Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Political thought in eighteenth-century France: the invention of aristocratic liberalism
- 2 Liberty and inequality: the royalist discourse
- 3 A society of equals: the liberal response
- 4 Liberty in a levelled society: Charles Dunoyer, Benjamin Constant, and Prosper de Barante
- 5 The new aristocracy: a theme in Restoration liberalism
- 6 The danger of democracy: Orléanist liberalism and Alexis de Tocqueville
- 7 The French predicament: aristocratic liberalism in the Second Empire
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- IDEAS IN CONTEXT
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Political thought in eighteenth-century France: the invention of aristocratic liberalism
- 2 Liberty and inequality: the royalist discourse
- 3 A society of equals: the liberal response
- 4 Liberty in a levelled society: Charles Dunoyer, Benjamin Constant, and Prosper de Barante
- 5 The new aristocracy: a theme in Restoration liberalism
- 6 The danger of democracy: Orléanist liberalism and Alexis de Tocqueville
- 7 The French predicament: aristocratic liberalism in the Second Empire
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- IDEAS IN CONTEXT
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- French Political Thought from Montesquieu to TocquevilleLiberty in a Levelled Society?, pp. viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008