Liberalism: The Life of an Idea

Liberalism dominates today's politics just as it decisively shaped the American and European past. This engrossing history of liberalism—the first in English for many decades—traces liberalism’s ideals, successes, and failures through the lives and ideas of a rich cast of European and American...

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Main Author: Fawcett, Edmund (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2015]
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
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Summary:Liberalism dominates today's politics just as it decisively shaped the American and European past. This engrossing history of liberalism—the first in English for many decades—traces liberalism’s ideals, successes, and failures through the lives and ideas of a rich cast of European and American thinkers and politicians, from the early nineteenth century to today.An enlightening account of a vulnerable but critically important political creed, Liberalism provides the vital historical and intellectual background for hard thinking about liberal democracy’s future
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9781400873654
DOI:10.1515/9781400873654

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