Description: This collection examines the classical liberal perspective within the professional study of history. The contributors investigate the origins and development of the classical liberal approach, argue for its revival within academia, and analyze its relevance to such topics as e...
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"Historians who are classical liberals constitute a minority within a field that seems to be dominated by progressive, Marxist, feminist, postmodernist, and conservative schools. So it is refreshing and enlightening to have this insightful scholarly collection from some articulate classical liberal historians. Tackling such issues as historiography, the nature of capitalism, the role of social history, feminism, civil rights, civil liberties, and the origins of sustained economic growth, they reinvigorate a classical liberal approach to these profound historical questions." --Jeff Hummel, San Jose State University
"This is one of the freshest and most stimulating efforts to rethink the premises of modern historiography to appear in many years. While paying due respect to the collective and material forces that professional historians have come to regard as the principal drivers of historical change, the authors in this volume make a different commitment--to the priority of liberty and the dignity and agency of the individual person--in their accounts of the human past. The paths opened here by these authors are full of promise. May their enterprise flourish, and their efforts bear abundant fruit, and multiply." --Wilfred M. McClay, University of Oklahoma