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

For Party or Country

Nationalism and the Dilemmas of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian England

By: Frans Coetzee

Hardcover | 28 June 1990

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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.
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"A valuable and important addition to our understanding of Edwardian Conservatism."--History "Significant and sophisticated."--Albion "For Party or Country is very impressive in illuminating the period and informing the reader about pressure group politics--and its implications--in Britain. A crucial study for an understanding of the making of the modern Conservative party."--Peter Stansky, Stanford University "Written with wit, elegence and admirable clarity. The use of individual by-elections to explore the main themes in miniature is masterly."--Times Literary Supplement "Fills a gap in linking the nationalist agitation as a whole to Conservative party development. Admirably written, organized, and argued."--CHOICE

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