About the Book: The Rise of European Liberalism: An Essay in Interpretation
This book, a classic by one of the outstanding political scientists of the
twentieth century seeks to take account of the factors through which liberalism
the guiding doctrine of western civilization emerged as a new ideology to meet
the needs of a new world in which status was replaced by contract as the
judicial foundation of society, science began to replace religion as the
controlling factor in giving shape to the ideas of humanity.