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The lost history of liberalism : from ancient Rome to the twenty-first century
Title
The lost history of liberalism : from ancient Rome to the twenty-first century / Helena Rosenblatt.
ISBN
9780691203966
0691203962
9780691170701
0691170703
9780691184135
0691184135
Publication
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Copyright Notice Date
©2018.
Physical Description
xii, 348 pages ; 23 cm.
Summary
"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 "liberal" and "liberalism," revealing the heated debates that have taken place over their meaning. In this timely and provocative book, Rosenblatt debunks the popular myth of liberalism as a uniquely Anglo-American tradition centered on individual rights. It was only during the Cold War and America's growing world hegemony that liberalism was refashioned into an American ideology focused so strongly on individual freedoms."-- Book jacket.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 02, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-331) and index.
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.
What it meant to be liberal from Cicero to Lafayette. Republican beginnings: a moral and civic ideal ; Medieval rearticulations: liberality christianized ; Renaissance Liberal Arts ; The politics of giving ; Protestant developments ; American exceptionalism and the Liberal tradition ; Thomas Hobbes and John Locke on liberality ; Enlightenment liberality ; Enlightenment transformations ; liberal theology and liberal christianity ; Liberality politicized ; From liberal charters to liberal constitutions ; America, the most liberal country in the world
The French Revolution and the origins of liberalism, 1789-1830. The liberal principles of Benjamin Constant and Madame de Staël ; Enter Napoleon ; Liberal parties and the birth of liberalism ; Liberalism theorized ; Liberalism confronts reaction ; Liberal insurrection ism ; Liberal economic principles ; Liberal exclusions
Liberalism, Democracy, and the emergence of the social question, 1830-48. The liberal government turns conservative ; Liberals on democracy ; Liberals and insurrection, again ; Liberals face the "social question" ; Laissez-Faire and liberalism ; The many necessary functions of government ; Liberals on colonies ; The liberal battle with religion ; The socialist critique of liberal religion
The question of character. The Debacle of 1848 ; Liberals battle socialism ; Retreat and reaction ; Pius IX
The problem of selfishness ; The rise of the British Liberal Party ; Laissez-Faire versus Bildung ; The role of the family ; The religion of humanity
Caesarism and Liberal democracy: Napoleon III, Lincoln, Gladstone, and Bismarck. Napoleon III and Caesarism ; Abraham Lincoln and his liberal friends throughout the world ; The Liberal Republican Party ; Gladstone, Liberal icon ; Bismarck, Liberalism's gravedigger
The battle to secularize education. What's wrong with the French? ; A liberal public school system ; The National Liberal League, free thought, and free love
The Pope strikes back
Two Liberalisms: old and new. The role of the state reimagined ; Liberal socialism ; A moral way of life ; Liberal Eugenics ; Feminism and liberalism at the end of the Nineteenth Century
Liberalism becomes the American creed. A liberal empire ; Racialization of the Anglo-Saxon myth ; From an Anglo-Saxon to an Anglo-American liberal empire ; The question of government intervention
Epilogue. Liberalism and the Totalitarian threat ; The turn to rights ; The (supposed) illiberalism of France and Germany.
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