History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan

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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