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Liberalism : The Life of an Idea, Second Edition /
Despite playing a decisive role in shaping the past two hundred years of American and European politics, liberalism is no longer the dominant force it once was. In this expanded and updated edition of what has become a classic history of liberalism, Edmund Fawcett traces its ideals, successes, and f...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Practice of Liberalism
- PART ONE. The Confidence of Youth (1830-1880)
- 1. Historical Setting in the 1830s: Thrown into a World of Ceaseless Change
- 2. Guiding Thoughts from Founding Thinkers: Conflict, Resistance, Progress, and Respect
- 3. Liberalism in Practice: Four Exemplary Politicians
- 4 The Nineteenth- Century Legacy Liberalism Without Caricature
- PART TWO. Liberalism in Maturity and the Struggle with Democracy (1880-1945)
- 5. Historical Setting in the 1880s: The World Liberals Were Making
- 6. The Compromises That Gave Us Liberal Democracy
- 7. The Economic Powers of the Modern State and Modern Market
- 8. Damaged Ideals and Broken Dreams
- 9. Thinking about Liberalism in the 1930S-1940s
- PART THREE. Second Chance and Success (1945-1989)
- 10. Historical Setting after 1945: Liberal Democracy's New Start
- 11. New Foundations: Rights, a Democratic Rule of Law, and Welfare
- 12. Liberal Thinking after 1945
- 13. The Breadth of Liberal Politics in the 1950S-1980S
- PART FOUR. Liberal Dreams and Nightmares in the Twenty- First Century
- 14. Two Decades That Shook Liberal Democracy
- 15. The Primacy 0f Politics
- Works Consulted
- Name Index
- Subject Index.