Beschreibung:
"Liberalism" is widely used to describe a variety of social and political ideas, but has been an especially difficult concept for historians and political scientists to define
Introduction; 1: Past and Present: The Eighteenth Century and the Origins of Modernity; 2: The Spirit of the Majority; 3: Despotisms: The State and Its Masters; 4: Modern Humanism: The Values of Aristocratic Liberalism; 5: "Working Against Time": The Aristocratic Liberal Response to the Challenge of Modernity; 6: Conclusion: Toward a History of European Liberalism, 1830-1870