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Liberalism : the lif...
MARC Display
Liberalism : the life of an idea / Edmund Fawcett.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2018.
ISBN:
9780691180380
(pbk.)
Description:
xiii, 513 p. ; 22 cm.
Edition:
2nd ed.
Contents:
Introduction: the practice of liberalism -- Part one. The confidence of youth (1830-1880) -- Historical setting in the 1830s: thrown into a world of ceaseless change -- Guiding thoughts from founding thinkers: conflict, resistance, progress, and respect -- Liberalism in practice: four exemplary politicians -- The nineteenth-century legacy: liberalism without caricature -- Part two. Liberalism in maturity and the struggle with democracy (1880-1945) -- Historical setting in the 1880s: the world liberals were making -- The compromises that gave us liberal democracy -- The economic powers of the modern state and modern market -- Damaged ideals and broken dreams -- Thinking about liberalism in the 1930s-1940s -- Part three. Second chance and success (1945-1989) -- Historical setting after 1945: liberal democracy's new start -- New foundations: rights, a democratic rule of law, and welfare -- Liberal thinking after 1945 -- The breadth of liberal politics in the 1950s-1980s -- Part four. Liberal dreams and nightmares in the twenty-first century -- Two decades that shook liberal democracy -- The primacy of politics.
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