Conservative Century: The Conservative Party since 1900

Author:   Anthony Seldon (Founding Director, Founding Director, The Institute of Contemporary British History) ,  Stuart Ball (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of Leicester)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198202387


Pages:   896
Publication Date:   13 October 1994
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Anthony Seldon (Founding Director, Founding Director, The Institute of Contemporary British History) ,  Stuart Ball (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of Leicester)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 5.00cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   1.334kg
ISBN:  

9780198202387


ISBN 10:   0198202385
Pages:   896
Publication Date:   13 October 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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`20 essays ... of the highest quality ... scintillating' Sunday Telegraph `Conservative Century is the most comprehensive and authoritative work so far on the history of the Conservative Party since Lord Salisbury's electoral victory in 1895. ... packed with information, tables and illustrations inaccessible elsewhere without endless research. The price is remarkably cheap and a credit to the OUP. ... The work ought to be on every Tory bookshelf, and even opponents could profit from it.' The Times `could be given to any Labour or Lib-Dem politician in the country. Reading it should make them humble, as they realise just how little is known about the Tories.' New Statesman & Society `a sympathetic new history' Financial Times `wide-ranging and thought-provoking volume ... Virtually every essay in the book earns its keep as an accessible introduction to its assigned topic; and some go further in staking out challenging interpretations. The need for adroitness in catching the tide is one message which the new Labour party ought to learn from this valuable study of its tough, wily, resilient, shrewd, adaptable - and often remarkably lucky - opponents.' London Review of Books `In 20 thematic chapters this collection skilfully analyses the highly-nuanced relations which have characterised the twentieth-century British Conservative Party ... This is a superb collection of essays ... It amply justifies its editors' claim to provide a `significant reassessment' of the modern Conservative Party. The book contains a comprehensive bibliographical essay which will be of value to all students of the party, useful appendices and plenty of photographs. It is excellent value.' Political Studies `this is a competent collection and well worth its cover price' Harriet Jones, History Today `A brief survey can only suggest the wealth of information the book contains and the originality with which much of it is handled. Seldon, Ball, and their colleagues have given us a book that admirably fulfills its announced goal of providing the first point of reference for students and a wider interested public , while developing new analyses, based on original research, for scholarly consideration. It promises to remain so for all subsequent studies of the twentieth-century Conservative Party and perhaps for that of the twenty-first, as well.' John A. Hutcheson, Jr, Dalton College, Albion, Winter '95 `a rich mine of fact and opinion for those seeking a solution to the riddle ... Anthony Seldon and the institute of British History have, over the last 10 years, performed a remarkable service in stimulating writing and discussion about recent British history. Conservative Century is one of their grandest achievements ... admirable book ... This book offers a wonderfully comprehensive description of the evolution of the most triumphantly and sustainedly successful right-wing party that democracy has ever known.' David Butler, Exeter College, Oxford, Sage Publications


'20 essays ... of the highest quality ... scintillating' Sunday Telegraph 'Conservative Century is the most comprehensive and authoritative work so far on the history of the Conservative Party since Lord Salisbury's electoral victory in 1895. ... packed with information, tables and illustrations inaccessible elsewhere without endless research. The price is remarkably cheap and a credit to the OUP. ... The work ought to be on every Tory bookshelf, and even opponents could profit from it.' The Times 'could be given to any Labour or Lib-Dem politician in the country. Reading it should make them humble, as they realise just how little is known about the Tories.' New Statesman & Society 'a sympathetic new history' Financial Times 'wide-ranging and thought-provoking volume ... Virtually every essay in the book earns its keep as an accessible introduction to its assigned topic; and some go further in staking out challenging interpretations. The need for adroitness in catching the tide is one message which the new Labour party ought to learn from this valuable study of its tough, wily, resilient, shrewd, adaptable - and often remarkably lucky - opponents.' London Review of Books In 20 thematic chapters this collection skilfully analyses the highly-nuanced relations which have characterised the twentieth-century British Conservative Party ... This is a superb collection of essays ... It amply justifies its editors' claim to provide a 'significant reassessment' of the modern Conservative Party. The book contains a comprehensive bibliographical essay which will be of value to all students of the party, useful appendices and plenty of photographs. It is excellent value. Political Studies this is a competent collection and well worth its cover price Harriet Jones, History Today A brief survey can only suggest the wealth of information the book contains and the originality with which much of it is handled. Seldon, Ball, and their colleagues have given us a book that admirably fulfills its announced goal of providing the first point of reference for students and a wider interested public , while developing new analyses, based on original research, for scholarly consideration. It promises to remain so for all subsequent studies of the twentieth-century Conservative Party and perhaps for that of the twenty-first, as well. John A. Hutcheson, Jr, Dalton College, Albion, Winter '95 a rich mine of fact and opinion for those seeking a solution to the riddle ... Anthony Seldon and the institute of British History have, over the last 10 years, performed a remarkable service in stimulating writing and discussion about recent British history. Conservative Century is one of their grandest achievements ... admirable book ... This book offers a wonderfully comprehensive description of the evolution of the most triumphantly and sustainedly successful right-wing party that democracy has ever known. David Butler, Exeter College, Oxford, Sage Publications


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Anthony Seldon is Founding Director of The Institute of Contemporary British History. His books include Churchill's Indian Summer (1981), Politics UK (co-aut, 1991), Ruling Performance: British Governments from Attlee to Thatcher (co-ed, 1987), and The Thatcher Effect (co-ed, 1989). He lives in Tonbridge, Kent. Stuart Ball is Lecturer in History at University of Leicester. He contributes to various historical journals, and is the author of Baldwin and the Conservative Party; The Crisis of 1929-1931 (1988), editor of Parliament and Politics in the Age of Bladwin and MacDonald (1992), and author of the forthcoming The Conservative Party and British Politics 1902-1951, for Longman. He lives in Leicester.

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