Hobhouse: Liberalism and Other Writings

by L. T. Hobhouse, James Meadowcroft (Editor)

Overview

L.T. Hobhouse was the most sophisticated intellectual exponent of liberal social reform in the early years of the twentieth century. This edition of his classic Liberalism, which includes a number of his other contemporaneous writings, will be of interest to a broad range of students and scholars in politics and the history of political thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521431125
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/27/1994
Series:	Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

Part I. Liberalism: 1. Before liberalism; 2. The elements of liberalism; 3. The movement of theory; 4. 'Laissez-faire'; 5. Gladstone and Mill; 6. The heart of liberalism; 7. The state and the individual; 8. Economic liberalism; 9. The future of liberalism; Part II. Other Writings: 10. Government by the people; 11. The growth of the state; 12. The individual and the state; 13. Irish nationalism and liberal principle; 14. The historical evolution of property, in fact and in idea.