Author: Emily Jones Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019879942X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 284
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Between 1830 and 1914 in Britain a dramatic modification of the reputation of Edmund Burke (1730-1797) occurred. Burke, an Irishman and Whig politician, is now most commonly known as the "founder of modern conservatism" - an intellectual tradition which is also deeply connected to the identity of the British Conservative Party. The idea of "Burkean conservatism"--a political philosophy which upholds "the authority of tradition," the organic, historic conception of society, and the necessity of order, religion, and property--has been incredibly influential both in international academic analysis and in the wider political world. This is a highly significant intellectual construct, but its origins have not yet been understood. This volume demonstrates, for the first time, that the transformation of Burke into the "founder of conservatism" was in fact part of wider developments in British political, intellectual, and cultural history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including political texts, parliamentary speeches, histories, biographies, and educational curricula, Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism shows how and why Burke's reputation was transformed over a formative period of British history. In doing so, it bridges the significant gap between the history of political thought as conventionally understood and the history of the making of political traditions. The result is to demonstrate that, by 1914, Burke had been firmly established as a "conservative" political philosopher and was admired and utilized by political Conservatives in Britain who identified themselves as his intellectual heirs. This was one essential component of a conscious re-working of C/conservatism which is still at work today.
Author: Graham R. Catlin Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1973685795 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 362
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CORE CONSERVATISM: Edmund Burke’s Landmark Definition asserts the classic view that Edmund Burke defined the foundations of modern conservative thought. It does so by citing extensively the historic evidence provided by Burke himself in his Reflections on the Revolution in France. CORE CONSERVATISM defies the revisionist doubts of academic historians like Dr Emily Jones in her 2019 paperback, “Edmund Burke and the invention of Modern Conservatism 1830-1914”. CORE CONSERVATISM makes the full text of Edmund Burke’s classic statement of Conservative thinking accessible and more comprehensible by providing • A Structure and Contents index to the 96,000 word text written originally as a continuous letter without any chapters or headings • A universal number referencing system for the 400 paragraphs of the original text • An Introduction for those with no previous knowledge of Edmund Burke or his Reflections • A 10,000 word summary of Edmund Burke’s political philosophy, citing extensively from Edmund Burke’s own Reflections • The author’s personal distillation of Edmund Burke’s thinking in his Reflections to 3 Primary Principles and 10 key tenets of modern Conservative doctrine CORE CONSERVATISM is essential reading for both convinced Conservatives and for students of politics and history. It highlights the critical role of Christianity in the formation of Conservative thinking in the English speaking nations and challenges the Materialistic worldview of today’s western intelligentsia.
Author: Brent Nongbri Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300154178 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 315
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Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as ancient religion. Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures.
Author: Emily Jones Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019884199X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 405
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.International banking standards are intended for the regulation of large, complex, risk-taking international banks with trillions of dollars in assets and operations across the globe. Yet they are being implemented in countries with nascent financial markets and small banks that have yet to ventureinto international markets. Why is this? This book develops a new framework to explain regulatory interdependence between countries in the core and the periphery of the global financial system. Drawing on in-depth analysis of eleven countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, it shows howfinancial globalisation generates strong reputational and competitive incentives for developing countries to converge on international standards. It explains how specific cross-border relations between regulators, politicians, and banks within developing countries, and international actors includinginvestors, peer regulators, and international financial institutions, generate regulatory interdependence. It explains why some configurations of domestic politics and forms of integration into global finance generate convergence with international standards, while other configurations lead todivergence. This book contributes to our understanding of the ways in which governments and firms in the core of global finance powerfully shape regulatory decisions in the periphery, and the ways that governments and firms from peripheral developing countries manoeuvre within the constraints andopportunities created by financial globalisation.
Author: Kitty Hauser Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN: 0199206325 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 327
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At certain times of the day - at sunrise, and sunset - the outlines of prehistoric fields, barrows and hill-forts in the British landscape may be thrown into relief. Such 'shadow sites', best seen from above, and captured by an airborne camera, are both examples of, and metaphors for, a particular way of seeing the landscape. At a time of rapid modernisation and urbanisation in mid-twentieth-century Britain, an archaeological vision of the British landscape reassured and enchanteda number of writers, artists, photographers, and film-makers. From John Piper, Eric Ravilious and Shell guide books, to photographs of bomb damage, aerial archaeology, and The Wizard of Oz, Kitty Hauser delves into evocative interpretations of the landscape and looks at the affinities betweenphotography as a medium to capture traces of the past as well as their absence.
Author: Simon James Potter Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780199265121 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 278
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Revealed to contemporaries by the South African War, the basis on which the system would develop soon became the focus for debate. Commercial organizations, including newspaper combinations and news agencies such as Reuters, fought to protect their interests, while "constructive imperialists" attempted to enlist the power of the state to strengthen the system. Debate culminated in fierce controversies over state censorship and propaganda during and after World War I. Based on extensive archival research, this study addresses crucial themes, including the impact of empire on the press, Britain's imperial experience, and the idea of a "British world".
Author: Graham R Catlin Publisher: ISBN: 9781973685807 Category : Languages : en Pages : 362
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CORE CONSERVATISM: Edmund Burke's Landmark Definition asserts the classic view that Edmund Burke defined the foundations of modern conservative thought. It does so by citing extensively the historic evidence provided by Burke himself in his Reflections on the Revolution in France. CORE CONSERVATISM defies the revisionist doubts of academic historians like Dr Emily Jones in her 2019 paperback, "Edmund Burke and the invention of Modern Conservatism 1830-1914". CORE CONSERVATISM makes the full text of Edmund Burke's classic statement of Conservative thinking accessible and more comprehensible by providing - A Structure and Contents index to the 96,000 word text written originally as a continuous letter without any chapters or headings - A universal number referencing system for the 400 paragraphs of the original text - An Introduction for those with no previous knowledge of Edmund Burke or his Reflections - A 10,000 word summary of Edmund Burke's political philosophy, citing extensively from Edmund Burke's own Reflections - The author's personal distillation of Edmund Burke's thinking in his Reflections to 3 Primary Principles and 10 key tenets of modern Conservative doctrine CORE CONSERVATISM is essential reading for both convinced Conservatives and for students of politics and history. It highlights the critical role of Christianity in the formation of Conservative thinking in the English speaking nations and challenges the Materialistic worldview of today's western intelligentsia.
Author: Robert J. Lacey Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137592958 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 255
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This book is a study of pragmatic conservatism, an underappreciated tradition in modern American political thought, whose origins can be located in the ideas of Edmund Burke. Beginning with an exegesis of Burke's thought, it goes on to show how three twentieth-century thinkers who are not generally recognized as conservatives—Walter Lippmann, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Peter Viereck—carried on the Burkean tradition and adapted it to American democracy. Pragmatic conservatives posit that people, sinful by nature, require guidance from traditions that embody enduring truths wrought by past experience. Yet they also welcome incremental reform driven by established elites, judiciously departing from precedent when necessary. Mindful that truth is never absolute, they eschew ideology and caution against both bold political enterprises and stubborn apologies for the status quo. The book concludes by contrasting this more nuanced brand of conservatism with the radical version that emerged in the wake of the post-war Buckley revolution.
Author: Lauren Kassell Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191514225 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 300
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Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers. He stood apart from the medical elite because he was not formally educated and because he represented, and boldly asserted, medical ideas that were antithetical to those held by most learned physicians. He survived the plague, was consulted thousands of times a year for medical and other questions, distilled strong waters made from beer, herbs, and sometimes chemical ingredients, pursued the philosopher's stone in experiments and ancient texts, and when he was fortunate spoke with angels. He wrote compulsively, documenting his life and protesting his expertise in thousands of pages of notes and treatises. This highly readable book provides the first full account of Forman's papers, makes sense of his notorious reputation, and vividly recovers the world of medicine and magic in Elizabethan London.
Author: Edmund Fawcett Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691233993 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 544
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"Conservatism focuses on an exemplary core of France, Britain, Germany and the United States. It describes the parties, politicians and thinkers of the right, bringing out strengths and weaknesses in conservative thought"--Provided by publisher.
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