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Bourgeois Liberty and the Politics of Fear: From Absolutism to Neo-Conservatism
Bourgeois Liberty and the Politics of Fear From Absolutism to NeoConservatism
Author: Marc Mulholland
In 1842 Henrich Heine, the German poet, wrote that the bourgeoisie, 'obsessed by a nightmare apprehension of disaster' and 'an instinctive dread of communism', were driven against their better instincts into tolerating absolutist government. Theirs was a 'politics motivated by fear'. Over the next 150 years, the middle classes were repeatedly ac...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199653577
ISBN-10: 0199653577
Publication Date: 12/15/2012
Pages: 360
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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