| Early Modern Liberalism Contributor(s): Patterson, Annabel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521026318 ISBN-13: 9780521026314 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2006 Annotation: While the term "liberalism" was not applied to political thought or political parties in England until the late eighteenth century, the author argues that its central ideas were formulated by seventeenth-century English writers in defiance of their society's norms, and then transmitted to the American colonies. In this study Annabel Patterson is particularly concerned with the means and agents of transmission, and with those who sought to ensure that the liberal canon would be preserved, dispersed and republished. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism - Political Science | Political Process - Political Parties |
| Dewey: 320.512 |
| Series: Ideas in Context |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6" W x 9" (1.07 lbs) 332 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: While the term liberalism was not applied to political thought or political parties in England until the late eighteenth century, the author argues that its central ideas were formulated by seventeenth-century English writers in defiance of their society's norms, and then transmitted to the American colonies. In this study Annabel Patterson is particularly concerned with the means and agents of transmission, and with those who sought to ensure that the liberal canon would be preserved, dispersed and republished. |