A History of Political Theory is a book by George Holland Sabine on the history of political thought from Ancient Greece to fascism and Nazism in the 1930s. First published in 1937, it propounds a hypothesis that theories of politics are themselves a part of politics. That is, they do not refer to an external reality but are produced as a normal part of the social milieu in which politics itself has its being. The book has been translated into Arabic, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, and Japanese. In 1973, Dryden Press issued a fourth edition, .