📚 The State

Books with the state on their catalogue record, first published between 1651 and 2002, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject the state in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 11,321 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	State and Revolution	Vladimir Il’ich Lenin	1900	132
	Leviathan	Thomas Hobbes	1651	99
	Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats	Friedrich Engels	1884	65
	The Arthashastra	Kauṭalya.	1923	39
	Der Staat	Franz Oppenheimer	1907	33
	L’État	Peter Kropotkin	1898	32
	History of my own time	Burnet, Gilbert	1724	29
	Über den Prozess der Zivilisation	Norbert Elias	1937	27
	The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury	Thomas Hobbes	1839	22
	The public and its problems	John Dewey	1926	22
	De officio hominis et civis	Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf	1691	19
	The new society	Edward Hallet Carr	1951	19
	Anarchy, State, and Utopia	Robert Nozick	1974	19
	The elements of politics	Henry Sidgwick	1891	18
	The philosophical theory of the state	Bernard Bosanquet	1899	16
	Management and Machiavelli	Antony Jay	1967	16
	Admiral of the ocean sea	Samuel Eliot Morison	1942	15
	Capitalism and freedom	Milton Friedman	1962	14
	Nation-building and Citizenship	Reinhard Bendix	1964	14
	In Defense of Anarchism	Robert Paul Wolff	1970	14
	Gosudarstvennost’ i anarkhiia	Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin	1929	13
	Social principles and the democratic state	S. I. Benn	1959	13
	An examination of the nature of the state	Westel Woodbury Willoughby	1896	12
	Elements of political science	Stephen Leacock	1906	12
	La dottrina dello Stato	Alessandro Passerin d'Entrèves	1962	12
	Change the World Without Taking Power	John Holloway	2002	12
	The decent society	Avishai Margalit	1996	11
	The modern state	Robert M. MacIver	1926	10
	The state in capitalist society	Ralph Miliband	1969	10
	Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology	David Graeber	1900	9

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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