First edition, the last of Gumplowicz’s works to be published in his lifetime. He committed suicide with his wife in 1909, terminally ill with cancer. The Geschichte is a compendium of brief studies on the chief figures of ‘state-theory’, philosophy and sociology; the chief movements of the latter; and individual countries. Of chief importance to Gumplowicz are the elements of jurisprudence, ‘natural rights’, and ‘political anthropology’.