Whigs and liberals : continuity and change in English political thought
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Whigs and liberals : continuity and change in English political thought
（The Carlyle lectures, 1985）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press], 1988
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Description
This study of English political thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is organized around the concept of a Whig tradition. Professor Burrow argues that the study of nineteenth-century liberal thought has taken insufficient account of its eighteenth-century antecedents. The work of modern scholars on eighteenth-century themes, especially the civic humanist tradition and the Scottish Enlightenment, is drawn on as a preamble to considering the central ideas
of Liberalism. The book traces how the concept changed between the early eighteenth and the late nineteenth century, and examines the main points of continuity, analogy, and difference in the progress of society, public opinion, individuality, and the idea of balance. A concluding chapter looks at
the early twentieth century.
Table of Contents
- Preface. Whigs and Liberals
- polity and society
- the sovereignty of opinion
- autonomy and self-realization - from independence to individuality
- balance and diversity - from Roman corruption to Chinese stationariness
- subordinate partialities - sinister interests and corporate rights. Index.
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