![]() ![]() But the origins of liberalism, Rosenblatt argues in the book, are to be found in France, where liberal thinkers were defined by other concerns like equality, morality, and civic virtue.īy turning away from a focus on the Anglo-American liberal tradition, Rosenblatt accomplishes a great deal in reviving the history of liberalism in France and Germany especially. Rosenblatt writes that liberalism’s defenders have come to treat liberalism as an ideology of individual rights and interests. But crucially, this book should be recognized for intending to contribute a substantial historiographical shift. It also brings together a large historiography about liberalism and has a very good bibliography. ![]() ![]() First, let me note that the book is impressive in its scope of covering hundreds of years and multiple countries, although limited primarily to Western Europe and the United States. This book is more than a coherent and straightforward synthetic history of liberalism. ![]()
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