Reba Soffer

History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America

From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780199208111
• ISBN-10: 0199208115
• Artikelnr.: 25847534

Autorenporträt

Reba Soffer is Professor of History, Emeritus, at California State University, Northridge.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I: Intellectual History, Political thought, and Conservatism
* Part II: The Inter-War Decades in Britain
* 1: Conservatism as a Crusade: F.J.C. Hearnshaw
* 2: The Attraction of Tory Democracy: Keith Feiling
* 3: The Phenomenon of Arthur Bryant: Patriotism, Conservatism, and the
Greater Public
* 4: Arthur Bryant, Appeasement and Anti-Semitism
* Part III: Post-war Britain
* 5: Christianity and Conservative Historiography : Hebert Butterfield,
Cambridge, and the Greater World
* Part IV: Post-war America
* 6: Conservative History and Social Criticism, 1941 through the 1960s
* 7: The Americanization of the British Conservative Mind
* 8: Conservatism and Exceptionalism
* Epilogue: The Future of the Conservative Past
* Bibliography