Awards

• Winner of Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies Book Prize 2012.
• Winner of Winner of the 2012 PCCBS Book Prize for the best book in British Studies for 2010 and 2011..

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Author:   Reba Soffer (Professor of History, Emeritus, California State University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.694kg
ISBN:  

9780199208111

ISBN 10:   0199208115
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   11 December 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

A dense, complex and penetrating book that explores a neglected area of 20th century history A.W. Purdue, Times Higher Education Supplement ...a welcome contribution to the existing literature on intellectual history in Anglo-American in the twentieth century Rachel S. Turner, Contemporary British History

A compelling examination of the work and influence of several British and American historians on convervatism during the twentieth century. British Scholar A dense, complex and penetrating book that explores a neglected area of 20th century history A.W. Purdue, Times Higher Education Supplement ...a welcome contribution to the existing literature on intellectual history in Anglo-American in the twentieth century Rachel S. Turner, Contemporary British History

...a welcome contribution to the existing literature on intellectual history in Anglo-American in the twentieth century * Rachel S. Turner, Contemporary British History * A dense, complex and penetrating book that explores a neglected area of 20th century history * A.W. Purdue, Times Higher Education Supplement * A compelling examination of the work and influence of several British and American historians on convervatism during the twentieth century. * British Scholar *

Author Information

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

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