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Cover -- THE LOST HISTORY OF LIBERALISM -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 What It Meant to Be Liberal from Cicero to Lafayette -- Republican Beginnings: A Moral and Civic Ideal -- Medieval Rearticulations: Liberality Christianized -- Renaissance Liberal Arts -- The Politics of Giving -- Protestant Developments -- American Exceptionalism and the Liberal Tradition -- Thomas Hobbes and John Locke on Liberality -- Enlightenment Liberality -- Enlightenment Transformations -- Liberal Theology and Liberal Christianity -- Liberality Politicized -- From Liberal Charters to Liberal Constitutions -- America, the Most Liberal Country in the World -- CHAPTER 2 The French Revolution and the Origins of Liberalism, 1789-1830 -- The Liberal Principles of Benjamin Constant and Madame de Staël -- Enter Napoleon -- Liberal Parties and the Birth of Liberalism -- Liberalism Theorized -- Liberalism Confronts Reaction -- Liberal Insurrectionism -- Liberal Economic Principles -- Liberal Exclusions -- CHAPTER 3 Liberalism, Democracy, and the Emergence of the Social Question, 1830-48 -- The Liberal Government Turns Conservative -- Liberals on Democracy -- Liberals and Insurrection, Again -- Liberals Face the "Social Question" -- Laissez-Faire and Liberalism -- The Many Necessary Functions of Government -- Liberals on Colonies -- The Liberal Battle with Religion -- The Socialist Critique of Liberal Religion -- CHAPTER 4 The Question of Character -- The Debacle of 1848 -- Liberals Battle Socialism -- Retreat and Reaction -- Pius IX -- The Problem of Selfishness -- The Rise of the British Liberal Party -- Laissez-Faire versus Bildung -- The Role of the Family -- The Religion of Humanity -- CHAPTER 5 Caesarism and Liberal Democracy: Napoleon III, Lincoln, Gladstone, and Bismarck -- Napoleon III and Caesarism.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. The modernist paradigm: strengths and weaknesses; 3. Foundations of a new nationalism theory; 4. Killing and dying for love: the common fatherland; 5. Competing for honour: the making of nations in late medieval Europe; 6. The nationalist transformation of borders and languages; 7. Humanist nationalism; 8. A German Emperor for the German people; 9. Nation and denomination; 10. Conclusion