The Lost History of Liberalism : : From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century / / Helena Rosenblatt.

The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to todayThe 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 Rom...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. What It Meant to Be Liberal from Cicero to Lafayette
  • CHAPTER 2. The French Revolution and the Origins of Liberalism, 1789-1830
  • CHAPTER 3. Liberalism, Democracy, and the Emergence of the Social Question, 1830-48
  • CHAPTER 4. The Question of Character
  • CHAPTER 5. Caesarism and Liberal Democracy: Napoleon III, Lincoln, Gladstone, and Bismarck
  • CHAPTER 6. The Battle to Secularize Education
  • CHAPTER 7. Two Liberalisms: Old and New
  • CHAPTER 8. Liberalism Becomes the American Creed
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index