History Historians And Conservatism In Britain And America

Author : Reba Soffer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191548952
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America written by Reba Soffer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America examines the subjects, motives, and personal and intellectual origins of conservative historians who were also successful public intellectuals. In their search for a persuasive and wide appeal, conservatives depended until at least the 1960s upon history and historians to provide conservative concepts with authority and authenticity. Beginning with the Great War in Britain and the Second World War in America, conservative historians participated actively and influentially in debates about the heart, soul, and especially the mind of conservatism. Particular emphasis is placed on four historians in Britain-F. J. C. Hearnshaw, Keith Feiling, Arthur Bryant, and Herbert Butterfield-and three in America-Daniel Boorstin, Peter Viereck, and Russell Kirk-who developed conservative responses to unprecedented and threatening events both at home and abroad. These historians shared basic assumptions about human nature and society, but their subjects, interpretations, conclusions, and prescriptions were independent and idiosyncratic. Uniquely close to powerful political figures, each historian also spoke directly to a large public, which bought their books, read their contributions to newspapers and journals, listened to them on the radio, and watched them on television. Provocative and compelling, Reba Soffer's pioneering study provides a comprehensive explanation of the content, context, and consequences of conservative ideas that became dominant in Britain and remained marginal in America until the Reagan ascendancy.

Author : Reba Soffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199208115
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America written by Reba Soffer and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2009 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reba Soffer examines the subjects, motives, and origins of conservative historians who were also successful public intellectuals. Providing a comprehensive account of the content, context, and consequences of conservative ideas, Soffer explains their dominance in Britain and marginalization in America until the Reagan ascendancy.

Author : P. Gottfried
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230614796
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservatism in America written by P. Gottfried and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the American conservative movement, as it now exists, does not have deep roots. It began in the 1950s as the invention of journalists and men of letters reacting to the early Cold War and trying to construct a rallying point for likeminded opponents of international Communism. The resulting movement has exaggerated the permanence of its values; while its militant anti-Communism, instilled in its followers, and periodic suppression of dissent have weakened its capacity for internal debate. Their movement came to power at least partly by burying an older anti-welfare state Right, one that in fact had enjoyed a social following that was concentrated in a small-town America. The newcomers played down the merits of those they had replaced; and in the 1980's the neoconservatives, who took over the postwar conservative movement from an earlier generation, belittled their predecessors in a similar way. Among the movement's major accomplishments has been to recreate its own past. The success of this revised history lies in the fact that even the movement's critics are now inclined to accept it.

Author : Emily Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192520091
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914 written by Emily Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1830 and 1914 in Britain a dramatic modification of the reputation of Edmund Burke (1730-1797) occurred. Burke, an Irishman and Whig politician, is now most commonly known as the 'founder of modern conservatism' - an intellectual tradition which is also deeply connected to the identity of the British Conservative Party. The idea of 'Burkean conservatism' - a political philosophy which upholds 'the authority of tradition', the organic, historic conception of society, and the necessity of order, religion, and property - has been incredibly influential both in international academic analysis and in the wider political world. This is a highly significant intellectual construct, but its origins have not yet been understood. Emily Jones demonstrates, for the first time, that the transformation of Burke into the 'founder of conservatism' was in fact part of wider developments in British political, intellectual, and cultural history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including political texts, parliamentary speeches, histories, biographies, and educational curricula, Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism shows how and why Burke's reputation was transformed over a formative period of British history. In doing so, it bridges the significant gap between the history of political thought as conventionally understood and the history of the making of political traditions. The result is to demonstrate that, by 1914, Burke had been firmly established as a 'conservative' political philosopher and was admired and utilized by political Conservatives in Britain who identified themselves as his intellectual heirs. This was one essential component of a conscious re-working of C/conservatism which is still at work today.

Author : Clarisse Berthezène
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526139375
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Training Minds for the War of Ideas written by Clarisse Berthezène and published by . This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines attempts by the Conservative party in the interwar years to capture the 'brains' of the new electorate and create a counter-culture to what they saw as the intellectual hegemony of the Left. It tells the fascinating story of the Bonar Law Memorial College, Ashridge, founded in 1929 as a 'College of citizenship' to provide political education through both teaching and publications. The College aimed at creating 'Conservative Fabians' who were to publish and disseminate Conservative literature, which meant not only explicitly political works but literary, historical and cultural work that carried implicit Conservative messages. This book modifies our understanding of the history of the Conservative party and popular Conservatism, but also more generally of the history of intellectual debate in Britain. It sheds new light on the history of the 'middlebrow' and how that category became a weapon for the Conservatives.

Author : David Henry Burton
Publisher : Chicago : Nelson-Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780882292809
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American History--British Historians written by David Henry Burton and published by Chicago : Nelson-Hall. This book was released on 1976 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stuart Ball
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199667985
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait of a Party written by Stuart Ball and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conservative Party is the least investigated and understood of British political parties. Using an original approach and an unparalleled range of sources, Stuart Ball analyses the nature and working of the Conservative Party during one of the most significant and successful periods in its history.

Author : Adam I. P. Smith
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469633906
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stormy Present written by Adam I. P. Smith and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging and nuanced political history of Northern communities in the Civil War era, Adam I. P. Smith offers a new interpretation of the familiar story of the path to war and ultimate victory. Smith looks beyond the political divisions between abolitionist Republicans and Copperhead Democrats to consider the everyday conservatism that characterized the majority of Northern voters. A sense of ongoing crisis in these Northern states created anxiety and instability, which manifested in a range of social and political tensions in individual communities. In the face of such realities, Smith argues that a conservative impulse was more than just a historical or nostalgic tendency; it was fundamental to charting a path to the future. At stake for Northerners was their conception of the Union as the vanguard in a global struggle between democracy and despotism, and their ability to navigate their freedoms through the stormy waters of modernity. As a result, the language of conservatism was peculiarly, and revealingly, prominent in Northern politics during these years. The story this book tells is of conservative people coming, in the end, to accept radical change.

Author : Alex Windscheffel
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780861932887
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Conservatism in Imperial London, 1868-1906 written by Alex Windscheffel and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First detailed investigation into the popular dimensions of late-Victorian London Conservatism.

Author : E.H.H. Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134763883
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of Conservatism written by E.H.H. Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crisis of Conservatism 1880-1914 offers a new interpretation of Conservative politics in the period 1880-1914 and comes to the startling conclusion that, but for the intervention of the First World War, there may well have been a 'Strange Death of Tory England.'