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Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Liberalism
See Main Page for a guide
to all contents of all sections.
Contents
- Liberalism
- Utilitarianism
- Laissez-Faire Economics
- Radical Politics
- John Stuart Mill
- Welfare Liberalism
- Judgements on Liberalism
- Feminism
- Origins
- Political Feminism
- United States
- Britain
- Other Countries
- Prohibitionism
Liberalism
"Liberalism" is a word used to describe a series of interlocking political, social, philosophical, and economic ideas that shift quite markedly over time. Some elements go back to ancient times, and a variety of strands can be found in English, French, and American writers of the 17th and 18th centuries. The word was first used to descibe a political grouping - the liberales - in Spain in 1812 [See Wikipedia: Liberalism and radicalism in Spain] and the word "Liberalism" as general nound first appeared in English in 1815.
- Wikipedia: Liberalism
- Wikipedia: History of Liberalism
- WEB German Historical Documents: Liberals and Conservatives in Germany (1815-1866) [At GHDI] [Internet Archive version here]
- Utitilitarianism
- Laissez-Faire Economics
- Wikipedia: Adam Smith
- Wikipedia: David Ricardo
- Adam Smith: The Principle of the Mercantile System,
1776, from The Wealth of Nations. [At this Site]
- Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations, 1776, an
epitome, [At this Site]
- Thomas R. Malthus (1766-1834): First Essay on Population,
1798, excerpts [At this Site]
- Thomas Malthus (1766-1834): An Essay on the Principles of Population, full text, 1798 [Wikisource]
- Thomas Malthus (1766-1834): The Corn Laws, full text [At
Yale][Internet Archive version here]
- Thomas Malthus (1766-1834): The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn, full text [At Yale][Internet Archive version here]
- Thomas Malthus (1766-1834): The High Price of Provisions [Was At Yale, now Internet Archive]
- Thomas Malthus (1766-1834): An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent 1815 [Was At Yale, now Internet Archive]
- David Ricardo (1772-1823): The Iron Law of Wages, 1817,
excerpts [At this Site]
- David Ricardo (1772-1823): The Principles of Political Economy,
1817, an epitome [At this Site]
- David Riccardo (1772-1823): Principles of Political Economy, full text 1817 [At EconLib] [Internet Archive version here]
- Pamphlet: In Defence of Laissez-Faire, c. 1840
[At this Site]
A British argument against the Ten Hour Acts.
- Radical Politics
- John Stuart Mill
- Other Liberalisms
- Welfare Liberalism
- John Stuart Mill (1806-73): Liberalism Evaluated, 1873,
from his Autobiography [At this Site]
Mill discusses how his faith in Liberalism slipped away and he began tending towards
Liberal Socialism (i.e., that of Hobhouse rather than the Fabians).
- Joseph Chamberlain: The Radical Programme, 1885 [At
this Site]
- W. L. Blease: The New Liberalism, 1913 [At this Site]
On the emergence of social reformist/welfare liberalism, as in the British government of
1906.
- The Earl of Rosebery: The State of Liberalism,
1908 [At this Site]
- L. T. Hobhouse: Liberalism, 1911 [At this Site]
An early 20th century restatement of Liberalism which takes account of the Marxist
challenge.
- Judgements on Liberalism
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881): Utilitarian
Follies [At this Site]
- John Henry Newman (Cardinal Newman) (1801-1890): On Liberalism, from Apologia Pro Vita Sua
[At this Site]
St. John Henry Newman on his experience of Old Toryism and Liberalism in early 19th-century Oxford.
Feminism
- Wikipedia: History of Feminism
- Origins
- Political Feminism
- United States
- WEB Library of Congress: National Women's
Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 [At Library of Congress]
Full texts of 167 books and other documents.
- Seneca Falls Declaration, 1848 [At this Site]
- Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): 'An't I a Woman?, 1851 [At
this Site]
A common version, but which presents some problems - see notes.
- Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): 'Ain't I a Woman?' 1851
[At this Site]
Another version in standard English.
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Oliver Gilbert: Narrative of Sojourner Truth, based on information provided by Sojourner Truth, 1850 [At Project Gutenberg]
- Woman's Rights Petition to the New York Legislature, 1854 [Was At Furman, now Internet Archive]
- Report of the Select Committee [On the Women's Rights Petition], In Assembly, March 27, 1854 [Was At Furman, now Internet Archive]
- Catherine Booth (1829-1890): Female Ministry: or, Woman's Right to Preach the Gospel, 1859 [Was At Indiana, now Internet Archive]
- Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906): On Women's Right to Vote,
1873 [At this Site]
- 2ND Patricia Cline Cohen: The Murder of Helen Jewett
The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York, Chapter 1 [At NY
Times] [Internet Archive version here]
- Hearing of the Women
Suffrage Association, before the House Committee on the Judiciary, January 18, 1892
[At Hanover]
- Frances E. Willard (1839-1898): Address to Women's National
Council, February 22-25, 1891 [At this Site]
- Margaret Sanger (1883-1966): Autobiography, excerpts [At this
Site]
On why she became a crusader for birth control.
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Margaret Sanger (1883-1966): Woman and the New Race, 1920 [Full Text][At Project Gutenberg]
Note: this link is to an edition published as an "Eugenics classic" by the
"American Life League". The text is intact (Chapter was 8 checked).
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Margaret Sanger (1883-1966): The Pivot of Civilization,
full text [At Project Gutenberg]
-
WEB Suffragists Oral History Project [At Berkeley]
- Jane Addams: Why Women Should Vote, 1915 [At this
Site]
- The Passage of the 19th Amendment, articles from the New
York Times, 1919-1920 [At this Site]
- Britain
- Other Countries
- Prohibitionism
- Wikipedia: Temperance movement
- Wikipedia: Carrie Nation (1846-1911)
- Wikipedia: Woman's Christian Temperance Union, founded 1873
The Temperance movement, as a moral "crusade" was by far the largest women-led political movement in the 19th century.
- Abraham Lincoln: Temperance Address:
Delivered before the Springfield (Illinois) Washington Temperance Society,22d
February, 1842 [At Drug Library] [Internet Archive version here]
- H. H. Kane: A
Hashish-House in New York, Harper's Monthly, Vol. 67 (November, 1883),
944-49. [At Drug Library] [Internet Archive version here]
- F. E. Oliver, M.D. : The Use
and Abuse of Opium, Massachusetts State Board of Health, Third Annual Report (Boston: Wright and Potter, State Printers, 1872), 162-77. [At Drug Library] [Internet Archive version here]
- Anonymous: Confessions
of a Young Lady Laudanum-Drinker, The Journal of Mental Sciences January 1889 [At Drug Library] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Woman's Crusade of
1873-74 [At Drug Library] [Internet Archive version here]
A high point of anti-liquor/drugs activity.
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union: Growth of
Membership and of Local, Auxiliary Unions, 1879-1921 [At this Site]
- Carry Amelia Nation: The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation, full text 1905 [Project Guteberg]
- WEB Photos, letters, and other primary sources related to Carry Nation – Kansas Memory, the digital portal of the Kansas Historical Society [Internet Archive version here]
- 2ND Richard Hamm: American Prohibitionists
and Violence, 1865-1920 [At Schaffer Drug Library] [Internet Archive version here]
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