Bourgeois Liberty and the Politics of Fear: From Absolutism to Neo-Conservatism by Marc Mulholland

Bourgeois Liberty and the Politics of Fear: From Absolutism to Neo-Conservatism

Marc Mulholland

400 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

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In 1842 Henrich 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. Their...

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