Tocqueville, Lieber, and Bagehot: Liberalism Confronts the World

by David Clinton

Book Overview

Current discussions of liberalism in world affairs tend to take a shortsighted view of the historical antecedents of the school of thought. Most jump directly from Kant to Wilson with little pause in between. In this book, Clinton has selected three thinkers to exemplify developments in the liberal world, all of whom were figures of real consequence in their own time, yet altogether different in temperament and subsequent fashion. Clinton shows how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349526975
• ISBN13: 9781349526970
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"