The Social Theories of L. T. Hobhouse

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1927. First edition.

BIOGRAPHY OF PIONEERING BRITISH PROPONENT OF SOCIAL LIBERALISM AND ITS EVOLUTIONARY ROOTS.

14.5x21.5 cm hardcover, maroon cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "To Al and Gill Collier: How pleasant to visit with people interested in Hobhouse! Many thanks for the ride home the other night./ Hugh Carter/ March 11- '75," i-viii, 137 pp. Light wear to cover edges and spine ends, light browning to pages. Very good in custom archival mylar cover.

HUGH CARTER (1895-1988) earned his PhD (thesis is the text of this book) from Columbia University in 1927. At the time he was on faculty of the University of Pennsylvaina.

LEONARD TRELAWNY HOBHOUSE (1864 - 1929) was a British liberal politician and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism. His works, alongside that of writers such as T.H. Green and John A. Hobson, occupy a seminal position within the canon of New Liberalism. He worked both as an academic and a journalist: in 1907 he shared, with Edward Westermarck, the distinction of being the first professor of sociology to be appointed at the University of London. He was also the first editor of the Sociological Review. His sister was Emily Hobhouse, the British welfare activist.