Introduction: Land and Liberty -- Progress and Poverty: Land and Inequality in the Liberal Tradition -- The Prophet of San Francisco: Confronting the Modern Metropolis -- The Truths of Smith and Proudhon: Crafting a New Liberalism -- Labor Omnia Vincit: Crafting the Movement -- The Democracy of...

In the decades following World War II, American liberals had a vision for the world. Their ambitions would not stop at the water's edge: progressive internationalism, they believed, could help peoples everywhere achieve democracy, prosperity, and freedom. Chastened in part by the failures of...

Freedom without republicanism : the case of Montaigne / Felicity Green -- Hugo Grotius on freedom of will and self-government : Greek, Patristic and Roman legacies / Martin van Gelderen -- Liberty before licence in Locke / Hannah Dawson -- Liberty and hierarchy in Milton's revolutionary prose /...