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Conservatism (Hardcover)
[Buy it!] | Edmund Fawcett | USD 33.11
(Sun May 26 17:33:42 2024) | AbebooksAU | AussieBookSeller | ISBN10: 0691174105, ISBN13: 9780691174105, [publisher: Princeton University Press, New Jersey] Hardcover Hardcover. For two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity. By doing so, the Right has won long periods of power and effectively become the dominant tradition in politics. Yet, despite their success, conservatives have continued to fight with each other about how far to compromise with liberalism and democracy or which values to defend and how. In Conservatism, Edmund Fawcett provides a gripping account of this conflicted history, clarifies key ideas, and illuminates quarrels within the Right today.Focusing on the United States, Britain, France, and Germany, Fawcett's vivid narrative covers thinkers and politicians. They include the forerunners James Madison, Edmund Burke, and Joseph de Maistre early friends and foes of capitalism, defenders of religion, and builders of modern parties, such as William McKinley and Lord Salisbury. The book chronicles the cultural critics and radical disruptors of the 1920s and 1930s, recounts how advocates of laissez-faire economics broke the post 1945 consensus, and describes how Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, and their European counterparts are pushing conservatism toward a nation-first, hard Right.An absorbing, original history of the Right, Conservatism portrays a tradition as much at war with itself as with its opponents.'A companion to his well-received Liberalism (2014), Fawcett's latest is as readable and comprehensive as its predecessor.An immensely stimulating canter though a major segment of Western political tradition.' Kirkus Reviews, starred review Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
[Truganina, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 2020]
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