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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosenblatt, Helena, 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.