The lost history of liberalism
Subtitle: from ancient Rome to the twenty-first century
By: Helena Rosenblatt
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780691170701
Subjects: Liberalism; History
Description: "The 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 Rome to today, Helena Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the words "liberal" and "liberalism," revealing the heated debates that have taken place over their meaning. In this timely and provocative book, Rosenblatt debunks the popular myth of liberalism as a uniquely Anglo-American tradition centered on individual rights.  It was only during the Cold War and America's growing world hegemony that liberalism was refashioned into an American ideology focused so strongly on individual freedoms."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What It Meant to Be Liberal from Cicero to Lafayette; title: The French Revolution and the Origins of Liberalism, 1789-1830; title: Liberalism, Democracy, and the Emergence of the Social Question, 1830-48; title: The Question of Character; title: Caesarism and Liberal Democracy: Napoleon III, Lincoln, Gladstone, and Bismarck; title: The Battle to Secularize Education; title: Two Liberalisms: Old and New; title: Liberalism Becomes the American Creed