Tradition, empire and the forging of the conservative right
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Tradition, empire and the forging of the conservative right
（Britannia's zealots, v. 1）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
- : hardback
Available at / 1 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Bibliography: p. [281]-309
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Britannia's Zealots, Volume I opens the first longitudinal study to examine the Conservative Right from the late-19th century to the present day. British Conservatism has always contained a significant section fundamentally opposed to progressive reform. A permanent minority in Parliament, dissident right-wing Conservatives nevertheless had allies in the press and sympathy among grassroots party members enabling them to create crises in the media and at party meetings.
N.C. Fleming charts the evolution of reactionary politics from its preoccupation with the Protestant constitution to its fixation with the prestige and strength of Britain's global empire. He examines the overlooked ways in which Conservative Right parliamentarians shaped their party's policies and propaganda, in and out of office, and their relationships with the press and ordinary activists. He seeks to demonstrate that this influence could be circumscribing, and on occasion highly disruptive, with consequences which remain relevant for today's Conservative party. Britannia's Zealots, Volume I will be of great interest to academics and students of British history, right-wing politics, imperialism, and 20th-century history.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Edwardian Crisis, 1900-14
2. Patriotism Strained, 1914-18
3. Breaking the Coalition, 1918-22
4. Democracy and Empire, 1922-35
5. Consensus and Disunity, 1935-40
Retrospect and Prospect
Bibliography
by "Nielsen BookData"
