Public and Private Doctrine
Subtitle: Essays in British History Presented to Maurice Cowling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 27, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780521400138
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Western Europe - General; Great Britain - History; History - General History; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; Great Britain--History; History / Great Britain; Great Britain; History
First sentence: In the most directly polemical of his books, Mill and Liberalism (1963), Maurice Cowling described Mill as 'a proselytizer of genius: the ruthless denigrator of existing positions, the systematic propagator of a new moral purpose'.