Liberalism

Auteur

Jonathan Parry is Professor Emeritus of Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He has published three books and many articles on British Liberalism in the nineteenth century, as well as a number of essays about Benjamin Disraeli.

Texte du rabat

A short history of liberalism since the 1820s, one rooted in practical politics rather than abstract theorising. Liberalism is shown to be best understood as a political tradition that has been profoundly shaped by Britain's unique and evolving political culture and by political realities.