Liberalism in Nineteenth Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage

by Alan Kahan (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2003

  $117.62

  This study analyzes parliamentary suffrage debates in England, France and Germany, showing that liberals throughout Europe used a distinctive political language, 'the discourse of capacity', to limit political participation. This language defined liberals, and they used it to define and limit full citizenship.