Michael Freeden is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London. His books explore modern liberal thought, the structure and history of modern ideologies, and the nature of political thinking.Javier Fernandez-Sebastian is Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of the Basque Country. He has published extensively on modern Spanish intellectual history and currently coordinates an on-going project on Iberian Atlantic conceptual transnational history.Joern Leonhard is Full Professor in Modern European History at Freiburg University. From 2007 to 2012 he was one of the Founding Directors of the School of History of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). In 2015, he was elected member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.

"The initiative behind the book--to sketch a history of European liberalism using the conceptual history approach--is an important one for the field. Its diverse contributions are extremely valuable, making available research and perspectives not widely known in English-language scholarship." - Jonathan Kwan, University of Nottingham

• List of FiguresIntroduction: European Liberal Discourses: Conceptual Affinities and DisparitiesMichael Freeden and Javier Fernandez-SebastianChapter 1. Habsburg Liberalisms and the Enlightenment Past, 1790-1848 Franz Leander FillaferChapter 2. Formulating and Reformulating 'Liberalism': Germany in European ComparisonJoern LeonhardChapter 3. 'Friends of Freedom.' First Liberalisms in Spain and BeyondJavier Fernandez-SebastianChapter 4. Liberalism in Portugal in the Nineteenth CenturyNuno Goncalo Monteiro and Rui RamosChapter 5. The Rise and Fall of 'Liberalism' in FranceHelena RosenblattChapter 6. Nordic Liberalisms. Sweden and Denmark in ComparisonJussi Kurunmaki and Jeppe NeversChapter 7. 'Liberalism' and 'Liberality'. The Liberal Tradition in the NetherlandsHenk te VeldeChapter 8. A Conceptual Scheme of Polish Liberalism: Six PillarsMaciej JanowskiChapter 9. Liberal Politics without Liberal Thought? The Strange Career of Italian LiberalismPaolo PombeniChapter 10. Encounters with Liberalism in Post-Soviet RussiaOlga MalinovaChapter 11. Temporal Evolution and Morphological Complexity: The Multiple Layers of British LiberalismMichael FreedenConclusionIndex