Bourgeois liberty and the politics of fear : from absolutism to neo-conservatism / Marc Mulholland.

In 1842 Heinrich Heine, the German poet, wrote that the bourgeoisie, 'obsessed by a nightmare apprehension of disaster' and 'an instinctive dread of communism', were driven against their better instincts into tolerating absolutist government. Theirs was a 'politics motivated...

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Main Author: Mulholland, Marc, 1971-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Edition:1st ed.
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