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Iain Hampsher-Monk's accessible "A History of Modern Political Thought" provides a thorough guide to the ideas and writings of major political thinkers from Hobbes to Marx (including a full account of The Federalist papers). Throughout, the author incorporates the benefits of modern scholarship of the historical school, with its emphasis on historical and political circumstances as a key to meaning. Hampsher-Monk provides the background necessary for the reader to situate the writings of key thinkers in relation to wider currents in intellectual history.