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What Is Classical Liberal History? Hardcover – December 21, 2017
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This book demonstrates how the classical liberal tradition in historical writing persists to this day, but how it is often neglected and due for renewal. The book contrasts the classical liberal view on history with conservative, progressive, Marxist, and post-modern views.
Each of the eleven chapters address a different historical topic, from the development of classical liberalism in nineteenth century America to the the history of civil liberties and civil rights that stemmed from this tradition. Authors give particular attention to the importance of social and economic analysis. Each contributor was chosen as an expert in their field to provide a historiographical overview of their subject, and to explain what the classical liberal contribution to this historiography has been and should be. Authors then provide guidance towards possible tools of analysis and related research topics that future historians working in the classical liberal tradition could take up.
The authors wish to call upon other historians to recognize the important contributions to historical understanding that have come and can be provided by the insights of classical liberalism.
- Print length268 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLexington Books
- Publication dateDecember 21, 2017
- Dimensions6.27 x 1 x 9.32 inches
- ISBN-101498536107
- ISBN-13978-1498536103
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This is one of the freshest and most stimulating efforts to rethink the premises of modern historiography to appear in many years. While paying due respect to the collective and material forces that professional historians have come to regard as the principal drivers of historical change, the authors in this volume make a different commitment—to the priority of liberty and the dignity and agency of the individual person—in their accounts of the human past. The paths opened here by these authors are full of promise. May their enterprise flourish, and their efforts bear abundant fruit, and multiply. -- Wilfred M. McClay, University of Oklahoma
About the Author
Phillip W. Magness is visiting assistant professor of economics at Berry College.
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- Publisher : Lexington Books (December 21, 2017)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 268 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1498536107
- ISBN-13 : 978-1498536103
- Item Weight : 1.26 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.27 x 1 x 9.32 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,752,915 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #204 in Libertarianism
- #15,631 in Political Philosophy (Books)
- #207,791 in United States History (Books)
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About the author

Phil Magness is a political and economic historian of the "long" 19th century U.S. (1787-1920). His work aims to foster our understanding what Tocqueville and Bastiat described as two of the main policy problems in early American government: Slavery and Tariffs.
Magness' interest in abolitionism encompasses the works of the anti-slavery constitutionalist faction of Gerrit Smith and Lysander Spooner, as well as the little-studied yet historically important black pamphleteer & man of letters John Willis Menard. He is also a specialist in the history of the colonization movement and related attempts to resettle freed slaves abroad, particularly during the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln's presidency. His work on trade and tax policy examines the tariff as a problem of political economy in the 19th century U.S., and covers the founding era through the adoption of the Income Tax in 1913 when tariffs ceased to be used as a primary revenue-generating policy.
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