History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America
From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 December 2008
- ISBN 9780199208111
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages356 pages
- Size 241x163x26 mm
- Weight 694 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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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.
A compelling examination of the work and influence of several British and American historians on convervatism during the twentieth century.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Intellectual History, Political thought, and Conservatism
Part II: The Inter-War Decades in Britain
Conservatism as a Crusade: F.J.C. Hearnshaw
The Attraction of Tory Democracy: Keith Feiling
The Phenomenon of Arthur Bryant: Patriotism, Conservatism, and the Greater Public
Arthur Bryant, Appeasement and Anti-Semitism
Part III: Post-war Britain
Christianity and Conservative Historiography : Hebert Butterfield, Cambridge, and the Greater World
Part IV: Post-war America
Conservative History and Social Criticism, 1941 through the 1960s
The Americanization of the British Conservative Mind
Conservatism and Exceptionalism
Epilogue: The Future of the Conservative Past
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