Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface to the Second Edition xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction: The Practice of Liberalism 1
6. PART ONE. The Confidence of Youth (1830–1880)
7. 1. Historical Setting in the 1830s: Thrown into a World of Ceaseless Change 33
8. 2. Guiding Thoughts from Founding Thinkers: Conflict, Resistance, Progress, and Respect 39
9. 3. Liberalism in Practice: Four Exemplary Politicians 101
10. 4 The Nineteenth- Century Legacy Liberalism Without Caricature 120
11. PART TWO. Liberalism in Maturity and the Struggle with Democracy (1880–1945)
12. 5. Historical Setting in the 1880s: The World Liberals Were Making 139
13. 6. The Compromises That Gave Us Liberal Democracy 147
14. 7. The Economic Powers of the Modern State and Modern Market 173
15. 8. Damaged Ideals and Broken Dreams 198
16. 9. Thinking about Liberalism in the 1930S–1940s 272
17. PART THREE. Second Chance and Success (1945–1989)
18. 10. Historical Setting after 1945: Liberal Democracy’s New Start 283
19. 11. New Foundations: Rights, a Democratic Rule of Law, and Welfare 287
20. 12. Liberal Thinking after 1945 313
21. 13. The Breadth of Liberal Politics in the 1950S–1980S 352
22. PART FOUR. Liberal Dreams and Nightmares in the Twenty- First Century
23. 14. Two Decades That Shook Liberal Democracy 389
24. 15. The Primacy 0f Politics 454
25. Works Consulted 467
26. Name Index 495
27. Subject Index 507