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Zusatztext Britannia's Zealots is an important book that looks at the unique! and uniquely important! role played by the right wing of the Tory party in the 19th and 20th centuries. Fleming's book! based on extensive research! is a significant contribution not merely to the history of British Conservatism but to our understanding of British politics more broadly. Informationen zum Autor N.C. FLEMING is Professor of Modern History at the University of Worcester, UK, and Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK. He has been Visiting Fellow at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK; Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College, Oxford, UK; Visiting Researcher at Åbo Akademi, Finland; and Fulbright–Robertson Visiting Professor of British History, Westminster College, Missouri, USA.An examination of how Tory Right parliamentarians from the late-19th century to the Second World War shaped their party’s policies and propaganda, as well as their relationships with the press and ordinary activists. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Edwardian Crisis, 1900-142. Patriotism Strained, 1914-183. Breaking the Coalition, 1918-224. Democracy and Empire, 1922-355. Consensus and Disunity, 1935-40Retrospect and ProspectBibliography...
