The series is intended to make available to students the most important texts required for an understanding of the history of political thought. The scholarship of the present generation has gready expanded our sense of the range of authors indispensable for such an understanding, and the series 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 complete texts, and a special feature of the series will be to complement individual texts, within the compass of a single volume, with subsidiary contextual material. Each volume will contain an introduction on the historical identity and contemporary significance of the text concerned.

本丛书囊括了所有著名的经典原著，但与此同时，它又扩展了传统的评价尺度，以便能够纳入范围广泛、不那么出名的作品。每一本书都有一个评论性的导言，加上历史年表、生平梗概、进一步阅读指南，以及必要的词汇表和原文注解。

Preface

Introduction

Chronology

Bibliographical note

Biographical synopses

A note on sources

Government

Jurisprudence

Liberty of the Press

Education

Prisons and Prison Discipline

The Ballot

Appendix: Macaulay vs. Mill

T. B. Macaulay, Mill on Government

James Mill [Reply to Macaulay]

Index