Liberals and Social Democrats

Klappentext This book is about the relationship between liberalism and socialism in Britain in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Zusammenfassung This ambitious and wide-ranging book is about the relationship between liberalism and socialism in Britain in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses largely on a group of intellectuals whose names are familiar but whose work has been neglected or misunderstood. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; System of references; Prologue: original sin and the modern state; 1. The passion for improving mankind; 2. Good men fallen among Fabians; 3. Imperialism; 4. The State and the Nation; 5. Human nature in politics; 6. War; 7. Hobson's choice; 8. The bleak age; Epilogue: sans everything; Bibliographical notes; Appendix; Index.

Product details

• Authors: P. Clarke, Peter Clarke, Clarke Peter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.1981
• EAN: 9780521286510
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28651-0
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Philosophy, Politics & government, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies