For Party or Country: Nationalism and the Dilemmas of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian England

by Frans Coetzee

Book Overview

Lord Hugh Cecil, commenting in 1912 on the British Conservative party's staying power, said that the party's success was largely a matter of temperament, "recruited from...the natural conservatism that is found in almost every human mind." The Conservatives regarded the parties of the left as faddists or federations of pressure groups. In this thorough analysis, Coetzee examines the condition of the Conservative party during the two decades preceding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195062388
• ISBN13: 9780195062380
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"