ABSTRACT
First Published in 2004. This study of the British Political Tradition will be complete in four volumes of which The Ideological Heritage is the second. This is an attempt to show how the basic tension between libertarianism and collectivism is reflected in arguments of state; how our three main political doctrines have both stimulated and reacted to the growth of government intervention and the proliferation of public agency; and how they have dealt with the problems of individual liberty involved.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |15 pages
The Range of Ideas
chapter |13 pages
Doctrine and Interpretation
part |169 pages
The Ambivalence of Liberalism
chapter |11 pages
Introductory Themes
chapter |73 pages
Cobden and Spencer Versus the State
chapter |39 pages
The Transition to Collectivism
chapter |44 pages
The End of Laissez Faire
part |160 pages
Conservatism and its Modes
chapter |67 pages
Tory Paternalism and the Welfare State
chapter |46 pages
The Libertarian Strand
chapter |38 pages
Decline and Renewal
part |193 pages
The Duality of Socialism