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For Party or Country

By Frans Coetzee

For Party or Country

By Frans Coetzee

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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 World War I--a transitional period for the party, marked by the foundation of an unprecedented number of conservative pressure groups. Cecil's comment, Coetzee argues, obscures the extent to which conservative pressure groups forced their party to adapt in Edwardian England. The British Navy League, the Tariff Reform League, the Anti-Socialist Union, and a host of other groups changed the face of British conservatism, though not without considerable internal party conflict. In addition to providing a complete account of the pressure groups' origins, organizations, successes, and failures, Coetzee ties their histories to the debates within the Conservative party itself, and to the local elections. In so doing, he demonstrates how the party of the right was ultimately able to convince the electorate that its views were more "national" and "patriotic" than those of the parties of the left.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
232
Release Date:
1990-06-28
Publication Date:
1997-05-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0195062388
ISBN13:
9780195062380
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[email protected]
Weight:
533 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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