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Land and Liberalism: Henry George and the Irish Land War

Autor Andrew Phemister
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 mar 2023
Irish land in the 1880s was a site of ideological conflict, with resonances for liberal politics far beyond Ireland itself. The Irish Land War, internationalised partly through the influence of Henry George, the American social reformer and political economist, came at a decisive juncture in Anglo-American political thought, and provided many radicals across the North Atlantic with a vision of a more just and morally coherent political economy. Looking at the discourses and practices of these agrarian radicals, alongside developments in liberal political thought, Andrew Phemister shows how they utilised the land question to articulate a natural and universal right to life that highlighted the contradictions between liberty and property. In response to this popular agrarian movement, liberal thinkers discarded many older individualistic assumptions, and their radical democratic implications, in the name of protecting social order, property, and economic progress. Land and Liberalism thus vividly demonstrates the centrality of Henry George and the Irish Land War to the transformation of liberal thought.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781009202893
ISBN-10: 1009202898
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 237 x 158 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction; 1. 'Our American Aristotle'; 2. Agrarianism and political thought; 3. The Land War and the Land League; 4. The Catholic Church and the land question; 5. Transatlantic radicalism and the land question; 6. Class, culture and place; Conclusion.

Recenzii

'This is a well-researched and deeply original study of the American social and political reformer Henry George, who inspired both the first generation of British and Irish socialists - including James Keir Hardie and Michael Davitt - and liberal reformers and philosophers like Thomas Hill Green. The main question Andrew Phemister endeavours to answer is why Henry George was so influential, but the originality of his approach also relies on his placing the history of political ideas in their widest social context.' E. F. Biagini, University of Cambridge
'Andrew Phemister has contributed a serious illustration of what he calls the “social history of ideas”, which locates the American journalist Henry George at the centre of a transition to non-violent activism, the contribution of Catholic intellectuals, and the fractionation of social movements over the relationship of state and individual. The book will be of interest to historians of labour, identity, and liberalism on both sides of the Atlantic.' Jo Guldi, Southern Methodist University

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Shows how Irish land in the 1880s was a site of ideological conflict, with resonances for liberal politics far beyond Ireland itself.