Liberalism in Nineteenth Century Europe

ALAN KAHAN is Associate Professor of History at Florida International University, USA. He is author of Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville, Editor of The Tocqueville Reader, and translator of Tocqueville's The Old Regime and the Revolution.

• Introduction: Defining Liberalism PART I: THE DISCOURSE OF CAPACITY Liberalism and Suffrage, 1830-1847 Liberalism and Suffrage, 1848-1865 Liberalism and Suffrage, 1866-1885 PART II: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE Liberalism and Nineteenth-Century Culture The Decline of Liberalism Concluding Note: The Afterlife of a Political Discourse List of Works Cited Endnotes