The lost history of liberalism : from ancient Rome to the twenty-first century /
The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry, and a term of derision, in today's increasingly divided public square. Taking readers from ancient Rome to today, Helena Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the words &quo...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- What It Meant to Be Liberal from Cicero to Lafayette
- The French Revolution and the Origins of Liberalism, 1789-1830
- Liberalism, Democracy, and the Emergence of the Social Question, 1830-48
- The Question of Character
- Caesarism and Liberal Democracy: Napoleon III, Lincoln, Gladstone, and Bismarck
- The Battle to Secularize Education
- Two Liberalisms: Old and New
- Liberalism Becomes the American Creed.