The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought

This Cambridge History provides the first comprehensive survey of political thought in Europe, America and Asia in the nineteenth century.

Gareth Stedman Jones (Edited by), Gregory Claeys (Edited by)

9781107676329, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 December 2013

1162 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 5.8 cm, 1.59 kg

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.

Editors' introduction
Part I. Political Thought after the French Revolution: 1. Counter-revolutionary thought Bee Wilson
2. Romanticism and political thought in the early nineteenth century John Morrow
3. On the principle of nationality John Breuilly
4. Hegel and Hegelianism Frederick C. Beiser
5. Historians and lawyers Donald R. Kelley
6. Social science from the Revolution to Positivism Cheryl B. Welch
7. Radicalism, Republicanism and Revolutionism, from the principles of '89 to the origins of modern terrorism Gregory Claeys and Christine Lattek
Part II. Modern Liberty and its Defenders: 8. From Jeremy Bentham's radical philosophy to J. S. Mill's philosophic radicalism Frederick Rosen
9. John Stuart Mill, mid-Victorian Ross Harrison
10. 'Woman question' and the origins of feminism Lucy Delap
11. Constitutional Liberalism in France: from Benjamin Constant to Alexis de Tocqueville Jeremy Jennings
12. American political thought from Jeffersonian Republicanism to Progressivism James P. Young
13. German Liberalism in the nineteenth century Wolfgang J. Mommsen
14. Visions of stateless society K. Steven Vincent
Part III. Modern Liberty and its Critics: 15. Aesthetics and politics Douglas Moggach
16. Non-Marxian socialism 1815–1914 Gregory Claeys
17. The young Hegelians, Marx and Engels Gareth Stedman Jones
Part IV. Secularity, Reform and Modernity: 18. Church and state: the problem of authority John E. Toews
19. The politics of nature: science and religion in the age of Darwin Daniel Pick
20. Conservative political thought from the revolutions of 1848 until the fin de siècle Lawrence Goldman
21. Modern liberty redefined James Thompson
22. Political economy Emma Rothschild
23. German socialism and social democracy 1860–1900 Vernon L. Lidtke
24. Russian political thought of the nineteenth century Andrezj Walicki
25. European political thought and the wider world during the nineteenth century Christopher Bayly
26. Empire and imperialism Duncan Bell
Epilogue: French Revolution to fin de siècle: political thought in retrospect and prospect, 1800 to 1914 Jose F. Harris.

Subject Areas: Political economy [KCP], History of ideas [JFCX], Religion & politics [HRAM2], French Revolution [HBTV2], Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], European history [HBJD]