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French political thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville : liberty in a levelled society? / Annelien de Dijn.
Van Pelt Library JC574.2.F8 D55 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dijn, Annelien de, 1977-
- Series:
- Ideas in context ; 89.
- Ideas in context ; 89
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberalism--France--History--18th century.
- Liberalism.
- Liberalism--France--History--19th century.
- Republicanism.
- History.
- France.
- Republicanism--France--History--18th century.
- Republicanism--France--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 212 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- 1 Political thought in eighteenth-century France: the invention of aristocratic liberalism 11
- 2 Liberty and inequality: the royalist discourse 40
- 3 A society of equals: the liberal response 68
- 4 Liberty in a levelled society: Charles Dunoyer, Benjamin Constant, and Prosper de Barante 89
- 5 The new aristocracy: a theme in Restoration liberalism 111
- 6 The danger of democracy: Orleanist liberalism and Alexis de Tocqueville 129
- 7 The French predicament: aristocratic liberalism in the Second Empire 155.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521877886
- 0521877881
- OCLC:
- 166382284
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