Subjects
Democratic Socialism in Britain:
Classic Texts in Economic and Political Thought, 1825–1952
Editor: David Reisman
978 1 85196 285 3: 234x156mm: £595.00/$995.00
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This collection makes available in a single set a total of 42 influential contributions to British economic and political thought. Twenty-six authors are represented.
The pamphlets, papers and books in the collection range widely over topics such as capitalism and community, property rights and social justice, nationalisation and welfare. They trace the historical origins of present-day debates and show how the founding theoreticians sought to resolve central issues in the political economy of democratic socialism.
Each volume contains an introductory essay in which the editor situates the text in the context of the author s life and ideas. Bibliographical references accompany the work of each writer. The collection as a whole is introduced by a major essay in which the editor identifies and assesses the specifically British contribution to European socialist thought in the historic years from Labour Defended in 1825 to the New Fabian Essays and In Place of Fear in 1952.
Contents
Volume 1
T Hodgskin, Labour Defended (1825); W Thompson, Labour Rewarded (1827). David Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy (1817).
Volume 2
F D Maurice, A Dialogue between Somebody and Nobody (1850); Reasons for Co-operation (1851); A Clergyman s Answer (1851); On the Reformation of Society (1851); C Kingsley, Cheap Clothes and Nasty (1851); The Message of the Church to Labouring Men (1851); The Application of Associative Principles and Methods to Agriculture (1851); Who are the Friends of Order? (1852); J M Ludlow, `The Great Partnership' (1848); Labour and the Poor (1850); The Working Associations of Paris (1850); Christian Socialism and its Opponents (1851)
Volume 3
W Morris, A Summary of the Principles of Socialism (with H M Hyndman) (1884); Art and Socialism (1884); The Manifesto of the Socialist League (with E Belfort Bax) (1885); The Labour Question from the Socialist Standpoint (1886); Signs of Change (1888); Statement of the Principles of the Hammersmith Socialist Society (1890); How I Became a Socialist (1894)
Volume 4
G B Shaw, ed, Fabian Essays (1889)
Volume 5
A J Penty, Old Worlds for New (1917)
Volume 6
H J Laski, A Grammar of Politics (1925)
Volume 7
G D H Cole, Principles of Economic Planning (1935)
Volume 8
D P T Jay, The Socialist Case (1937)
Volume 9
R H S Crossman, ed, New Fabian Essays (1952)
Volume 10
A Bevan, In Place of Fear (1952)
Reviews
‘If a collection such as this one does nothing more that remind us of the arguments and beliefs of the by now lost theorists of British social democracy, it will fulfil an important task.’
– Mark Wickham-Jones, The Times Literary Supplement