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From Jacobite to conservative : reaction and orthodoxy in Britain, c. 1760-1832

Title: From Jacobite to conservative : reaction and orthodoxy in Britain, c. 1760-1832 / James J. Sack.
Author: Sack, James J., 1944-
Publication: Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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Description

xi, 292 pages; 24 cm

Summary

What did it mean to be a 'conservantive' in Britain before such terminology was even used? Is it possible or even desirable to encapsulate such diverse individuals as George III, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, J.W. Croker and the Younger Pitt within one political nomenclature? What is the relationship between the Jacobitism or Toryism of the early eighteenth century and the ideology of loyalist Englishmen of the latter Georgian period? James Sack confronts these questions in discussing an evolving right-wing mentalite, expressed in attitudes towards the past, the monarchy, humanitarianism, reform, and religion. Although Professor Sack has consulted a wide range of unpublished and printed correspondence, pamphlets and sermons, his chief sources have been numerous 'Church and King' newspapers, journals, and magazines. From this right-wing press, Sack has uncovered a novel way of looking at political, social and religious issues in the age of the American, French and Industrial Revolutions. His central contention is that the defence of the Church of England, rather than nationalistic impulses, monarchical sentiment, or even economic self-interest, was the abiding concern of pre-1832 British conservatism.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-279) and index.

Contents

1. The right-wing press from Jacobitism to the Reform crisis: a discussion of sources -- 2. The spirit of the English Right in an age of revolution -- 3. Tories and Jacobites in the mid and late eighteenth century -- 4. Toryism redivivus -- 5. The British monarchy and the Right, 1760-1832 -- 6. Parliamentary reform and the Right, 1750-1832 -- 7. Tory humanitarianism and political economy, 1760-1832 -- 8. The Right and Protestantism -- The High Church -- Dissenters -- Evangelicals -- 9. The Right and Catholicism.

ISBN

0521432669
9780521432665

LCCN

93000155

OCLC

ocm27379959
27379959
SCSB-14080821

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Princeton University Library