{"product_id":"the-prince-9780226500430","title":"The Prince","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInitially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, this text has more recently been defended as the first scientific treatment of politics, challenging the traditions of ancient and medieval thought and morality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction A Note on the Translation Chronology Map The Prince  Dedicatory Letter  I: How Many Are the Kinds of Principalities and in What Modes They Are Acquired  II: Of Hereditary Principalities  III: Of Mixed Principalities  IV: Why the Kingdom of Darius Which Alexander Seized Did Not Rebel from His Successors after Alexander's Death  V: How Cities or Principalities Which Lived by Their Own Laws before They Were Occupied Should Be Administered  VI: Of New Principalities That Are Acquired through One's Own Arms and Virtue  VII: Of New Principalities That Are Acquired by Others' Arms and Fortune  VIII: Of Those Who Have Attained a Principality through Crimes IX: Of the Civil Principality  X: In What Mode the Forces of All Principalities Should Be Measured  XI: Of Ecclesiastical Principalities  XII: How Many Kinds of Military There Are and Concerning Mercenary Soldiers  XIII: Of Auxiliary, Mixed, and One's Own Soldiers  XIV: What a Prince Should Do Regarding the Military  XV: Of Those Things for Which Men and Especially Princes Are Praised or Blamed  XVI: Of Liberality and Parsimony  XVII: Of Cruelty and Mercy, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than Feared, or the Contrary  XVIII: In What Mode Faith Should Be Kept by Princes  XIX: Of Avoiding Contempt and Hatred  XX: Whether Fortresses and Many Other Things Which Are Made and Done by Princes Every Day Are Useful or Useless  XXI: What a Prince Should Do to Be Held in Esteem  XXII: Of Those Whom Princes Have as Secretaries  XXIII: In What Mode Flatterers Are to Be Avoided  XXIV: Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States  XXV: How Much Fortune Can Do in Human Affairs, and in What Mode It May Be Opposed  XXVI: Exhortation to Seize Italy and to Free Her from the Barbarians  App: Machiavelli's Letter of December 10, 1513  Glossary  Bibliography  Index of Proper Names","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864235159895,"sku":"9780226500430","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226500430.jpg?v=1722271008","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-prince-9780226500430","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}