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Free Download Kenneth O. Morgan, "The Age of Lloyd George: The Liberal Party and British Politics, 1890-1929"
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032043717, 1032043644 | EPUB | pages: 236 | 0.4 mb
Originally published in 1971, this book traces the revival, triumph, division and decline of the British Liberal Party in the late 19th & 20th centuries. It does so by focusing on the career of David Lloyd George, itself the decisive agent for change in this period. The first part of the book is an extended critical essay; the second part consists of primary documentary material which is intimately linked to the commentary in the first section. The major phases of the period are covered: The tension between the Old Liberalism and the New; the challenges confronting the Liberal government of 1905-15; the impact of world war and Lloyd George’s wartime premiership; the Lloyd George coalition in 1918-22 and the reasons for its downfall; and the slow decline of the Liberals between 1922 and 1929.

Free Download Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America’s School Curricula by Wilfred Reilly
English | June 11th, 2024 | ISBN: 0063265974 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 1.37 MB
A college professor debunks the myths that have infiltrated America’s school curricula.

Free Download Anne M. Kornhauser, "Debating the American State: Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 193-197"
English | ISBN: 081224687X | 2015 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 811 KB
The New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies. Among them was the restructuring of the government into an administrative state with a powerful executive leader and a large class of unelected officials. This "leviathan" state was championed by the political left, and its continued growth and dominance in American politics is seen as a product of liberal thought-to the extent that "Big Government" is now nearly synonymous with liberalism. Yet there were tensions among liberal statists even as the leviathan first arose. Born in crisis and raised by technocrats, the bureaucratic state always rested on shaky foundations, and the liberals who built and supported it disagreed about whether and how to temper the excesses of the state while retaining its basic structure and function.

Free Download Churchill, the Liberal Reformer: The Struggle for a Modern Home Office by Duncan Marlor
English | June 30th, 2024 | ISBN: 1399051326 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 2.89 MB
Winston Churchill is handed down the generations, reinvented in the process to suit current controversies. He has been many things: presently a talisman of the political right, a war-hero of conservative outlook who saved his country; on the left, he is a reactionary imperialist, a warmongering oppressor of the workers.

Free Download Michael S. Roth, "Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters"
English | ISBN: 0300175515 | 2014 | 240 pages | AZW3 | 315 KB
An eloquent defense of liberal education, seen against the backdrop of its contested history in America

Free Download Meir Hatina, "Arab liberal thought in the modern age"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1526142910 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 0.4 mb
Combining a historical perspective that traces lines of continuity and change in Arab liberalism, an integrative discussion of cross-sectional themes, and a comparative analysis of the West, Turkey and Iran, this book seeks to enrich our knowledge of liberal thought in the Arab Middle East. In intertwining these dimensions―the historic, integrative and comparative, Arab liberal thought in the modern age responds to a tendency to overlook the significance of Middle Eastern liberalism in favour of more powerful and assertive forces embodied by authoritarian regimes and Islamic movements.

Free Download Woman Suffrage and The Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920 By Suzanne Marilley
1997 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0674954653 | PDF | 19 MB
In demanding equal rights and the vote for women, woman suffragists introduced liberal feminist dissent into an emerging national movement against absolute power in the forms of patriarchy, church administrations, slavery, and false dogmas. In their struggle, these women developed three types of liberal arguments, each predominant during a different phase of the movement. The feminism of equal rights, which called for freedom through equality, emerged during the Jacksonian era to counter those opposed to women’s public participation in antislavery reform. The feminism of fear, the defense of women’s right to live free from fear of violent injury or death perpetrated particularly by drunken men, flourished after the Civil War. And in the early 1900s, the feminism of personal development called for women’s freedom through opportunities to become full persons. The practical need to blend concepts in order to justify and achieve goals created many contradictions in the suffragists’ ideologies. By putting suffrage first, these women introduced radical goals, but as a politically powerless group, they could not win the vote without appeals and bargains that men considered acceptable. Ironically, American woman suffragists used illiberal ideals and arguments to sustain the quest for the most fundamental liberal feminist citizenship goal: the vote. In this book, Suzanne Marilley reframes the debate on this important topic in a fresh, provocative, and persuasive style.

Free Download Steve Fraser, "The Limousine Liberal: How an Incendiary Image United the Right and Fractured America"
English | 2016 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0465055664 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
No political image in recent American history has enjoyed the impact of the "limousine liberal." It has managed to mobilize an enduring politics of resentment directed against everything from civil rights to women’s liberation, from the war on poverty to environmental regulation. Coined in 1969 by New York City mayoralty candidate Mario Procaccino, the term took aim at what he and his largely white lower middle class and blue collar following considered the repellent hypocrisy of well-heeled types who championed the cause of the poor, especially the black poor, but who had no intention of bearing the costs of their plight. The metaphor zeroed in on liberal elites who preferred to upset rather than defend the status quo not only in race relations, but in the sexual, moral, and religious order and had little interest in looking after the needs of working people.

Free Download Patrick Porter, "The False Promise of Liberal Order: Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump"
English | ISBN: 1509538674 | 2020 | 224 pages | AZW3 | 734 KB
In an age of demagogues, hostile great powers and trade wars, foreign policy traditionalists dream of restoring liberal international order. This order, they claim, ushered in seventy years of peace and prosperity and saw post-war America domesticate the world to its values.

Free Download Liberal and Fascist Italy: 1900-1945 By Adrian Lyttelton
2002 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 0198731973 | PDF | 25 MB
This volume centres on one of the most dramatic periods of Italian History: 1900-1945. It examines the crisis of the liberal state as it undergoes a process of significant transformation, which starts with a process of modernization and leads to the totalitarian fascist state. Lyttelton and his international team discuss the social and moral conflicts resulting from modernisation, the two world wars and the fascist regime, considering the issues from both national and international standpoints. The discussion includes the developments and impact of the changes on religion, literature, and the visual arts.