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The Struggle for Liberty: A Libertarian History of Political Thought

by Ralph Raico

Mises Institute, 2025288 pagesISBN 9781610167819

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Author
Ralph Raico
First published
2025
Format
PDF, EPUB, and Kindle
Pages
288
ISBN
9781610167819
Publisher
Mises Institute
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0

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Ralph Raico was a historical revisionist in the best sense of the word. He cared not for ideological pedigrees or bias; he sought the grace of truth wherever it took him.

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Who wrote The Struggle for Liberty: A Libertarian History of Political Thought?
Ralph Raico (1936–2016) was a professor of European History at the State University of New York, Buffalo. This archive holds 8 of Raico's works.

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17 chapters · 102,036 words · free to read here

  1. Front Matter
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Lecture 1: The European Miracle
  6. Lecture 2: Classical Liberalism
  7. Lecture 3: John Stuart Mill
  8. Lecture 4: Class and Conflict
  9. Lecture 5: War, Peace, and the Industrial Revolution
  10. Lecture 6: The New World of Capitalism
  11. Lecture 7: The Anticapitalists
  12. Lecture 8: The Planned Society
  13. Lecture 9: The First World War
  14. Lecture 10: Classical Liberalism and the Welfare-Warfare State
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. About this edition
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Ralph Raico 1936–2016

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