L.T.Hobhouse s Liberalism(1911),which has acquired the status of a modem classic ,is the mst enduring statenment of the political principles which animated British liberal social reformers in the early years of the twentieth century While written in a popular style,it is actually a theoretical work of some subtlety,combining an historical analysis of the evolution of liberal doctrine with a philosophical discussion of the character of liberal belief,and proposing a reformulation of liberalism which emphasizes community,individual welfare rights ,and an activist state.
Students of public policy will fmd a text advocating measures that later became central to the modem welfare state;students of ideology willdiscover an ambious attenmpt to adapt traditional liberal beliefs to new circunmstances;and contemporary political theorists will apprehend a liberal variant which contrasts sharply with the individualist,value-neutral forms of liberalism which have been popular in recent decades.
This new edition of Liberalism inclueds a number of Hobhouse s other writings from the same period,which help to defme its place in the development of his political philosophy.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Principal vevnts in the life of L .T.Hobhouse
Further reading
Biographical notes
Liberalism
Chapter I Before Liberalism
Chapter II The Elements of Liberalism
1.Civil Liberty
2.Fiscal Liberty
3.Perrsonal Liberty
4.Social Liberty
5.Economic liberty
6.Domestic Liberty
7.Local,Racial,and National Liberty
8.International Liberty
9.Political Liberty and Popular Sovereignty
chapter III The Movement of Theory
Chapter IV ‘ Laissez-faire’
Chapter V Gladstone and Mill
Chapter VI THe Heart of Liberalism
Chapter VII The State and the Individual
Chapter VIII Economic Liberalism
Chapter IX The Future of Liberalism
Other Writings
Govemment by the People
The Growth of the state
The Individual and the State
Irish Nationalism and Liberal Principle
The Historical Evolution of Property,in Fact and in Idea
Index