On Liberty: With Related Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture)

On Liberty: With Related Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture)

by JohnStuartMill (Author), Alan Kahan (Editor)

Synopsis

This new edition of On Liberty is the first to combine John Stuart Mill's influential work with a set of relevant primary sources by Mill and his contemporaries. Alan Kahan's introduction provides background on 19th century British politics and society; intriguing biographical details; and discussion of the core issues that On Liberty addresses.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: 03 Apr 2008

ISBN 10: 0312450494
ISBN 13: 9780312450496

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'Alan Kahan has produced an edition of On Liberty with an excellent, accessible introduction that should be welcomed by instructors and students alike.' -- Frank Turner, Yale University, USA
Author Bio
ALAN S. KAHAN (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is the author of Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville, and of Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage. He has translated de Tocqueville's The Old Regime and the Revolution, and co-edited The Tocqueville Reader. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Rice University, and Florida International University, and has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. He is currently working on a book about intellectuals and capitalism.