recognised classics, provide a fascinating and convenient digest of the development of his thought. Professor Skinner has been awarded the Balzan Prize Life Time Achievement Award for Political Thought, History and Theory. Full details of this award can be found at http://www.balzan.it/News_eng.aspx?ID=2474

A History of Western Political Thought traces the development and consolidation of a tradition of Western political thought from ancient Greece through to the development of the modern state, the American Enlightenment, the rise of liberalism and the very different reactions it engendered. McClelland's definition of politics encompasses both power wielded from above and power threatened from below. The sustained pursuit of this theme leads him to present an original and often controversial view of the theorists of the received canon and to add some writers to that canon whom he feels have been unjustly neglected. A History of Western Political Thought will inform, challenge, provoke and entertain any reader interested in what people have had to say about politics in the last two and a half thousand years and why it matters. A History of Western Political Thought is an energetic, engaged arid lucid account of the most important political thinkers and themes of the last two and a half millennia. It traces the development and consolidation of a tradition of Western political thought from ancient Greece through to the development of the modern state, the American Enlightenment, the rise of liberalism and the very different reactions that it engendered. McClelland's definition of politics encompasses both power wielded from above and power threatened from below. The sustained pursuit of this theme leads him to present an original and often controversial view of the theorists of the received canon and to add some writers to that canon whom he feels have been unjustly neglected.

本书被誉为“对20世纪马克思主义的经典叙述”。它述及马克思以后整个马克思主义的发展历程：从德国社会民主党人的马克思主义到俄国马克思主义，从两次世界大战期间的欧洲新马克思主义到中国与第三世界的马克思主义，再到当代欧美马克思主义。本书根据《马克思以后的马克思主义》修订后的最新版本（1998年第3版）译出。新版增添了第2版出版后近十年来马克思主义在世界各地（尤其是在美国）的最新发展情况，并对马克思主义作出了新的评价。

本书详细介绍了中国历代政治思想史。本书旨在网罗民国时期的学术精品，为读者了解和研究民国时期的文化学术成果提供读本。本书是一部没有受到政治局面变幻影响的学术著作。