The Prince

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

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Price : $9.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780140455335
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint : Penguin Books Ltd
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Weight (g) : 0.114
Publication date : 01 July 0000
Dimensions : 198mm X 128mm X 9mm
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Author : Niccolo Machiavelli
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Dewey classification : 320.101
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"The Prince" shocked Europe on publication with its ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) came to be regarded as some by an agent of the Devil and his name taken for the intriguer 'Machevill' of Jacobean tragedy. For his treatise on statecraft Machiavelli drew upon his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, rejecting traditional values of political theory and recognizing the complicated, transient nature of political life. Concerned not with lofty ideals, but with a regime that would last, "The Prince" has become the Bible of realpolitik, and still retains its power to alarm and to instruct.

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