Liberalism and the emergence of American political science : a transatlantic tale
Adcock, RobertAuthor
Political science's pioneers in the American academy were, this book proposes, active agents of the Americanisation of liberalism, and the history of American political science offers a venue in which we see how a distinct current of mid-nineteenth-century European liberalism was divergently transformed into alternative twentieth-century American liberalisms.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Political science's pioneers in the American academy were, this book proposes, active agents of the Americanisation of liberalism, and the history of American political science offers a venue in which we see how a distinct current of mid-nineteenth-century European liberalism was divergently transformed into alternative twentieth-century American liberalisms.
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Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction. American Political Science and Liberalism in Transatlantic Perspective -- Part One: From Europe to America -- Chapter One. The Political in Political Science: The Liberal Debate about Democracy -- Chapter Two. The Science in Political Science: The Historicist Debate about Method -- Chapter Three. Democratized Classical Liberalism in the Antebellum American College: The Émigré Political Science of Francis Lieber -- Part Two: Wide Political Science and Liberalism in the Gilded Age -- Chapter Four. Political Science and Political Economy in the Age of Academic Reform: Andrew Dickson White and William Graham Sumner -- Chapter Five. Historical and Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University: Historicist Science, Liberalism, and the Founding of National Associations -- Part Three: Late Century Liberalisms and the New Political Science -- Chapter Six. Disenchanted Classical Liberalism as a Political Vision: William Graham Sumner and A. Lawrence Lowell -- Chapter Seven. Progressive Liberalism as a Political Vision: Woodrow Wilson's Political Science -- Chapter Eight. The Transatlantic Study of Modern Political Systems: The New Political Science of James Bryce, A. Lawrence Lowell, and Frank Goodnow -- Conclusion. The Americanization of Political Science and the Americanization of "Liberalism".
Liberalism
Political science
Law, Politics & Government
Human Rights