The Spectacled Avenger’s Reading List, 2011

In keeping with established tradition, this first post of the year consists of a list of the books read by yours truly during the course of 2011. After tallying up, it seems that 73 books — or 26,579 pages — were read, which almost equals the previous year’s pace. All in all, pretty respectable, if I do say so myself.

As with previous years’ lists, bolded entries denote books I particularly enjoyed and would recommend. Multiple entries would normally mean that I read the book more than once. However, since I didn’t re-read anything this year, this does not apply. A happy New Year to all.

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ADAMS, Henry. History of the United States of America during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Library of America, 1986.

ARNOLD, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy and other writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

BAILYN, Bernard (ed.). The Debate on the Constitution, Part Two: January to August 1788. New York: Library of America, 1993.

BASTIAT, Frédéric. The Law. Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 2007.

BENTHAM, Jeremy. A Fragment on Government. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

BINGHAM, Tom. The Rule of Law. London: Penguin, 2011.

BRENNAN, Jason. The Ethics of Voting. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.

BUCHANAN, James M. Choice, Contract, and Constitutions (Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 16). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000.

BUCHANAN, James M. Moral Science and Moral Order (Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 17). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001.

BUCHANAN, James M. Public Principles of Public Debt: A Defense and Restatement (Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 2). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1999.

BURSTEIN, Andrew and Nancy ISENBERG. Madison and Jefferson. New York: Random House, 2010.

CHERNOW, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin, 2004.

CICERO, Marcus Tullius. In Catilinam, Pro Murena, Pro Sulla, Pro Flacco. C. MacDonald (trans.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977.

CLARENDON, Edward Hyde, Earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (Vol. I, Part I). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1816.

COADY, C. A. J. Messy Morality: The Challenge of Politics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2008.

COKE, Sir Edward. The Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke (Vol. I). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003.

CRAIK, Neil et al. Public Law: Cases, Materials, and Commentary (2nd edition). Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2011.

DREZNER, Daniel W. Theories of International Politics and Zombies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.

DROLET, Jean-François. American Neoconservatism: The Politics and Culture of a Reactionary Idealism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

DWORKIN, Ronald. Freedom’s Law: A Moral Reading of the American Constitution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

EPSTEIN, Richard A. Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the Rule of Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.

FARBER, Daniel A. and Philip P. FRICKEY. Law and Public Choice: A Critical Introduction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

FERGUSON, Adam. An Essay on the History of Civil Society. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1967.

FISCHER, David Hackett. Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

FITZGERALD, P. J. Salmond on Jurisprudence (12th edition). London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1966.

FRANK, Robert H. The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.

GALBRAITH, John Kenneth. The New Industrial State (3rd edition). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.

GIUSTOZZI, Antonio. The Art of Coercion: The Primitive Accumulation of Coercive Power. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

GRIFFIN, James. On Human Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

HARRINGTON, James. The Commonwealth of Oceana and A System of Politics. J. G. A. Pocock (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

HEWART of Bury, Lord. The New Despotism. London: Ernest Benn, 1929.

HOBBES, Thomas. A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England. Joseph Cropsey (ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971.

IGNATIEFF, Michael. The Rights Revolution (2nd edition). Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2006.

IRIYE, Akira. The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, Vol. III: The Globalizing of America, 1913-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

JASAY, Anthony de. Social Contract, Free Ride: A Study of the Public-Goods Problem. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008.

JOPLING, David A. Talking Cures and Placebo Effects. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

KAPLOW, Louis and Steven SHAVELL. Fairness versus Welfare. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

KLEIN, Lawrence E. Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness: Moral discourse and cultural politics in early eighteenth-century England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

KUKATHAS, Chandran. The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom. Oxford: University of Oxford Press, 2003.

LAFEBER, Walter. The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, Volume II: The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

LINCOLN, Abraham. Speeches and Writings, 1859-1865. New York: Library of America, 1989.

MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò. The Prince. David Wootton (trans.). Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994.

MACPHERSON, C. B. The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962.

MADISON, James. The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison. Edward J. Larson and Michael P. Winship (eds.). New York: Modern Library, 2005.

MARSHALL, John. Writings. New York: Library of America, 2010.

MAITLAND, F. W. Equity: A Course of Lectures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947.

MAY, Larry. Global Justice and Due Process. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

MEDEMA, Steven G. The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.

MILL, John Stuart. Principles of Political Economy, Books, I-II (Collected Works, Vol. 2). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1965.

MONTESQUIEU, Charles, Baron de. The Spirit of the Laws. Anne M. Cohler, Basia C. Miller, and Harold S. Stone (trans.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

MORTON, F. L. and Rainer KNOPFF. The Charter Revolution and the Court Party. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2001.

PARFIT, Derek. On What Matters (Vol. One). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

PERKINS, Bradford. The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, Volume I: The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776-1865. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

PETTIT, Philip. Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

PLATIAS, Athanassios G. and Constantinos KOLIOPOULOS. Thucydides on Strategy: Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and Their Relevance Today. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.

POLYBIUS. The Histories (Vol. II). W. R. Paton (trans.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

ROSS, Ian Simpson. The Life of Adam Smith (2nd edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

SAUL, Ben. Defining Terrorism in International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

SAVOIE, Donald J. Breaking the Bargain: Public Servants, Ministers, and Parliament. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.

SCHAUER, Frederick. Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.

SCHIAVONE, Aldo. The Invention of Law in the West. Jeremy Carden and Antony Shugaar (trans.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.

SCHMITT, Carl. Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. George Schwab (trans.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

SCHMITT, Carl. Legality and Legitimacy. Jeffrey Seitzer (trans.). Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004.

SHAFTESBURY, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of. Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (Vol. I). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001.

SIDNEY, Algernon. Discourses Concerning Government. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1996.

TEMPEST, Kathryn. Cicero: Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome. London: Continuum, 2011.

TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Arthur Goldhammer (trans.). New York: Library of America, 2004.

TUCK, Richard. The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

TULLOCK, Gordon. The Politics of Bureaucracy. Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1965.

VIROLI, Maurizio. Republicanism. New York: Hill and Wang, 2002.

WARMINGTON, E. H. (trans.). Remains of Old Latin: Lucilius, The Twelve Tables. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.

WEINRIB, Ernest J. Tort Law: Cases and Materials (3rd edition). Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2009.

WOOD, Gordon S. Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.