ENGLISH CLASSICAL LIBERALS & RADICALS

Contents

This collection of books will span the mid-17th century to the end of the 19th century, so the English Revolution, the Enlightenment, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the heyday of classical liberalism in the 19th century.

• John Trenchard (1662-1723) and Thomas Gordon (1692-1750) [separate page]
• John Wade (1788-1875) [separate page]
• The Economist [separate page]
• [Edmund Burke], A Vindication of Natural Society: or, A View of the Miseries and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial Society. In a Letter to Lord ****. By a late Noble Writer. (London: M. Cooper, 1756). [PDF 3 MB] in HTML at OLL.
• The London Review, vol. 1, 1835 [PDF 23 MB]
• J.S. Mill, first and second edition of On Liberty (1859). 1st ed. [PDF 6.6 MB] - 2nd ed. [PDF 3.3 MB].
• An Anthology of the Political Writings of James Mill.
• Percy Shelley's Philosophical View of Reform (1820).
• Herbert Spencer's Social Statics. 1851 ed. [PDF 19.7 MB] and Falkenbach edition 1954 [PDF 20.8 MB].

Title: Thomas Hodgskin, Labour Defended against the Claims of Capital. Or the Unproductiveness of Capital proved with reference to the present Combinations amongst Journeymen. With an Introduction by G.D.H. Cole (London: The Labour Publishing Company Ltd., 1825). E-Text: [PDF 4.9 MB]. Comment: Claimed by many socialists as "one of them" Hodgskin is in fact a radical individualist and supporter of free trade and free markets. Guillaumin Collection: English Classical Liberalism OLL: Thomas Hodgskin