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Article: Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- August 1, 2005
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Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage, by Alan S. Kahan. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. vii, 239 pp. $90.00 US (cloth).
Among the major political ideologies of the nineteenth century, liberalism dominated political debate for decades, yet liberals rarely achieved lasting state power. A political tendency that gained influential adherents in nearly all European states, liberalism was intellectually diffuse and remains resistant to historical definition. In the present book Alan S. Kahan attempts to resolve this problem, and to explain the ideological power yet ultimate political failure of liberalism by defining it ...