Training Minds for the War of Ideas - Ashridge College, Conservative Party Cultural Politics of Britain,

Informationen zum Autor Clarisse Berthezène is a Lecturer at the University of Paris Diderot Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. The Conservatives' great fear2. Founding the Bonar Law Memorial College at Ashridge3. The Conservative party and the middle classes 4. Ashridge and the student community5. Redefining the principles of conservatism6. The Tory interpretation of History7. Educating for citizenship8. Fighting the 'battle of the brows'9. Rural Elegies10. Ashridge and the media11. Ashridge after the war: the Baldwinians versus the ChurchilliansConclusionIndex

Product details

• Authors: Clarisse Berthezene, Clarisse Berthezène
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2015
• EAN: 9780719086496
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8649-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education