Liberalism and the emergence of American political science : a transatlantic tale

• Autore: Adcock Robert
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 320.510973/09034
• Soggetto topico: Liberalism - United States - History - 19th century; Political science - History - 19th century - United States; Law, Politics & Government; Human Rights
• Soggetto geografico: Political culture United States History 19th century
• Classificazione: POL010000
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction. American Political Science and Liberalism in Transatlantic Perspective -- Part One: From Europe to America -- Chapter One. The Political in Political Science: The Liberal Debate about Democracy -- Chapter Two. The Science in Political Science: The Historicist Debate about Method -- Chapter Three. Democratized Classical Liberalism in the Antebellum American College: The Émigré Political Science of Francis Lieber -- Part Two: Wide Political Science and Liberalism in the Gilded Age -- Chapter Four. Political Science and Political Economy in the Age of Academic Reform: Andrew Dickson White and William Graham Sumner -- Chapter Five. Historical and Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University: Historicist Science, Liberalism, and the Founding of National Associations -- Part Three: Late Century Liberalisms and the New Political Science -- Chapter Six. Disenchanted Classical Liberalism as a Political Vision: William Graham Sumner and A. Lawrence Lowell -- Chapter Seven. Progressive Liberalism as a Political Vision: Woodrow Wilson's Political Science -- Chapter Eight. The Transatlantic Study of Modern Political Systems: The New Political Science of James Bryce, A. Lawrence Lowell, and Frank Goodnow -- Conclusion. The Americanization of Political Science and the Americanization of "Liberalism".
• Sommario/riassunto: Political science's pioneers in the American academy were, this book proposes, active agents of the Americanisation of liberalism, and the history of American political science offers a venue in which we see how a distinct current of mid-nineteenth-century European liberalism was divergently transformed into alternative twentieth-century American liberalisms.
• Altri titoli varianti: Liberalism and the emergence of American political science
• Titolo autorizzato: Liberalism and the emergence of American political science
• ISBN: 9780199370146 (ebook) :
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154338303321
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