The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-century Political Thought

by Jones, Gareth Stedman; Claeys, Gregory

• ISBN13: 9780521430562
• ISBN10: 0521430569
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-08-15
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

This major work of academic reference provides the first comprehensive survey of political thought in Europe, North America and Asia in the century following the French Revolution. Written by a distinguished team of international scholars, this Cambridge History is the latest in a sequence of volumes firmly established as the principal reference source for the history of political thought. In a series of scholarly but accessible essays, every major theme in nineteenth-century political thought is covered, including political economy, religion, democratic radicalism, nationalism, socialism and feminism. The volume also includes studies of major figures, including Hegel, Mill, Bentham and Marx, and biographical notes on every significant thinker in the period. Of interest to students and scholars of politics and history at all levels, this volume explores seismic changes in the languages and expectations of politics accompanying political revolution, industrialisation and imperial expansion and less-noted continuities in political and social thinking.

Table of Contents

Editors' introduction

Political Thought after the French Revolution

Counter-revolutionary thought

Romanticism and political thought in the early nineteenth century

On the principle of nationality

Hegel and Hegelianism Frederick

Historians and lawyers Donald

Social science from the Revolution to Positivism

Radicalism, Republicanism and Revolutionism, from the principles of '89 to the origins of modern terrorism

Modern Liberty and its Defenders

From Jeremy Bentham's radical philosophy to J. S. Mill's philosophic radicalism

John Stuart Mill, mid-Victorian

'Woman question' and the origins of feminism

Constitutional Liberalism in France: from Benjamin Constant to Alexis de Tocqueville

American political thought from Jeffersonian Republicanism to Progressivism

German Liberalism in the nineteenth century

Visions of stateless society

Modern Liberty and its Critics

Aesthetics and politics

Non-Marxian socialism 1815-1914

The young Hegelians

Secularity, Reform and Modernity

Church and state: the problem of authority

The politics of nature: science and religion in the age of Darwin

Conservative political thought from the revolutions of 1848 until the fin de siècle

Modern liberty redefined

Political economy

German socialism and social democracy 1860-1900

Russian political thought of the nineteenth century

European political thought and the wider world during the nineteenth century

Empire and imperialism Duncan Bell; Epilogue: French Revolution to fin de siècle: political thought in retrospect and prospect, 1800 to 1914

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