My name is Marc Mulholland. I am a Fellow (lecturer and tutor) in the History Faculty of Oxford University. My College is St Catherine's. I come from Ireland.

This is a blog relating to my book published in 2012 by Oxford University Press, Bourgeois Liberty and the Politics of Fear: From Absolutism to Neo-Conservativism. Now on sale here and here. If you want 20 per cent off the price, I can arrange that! Send me a message or leave a comment, and I'll tell you how.

The thesis my book is examining was rather pithily summarised by Leon Trotsky in 1939: "Wherever the proletariat appeared as an independent force, the bourgeoisie shifted to the camp of the counter-revolution. The bolder the struggle of the masses, the quicker the reactionary transformation of liberalism." [Context is here]

However, my book isn't a defence of Trotskyism, or indeed any particular ideology. It's a study of an idea that took shape in Left, Right, and Centre variations.

This blog has tid-bits not included in the book, and other thoughts that occur.

You can see book details at the OUP website.



Sunday, 2 September 2012

Searching the Book

I'm back again, and find that my book is now searchable on Amazon. This brings to mind: what odd words might one find there? Not too many, really. I can only think of 'Germani kaput!' and 'helluva'. That's if you don't think that terms like 'bourgeois liberty' and 'proletarian democracy' are not themselves odd and quaint. One might well think that, and so I've tried to justify myself in the preface, now readable.

If you think you might be in the acknowledgements, now's the time to find out. Apologies if I forgot you!
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